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Octavian Petrescu

Aiming for a director role in cutting-edge tech where my experience as a functional manager and delivery expert in top-tier consulting/entertainment can be leveraged optimally

Octavian Petrescu
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
Focuses cross-functional teams on (1) Actualizing ambitious product visions, (2) Driving innovation through partnership, and (3) Optimizing operations to derive maximum user value.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
(A) Managed 7 programs through continuous planning, dev, testing and delivery of multiple products/projects
(B) Led 4+ products end-to-end through concept, design, dev, launch, and scaling
(C) Controlled budgets of up to $25m
(D) Functionally-managed 3 teams of 5 to 60 people
(E) 15+ years of hands-on strategy, architecture, innovation, and dev work

LOOKING FOR A ROLE
(1) Delivering desirable, reliable and impactful software/hardware systems, (2) Pioneering transformation initiatives at scale, (3) Coaching or Mentoring 3-15 amazing people

INDUSTRIES
8+ years in 3 top-tier entertainment tech orgs, 6 years at 2 top-tier consulting firms, 2 years in banking, 1 in health

AREAS OF FOCUS
(1) Organizational Leadership, (2) Digital Product Management, (3) Unity & Full Stack Web Development

PERSONAL TOOLKIT + GSuite/O365
• Analyze: DataStudio, PowerBI, R
• Architect: Plant UML, draw.io, GCP
• Manage: Jira & Trello (Agile), MSProject & smartsheet (Waterfall), AirTable
• UX: Figma, balsamiq, InDesign, Miro
• Prototype: Unity, Vue.js, Firebase

MISCELLANEOUS
• Boxes, Runs, Swims, Hikes & Freedives
• Reads Hacker News & James Michener
• Native proficiency English & Romanian
• Working proficiency in French (B2)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/octygen/
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Senior Technical Product Manager | R&D Imagineer

Walt Disney Imagineering
2017 to 2021
Full-time
Los Angeles and Orlando
  • • Spearheaded development of Helios - a mission-critical authoring platform for interactive HW/SW experiences.
    • Headed development of Dancer - a mission-critical robotic figure control software suite.
    • OKR: Standardize a platform for interactive Guest experiences across Disney. KR #1: 4 of the 5 top priority projects are powered by Helios. KR #2: 5 of 5 potential LoBs will use Helios to drive game logic in all their new experiences.
    • OKR: Lower time-to-market for interactive Guest experiences. KR: Helios significantly (2X) speeds up development of experiences as it decreases the amount of time-consuming iteration between creative designers and developers.
    • OKR: Improve control of animatronics with electric motors. KR: Dancer runs 100% of Disney's new animatronics.