Owner at Mosaic Works
Romania
- Current
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- Chair & Event Coordinator at OpenAgile Romania (conference)
- Owner at Mosaic Works
- CSM, Agile/Scrum Practitioner & Coach at Mosaic Works
- Past
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- Quality Manager at TechTeam Akela
- Project Manager/Team Leader at TechTeam Akela
- Senior Developer at Kepler-Rominfo
- Trainer/Instructor - Microsoft Technologies at Computerland Romania
- Software Developer / IT consultant at Romanian Data Soft
- Teacher at Henri Coanda High-school Bucharest
- Education
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- Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti
- Liceul Alexandru Lahovari
- Cerified ScrumMaster
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- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Maria Diaconu’s Summary
Being passionate about software world and enthusiastic to work with people, my focus is on supporting teams in their way to deliver high quality software and maximizing business value.
I have very high interest towards the practices, methods and methodologies that help teams developing quality software while increasing their productivity.
Personal values: Continuous Learning & Self Improving • Honesty & Integrity • Passionate • Highly adaptable • Constructive
Maria Diaconu’s Specialties:
• Process Improvement, Process Change, Agile Methods & Practices, certified Scrum Master, XP (Extreme Programming), CMMI
• Teaching -courses design and presentation: methodologies and software organization topics (Scrum, XP, CMMI etc)
• Coaching / Mentoring software development teams and individuals
Maria Diaconu’s Experience
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Chair & Event Coordinator
OpenAgile Romania (conference)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
First Agile / Scrum conference in Romania: Bucharest, May 22-23, 2009. More details: www.openagile.ro
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Owner
Mosaic Works
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
• Born from a deep IT passion and from a strong desire to help people create high quality software, Mosaic Works focus is training and advisory services in software development world.
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CSM, Agile/Scrum Practitioner & Coach
Mosaic Works
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
• Supporting, training and guiding people/teams that want to develop high quality software and increase their productivity. Agile methods of work are very practical and efficient to achieve this goal.
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Quality Manager
TechTeam Akela
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; TEAM; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 1 month)
• Quality Assurance Manager, Engineering Process Group Leader in charge with implementing, monitoring and improving quality processes in the company; achieved ML3, CMMI-DEV v.1.2 - SCAMPI A in December 2006
• Reporting and closely working with the CEO to solve the existing issues; Closely collaborating with the other managers
• Collaborating with clients from the prospect phase till the project closure phase; communicating audits results periodically; solving the issues, either internally or in collaboration with the customer -
Project Manager/Team Leader
TechTeam Akela
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; EMEA; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — February 2006 (1 year )
• Project Manager - Leading in parallel multiple teams, developing projects in various industries. Managed software projects from the initial phase -estimation-, till the final delivery and project closure.
• Team Leader - Manged software projects developed in .NET technologies from technical point of view - including the team management. -
Senior Developer
Kepler-Rominfo
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — March 2005 (1 year )
• Consultant, software developer, functional and technical analyst, team manager, trainer (Visual Studio .NET – C#, ASP.NET) at Kepler-Rominfo Bucharest after the merger between RDS and Kepler
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Trainer/Instructor - Microsoft Technologies
Computerland Romania
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2003 — October 2004 (1 year )
• Teaching Microsoft official courses “Programming C# .NET”, "ADO.NET", "ASP.NET"
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Software Developer / IT consultant
Romanian Data Soft
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — April 2004 (3 years )
• Consultant, software developer, business analyst (WebSpeed, Progress, PHP, Visual Studio .NET - C#, ASP.NET) at Romanian Data Soft (RDS) Bucharest. Missions included working at Progress France for one year in Paris.
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Teacher
Henri Coanda High-school Bucharest
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 3 months)
• Teaching programming languages and techniques
Additional Information
Maria Diaconu’s Websites:
Maria Diaconu’s Interests:
• Scrum, extreme programming, Lean, CMMI, Six Sigma • training & coaching, communication skills, change management, leadership, marketing • international travel, history, writing
