Where I have worked
Over my career I have worked with organisations of every size, from international corporations to medium and small firms, with teams spread across four continents, from Japan and Australia to the Americas.
About
The domain changes. How I work does not.
15 years of delivering IT, across sales, marketing, HR, finance, integration platforms and medical education. I have never worked in only one domain, and that turned out to be the skill rather than the gap: most of what I am asked to do sits in a business I have not seen before, and the first job is always to understand it.
Background
Two large organisations, then my own
Nine years inside a large organisation
I spent nine years at a global consumer-goods company, running IT initiatives across sales, marketing, HR and finance. Scope, timelines, vendors, budget, testing, rollout. The unglamorous parts that decide whether a project arrives.
Then the architecture behind it
At a Swiss medical foundation I owned the integration platform, the master-data hub and the identity tooling. I planned and coordinated the move of more than 25 live workflows to the cloud with zero downtime, and I was the person who found out why data stopped flowing between systems at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday.
My own practice, since 2023
Not a smaller version of the same job, a wider one. Inside a large organisation I owned one platform and handed the rest to other teams. Here I design, build, deploy, secure and operate the whole chain, and one person is answerable for all of it.
Over those same years I built and launched SmartStream, my own product, which runs in production with real users. So this is not only advice about how systems should be built.
I kept the rigour I learned inside those organisations. What is gone is the overhead.
How I work now
Architecture before code, and a system you can maintain yourself
Some of what decides whether a project succeeds never appears in a proposal. A scope tied to how the work really happens. System architecture decided before code is written, so the parts fit together and still fit together in three years. Honest trade-offs. Tested releases. Documentation. And a system you own and can maintain yourself, rather than a black box with my name on it.
Understanding a problem quickly is what I am strongest at: business analysis, solution architecture, and translating between what the business means and what the technology can actually do. I come back with concrete proposals for how to execute, and where it makes sense I execute them myself. What I design is judged on cost and quality over the long run, not on whatever is quickest to build.
You do not have to arrive with a solution in mind. Describe the problem, and I will propose the option that fits. Where something falls outside what I do, I say so, and I either learn it or point you to someone who already knows it. The objective is the right solution for you, not the sale of a particular service.
I work in Romanian and English.
What the people I have worked with say
Delivered on time, scope, quality and budget.
Huge ownership and responsibility.
A fast learner with a positive attitude and strong collaboration skills.
A brilliant project manager who gets the best out of people.
He knows how to manage difficult stakeholders around the world.
A true asset for any role. Highly recommended if you need to get the job done.
Full understanding of business processes and strong systems knowledge.
He delivered quality at an optimal cost.
Impressed by his ownership and project management skills.
Cutover planning and execution delivered on the agreed timelines and quality.
Performed accurately and professionally. I would definitely recommend him.
A brilliant, gifted professional who understands how to get the best out of people.
Detail-oriented, analytical and approachable, even in critical moments.
Profound knowledge and great abilities in modern business solutions.
He shines in a busy, demanding environment.
Highly recommended for his professional work, can-do attitude and leadership.
A deep understanding of integration projects and consistently high-quality results.
His can-do attitude was vital to the smooth execution of many projects.
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and calm under pressure.
The kind of person any team desperately needs.
Explains complex IT problems clearly and finds suitable solutions quickly.
I recommend him without hesitation.
Exceptional at integrating multiple systems.
He breaks complex issues into manageable steps and delivers effective solutions.
His grasp of our requirements and workflows produced a solution that exceeded expectations.
Excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication. A valuable team player.
The system significantly improved our processes, reduced manual effort and increased operational transparency.
He quickly understood complex requirements and turned them into practical, robust, scalable solutions.
A precise, methodical partner who turns complex data into clear, actionable information.
A competent and dependable partner. Recommended without reservation.
Exceedingly satisfied. In quality and scope he often surpassed the specifications.
Independent, conscientious, efficient, reliable and precise.
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