Monica Nicoara

- Continue with the Technical Project Manager activities (product development, maintenance and support) and people manager responsibilities, started in the former Alcatel-Lucent Motive organization, before the Nokia merger - Customers: Verizon (USA), AT&T (USA), British Telecom (UK), Swisscom (Switzerland), TTNet (Turkey), Telstra (Australia), Singtel (Singapore) - Plan and lead extensive and intensive knowledge transfer to the new team in Bangalore taking up on our product

Responsible for: - Site growing strategy in Bangalore for around 40+ people - Competitive analysis of domain, recommendation for next generation developments (Bell Labs collaboration initiatives) - Roadmap prioritization - Use of Agile processes – Scrum/Kanban - Use of domain headcount and budget - Process deliverables: schedules, test plans and test results, documentation and action plans to minimize project risks Inter business units synchronization

Coordinate multiple activities in parallel: product development, maintenance and support on Motive's Big Data Analytics Platforms - Lead project development cycles - Keep the distributed R&D team in synch across multiple sites and multiple activities: 9-11 people in Romania, 2 in USA, 7 in France, 2-3 in Belgium - Develop and maintain L3 & L4 support relationships with external teams across multiple sites and cultures - Interface with the customers upon critical issues - Hire new people in the team

- Full stack developer (back-end, front-end, deployment) in the Big Data Analytics Domain - Hands-on with Big Data stack technologies: HDFS, Oozie, Hive, Impala, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra - Interim Technical Project Manager: July - August 2013 - Working in an Agile environment

Projects: 1. PeCMan (Personal Content Manager) / Home Media Sharing (HMS) - A Bell Labs Project: Jan 2009 - Dec 2011 - Front-end lead developer with Adobe Flex/AIR 2. Personal & Community Content (April 2008 - Dec 2008) - A multimedia management system - Working as tester (May – July 2008) - Working on Java server side development 3. Multimedia Kiosk Service (MKS): June 2006 – May 2008 - A multimedia management system - Working as a Junior Java developer

Participate in the research grants related to nature's inspired computational techniques used in optimization. Papers: Craciun, C., Nicoara, M., Zaharie, D., Enhancing the Scalability of Metaheuristics by Cooperative Coevolution Grosan, C., Abraham, A., Nicoara, M., Performance Tuning of Evolutionary Algorithms using Particle Sub Swarms Grosan, C., Abraham, A., Nicoara, M. Search Optimization Using Hybrid Particle Sub-Swarms and Evolutionary Algorithms

Master of Science in Computer Science: - Diploma title: Comparative Analysis of some Meta-heuristics Inspired by Nature (Focused on Harmony Search Optimization) - MSc grade: 9.90 / 10 -> 1st / 48 graduates

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics - Diploma title: Evolutionary Optimization. Applications (Focused on Particle Swarm Optimization) - BSc Grade: 9.80 / 10