Mihaela Curtu

About Mihaela Curtu

Program / Project Management Experience Certified Project Management Professional…

Experience

1. Sr IT Program Project Manager

   Hillenbrand

   May 2023 — Present

   IT Technical Program / Project Manager responsible for building product strategy and roadmaps aligned to HI strategy and business outcome, managing demand prioritization for technology initiatives, partnering across IT and Business Units.• Liaison and Strategist – Partner with the business to understand and communicate priorities, define value, and plan for the technology components, leadership and functional teams. Set expectations and leverage governance for a positive business partner experience, participate in business planning cycles and reviews, and proactively find opportunities to use technology to enable growth.• Market research for technology trends to support business capabilities and provide timely and accurate transparency into IT service offerings, operations, and resources.• Participate in IT governance process to include the IT Steering Committee and Customer Advisory Boards.• Demand Management – Manage the demand pipeline between multiple assigned business units and IT teams, for applications/products; prioritize requests for new initiatives, enhancements, across the business portfolio. Build and maintain product and capability roadmaps. Manage idea process with business and IT partners.• Project Financial Forecasting – Annual IT budget planning and develop funding requests. Provides input and maintains budgets for planned projects. Develop Capital Project Requests and presents the requests for funding approval. Builds quality vendor RFP and SOW. Estimates gathering. • Program Ascend – HR Transformation to build a modern, digital experience, and implementation of Workday a global platform to collect critical insights and to create a contemporary, sustainable, and scalable HR solution with coverage for all HI global divisions.• Concur implementation – Global Travel and Expense tool for expense input, tracking and reporting as a one-tool global solution.• IT coordination for Global Organizational restructuring and re-organization initiatives.

Education

• West University of Timisoara

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2003 — 2005

• West University of Timisoara

  Master's degree, Applied Mathematics