Mircea STRUGARU

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+40.742.107754 mircea.strugaru@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mirceastrugaru Apr 21, 1977

To drive and be responsible for business performance - P&L, sales and market share objectives. To identify market needs, trends and business opportunities; to have the means to turn them into concrete strategies. To drive innovation, define product roadmaps and solutions. Software, Technology, Telecommunications Business Development, CTO, Solution Architecture

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Department lead 11 years in R&D R&D Department Director - Applications Group, Alcatel-Lucent Dec 2010 to date Report to Region Vice President and Business Division CTOs. Act as R&D and site manager for 100+ software engineers. Elaborate and execute growth and sustainability strategies for local R&D organization. Act under consultative guidance from top management. Interface between R&D and with Product Management, Regional Sales, Support and Delivery organizations. Coach and mentor people managers, project managers, technical experts Minimize turnover and attrition from 15% down to 4%. Streamline recruitment, introduce new practices, reduce hiring time, diversify evaluation methods to better identify native potential, ingenuity, problem solving, algorithmic and abstract thinking. Interface with local universities for attracting new talent and creating research partnerships. Define and implement learning and training as a continous, incremental, measurable, process. Migrate all activities towards the Agile Methodology. Improve cohesion, focus, schedule adherence and quality of R&D deliverables. Represent the local organization in internal strategy sessions, best practices groups, portfolio definition activities Represent the company in international marketing events, customer workshops, mass-media. R&D Group Leader - Applications Software Group, Alcatel-Lucent Apr 2008 - Dec 2010 R&D management for multimedia, social and mobile video solutions. Project management. Product and solution architecture. Defined product roadmaps and release schedules. Managed projects with customer facing role. Defined product and solution architecture. Interfaced with Product Management, Business Development and Tendering organizations. Held presentations, demos and workshops on customer sites. Actively participated in regional marketing and business development activities.

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Submitted an invention patent in the area of digital content security. Participated in the effort of extending IETF standards with the invention above. Position Period Responsibilities R&D Competence Center Manager Business Ventures, Alcatel-Lucent Sept 2004 Apr 2008 First line R&D management, end to end: development, validation, integration, deployment and support. Software architecture and hands-on software development. Technical project management. Defined product architecture and customer solutions. Actively developed code on core modules and services. Managed customer projects with partially customer facing role, accumulated extensive on-site experience. Became increasingly involved in business development activities. Head of Software Development Department Caatoosee AG (500+ empl.) Aug 2000 Aug 2004 Jointly responsible for opening a greenfield R&D center in Romania. Recruitment, process definition, sustainable growth. Software architecture and hands-on software development. Technical project management. Successfully opened and staffed what fast became the companys core R&D center. Achieved aggressive growth during times of investment (IPO) and market expansion; Survived through times of market contraction and cost reduction thanks to lean cost structures, flexible and efficient R&D processes. Progressively took responsibility for product architecture and multi-site R&D management. Had a permanent and intensive collaboration with C-level management. Obtained status of Certified SAP Partner for data cleansing and unification, now part of SAP suite. Software Development Engineer Object Vision Ltd. (start-up) Jan 2000 Aug 2000 Software development. Small scale software design. Went through an intensive learning phase on software development in the real world. Became involved in first customer projects. Improved development and design skills, gained a broader perspective on software development and its methodologies.

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Alcatel Lucent Leadership Development Program (Stretch, Boost) 2005 2008 Romania, France Accounting and Financials Marketing and Communication Negotiation Project management People management and leadership Human resource management Master Degree in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara 2000 2001 Timisoara, Romania Bachelor degree in Computer Science Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara 1995 2000

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Location Skills and Competences Non-technical

Timisoara, Romania

Project management. People management, communication, negotiation. Flexibility, risk assessment, embracing change. Business-driven mindset. Java SE, Javascript, jQuery, Flex, C++, C, Lisp, Prolog, SQL, Bash. JEE - EJB, RMI, JDBC, JMS, JAAS, JCA, JSTL, JCE, JNDI, JSP, Servlets, JMX, JPA. Spring, Struts. WebServices, SOAP, REST, XML, EDI, xCBL. Hibernate. FOSS Apache, Redhat. Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Domino. Jboss, Websphere, Tomcat. Eclipse, SVN, CVS, Junit, Jmeter, Selenium, Ant. Jira, Maven, Bamboo, Clover, CruiseControl, FishEye. Linux, Solaris, iOS, Android. UML, Design Patterns, SOA. Artificial Intelligence. Cryptography. Data, communication and network security. Unix system-level and parallel programming. Continuous Integration, Agile, Scrum, XP.

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Personal Interests Chess History Psychology Economics Photography Long-distance swimming Tennis