Boris Simov

09/2019 - 01/2020

Senior Delivery Manager

Financial Times

Accountable for the delivery in the FT Specialist division

• Planned and Executed Knowledge transfer/handover to the newly established FT team in Sofia to own the product development
• Coordinating delivery within the unit, external vendors and other internal teams
• Managing the Specialist teams OKR process, team dynamics and ensuring good teams health

07/2017 - 08/2019

Senior Project Manager

Paysafe Group

Accountable for the delivery of initiatives in “Crypto” investment Stream, and “Payments” stream for Skrill Digital Wallet - onboarding and integrating Payment partners.

• Lead the planning, development and launch of a new Crypto investment product, and a new Credit lending product.
• Managed the roadmap priorities together with management and wider product team
• Managed delivery budgets, aligned with company goals and ensuring ROI for “Payments” and “Crypto investment” streams
• Ensured stakeholder requirements are signed-off prior to launches

03/2015 - 01/2017

Project Manager

GfK

Accountable for global rollout of software and processes to Ops

• Responsible for business analysis and defining functional requirements for new software required for Operations
• Global rollout of software and processes to Operations units
• Established Service Levels - Performance Measurement and Management process for Operations

08/2011 - 03/2015

Project Manager

Hewlett-Packard

Accountable for managing a variety of IT infrastructure projects and a Workforce transition program

• Managed 250 FTE workforce transition Program
• Prevented significant losses for HP Account on a critical/end phase of a solution proposal bid for Cloud Infrastructure and provisioned services
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery solution for restoring clients’ branch office services
• Achieved 50% cost reductions for a client through promoting innovative technical solutions
• In 2011-2012 lead a small team of Application packagers for a key customer

01/2003-09/2009

M. Sc. Construction Engineering & Construction Management

B. Sc. Structural Engineering

Michigan Technological University

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Teaching & LAB assistant “Environmental Eng.”
• Researcher “Sustainable materials for Transportation”
• Public Relations & Treasurer in International Club

01/2003-09/2009

Electronics Minor

Technical School of Electronics "Acad. Ivan Tsenov"

Personal Skills

Leadership | Communication | Relationship Building Adaptability | Problem Solving | Conflict Resolution | Collaboration

Professional Skills

• Leading teams
• Agile Frameworks – Scrum, Kanban
• PMBOK
• Negotiating with clients and vendors
• Requirements capturing and sign-off
• Risk, Issue and Change management
• Researching and Planning
• Development and Execution
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Product Development Cycle

Language

English, Bulgarian - Excellent written and verbal

Software

Jira, Trello, MS Office, Project, Visio, CAD Software Microsoft OS and Servers, Basic level programming, Basic multimedia editing.

Driving

Category B