Diana Oprean
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
Toptal member since June 14, 2022
Diana worked in the IT sector for 18+ years, first as a developer and technical lead and then as a project manager and delivery director. She combines a solid technical background, specializing in .NET and AWS, with proven expertise in agile project management. She has worked for various clients and helped cross-functional teams move into Agile and DevOps practices. Diana is a project manager who always looks forward to simplifying and improving the processes and delivery to meet clients' goals.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Project Management
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Program Management
- Project Planning
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Software Architecture
- Software Development Management
Work Experience
Technical Director
Perficient
- Conducted hands-on agile project management on multiple projects of different sizes, from POCs to enterprise projects. Involved in all stages of the projects from discovery to production.
- Managed multiple delivery teams to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.
- Oversaw daily activities of the delivery team and provided direction and guidance as needed.
- Built positive and productive working relationships with customers for business growth.
- Contributed to using the agile delivery framework on projects, including methodologies and the definition of done.
- Performed resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.
- Evaluated team members' performance and provided feedback.
- Reviewed customer statements of work (SOWs) and planned and coordinated delivery activities.
Technical Program Manager
Aera
- Led the iterative delivery of strategic cross-functional initiatives from concept to shipping through focus, transparency, communication, visibility, and accountability.
- Partnered with the product operations, security operations, product engineering, customer success, and business leadership teams to build highly collaborative teams and enhance communication across teams and stakeholders.
- Led over six scrum teams, providing coaching and growing scrum masters and product owners.
- Diagnosed, analyzed, and understood high-priority issues and raised awareness of those among leadership teams.
- Communicated the project status on the various cross-functional swim lanes and improved velocity.
- Helped drive clarity of deliverables between product, design, engineering, and test teams.
- Led project meetings and identified and documented results and actions.
Technical Program Manager
Globant
- Oversaw multiple dependent projects on the account in the supply chain finance industry.
- Took part in the entire end-to-end automation program using robotic process automation to lead small to mid-term automation strategy.
- Defined the program controls, including the processes, procedures, and reporting needed to manage the program, and provided ROI measurements to the governance.
- Monitored progress to ensure milestones were met across the various projects.
- Managed and used resources across various projects.
- Improved and assessed performance to apply new learning and knowledge and modernized methodologies used on the account.
Team Manager
Globant
- Coordinated multiple software development teams using various technologies.
- Worked daily with the teams to facilitate project management, collaboration and communication, knowledge sharing, and quality focus.
- Provided effective individual performance feedback to company management and team members in performance reviews or when requested.
- Acted as a product owner and scrum master on various projects.
Technical Team Lead
AROBS Transilvania Software
- Led a team of developers in building a web application for analyzing and managing competitors in the hotel industry.
- Analyzed the specifications and proposed and created the project's architecture.
- Supported team members in addressing the problems they met.
- Handled the application development with ASP.NET MVC 3, Entity Framework, jQuery, Ajax, and JSON.
Project History
Financial Solution
Led three scrum teams in modernizing a client's financial solution, taking them from chaos to production in less than six months.
• Managing 12+ developers, testers, and automation engineers
• Working with business analysts from the client side to understand the product vision
• Transforming requirements into user stories
• Creating the product road map
• Building release plans for the milestones
• Working on the client's agile transformation
• Facilitating communication of client needs to the development team
• Coaching project technical leads to ensure good design and best coding practices
• Coaching scrum masters to ensure Agile practices are respected
• Assuring the overall technical quality of the solution
• Ensuring the project documentation is updated and shared across all the account
• Using Angular 7, .Net Core Web API, SQL Server, and Azure
Supply Chain Finance Industry Projects
Contributed to the digital transformation and end-to-end automation of the processes used in the client's finance department.
• Overseeing multiple dependent projects on the account in the supply chain finance industry
• Getting involved in the entire end-to-end automation strategy
• Leading small to mid-term automation strategy using robotic process automation
• Providing return on investment (ROI) measurements to the governance
• Defining the program controls, including the processes, procedures, and reporting needed to manage the program
• Monitoring progress to ensure that milestones are met across the various projects
• Managing and using resources across the various projects
• Forecasting and creating roadmaps to achieve goals
• Improving and assessing performance to apply new learning and knowledge
• Modernizing the methodologies used on the account
Non-profit Organization Project
Launched and managed eight releases for an NGO's volunteer management system.
• Leading one scrum team in assisting our clients with their volunteer management online application
• Working with the client for over eight years, handling one major release each summer, and managing the client in the maintenance period when the team was considerably reduced
• Facilitating communication of client needs to the development team
• Coaching project team members in good design and coding practices
• Assuring the overall technical quality of the solution
• Using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, SQL Server, and AWS
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Babes-Bolyai University - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Certifications
.NET Certification—70-547 | MCPD: Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications
Microsoft
.NET Certification—70-536 | MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation
Microsoft
.NET Certification—70-528 | MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-based Client Development
Microsoft
.NET Certification—70-515 | Web Application Development
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
Git, Jira, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, DevOps, Design Patterns, Agile, Management, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Other
Software Development, .NET, C#, Program Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Agile Coaching, Software Development Management, Software Architecture, Project Planning, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Product Management, Cloud Platforms, Technical Leadership, Engineering Management, Distributed Team Management, Team Leadership, Agile Transformation, Team Mentoring, Team Management, Technical Project Management, Project Management, Operations, Cloud, Planning, Research, Enterprise, Algorithms, Data Architecture, ASP.NET MVC, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Agile Program Management, Business Planning, Healthcare Management Systems, ASP.NET, Feature Backlog Prioritization
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