Curriculum Vitae George Cristian Serban

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PERSONAL INFORMATION George Cristian Serban

Pastorului Nr 2, Building 4, Entrance B, Apartment 87, Bucharest, District 2, 020349

+40 756 568 712

Serban.george.cristian@gmail.com

George Cristian Serban [Skype]

Male | 21/01/1986 | Romanian Citizen

WORK EXPERIENCE

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

JOB APPLIED FOR

January 2011 – Present HP Italy Config & Quote Specialist, Quotation Manager

HP GEBOC, Bucharest, Center of Expertise, Enterprise Sales Operations

Create server and storage quotations, from simple to complex solutions (creation of the configurations and pricing approval)

Consult Sales teams on end-to-end sales process, with focus on technical support and applications (salesforce.com, Sales Builder, Watson, BMI, Elite)

Create and maintain catalogues with server solutions, customized to the needs of every client

Coordinate the back-end teams from Chennai – India in the process of quote creation, pricing approval, catalogue maintenance. Consult them on business and technical aspects.

Identify training opportunities for new technologies

Drive improvement of specific Sales Operations processes, managing projects intended to optimize or adapt activities of engagement, configuration, revision, booking and business and technical escalation

July 2010 – December 2010

HP GWE Sales Engagement Coordinator – Config & Quote Volume

HP GEBOC, Bucharest, Enterprise Sales Operations

Create and maintain catalogues with server solutions, adapted to the needs of every client

Coordinate the teams involved in the creation and maintenance of server catalogues

Mother tongue(s) Romanian

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English C1 C1 C1 C1 C1

Italian C1 C1 C1 C1 C1

The Center of Foreign Languages FIDES

Levels: A1/2: Basic user - B1/2: Independent user - C1/2 Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

VOLUNTEERING

PERSONAL SKILLS

2012 – 2017 Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest

Applied Automatics and Informatics | Bucharest

2005 – 2007 Technical University Gheorghe Asachi (Politechnics)

Applied Automatics and Computers | Iasi

2001 – 2005 National College of Informatics Piatra Neamt

Informatics/Mathematics | Piatra Neamt

April 4, 2014

Trainer

Company

Time Management Alexandru Popa APT

March 28, 2014

Trainer

Company

Communication Etiquette through e-mail Gabriel Grigore APT

March 26, 2014

Trainer

Company

Description

Business Etiquette Monica Adam APT Business Behaviour and Relationship Management

March 14, 2012

Trainer

Company

Description

Advanced Communication Skills: Delighting our Customers Rob Haiden HP Customer Service and Relationship Management

June 20, 2011

Trainer

Company

The Power of Feedback Eliza O’Leary HP

5-12 March, 2007

Organization

Description

Macoomba (Tomcat) BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) Training in dynamic web applications, interaction design, developing and maintaining a web application

2005 – 2007

Responsibilities

BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) Iasi

Career Consultancy and Alternative Education

Project management, marketing and recruitment strategies, staff motivation, organization of events and job fairs, web development for the organization website, creation and maintenance of the network infrastructure at the technical events. Successfully organized and coordinated a ten day extreme sports team-building event throughout Europe:

- promoted the event at several international meetings - high number of activities at a very convenient fee, sold-out

Curriculum Vitae George Cristian Serban

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Communication skills ▪ I’m a good reader of word components, voice tonality and body language (hobby)

▪ Constructive feedback (trainer: Eliza O’Leary)

▪ Assertive communication (mentor: Alex Vulcan)

▪ Efficient in speeches and e-mails (several trainings)

Organisational / managerial skills ▪ Leadership

▪ Project Management

▪ Time Management

▪ Negotiation Skills

▪ Process analitical skills

▪ Prioritization skills

▪ Organizational skills

▪ Team spirit

▪ Customer oriented

▪ Work under pressure

Job-related skills ▪ Constant improvement of processes through high attention to details, great curiosity and constant increase of knowledge, within and outside of my areas of expertise

▪ Large people network, which gives me the ability to solve any kind of issue, very fast

▪ Very good knowledge of Eclipse, Watson, salesforce.com, Siebel, B2B, all technology sizers

▪ Basic knowledge of SAP

▪ Very good knowledge of the HP Servers (WS, ML, DL, BL, SL, RX, Apollo, Superdome) and Storage (XP, P9500, ESL, EML, MSA, MSL, 3PAR, VLS9200) portfolio and also of the Converged Systems (CS200 to CS900 and SAP HANA) portfolio

Computer skills ▪ Microsoft Office Suite

▪ Dynamic web applications

▪ ECDL certificate

▪ Pascal, Visual Basic, C++, Prolog,

▪ Fox Pro, Access, Visual Basic, SQL

▪ SolidWorks, AutoCad

▪ Basic knowledge of Linux

Other skills ▪ Fast learner

▪ Proactive

▪ Assertiveness

▪ Continuous self-development

▪ Initiative

▪ Creative

▪ Resourceful

▪ Always looking for challenges

▪ Easy adaptable

▪ Calm personality

▪ Sociable (ability to create large and diverse people networks, very fast)

▪ Used with cultural diversity

▪ During the years with BEST Iasi, thanks to several trainings organized throughout Romania and Europe, I acquired a great experience in working with people and companies and a rich package of knowledge

Driving licence ▪ A (09.2005), B (04.2004)