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Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Technical Product Owner, Senior Delivery Lead, Senior Project Manager
Wellington, New Zealand
Worldwide
MSc in Service-oriented Computer EngineeringAbout me
Pragmatic, outcome-oriented leader specialising in bringing strategic clarity and calm to complex environments. Former Software Engineer & Certified Java Specialist. Expert at bridge-building between engineering teams and enterprise leadership. EU Citizen, full work rights for the European Union.
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Senior Delivery Leader, Senior Project Manager, and Technical Agile Coach with over 20 years of IT industry experience driving enterprise transformations and digital product rollouts. A former Software Engineer and Certified Java Specialist, Veronica uniquely bridges the gap between engineering teams and enterprise leadership, establishing deep credibility with developers, DevOps squads, and technical architects.
She specializes in bringing strategic clarity, calm, and structured execution to complex, multi-million dollar enterprise programs across both rigid public sector governance frameworks and commercial vendor environments. Her extensive track record includes leading cross-cultural, distributed teams across Europe, the US, and the Asia-Pacific region, with deep domain expertise in Scaled Agile (SAFe 6), cloud-native migrations, API integrations, and modern CRM/ERP implementations.
Veronica's career spans global environments across Europe, the US, and the Asia-Pacific region, driving large-scale digital transformations and high-value product rollouts.
Public Sector Governance (New Zealand): She has a proven track record navigating complex public sector frameworks, including coaching senior leadership at the NZ Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi) to pivot toward outcome-based value models. She has also served as Scrum Master and Project Manager for high-stakes initiatives at Capgemini , Oranga Tamariki (delivering the Whiti Data Reporting Tool) , and Te Whatu Ora / Ministry of Health, where she managed cross-functional agile teams to deliver critical national platforms like the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR).
Commercial Vendor & Infrastructure Delivery: At Datacom New Zealand, she matured Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles across complex core compute, database management, and cloud migration infrastructure squads for high-profile accounts like the New Zealand Defence Force. Her strong commercial acumen is further backed by managing multi-vendor environments, fixed-price contracts, and cross-border digital banking transformations at Fronde Systems Group, alongside overseeing global commercial print-management software suites at Océ Software (Canon Group).
Engineering Leadership: Earlier in her career in Romania, she managed an R&D department of 30 software engineers and testers structured across multiple Scrum teams at Alcatel-Lucent. She also led the technical development for the 'Spider' telecommunications application, earning formal corporate appreciation from Bell Laboratories.
Credentials & Education: MSc in Service-oriented Computer Engineering, premium active credentials including PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP-SM, SAFe 6 Agilist, ICP-ENT, and Oracle Certified Professional Java Specialist. Multilingual communicator fluent in English, Romanian, and French .
Experience
Professional experience0 - 5 years
Freelancer since2022
Languages
GermanBasic knowledgeEnglishFluentFrenchFluentRomanianNative speakerSpanishBasic knowledge
Project history
Part of Agile Capability Team supporting Agile transformation in the Digital group, designing strategic coaching programs, championing Big Room Planning, developing Agile playbooks, and providing hands-on coaching to teams.
Agile Project Manager supporting delivery teams developing CRM/ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics) for public and private sector clients. Acted as Scrum Master for DIA Gambling Aotearoa Portal and DIA Anti-Money Laundering Portal projects.
Scrum Master for Whiti team responsible for developing Whiti data reporting tool, facilitating Scrum events, coaching the team in Agile practices, and creating Jira dashboards to support the Product Owner.