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Project, Program & Portfolio Mngmt Consultant

Otopeni, Romania
Worldwide
Master in Business Administration, Graduated International Relations.
Otopeni, Romania
Worldwide
Master in Business Administration, Graduated International Relations.

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CV-Irina Mateciuc_4Oct.pdf

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)Agile MethodologyAmazon Web ServicesAsanaAutomationBankingCustomer Relationship ManagementCustomer ExperienceCommunicationCreatividadDevOpsDigitizationDisaster RecoveryHuman Resources Information System (HRIS)FrenchGovernanceHealth CareHuman ResourcesInformation Technology Infrastructure Libraries (ITIL)Identity ManagementInfrastructure ManagementProject ManagementNegotiationOperational ExcellenceWell-being and Personal CareScrum MethodologyPublic ServiceQuality ManagementRomanianRisk AnalysisSalesforce.ComSAP ApplicationsStakeholder ManagementTeleMedicineOil and GasRisk Management ProfessionalOnboardingSuccess DrivenTeam ManagementProject DeliverySailPointBurp SuiteWorkdayServicenowVulnerability Analysis
Irina Mateciuc is a senior Project, Program, and Portfolio Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile
Coach with 16+ years of experience driving complex IT, cybersecurity, and digital
transformation initiatives across global enterprises, EU institutions, and regulated industries. She
has led full-cycle implementations of enterprise platforms and tools including SAP (HCM, SCM),
ServiceNow (MyIT, E-Visitors, @Hello Admin, HR Onboarding), Salesforce (CRM), Workday
(HRIS), SailPoint (IAM), Drata (compliance automation), Burp Suite (vulnerability scanning),
Assignment Pro (mobility), Pinpoint (API integrations) or Monday.com (Agile PMO).
Irina has built and scaled PMOs, designed governance frameworks, and delivered portfolios
exceeding 80+ projects annually. She excels in Agile, waterfall, hybrid, and DevOps
environments, having served as Scrum Master and Agile Coach across multiple organizations—
training teams, guiding delivery, and embedding operational excellence. Her leadership spans
cybersecurity risk assessments, compliance programs, cloud transformations (AWS), and secure
infrastructure delivery—including Disaster Recovery Centers and Telemedicine platforms.
Known for her clarity, energy, and strategic foresight, Irina combines technical fluency with
operational rigor. She holds certifications in Project Management, ITIL V4, Quality Management,
and operates under EU and NATO Secret clearance. Fluent in English and Romanian, with
intermediate French, she is immediately available for remote or on-site leadership roles.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2023

Languages

EnglishNative speakerFrenchGoodItalianBasic knowledgeSpanishBasic knowledge

Project history

CyberSecurity Project Manager

ELC Digital Center - Estee Lauder Companies

Internet & IT

250-500 team member

  • Part of Enterprise CyberSecurity & Risk, ECR PMO of Estee Lauder Companies. 
  • Part of Global Techology & IT Center from Bucharest, Romania. 
  • Contributing in setting up KPIs and Metrics for ECR. 
  • Contributing in documenting ECR processes. 

EMEA Benefits Delivery Leader

Honeywell, Bucharest, Romania

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

1000-5000 team member

  • Manage a team of 7 benefit specialists, supporting over 37,000 employees across 41 countries, in EMEA.
  • Manage overall administration of benefits programs including savings and retirement (pension and savings/ share plan), health & wellness (medical, dental, etc), risk & protection (life, accidental death and disability, long term disability, short termdisability, income protection, etc)
  • Define the yearly and multi-yearly strategy for the department in terms of benefits administration, new benefits plans and automations, planning the yearly projects/ roadmap for the countries and regionally at EMEA level and roll it out; making sure processes related to administration are documented, reviewed, audited and improved/ simplified in striving for best quality and continues improvement.
  • Deliver project management support on complex benefit initiatives, including translating business needs into project plans, gathering customer requirements, conducting impact assessments, and defining milestones, timelines, deliverables and quality standards.
  • Coaching and mentoring on project management and leadership on individual basis adapted to needs.
  • Develop and execute change management strategies for benefits delivery and operational activities, including launching and integrating new or modified benefits plans, processes and vendors.
  • Define and monitor benefits administration metrics, perform root cause analysis on defects and implement remediating actions.
  • Partnered with and managed relationships with benefits brokers, carriers, vendors and subject matter experts ensuring delivery of high quality programs in accordance with industry best practices and legal compliance
  • Responded to and resolved a variety of escalated benefit issues.
  • Kept abreast of industry and market trends, benefits related technology, labor law, and healthcare reform initiatives Tracked, monitored and analyzed health claims and benefit plan costs and trends
  • Transitioned the Benefits Analyst roles from CZ Republic and UK to Romania Hub, managed the recruitment, onboarding and training programs for new team.
  • Designed, implemented and delivered annual Human Resource Services - HRS Connected training and development - program for internal talents.

HR Project/Programme Manager

Honeywell Elster Romania, Bucharest, Romania

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

1000-5000 team member

  • Lead global and regional technical, compliance, digitization projects and programs having RPA components in the journey of achieving HR 3.0 for Honeywell.
  • Initiatives are across multiple functions, with high exposure, criticality and reporting up to Sr HR VP of Honeywell and his direct reports, with project teams between 8-50 members.
  • Standardized Job Titles globally across Honeywell for +140k Employees and 19 global functions. Data Reorganization with impact in all HR & IT Systems, executed a complex Change and Communication Plan and managed more than 200 Stakeholders from all business units and functions.
  • Implemented Data Privacy Policies across 38 Non-EU Countries from EMEA, LATAM impacting +45k Employees. Change Request adding new 16 Non-Eu Countries in scope, +20k Employees impacted.
  • Implemented a new organization called Onboarding in a lift and shift regional project which is managing in house now onboarding services transferred from vendors.
  • Delivering a new Car Policy 2.0, implementing Fuel Cards, Fleet management, GPS services for cars in EMEA for 46 Countries and a technical tool that is helping reporting on business vs private mileage.
  • Leading the Talent Mobility Evolution project which aligns Global Mobility Services organization to the newest technology on the market in this niche (Assignment Pro and Pinpoint) together with multiple API Integrations.
  • Delivering Russia Compliance Project which localizes all applicable HR applications on Russian soil, according to law requirements, designing the new processes and implementing a web platform for exchanging scanned documents for Candidates and Employees.
  • Leading EY Transition to UCMS (HRA & Payrollservices) across four countries (KAZ, BLR, UZB & UZB)

Director of Communications and Advertising

PMI Romania Chapter, Bucharest, Romania

Other

10-50 team member

  • Volunteer position, elected by the Members.
  • Drove design and implementation of two major events, biggest project management conferences in Romania with important international exposure.
  • International Project Leadership Conference 2018 [IPLC] – PM for the event, largest project management conference from Romania, reunited +100 participants, 16+ Speakers.
  • Drove a team of four sales volunteers. International Project Leadership Conference 2017 [IPLC]
  • Social Media Communicator, created the Communication Strategy and Plan and ensured the implementation in social media.

Sr. IT Project Manager

Vodafone Romania Technologies, Bucharest, Romania

Telecommunications

1000-5000 team member

  • Generated sales opportunities in Banking Sector by launching and improving a global network mobile recording product. Managed 20+ international teams remotely, budgets +1.5 mil Euro, extremely demanding stakeholders, aggressive timelines, multiple streams/ projects in parallel.
  • Focused on processes improvements.
  • Penetrated three new markets (Germany, Netherlands and Italy) with the service while adjusting Sell, Build and Run Customer Experience with New Product Development delivery methodology.
  • Generated 3+ mil Euro sales in new accounts.
  • Improved UK Market sales with +500K by releasing a new stand alone exciting feature of the product to the existing and new Customers.
  • Generated one single Service Design Specification for all 9+ Unifed Communications products which brought Customers and operational teamssatisfaction.
  • Launched a virtual contact center solution for the largest energy and utilities Customer in UK and Ireland while working remotely with difficult stakeholders and having aggressive deadlines.
  • Balancing customer experience and expectations with internal resource constraints, global partners rhythm while managing the pressure of delivering a strategic project for Vodafone.

Customer Programme/ Project Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Bucharest, Romania

Internet & IT

250-500 team member

  • Increased sales with +18 mil Euro as a result of Telemedicine Pilot delivery, Customer experience and seamless operation.
  • Bid Management vast experience.
  • Data Recovery Center implementation.
  • ISO Programme implementation and certification.
  • Business Continuity Management Implementation.
  • Designed from scratch and lead the delivery of a Telemedicine System using agile combined with waterfall. Pilot implemented in a remote area, Danube Delta proved it's utility and efficiency to the Customer which based on these results bought our solution.
  • Prepared 10+ IT systems/ solution Offers in quality of Bid Manager (Technical and Commercial) in time, with quality driving the local or global partners, internal resources following the internal processes.
  • Managing all constrains in order to achieve the scope of the delivery and Customers expectations.
  • Generated 3% over total contract value by selling CRs while designing and delivering a new Data Recovery Center for a Customer, which enabled to commute operations in case of force majeure.
  • Improved the delivery timeline from 6-9 months to 3 months while implementing the ISO Programme for HP Romania (implemented an integrated system composed from environmental, health and safety and information security management systems plus getting it certified).
  • New processes implementation and continuous improvement.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Bucharest, Romania

Caro Trainer, Bucharest, Romania

Other

< 10 team member

  • Sold trainings, offered consultancy to the Customers interested by European Funds, won funding, Bid Management (technical & commercial offer) and organized events in the startup.
  • Won 200k + Funds for Customers and brought significant income.
  • Increased the sales with + 30kEuro, income generated by adding as budgetary line educational trainings in Customers EU Funded Grant Requests.
  • Guided +7 Customers Grant Requests while gathering requirements, designing the solution (technical and commercial), submitting the Fund Requests.

Event Coordinator [Leonardo Da Vinci]

Company of Designers (CODE), Plymouth, United Kingdom

Marketing, PR and design

< 10 team member

  • Internship Scholarship funded by EU, through Leonardo da Vinci Program.
  • Organized a Customers and Partners Reception with +100 attendees, including invitations, venue, catering and travel arrangements. Highly appreciated by stakeholders.
  • Generated a HR Campaign for Hiring the full time GM Assistant which resulted in getting the right person for the role.

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