Andrei Constantinescu

IT and Networking Director, Retail 2009 - Present

Responsible for the overall status and development of the IT infrastructure and business critical services that power the business vertical starting with the supply chain leading to the end selling point.
Oversaw of a total of $36MM in IT Projects.

• Oversaw the growth and stabilization of all Technology services
• Virtualized the server infrastructure from a classical design to automated failover clusters
• Planned and managed the budget of the IT department, presently at $4MM
• Planned and implemented deployment of 280+ servers, 1500+ Cisco devices, 800+ Tills
• Provided Leadership to 15 technology team members
• Leveraged technology to support organizational growth
Accomplishments
• Below budget rebranding of 100+ retail stores and one warehouses within 6 months
• Coordinated the IT planning of 160 Lidl points of presence
• Established strategic outsourcing relationships that rapidly extended capacity, in order to meet critical timelines.
• Developed the technology department operations to support growth to 3000+ employees.

Project Manager, Retail 2007 - 2009
Reported to the IT Director as the most senior technology Project Manager.
Responsible for planning and growth to scale of all Technology services

• Provided support to 100+ employees,
• Offered training and leadership to 5 technology team members,
Accomplishments
• Aligning the business processes to international standards
• Consolidated all monitoring systems into one central application, reducing downtime to under 0.1%.
• Introduced open-source applications to reduce the cost of licensing by 30% in 6 months.

Customer Care Representative 2005 - 2006

Providing essential information on the Orange services, registering complaints and solving them in an equitable fashion, analyzing and forwarding possible network outages ranging from dysfunctional sites to major service dysfunctional ties.