Ivan Danev
Sofia
Summary
Results-oriented Project Manager with seven years of experience in leading diverse IT projects, consistently delivering high-quality results on time and within budget. Expertise in stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and team leadership drives collaboration and successfully achieves project objectives. Proficient in industry-standard project management methodologies, optimizing processes to enhance project outcomes while adapting to dynamic environments. Committed to fostering strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, while improving customer satisfaction through efficient problem resolution and productivity analysis.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Project Director
Wacom
Sofia
10.2022 - 03.2025
- Lead end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of strategic operations projects across multiple departments.
- Oversee cross-functional project teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives, budgets, and timelines.
- Develop and implement operational strategies to optimize performance, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.
- Monitor project progress using KPIs and dashboards, ensuring timely identification and resolution of risks or roadblocks.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to define project scopes, business cases, and resource requirements.
- Direct vendor negotiations and manage key third-party relationships to ensure service level agreements are met.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through the application of Lean, Six Sigma, or Agile methodologies.
- Manage and mentor project managers and operations teams, promoting best practices in project governance.
Lead Project Management Officer
DIGITALL
02.2020 - 10.2022
- Accurately documenting the project's creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification
- Drafting new and improving existing project management office policies and processes
- Analysing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation
- Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
- Accountable for the IT Portfolio processes including IT planning, portfolio governance, project methodology framework, and resource capacity management
- Ensure project management standards are being executed across the IT project portfolio
- Drive improvements into the PMO program and ensure industry best practices are leveraged
- Ensure that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives
- Identified areas for process improvement and proposed solutions accordingly.
- Identified needs and coordinated resource allocation to deliver quality standards on time and within budget.
- Submitted budget estimates, progress reports and cost tracking reports.
Delivery Lead
Mobile Wave Solutions
09.2019 - 02.2020
- Ensures day to day impediments are removed in a timely fashion so team can be productive
- Active dependencies to other teams are monitored and remain in alignment while team is executing
- Tracks commitments and communicates those inline to the programme's formal communication structure
- Drive team's maturity and delivery performance
- Coaches the team across the agile maturity scale
- Uses performance measures to drive a team's continuous improvement
- Is an active Agent of the Delivery Discipline
- Works collectively with Programme Lead and other Delivery Leads to define and improve practice standards
- Ensures delivery organisation & supporting governance framework are fit-for-purpose
- Organisation structure is in place and enables the discovery, initiation, execution of initiatives and realization of outcomes
- Key and relevant stakeholders are informed and engaged
- Initiatives are relevant, within the allocated investment and aligned to strategic objectives
- Integrity and coherence of programme and governance framework to support each project
- Ensures roadmap remains feasible all the time, with initiatives ready for stable delivery/execution
- The total demand for skills and capacity can be met
- Risks related to upcoming work have been understood and have been mitigated before work reaches the team
- Dependencies have been understood and have been factored into the delivery priority for smooth execution & utilization
PMO(Project management officer)
Endava
12.2017 - 09.2019
- Offers assistance and support from small to complex projects
- Focus is on Project Management with emphasis on methodology, tools, management, tracking and monitoring based on TEAM (for projects delivered in Endava) and other agreed and adopted best practices (for projects delivered in Endava and as part of client's team)
- Project Officer can take up both roles
Workforce Planner
Endava
12.2017 - 09.2019
- Prepares and producing work volume and staffing forecast dashboards, as well as comparative data on results vs
- Forecasts, identifying opportunities for improvement and recommends solutions
- Providing workforce management scheduling and load balancing requirements for work peaks and valleys
- Making adjustments and recommendations for optimizing scheduling to maximize service and quality
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Economics
University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
04-2014
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Art/Art Studies, General
University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
01.2014
High School degree - Information Technology
High School Vasil Levski
01.2009
Skills
- Digital Engagement
- Branding
- Strategic Thinking
- Art Direction
- Management
- Leadership
- Human Resources
- Research
- Training
- Recruiting
- Project management
- Budget management
- Risk assessment
- Vendor negotiation
- Operational strategy
- KPI monitoring
- Agile methodology
- Process improvement
- Financial analysis
- Resource allocation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team leadership
- Budget preparation
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Operations Project Director
Wacom
10.2022 - 03.2025
Lead Project Management Officer
DIGITALL
02.2020 - 10.2022
Delivery Lead
Mobile Wave Solutions
09.2019 - 02.2020
PMO(Project management officer)
Endava
12.2017 - 09.2019
Workforce Planner
Endava
12.2017 - 09.2019
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Economics
University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Art/Art Studies, General
University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
High School degree - Information Technology
High School Vasil Levski
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