Dr.Mihail Prundaru


Addresse

Goldauerstrasse 47, CH-8006 Zürich

Telephone

+41(0)78 925 35 23

Email,website

mihai@prundaru.com; www.prundaru.com

Nationality

German


PROFESIONAL OBJECTIVES :


POSITION: Senior Project/Program Manager / IT DIRECTOR


AREAS OF EXPERTISE


Managed complex, strategic international projects, 2 Mil plus Euro, 16 plus staff (technical system integrators), in image processing, pattern recognition (data mining), and banking in 10 countries.

Led multi-national teams of engineers, as well as outsourced teams from India, Bulgaria and Hungary, for global companies.

Consistently delivered customer focused multi-million Euro projects on time - below budget

Proven motivator, swift & decisive leader of over 16 people in complex, diverse organizations

Results driven, success oriented, team builder – big picture thinking with precise attention to detail

Strong communication and presentation skills

Scientific Research in Pattern Recognition, and participation with original papers at prestigious international conferences.

Highly developed skills in all aspects of technology development, engineering, operations, and strategy

Technical skills


UML, CMMI; Agile PM

OS

UNIX (HP, Solaris, Sumitomo, Silicon Graphics), Windows (NT, 2K, XP), MacOS, VMS

Languages

C, C++, Java, scripting languages, Python, Fortran, XML, HTML, assembler

Technologies

J2EE, Corba

Database

Oracle, Sybase, MySQL

Network

Essentials, LAN, WAN, VPN

Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio (C++), Sun ONE Studio, Rational Purify, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Package, CVS, CC Harvest, Together, VMWare, Livelink

Hardware

Sun Workstation, Sumitomo Workstation, Silicon Graphics Workstation, Apple Macintosh, HP Apollo Station, IBM Clones, Fujitsu Siemens PC, DEC Alpha workstation


EDUCATION


1999

PhD

Doctor Degree in Computer Science

1975 - 1980

Dipl.Eng.

Dipl.Eng in Electronics & Telecommunications (10/10)



PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE



1995 – present: Siemens AG, Konstanz, Germany


Senior Project/Program & Team Manager (16+ engineers)

In charge with planning, management and supervision of large special IT projects for Post Automation solutions delivered to international clients, mainly post organizations. I manage and have full budget and resources responsibility of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Video Coding projects and am responsible with reaching project milestones, in each stage of the project life-cycle, under the CMMI guidelines, as well as defining and implementing new technical solutions to meet customer requirements, estimating cost, risk management, providing technical/architecture guidance, liaising with stakeholders, and providing the technical assistance for the service department during the guarantee and post guarantee phases.

My responsibility also includes recruiting, training and leading international teams of software technical project managers from Germany, India, Hungary and Bulgaria.


1994 – 1995: Merrill Lynch Japan Co., Tokyo, Japan
Senior software consultant, Technology Department

Design and develop software applications for treasury, private banking and regulatory bodies.


1991 – 1994: Graphica Computer Corporation, Tokyo, Japan


Department Head, Software Development Department (Software Sekkei Bu);

Project Manager

Head of a multinational, multicultural department of software engineers (11) “Software Sekkei Bu”.

Responsible with large software projects/programs in image processing and pattern recognition.

Design and implement original image processing and pattern recognition algorithms. Delivered complex image processing projects on time and under budget.


1980 – 1991: ITCI – Institute for Computers and Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
R&D Engineer, Project Manager

Designed hardware modules for PDP-like computers used for processing of LANDSAT images.

Managed international image processing projects.


1987 – 1988 : Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania


Assistant Professor, Applied Electronics Department, Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Bucharest.

Lectures on”Information Transmission Theory” for undergraduates.


PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE – ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PROJECTS


1995 – present: Siemens AG, Konstanz, Germany


Current projects:


Responsible with the technical program management: software configuration, installation and integration.

Technologies used: C++, Java, Corba, XML, J2EE, Oracle 10g, Windows XP, Agile + Scrum SDM (Software Development Methods)

Responsible with the technical program management: software configuration, installation and integration. An open system using web technologies for all the mail processing activities. The REC system will replace all existing mail sorting systems of the United States Postal System (USPS)!

Technologies used: C++, Java, Corba, XML, J2EE, Oracle 10g, Linux (UNIX), Windows 2003 (64 b), Agile + Scrum SDM (Software Development Methods)







Closed projects:


Responsible with the technical project management. An open system using web technologies for “foreign” flat sorting machines; the reading/coding system is modular and scalable. The connection to other flat sorter machines is achieved via an open interface (CORBA)

Technologies used: C++, Java, Corba, XML, J2EE, Oracle 10g, Linux (UNIX), Windows 2003


Full mail sorting system project responsability. A system able to sort any type of mail within a defined time frame is an absolute must for the survival of the Postal Services in EU! The Hungarian Post has reached a high return on investment (ROI ) by implementing our solution. Our mail sorting system has achieved one day delivery time in Hungary, compared to one week mail delivery prior to the installation of our system. I lead discussions with the Hungarian post officials, to optimize the coding strategy, in order to complete video coding activities within 2 work shifts instead of 3. Our new solution has increased the productivity with 33% and relieved the coding system of the need for extra storage. While working close with the Hungarian clients, I updated the coding modes and keyboard layout to better accommodate their needs: this customization improved the coding speed with 10%.

Technologies used: C++, Corba, XML, MySQL, Tomcat, Windows 2K



Responsible with the technical project management. It is for the first time that our company provided a system for the parcel sorting in the USA; the technical solutions implemented keep the pace with the latest technology developments in hardware and software! I coordinate the software development teams in Europe (Germany and Bulgaria) and in the USA (Texas).

Technologies used: C++, Corba, XML, MySQL, Windows XP


Responsible with the integration of the WEB components outsourced to India and customization of external software components (“Legato” for key-components redundancy). I have coordinated the software development and delivered the project on time and with 10% under budget thanks to offshore outsourcing.


Responsible with the full project life cycle. The Brazilian Post was known for its slowness in delivering the post: thanks to our systems, they achieved a "3 day delivery", have cut costs of their activities and could remain competitive on the regional market. Due to our training and customer support policy, we succeeded to cut the travel costs by 25%. Due to the outsourcing of the customer support activities to Bulgaria, we achieved further cost cuts!

Technologies used: C, UNIX (Solaris), Windows NT, VMS, CCC Harvest.


Responsible with the project management (software development, activities planning, budgeting, FAT, post-guaranty support and analysis); due to the high productivity and reliability of our sorting system, the customer extended the area of business from Milan to the whole Lombardy and had a 100% raise in their revenue! We worked together with the customer to solve the following problems: the system throughput and the quality of the work done by the operators. Both problems were solved in a very short time through changes in network topology and offering an extra feature to check the work of each individual operator when needed! It brought an extra order for us, and satisfaction to the customer.

The customer was very important to us since they were the first private company to buy our machines.



Responsible with the whole project life cycle; It was a key project for us since: it addressed the parcel sorting area of business, and it involved 3 different companies from 2 countries. There were different cultures and work ethics that have to work together! The project was a success: due to our systems the client was able to get all Italian market share .

Project management (software development + integration + deployment); since the project was very small, it was very important to stay within the budget and to deliver it on time!

Project management, including software development, integration and deployment.



1994 – 1995: Merrill Lynch Japan Co., Tokyo, Japan


Hands-on leadership and full responsibility of medium to large software applications.

Analyzed, designed, developed, tested and implemented:


1991 – 1994: Graphica Computer Corporation, Tokyo, Japan


Management and development work of following projects, including definition and implementation of new, original algorithms:


1980 – 1991: ITCI – Institute for Computers and Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
R&D Engineer, Project Manager

Software development:

Hardware development:

International projects:




MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS

IEEE Member since 1991

IEEE Computer Society Member since 1991

IEEE Technical Committees on Multimedia Computing, Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Mathematical Foundation of Computing

IEEE Communications Society Member since 1998

Full Member of ARA - American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2001).

Gerson Lehrman Group Councils, (since 2006) – Image processing and Pattern Recognition Consultant




TRAINING COURSES (SELECTION)


Oracle

Sybase

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I

Sybase

Berlin

Hong Kong

2006

1994

Project Management

Projektleitung in der SW-Entwicklung (Siemens Zertifizierung)

Projektmanagement mit MS Projekt

Grassau

Konstanz

2005

2003

Java J2EE

Java Programmierung, Entwickeln J2EE-kompatibler Anwendungen

Konstanz

2004

Writing Software specification

Spezifikationstechniken für Entwickler

Konstanz

2004

OO Design and Testing

Objektorientiertes Design mit C++; Objektorientiertes Testen

Object Oriented programming with C++ (Part II)

Konstanz

2002


2001

XML

XML Eine Einführung in die Programmierung

Konstanz

2001

Leadership

Projektleitung als Führungsaufgabe

Fürth

2001



LANGUAGES

English: fluent (TEOFL) German: very good French: good

Japanese: beginner Romanian: mother tongue



CONFERENCES


Wrote papers on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition topics, including original algorithms, and presented them to conferences in Singapore, Japan, USA, Germany and Canada.

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mihai@prundaru.com