Andrei Popa

Senior Technical Program Manager - Region Builds - End to End @Oracle

City Of London, GB

Taking large, complex projects and breaking them down into manageable pieces• Clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote teams.• Being responsible for end-to-end program delivery from pre-contract design up to final handover to Operations of Colo, Hybrid Colo & Leased/Owned Data Centers in the EMEA region.• Managing interface between internal (Real Estate, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Infrastructure Deployment, Networking, Operations, Security, Fiber, Finance etc.) and external stakeholders (Contractors, Colo Vendors) to ensure on time and on budget delivery of Data Center projects.• Building and maintaining overall delivery program and project budget, submitting Capital Allocation Requests to Senior leadership to secure finance for project delivery.• Working with Capacity Planning, Energy and Real Estate teams to develop short & long term build strategies to meet forecast demand.• Supporting continuous process improvement through leading workflow updates, documenting & implementing lessons learned and sharing knowledge across delivery teams to ensure EMEA wide efficiency improvements.• Regularly reporting to senior leadership on status of key project metrics vs. commitment of projects.