Adina Samoila

Experience

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  NERIC (Northeastern Regional Information Center)

  Jul 2005 - Jul 2006

  Oracle Data Warehouse Specialist

  Assumed an active role in the process of implementation of the eScholar Data Warehouse, performing data loads with Sagent Design Studio. I single handed developed an in house ETL tool usin Oracle PL/Sql developer and Sagent.I programmed extracts out of the warehouse for testing purposes. Facilitated reporting by developing metadata structures using Cognos Framework Manager. Developed reports using Cognos ReportNet. Helped in establishing the connection between the Oracle database and Sql Server Database. Upgraded and configured Sagent Design studio to v7. Was nominated for employee of the month after only 6 months of working with the company. Recognized by management and co-workers as willing to provide help, troubleshoot problems, and take on additional responsibilities. Show less

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  SIVECO ROMANIA SA

  Sept 2006 - Nov 2009

  I was involved in the process of analysis, design and development of new functionalities of critical importance in the business flow . My responsibilities also included product management by coordinating, scheduling and planning the tasks of the team. The product used in this purpose was Microsoft Project Server . Also part of my job was source control and for that purpose I uses Visual Source Safe. My responsibilities included developing complex Pl/SQL modules, building forms and reports for highly specialized applications. For these tasks Oracle Developer Suite 10g was used.I contributed in developing, maintaining and customizing modules of an ERP using Oracle Forms and Reports 6i,9i,10g, Oracle PL/ SQL Developer.

  • Technical Leader and Senior Oracle Developer

    Mar 2008 - Nov 2009

  • Oracle Developer

    Sept 2006 - Mar 2008
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  METRO SYSTEMS Romania

  Nov 2009 - Apr 2021

  My current responsibilities as an Engineering manager for the M|Transport product include :• ensure active employee management and individual employee development • empowers and motivates employees in the unit • provides support in identifying candidates for production/ service teams through constructive internal promotions and/ or recruitment or the engagement of third parties• actively uses employee survey instruments, develops these instruments further and intensifies honest and transparent dialog between employees.• acts as a coach, moderator and, in conflict situations, coordinator• Implements and supports product/service OKRs.• responsible for team's budget• responsible for recruitment to address capacity needs• ensure and support an environment that strives for technical excellenceM|Transport strives to provide the best tools for cost efficient transport operations in all the locations that Metro (and not only) operates. The product deals with topics like route optimization, data science and eventually artificial intelligence, through its desktop and mobile app. Show less Oracle Database Administration is a centralized service within METRO SYSTEMS that ensures support and administration for over 1500 oracle databases.In this role, my responsibilities were divided between technical and managerial ones.As a service owner, my responsibilities included : • Alignment with each Product Owner/Application Responsible all database activities that will affect the overall application• Alignment of the SLA’s with every stakeholder and ensure the service of the team will be aligned with the SLAs• Coordinating the migration to Oracle Cloud • Acting as a single point of contact between the development teams and the application DBA team• Coordinating the daily technical activities of the Application DBA team to ensure the optimum usage of resources and customer satisfaction;• Maintaining and improving support and operation processes for all applications;• Actively support for all team’s projects and initiatives;My managerial responsibilities included: • team coordination • people development, • budget planning and forecasting • capacity planning and allocation • recruitment. Show less As a technical leader for Oracle Database Administration team main role was in coordinating the team activity and ensuring that the best technical solution were provided to our customers. The critical of the business requires for high availability of the databases and I was involved in automating the monitoring and administration tasks using Jenkins and shell scripting. The team is in charge of over 1500 databases in all stages of product development (development,QA,PP and Production).A big project for which I took the lead was migrating all database to Oracle 12c release. Apart from coordination, alignment with the customer, communication with different stakeholders I also helped in mitigating the development gaps brought by the migration. Show less As technical leader for the shared services team my current responsibilities were divided between technical and managerial ones. Technical responsibilities included analyzing complex demands and creating the functional specifications. Managerial activities include resource allocation, calculating and providing team capacity during release waves , deciding release content based on availability and urgency of demands . Other responsibilities are related to delivery deadlines that have to be discussed with the delivery team and also our customers . As technical leader of my product I need to have an overview over the entire process from the creation of demand to it’s delivery on QA, preproduction and finally production systems . Show less

  • Engineering Manager

    Dec 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Service Owner/Capability Manager for the Oracle Database Administration team

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2019

  • Technical leader for Oracle database administration team

    Nov 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Technical Leader

    Sept 2013 - Nov 2016

  • Senior Oracle Developer

    Nov 2009 - Sept 2013
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  Microsoft

  Apr 2021 - now

  Leading multiparty automation testing team within Microsoft Teams throughout multiple exciting deliveries of new versions of the product.Collaborated with engineering teams in ensuring extensive automation coverage for multiparty core scenarios and thus contributing to keeping a high bar on the quality of the product. Planned and prioritized investments into reliability and innovation to better support the strive for utmost quality while always improving to have best in class multiparty automation testing framework.Mentored and coached team and individual members to achieve success and provided support in difficult times. Show less

  • Principal Software Engineering Manager

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Engineering Manager

    Apr 2021 - now