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CV: Project & Process Management, Quality Assurance Consultant
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Date Submitted: Last Modified: Current job: Employment Term: Job location: Date available: Industry: KeywordsWORK EXPERIENCE
Jan 2012 - Present
Project Manager & Consultant
• Participated in PMO establishment for R&D department: establish, monitor and control schedules, resources allocation and reporting
• Test management end-to-end improved methodology and software tools alignment: evaluation of software tools, definition of pre-requisites for test automation and connectors with requirements and defect management systems
• Developed and organised trainings on test management tool deployment and usage for preparation and execution phases
• Developed communication plans, maintained training materials for four large software projects
• Consultant on optimisation of testing activities and management through project life cycle - agile and waterfall approaches using ALM solutions
• Creation and development of Methodical Repository (MR) web-platform: library of standardised and improved company processes and practices
• Organised and conducted induction seminars on MR usage for 500+ employees in Bulgaria and France
• Evaluation of pilot projects activities and MR usage: lessons learned and improvements planning for the content and architecture of the platform
CSC Bulgaria EOOD, 8 Gen. Yordan Venedikov Str., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.csc.com
Jul 2007 - Oct 2011
Project Coordinator
• Coordinated planning, development, testing, deployment and maintenance activities for remote observatory control - MOnitoring NEtwork of robotic Telescopes and Siderostat projects
• Defined requirements and specifications for Siderostat pointing model and telescope user interface functionalities
• Managed observatory system validation, functional and user acceptance tests
• Analysed and reported systems performance, provided on call users support
• Coordinated co-activities with technical and IT departments of McDonald and Sutherland observatories, and University of Göttingen during software updates and hardware upgrades
• Facilitated dry runs training with end users and the development team
• Maintained technical and operations related documents using TRAC project management system
• Responsible for safety regulations
Tuparev Software EOOD, 3 Sofiyski Geroy Str., 1612 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.tuparev.com
Sept 2004 - Present
Project and Event Coordinator
• Organised more than ten large public events from end-to-end on science and culture topics:
✓ Speakers arrangement and management of event programme
✓ Communication plan development and follow up
✓ Organisation and maintenance of web-resources
✓ Logistics: venue, travel and accommodation, insurance arrangements
✓ Media recordings and arrangements for interviews
✓ Preparation of equipment and support materials
✓ Coordination of joint activities with other NGOs, academia, universities, museums, public halls, etc.
✓ Financial management
✓ Lessons learned and event reports preparation and communication
• Organised logistics for internal and external trainings/outdoor activities
✓ Venue, travel, accommodation arrangements
✓ Organisation of transportation
✓ Preparation and follow up of purchases for the trainings
✓ Training materials preparation, maintenance of equipment
✓ Feedback forms preparation
✓ Maintenance of internal pages and online resources
HARTA, 38 Rachka Str., 1618 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.harta.bg
Feb 2007 - Jun 2007
Physicist
• Observed with 2-m RCC telescope in Coudé- and RC- systems for Chemically Peculiar Stars Programme at Bulgarian National Observatory “Rozhen”
• Maintained operation of data acquisition systems
• Data reduction and analysis of stellar spectra
• Accomplished full bibliographic search of Am-CP1 stars using NASA/ADS, CDS, arXiv, etc.
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigrasko Shousse Blvd., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.astro.bas.bg
Apr 2005 - Jun 2007
Physicist
• Responsible for the public outreach at the Observatory of Sofia University
• Lecturer on Solar system, Galaxy evolution, Introduction in Astronomy for 1st-12th grade students
• Assisted in weekly seminars organisation: technical and administrative support
• Member of LOC for an International Virtual Observatory Conference
• Supervised students on digital libraries and virtual observatory utilisation
Sofia University, Department of Physics, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
Academia, Physics and Astronomy
Feb 2001 - Dec 2003
Support Astronomer for 2-m RCC telescope at Bulgarian National Observatory “Rozhen”
• Technical and software control of all devices in Coudé- and RC- systems
• Preparation, execution and monitoring of scheduled astronomical observations
• Software applications training, logs and data archive organisation
• Troubleshooting
• Public outreach: lecturer for daily visitors and media
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigrasko Shousse Blvd., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.astro.bas.bg
Nov 2000 - Dec 2003
Human Resources and Financial Specialist
• Responsible for payroll, expense reports databases and financial statement preparations
• Trained staff in financial policy and time management
• Tracked the process of recruitment and selection of staff on legal matters - contracts, compensations and benefits
• Monitored relocation of staff
• Organisation of annual conferences and seminars
Agape Bulgaria, 15 Jerusalem Str., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
EDUCATION
Jan 2004 - Jun 2007
PhD, All but dissertation
Thesis subject: “Binaries with Am components”
• Search for spectroscopic binary stars type 2 amongst metallic-line A type chemically peculiar stars
• Investigation of possible dependencies between binary stars orbital elements and chemical peculiarities in their atmospheres
• High-resolution spectral observations
• Independent and team work
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigrasko Shousse Blvd., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.astro.bas.bg
Oct 1995 - Nov 2000
MSc
Thesis subject: “Photometric investigation of the galaxy HoIX”
• Photometric observations
• Photometric data reduction and analysis
• Systematic bibliographic research
• Independent and team work
Sofia University, Department of Physics, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING
Nov 2015
PMI-PMP Certified
Mar 2013
ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing Training
• Fundamentals of testing
• Testing throughout the software life cycle
• Static techniques
• Test design techniques
• Test management
• Tool support for testing
CSC, www.csc.com
Feb 2013
FSG Global Project Management Certificate
• Project Initiation - tailoring, definition, estimation, scheduling, metrics, resources planning
• Project Execution - monitor and control of project schedule and status
• Project Completion
• Management support - risk management, change management, QA, financial management
CSC, www.csc.com
Jan 2012
Project Data Management and Performance with MS Project 2007 Certificate
• Resource pools
• Multi-projects environments
• Task dependencies, Baseline
• Actual work, Actual cost
CSC, www.csc.com
Nov 2009 - Mar 2010
HR Management Certificate
• Recruitment skills. Interview and selection of high potential people. Training and induction of new employees.
• Development of efficient appraisal systems, scoring models, KPIs and measurement
• Organisational behaviour and communication channels
Arthur Adams Business Training Centre, www.arthuradams.bg
LANGUAGES
English - Proficient user
Russian - Proficient user
French - Independent user
Bulgarian - Native
COMPUTER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
• Excellent with Mac OSX, Windows, Linux
• Excellent with JIRA, MS Project, TRAC, XStudio - project/test management and bug/issue tracking systems
• Familiar with mySQL
• Proficient with iWork, MS Office, MS Publisher, Open Office, LaTEX
• Excellent with astronomical data processing and analysis package Scisoft: IRAF, DS9, etc.
• Familiar with CVS, CVL, XCode
• Familiar with XML, Python languages
• Familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JOOMLA
• Very good with PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs - modelling tool for binary stars
• Very good with GNUPLOT graphics
Observational Experience:
• 2-m RCC telescope at Bulgarian National Observatory “Rozhen”
• 1.2-m MONET telescopes at McDonald Observatory and Sutherland Observatory
• 70-cm Schmidt telescope at Bulgarian National Observatory “Rozhen”
Professional Membership and Appointments:
• Bulgarian Astronomical Society (SAB), Selected treasurer of SAB for 2 years
• LOC member of Balkan Astronomical Meeting-2004, NAO-Rozhen, Bulgaria
• LOC member of iAstroWorkshop2005, Sofia, Bulgaria
• LOC member of annual conferences of SAB
List of theses and publications:
• 2008SPIE.7012E.100B, Bischoff, K., Hessman, F., Tuparev, G., Atanasova, E. et al, New robotic telescopes by Halfmann-Teleskoptechnik GmbH and Tuparev Technologies Inc.
• 2008BlgAJ..10...55A, Atanasova, E., Iliev, I., Stateva, I., Two new SB2 systems among the Am binaries studied at Rozhen NAO
• 2006ASPC..349..185A, Atanasova, E., Stateva, I., Iliev, I., Radial-velocity Curve of the SB2 System HD 434
• 2006BlgAJ...8...73A, Atanasova, E., Iliev, I., Stateva, I., Barzova, I., A review of Am star studies recently made at the 2-m RCC telescope of the Rozhen NAO
• 2001CRABS..54a...5G, Georgiev, T., Atanasova, E., Velitchkov, M., Photometry of Resolved Objects in the Edge-On Galaxy UGC 1281
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