George Asanache

Experience

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  Vulcan SA Bucuresti

  Jun 2008 - Feb 2013

  Planned and directed the day to day operations’ activity; Coordinated the accounting activities of the projects;Ensured that operations are managed according to the established strategy;Established, maintained and improved professional relationships with the external business partners;Analyzed and processed the project documentation received from Customers(Technical, Engineering, Purchasing, QA/QC, Pricing, a.s.o);Provided, on a regular basis, activity reports to the top management;Active involvement in contract negotiations and meetings with customers;Issued periodic reports and statements to the CEO (cash-flows, tracing lists, forecasts);Followed up every phase of the contract development;Informed the Board of Directors about the status of the contract development;Ensured the link between the divisions and the departments involved in the contract development; Followed up the contracts concluding with the foreign external partner, including the reception of the payments; Follow up the de delivery of the products, the invoicing and the cash of the amounts;Some of the business partners I’ve cooperated with, as well as negotiated and signed contracts: • Babcock & Wilcox Volund – Denmark – Lidkoping project - 800.000 €;• Babcock & Wilcox Volund – Denmark – Oresundskraft project – 400.000 €;• Austrian Energy & Environment – Czech Rep. – Stade project - 2.300.000 €;• Aalborg CSP – Denmark – Greenway project – 500.000 €;• Petrom SA – Romania - Manufacturing and delivery of Pumping Units – framework contract; Show less Elaborated, integrated and developed the Company’s marketing strategies and policies;Implemented successfully the Rebranding Campaign in 2011 (changed the Company’simage on the market, elaborated the Company’s mission, vision and values, updated all technical data regarding the offered products);Organized and coordinated national / international fairs, conferences and other events (Bucharest, Constanta, Frankfurt);Managed relationships with different stakeholders – customers, business partners - to keep an updated status of the most important projects worldwide and to participate to various tenders; Mapped and optimized business processes (Sales, Project Management, Design and Technology, Logistic, Quality Control, Production Planning and Controlling, Marketing, HR, Finance and Accounting) – Aligned them with the existing ERP systems;Influenced the Company’s final results (after the successful implementation of the rebranding campaign, the Company has been re-launched in the Oil & Gas and Power Industries); Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2010 - Feb 2013

  • Marketing Coordinator

    Jun 2008 - Jun 2010
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  AAAS

  Mar 2013 - Feb 2014

  Sales&Marketing Expert

  Analyzed the portfolio of clients and ongoing contracts;Evaluated AAAS’ portfolio companies and elaborated marketing strategies; Ensured that operations are managed according to the established strategy;Analyzed the portfolio companies' documentation (financial, legal, conventions, reports) during controlling activities and proposed strategies for improvement;Analyzed and advised internal notes regarding possibilities of assets' capitalization, advisedinternal notes for naming special administrators according to the insolvency procedure for theportfolio companies;Analyzed and processed the project documentation received from the bidders;Active involvement in contract negotiations and meetings with customers;Established, maintained and improved professional relationships with the external business partners;Participated in privatizing Aversa SA by: analyzing and creating the auction specification book, selecting the eligible candidates for the auction, analyzing and approving necessary documentation; Show less

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  TUV Rheinland ROMANIA

  May 2014 - Feb 2016

  Project Manager

  Coordinated the delivery of 13 EU competence/skills trainings within agile sprints, as per contract requirements. Planned and directed the day to day operations’ activity; Coordinated the financial activities of the projects;Ensured that operations are managed according to the established strategy;Established, maintained and improved professional relationships with the external business partners;Analyzed and processed the project documentation received from Customers;Provided, on a regular basis, activity reports to the top management;Active involvement in contract negotiations and meetings with customers;Issued periodic reports and statements to the CEO (cash-flows, tracing lists, forecasts);Followed up every phase of the contract development;Informed the Board of Directors about the status of the contract development;Ensured the link between the divisions and the departments involved in the contract development; Follow up the the delivery of the products, the invoicing and the cash of the amounts;Coordinating European Union financed projects:- COR -SMART Show less

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  Ericsson

  Mar 2016 - May 2018

  Problem Management is the process responsible for managing the life-cycle of all problems. The goal of Problem Management is to prevent problems and resulting incidents from happening, to eliminate recurring incidents and to minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented.In order to achieve this goal, Problem Management seeks for the root cause of Incidents and then initiate actions to improve or correct the situation.Objectives:• Reduce number of incident occurrences by removing errors on the operator's infrastructure;• Ensure timely and accurate problem resolution;• Support Incident Management in the treatment of incidents;• Manage the Known Error Database, contributing for incident resolution within agreed levels;• Ensuring the completion of the RCA through to acceptance from the SDM;• Ensuring the problem cases are correctly routed and updated;Activities:• Analyzing Incidents as they occur• Analyzing Incidents over differing time periods (proactive Problem Management)• Correlation of different events (initiated by Event Management)• Raise a problem ticket and assign this ticket to other entities for further investigationProblem Management performs the activities required to diagnose the root cause of incidents and to determine the resolution to those problems. It is also responsible for ensuring that the resolution is implemented through the appropriate processes, especially Change Management and Release and Deployment Management. Show less

  • Problem Manager

    Dec 2016 - May 2018

  • IoT Operations Engineer

    Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
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  Vodafone

  Jun 2018 - Mar 2022

  Presales Project Manager

  Agile coordination of process automation within the Pre Sales community. Single Point of Contact for complex multi-tower opportunities which require cross functional collaboration to shape delivery, cost and risk mitigation strategies;Analyze pre-sales assessments (risks, processes, costs, resource requirements and delivery timelines) and consolidate the output;Ensure that the contracted customer proposal can be delivered and operated within the time, cost and quality required;Create cost options and delivery plans;Working in close collaboration with Commercial and Sales bid teams to respond to RFI and RFP’s;Ensure mobilization and successful hand-over to the Delivery Team upon customer contract signature;Produce and deliver customer facing presentations to differentiated capabilities in a competitive setting;Work with the assigned Delivery Project Manager /PMO until the agreed checklist items are fully transitioned to the appointed delivery Project Manager;Working with the delivery Project Manager to gather lessons learned;Managing cross-functional stakeholders in order to permit time sensitive deals to be delivered. Show less

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  Kape Technologies

  Apr 2022 - now

  Program Manager

  - Facilitate fulfilment of business goals by developing quarterly plans with assigned teams/chapters that feed seamlessly into the company-level OKRs- Proactively suggest efficiency improvements for multiple teams/chapters/orgs (e.g. JIRA automation, create ticket template, build new process), often uncovered via analysis of metrics- Ensures that consistent scoping is being done, and deliver epics/projects for assigned teams/chapters as scoped- Risk management activities (e.g. anticipates hidden dependencies, creates plans which reduce the likelihood of blockers, re-negotiates scope or timelines)- Consistently delivered insightful, precise, actionable, and timely stakeholder communications- Developed and nurtured excellent relationships with key internal stakeholders that lead to improvements in business results- Lead team/chapter meetings, including driving discussions, that conducted to accurate estimates and proactively informing stakeholders of triage decisions- Constantly took lessons learned from workstreams, and translated into actions- Negotiated effectively with stakeholders using persuasive, evidence-based arguments and recommendations- Comprehensive use of Atlassian package with emphasis on Jira Show less