Constantin Ionescu

Experience

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  SIS SA

  Sept 2004 - Sept 2005

  Industrial Automation Consultant

  - DeltaV modules configuration for the polypropene factory at Petromidia, Romania.- Creation of the process and instrumentation diagrams for the ammonium nitrate factory in Semadco Attaka-Suez, Egipt.- Creation and the implementation of the powerful animated synoptic display under Iconics Genesis32.- Creation of the electrical diagram that linked the field equipment with the DCS.- Creation of the Building Management System and Access Control for large office buildings.

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  Romsys

  May 2007 - Feb 2012

  Wintel Systems Analyst

  - Helpdesk for Freescale Semiconductors Romania and Motorola Romania. Part of the Computer Science Corporation(CSC) support team; - Clarifying a client's system specifications, understanding their work practices and the nature of their business;

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  S&T Romania

  Feb 2012 - May 2016

  My role is to schedule and direct team resources in a manner that delivers cost effective and quality services to our customers while being committed to ensure that business impact is minimized through handling all incidents with a focus on service quality. Responsibilities:- Improve quality of communication by leading initiatives with S&T teams and customer teams- Track and measure incident management and change management milestones used for operational improvements and reporting- Act as an escalation point for active incidents and change requests- Provide coaching and support to a team of Service Engineers- Improve processes for efficiency and customer satisfaction Show less - Evaluate new technology, assess existing technologies and drive software technology strategy that address the strategy of the client.- Define technical requirements, lead design and delivery of solutions for business systems.- Define and forecast the budget for a project.- Act as a liaison between the technical teams and business systems teams throughout the implementation lifecycle of a business system.- Support IT projects developed by S&T for customers (network and infrastructure design, security design and implementation, database design and tuning).- Design and implement complex Microsoft based projects(Active Directory, Exchange, WSUS, SCCM, FIM, VMM)-Provide 3rd level support. Show less

  • Service Manager

    Jul 2015 - May 2016

  • Microsoft Consultant

    Feb 2012 - May 2016
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  SII Romania

  May 2016 - May 2018

  Cloud Automation DevOps Manager

  Manage an international team of 15 developers and testers tasked to develop andimplement a custom hybrid cloud solution within the PwC global network. The solutionwas built on top of Microsoft technologies and it was designed to be able to connect toa large variety of cloud providers and to the private cloud. It offers completeenvironment deployments(PaaS and IaaS) and it is integrated with all the security and managementtools required by the infrastructure teams.» Key Achievements- Organize a new team of DevOps engineers- Ensured delivery and implementation of DE, UK and US fabric infrastructure.- Ensured delivery and implementation of the OrchestrationFactory solution andintegration with existing infrastructure components.- Design tenant data information and data management used for global territoriesonboarding.- Implement Waterfall and Agile methodologies.» Objectives- Oversee the implementation of the Hybrid Cloud Automation Solution according totechnical design requirements.- Work with the project team to identify new use cases and improve the existing. onesbased on the input from the Cloud Council- Provide guidance and direction to the Development team members.- Act as a bridge between Operations teams and the DevOps team bycoordinating the join effort activities- Provide technical advise to the Cloud Centre of Excellence leadership.- Ensure code quality is achieved as per PwC Standards and bring in continuousimprovement concepts.- Manage risks and resolve issues that are affecting the development process Show less

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  PwC

  May 2018 - Apr 2019

  Solution App Migration Infrastructure TDA Senior Manager

  - Design, improve, and integrate business processes across disparate systems; - Serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders and relationship teams by providing thought leadership on the usage of specific application technologies to promote innovation and/or cost reduction; - Research and evaluate emerging technologies and standards in order to make recommendations to enhance business processes and/or create competitive advantage to PwC;- Lead design standards work streams up through ratification in the governance process, especially leading and working with multinational representatives and technical architects from sourcing vendor teams; - Lead and mentor peers and colleagues in CTO organization including: leading large and complex programs involving multiple projects/TDAs; communicating effectively at different levels within the organization including leadership and business stakeholders; and communicating effectively at different levels outside of the organization including software vendors and sourcing suppliers;- Work collaboratively and lead multi-disciplinary teams in resolving complex technical issues: providing design guidance services that follow the enterprise architecture vision and adheres to applicable application technology roadmaps and standards; and understanding and mitigating the impact of technical design to security, performance and data privacy;- Enhance communication between teams using personal exchanges, teleconferences, video chat/ conference, and collaboration technologies Notes and Google apps for work; - Work within established Software Development Lifecycles and methodology to support the success of the larger IT organization, including waterfall, iterative, agile and scrum. Show less

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  E.ON Sofware Development

  May 2019 - Nov 2019

  DevOps Manager

  • Operated as the leader of 5 DevOps teams allocated to different projects over the course of my operations.• Obtained an in-depth understanding of project requirements and KPIs to allow for maximum project success.• Handled all aspects of the definition and effective implementation of the CI/CD strategy as part of my duties.• Charged with administering expectations across the teams, stakeholders, and external structures.• Furnished periodic reporting on a regular basis to project leadership to update and inform them on project status. Show less

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  PwC

  Nov 2019 - now

  • Serve in an integral role by administering the redesign of UI delivery components and influencing a major change in the selected technologies used for the cloud self-service portal.• Leverage extensive expertise and experience to contribute to a major change in the organization’s technology, as well as in spearheading the development of an in-house orchestration engine.• Provide supervision and direction to a new global team of 30 developers and 10 testers that operate across four major technologies, two workstreams, and three time zones in an agile environment.• Oversaw the standardization of the releases processes across the technologies used within the project. Show less

  • Director - Platform Response and Operations

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Senior Manager - Development & Integration Cloud Design

    Nov 2019 - Oct 2023