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Krum Karapaunov

Krum Karapaunov

Project/Product Manager
Sofia

Summary

Talented professional considered knowledgeable leader and dedicated problem solver. Brings 13 years of valuable expertise to forward company objectives. Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs and improvements.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Product/Project Management Contractor

Credit Card Systems INC, Ireland
07.2023 - Current

- Managing development of Digital ID access cards for IoS and Android wallets from scratch
- Providing product requirements for the Digital ID, Back Office and Infrastructure based on research or gathering them from the business stakeholders and customers
- Responsible for creation and maintaining of project scope, plan, deliverables and stakeholder management
- Managing team of developers, using variety of tools

Project Manager

Fuse Media
Sofia
01.2021 - 06.2023
  • Leading business critical projects and programs involving two or more organisations
  • Actively participating in product requests and management, increasing their business value thru providing ideas for features and new products
  • Managing projects related to establishing and new entities for new markets entry or building new features for new or current platforms with high business impact
  • Responsible for building high-level scope, product requirements, risk and stakeholder management and project through out all phases performing active monitoring of the project related work
  • Projects and Programs consisted different work streams and teams like Dev Ops, Marketing, Legal, Creative Studios, Business Analysts, HTML etc.
  • Using variety of tools like Jira, Confluence, Trello, Gantt Charts, CRM and BO

Manager Mathematical Projects

Euro Games Technology
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for game development projects from beginning to their end
  • Managing team activities and backlog prioritization.
  • Established Agile environment, building new processes, Jira & Confluence environments from scratch
  • Coordinating with external teams and ensuring smooth communication and development process
  • Worked with license authorities, establishing smooth communication over product review and approval for worldwide markets

Operations Manager, NOC

GTT (EX-INTEROUTE)
01.2017 - 01.2020
  • Managing network operations team of 15 engineers and one deputy
  • Responsible for availability and fault resolution on all GTT data centres, sites, optical cables (terrestrial, subsea, including transatlantic), network devices and customer services of one of worlds largest networks.
  • Providing services and maintain equipment and infrastructure on 5 continents with customers and partners from all around the world
  • While on shift, I was main escalation point for network and customer incidents for the whole organisation
  • Responsible for the network performance and approval for all activities in the network
  • Providing incident reports for the higher management and our customers
  • Working on projects for internal improvement, network merges and telecom integration
  • TU and TUES student programs and internships and change management collaboration and reporting.

Deputy Shift Operations Manager

INTEROUTE
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Providing help to the Manager on duty for daily tasks in the Network Operations Center or providing cover in Manager's absence
  • Responsible for all the network incidents and all escalated customer cases and their resolution.
  • I was leading multiple projects for automation and process improvement in the Network
  • Coordinating field engineers and 3rd parties during their activities

Senior Transmission NOC Engineer

INTEROUTE
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Monitoring and management of pan-European optical network and infrastructure on multiple platforms
  • Network and customer incidents investigation
  • Liasing with local field engineers, partners and vendors
  • Planning emergency changes in the network
  • Most of the customers are big companies like BNP Pariba, Google, Facebook or the US Army.

Transmission NOC Specialist

01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Monitoring and management of all the incidents in the Optical and Radio transport networks of the Bulgarian telecom
  • Responsible for all network incidents, their investigation and fixes
  • Coordinating the actions of the local field teams during the incidents and planned activities
  • Creating Incident reports for higher Management

System Operator

CERAGON NETWORKS
01.2010 - 01.2012
  • Monitoring and management of the radio transport equipment in our customer telecom networks (Magyar Telecom, Telenor Serbia, Ministry of Interior)
  • I was responsible for the Incident investigation, cooperation with local network field teams
  • Reporting and testing of new equipment
  • Worked with classified information “Secret”, licensed from State Agency for National Security

Education

MBA - General Management, Industrial Management

American University
Bulgaria
01.2021 - 05.2022

Master of Science - Industrial Engineering

Technical University
Sofia, Bulgaria
08.2011 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Management

Technical University
Sofia, Bulgaria
08.2007 - 07.2011

Skills

Project planning and development

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Certification

Prince Practitioner

Timeline

Product/Project Management Contractor

Credit Card Systems INC, Ireland
07.2023 - Current

MBA - General Management, Industrial Management

American University
01.2021 - 05.2022

Project Manager

Fuse Media
01.2021 - 06.2023

Manager Mathematical Projects

Euro Games Technology
01.2020 - 01.2021

Operations Manager, NOC

GTT (EX-INTEROUTE)
01.2017 - 01.2020

Deputy Shift Operations Manager

INTEROUTE
01.2015 - 01.2017

Senior Transmission NOC Engineer

INTEROUTE
01.2014 - 01.2015

Transmission NOC Specialist

01.2013 - 01.2014

Master of Science - Industrial Engineering

Technical University
08.2011 - 05.2013

System Operator

CERAGON NETWORKS
01.2010 - 01.2012

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Management

Technical University
08.2007 - 07.2011
Krum KarapaunovProject/Product Manager