Lucian Vidrascu

Seasoned ICT executive

Have been working for 30 years in ICT development with strong competences in process and
projects/program management, outsourcing and budgets, in international environment.
Proven leadership competencies. Ability to motivate the teams, especially the youngest. Driven by objectives.
Faithful to my job, team and company. Believe that people are important and the leaders might coach,
motivate and lead them to success.Ability to manage projects in an international & cross-cultural environment
Proven professional project management competencies. Have been using PMP technics since 2005. Could
Handle multiple tasks, meet established targets, and work within critical milestones. Risk management, PM
best practices. It is always a compromise between Costs, delivery Date, Quality level and Content.
Expert in ICT/SW product roadmaps set-up, SW product development life cycle, resource allocation, matrix
organization & process definition and project/program management.
Experienced in setting up quality development systems. Quality in people, process, products and clients
support is essential. Experienced in implementation of quality systems and audits as CMMI, ISO 9001 and
TL9000. The quality of people, processes, products and customer service is essential.
Strong experience in budgeting and outsourcing western SW technology transfers to/from Romania, in
international professional environment. Experienced in managing outsourced, fixed price projects.
Ambitious, Independent, resourceful and task-oriented individual, able to quickly grasp new technology.
Dynamic, self-motivated, with initiative, team player, intelligent, customer friendly, systematic, flexible, very
efficient. I do take challenges. I am persistent, half workaholic and half rebel. Pragmatic and results-oriented.
High level trainings achieved: PM excellence (Dr.H.Kerzner), Communications, Negotiations, Conflicts
management, Transactional Analysis, Finance and Budgets (ASEBUSS), Team Building (LIFO), Stress
Management, Time Management, Performance Management, intensive HR management
Experienced in leading core meetings and workshops with business stakeholders ; Reporting tools MSProject,
BusinessObjects, Sharepoint, MSWord family
Graduated Computer Engineering (MSc) in 1986 in IASI, Romania.
Bilingual English & French
Brief /Specialties:
+21 years of ICT full cycle development and R&D product development experience in western EN:FR:DE:IT environment
+8 years of professional product/program management (PMP); knowledge of PRINCE2;
+13 years in ICT product development and architecture: C/C++; OOP, OOAD, SOA, POSA;
+8 years technical manager and owner of a software company; expert in matrix environment setup;
+8 years audit setting up experience with ISO,CMMI,TL9000
+3 years infrastructure services and ITIL
+3 years in Quality QMS management
+1 year in China ICT factory operations
-1y #AI, #chatbots, #ML, #deep-learning

Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lucianvidrascu

Contact: Lucian Vidrascu, +33617521862; +33256393231 France; lucian.c.vidrascu@gmail.com

Yearly experiences:
Currently: Consultant
Seed-stage startup in #AI domain
10.2015 11.2016 : Group Quality Director
Environment: EU / Chine/ US ;
Company LEA Group; Locations Paris, Shenzhen, Chicago
Technologies: Network Equipment Development in EU and Production in China;
ISO9001; ISO140001; OHSAS18001; TL9000
The Quality management for all 3 sites of the group: Paris, Chicago, Shenzhen,
Full ICT products develoment cyle, French/US R&D, production in China, operations&sales worldwide.
Big clients management (Nokia/Alcatel, 3M, etc)
Direct report to: CTO
05.2014 09.2015 ; Program manager
Contractor; Environment: EU; Technologies transfer to cloud;
Technical management of the ICT programs.
SW Technologies: Cloud and Scalability ; Web Frameworks:
08.2013 04.2014 ; Program manager
Company: SCC ; Location: Paris/Iasi ; Environment: UK/FR/RO
Infrastructure Services manager for a mixed team of +20 persons romanian-french in Iasi and Paris.
19 clients allover EU; UK and FR DataCenters services 24/7;
Internet technologies: Windows servers; VMware servers; Citrix farms. Scalability, clusters; visualization;

Budgets:
250K+ E ; Direct report to: COO
05.2012-09.2013: Project manager - freelancer
Environment: international/EU

Professional Projects management and consulting in after M&A integration;

Scalability, clusters technics; Linux, Android; win8
SW project management; SW Technologies: C/C++; DevOps, HTML5/Node.js, SOA, OOAD

08.2011 04.2012 ; VP engineering

Company: Adswizz.com ; Location: Bucharest / Brussels ; Environment : international/US/EU
Team: 30+ engineers, 6 Teams, development and support
Matrix organization set up Projects x Competences set up for a software & services startup company.
Performance monitoring; hiring; organizational development;
R&D leadership; Process and project management setup; resource allocation; product backlog set-up

Acceptance criteria and deliveries definitions in accordance with prioritized requirements. Coordination of the
definitions and strategies for acceptance criteria and deliveries in accordance with prioritized requirements. Strong
practice of Waterfall/V Agile/Scrum/TDD methodologies.
Tests and QA strategies. Operational and support set up contribution. SW Technologies: SOA, OOAD, POSA,streaming;
Budgets:
1+ M E Direct report to: CEO
04.2008 01.2011 ;
BU Manager center R&D and services
Company:
Axway Romania ; Location: Bucharest, Paris
Team: 170+ persons, 11 Teams, engineers, testers, services, support
Environment: line and projects links with R&D sites from Paris, Annecy and Scottsdale
SW technologies: Syncrony platform, SOA, EJB, OOAD, POSA, B2B
Professional Projects management coach for SW development process: charge/workload and quality driven
development process, reporting, meetings, follow ups
HR: Procedures (hiring, career path, newcomers validation), Mission & Organization, organigramme, roles,
objectives ; Organizational management: motivation, leadership, coaching
QA: quality plan review, quality indicators, dashboards, Process improvements
Active participant to business development strategies core meetings in Paris.
Budgets:
6+ M E ; Direct report to: R&D&S SVP Axway
05.2002 04.2008 ;
manger for an R&D center
Company:
Alcatel-Lucent ; Location:
Timisoara, Paris, Stuttgart
Team: 100+ persons, 10 Teams, 4 Projects responsible, SW engineers + testers
HR: Center hiring responsible and interviewer; 1700 applications, 500 interviews, 90+ hiring, turnover <9%
Performance Management responsible for the center;
Environment: close line and projects links with all Optical R&D centers from Stuttgart, Paris, Milan, Chengdu
Professional Projects management for R&D Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network Releases: DXC: 1678MCC, 1641SX,
1674LG; WDM: 162xLM, 1696MS, 1640WM; OMSN: 1850 TSS;
Telecomm technology: DWDM, DXC, GSM; protocols: Q3, TL1, SNMP, GMPLS, MTNM;
SW technologies: OOA/OOD/OOP, Unix/Linux/Windows, Solaris/PSOS/W.NT, Networking/Distributed
systems/CORBA, databases/CRM/ERP.
Technical center responsible for workload, budgets, strategies, delocalization/outsourcing management
QA: Q and audits center responsible: CMMI, ISO9001, and TL9000.
Without nonconformities 5 audits with DNV, SRAC and internal ALU during 4 years.
Active participant to development strategies, cost reductions programs and outsourcing decisions.
Gained exceed expectations (4th level from 5) during 6 years of HR Global Performance Monitoring process
Direct report to: Department Director, OND sites R&D directors
1993-2002 ; Owner, development manager
Company:
V Systems ltd, ; Location:
IASI, Romania
Team: 8+ persons, Projects responsible, SW engineers
SW technologies: OOA/OOD/OOP. Networking, distributed systems, CORBA, C/C++, Python, SQL, PL/SQL,
pascal/Kylix Projects management: SW projects in the field of Applications development, networking, administration
and security; Customer technical support.
Product management: Developed, licensed, marketed and did sell an ERP like product named TaxPro.
Consultant in the field of financial management SW applications and SW accounting systems for more than 35
Romanian companies in middle 90s. Company budgets assurance and financial reports.
Budgets: 250K E ; Direct report to: investors
1991-1993 : IT Project Manager
Company:
Romanian Telematics Institute ; Location:
Bucharest, Romania
Team: 13+ persons, Projects responsible, development engineers; design, coding, testing, documentation and
maintenance; Projects management: SW projects in the field of Applications development, networking, and
Customer technical support.
Budgets: 250K E
; Direct report to: Development Director
1987-1991 : Software engineer, jr. IT Manager
Dated 1.11.2016