Maria Cristiana Lucaci

Amsterdam, the Netherlands • +40744262329

cristiana.lucaci@yahoo.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-cristiana-lucaci-4a1634a4//

SUMMARY
Technology enthusiast, creative problem solver with great communication and organizational skills
People oriented, intercultural mindset, aspiring to develop my analytical and leadership skills
Valuable experience in facilitation, project and program management, training delivery and development

EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Netherlands & Romania September 2017 – present

Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering with German and English June 2021 – present
Global Technical Team – worldwide role, based in the Netherlands
Goal: improving my project and people management skills, driving digital transformation

▪ Consultancy on Microsoft365 architecture development with focus on M365 Security and Compliance, Entra Security,
Defender products (Defender for Endpoints, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365)
▪ Working closely with the account teams, and orchestrating leads
▪ Leading and designing architecture development programs (POCs, Pilots, Workshops, Optimization sessions) for
Microsoft customers.
▪ Mentoring peers in their career journey and supporting Architects in their customer engagements whenever needed.

Customer Engineer with German and English February 2019 – June 2021
EMEA region, role in Romania
Goal: improving my public speaking competences and business-technical acumen

▪ Technical Consultant on Microsoft 365 services, delivering on-site and remote workshops to customers in various
industries (fintech, healthcare, manufacturing)
▪ Developing Microsoft Intellectual Property (workshops) and raising their visibility among internal communities and
customers.

Support Engineer with German and English September 2017 – January 2019
Romania
Goal: improving my analytical, organizational and leadership competences in a multicultural environment

▪ Joined Microsoft as an Aspire Experience university graduate.

▪ Supporting DACH customers in the successful integration of Exchange Online, Microsoft365 Cloud technologies
▪ CSS Global Microsoft Academy for College Hires Ambassador (project and program management skills)

Digital Nation, Trainer & Learning Architect August 2018 – present

Romania, online
Goal: product management; designing and delivering project management and digital skills courses to more than 5000
individuals
▪ Designing the learning curricula for the Project Management with focus on IT PM (Agile, Kanban methodologies) and
Digital Skills tracks, adjusting them based on identified needs; constantly looking at ways to improve the students`
learning experience.
▪ Mentoring communities during their upskilling/reskilling journeys.
▪ Designed the Professor in Online course, meant to help professors in Romania become online facilitators during the
pandemics. (Profesor În Online - Platforma Pentru Educație Digitală (profesorinonline.ro))
▪ Designed digital skills courses aimed to increase the digital competences in Romanian municipalities.
 Maria Cristiana Lucaci
Amsterdam, the Netherlands • +40744262329
cristiana.lucaci@yahoo.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-cristiana-lucaci-4a1634a4//

Europe Code Week, Code Week Ambassador August 2018 – present

Romania
Goal: coordinating EU Code Week initiative in Romania
▪ Facilitating Romanian institutions, organizations and schools in organizing events during Code Week
▪ Maintaining contact with European Commission representatives and international Code Week ambassadors

Vision Agency August 2020 – July 2021

Co-founder
Romania
Goal: gaining entrepreneurial experience; first start-up I launched
▪ coaching individuals on their career development journey
▪ providing consultancy services on interviewing processes, CVs; reskilling/upskilling journeys

Rotaract Bucharest, Rotary International November 2019 – November 2022

Treasurer (2020), Club Service Director (2021)
Romania
Goal: creating initiatives with social impact for local communities in Romania

GEYC January 2015 – June 2019

Romania
Vice President April 2017 – May 2019
Goal: Aligning the NGO to its strategic objectives

▪ Supporting the Executive team in the successful implementation of the strategical objectives
▪ Identifying potential donors and grants, creating new partnerships in the frame of Erasmus+

Project Manager – Learning Development January 2015 – June 2019

Goal: Empowering the digital transformation of youth organizations

▪ Project Manager of TURN Online KA2 Strategic Partnership (geyc.ro/turnonline)

▪ Managing youth workers, delivering workshops; facilitating events
▪ Designed and implemented Erasmus+ KA1 projects, Stakeholders relationship management
▪ Program Manager: SMARTER Academy 3(45 participants), New Media Ambassadors Program (30 participan

ASSIST Software, Java Developer Intern May 2016 – June 2016

Romania
Goal: Offering support to the team, learning and shadowing developers, understanding organizational culture
▪ Software development – Developed a Java application and learned about other back-end and front-end technologies
 Maria Cristiana Lucaci
Amsterdam, the Netherlands • +40744262329
cristiana.lucaci@yahoo.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-cristiana-lucaci-4a1634a4//

EDUCATION
Information Systems for Managing Economic Resources and Processes (Master), 2017- 2019 • Bucharest
University of Economic Studies • Bucharest, Romania
Economic Informatics (Bachelor), 2014-2017 • Bucharest University of Economic Studies • Bucharest, Romania
IT Management minor, 2016-2017 • Hanze University of Applied Sciences • Groningen, the Netherlands
Business IT, 2015-2016 • Vienna University of Economics and Business • Vienna, Austria
Mathematics- Computer Science bilingual Romanian – German (secondary studies), 2010-2014 • National High
School Petru Rares • Suceava, Romania

SKILLS
Soft skills
Intercultural communication skills  Analysis and synthesis abilities Consultancy skills | Leadership | Engaged &
Supportive FlexibleAdaptable | Excellent presentations skills | Open to challenges | Microsoft Certified Educator
| Change Management | Facilitation

Technical skills
ITIL framework | IT Consultancy | IT Management | SQL and PL/SQL | Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900 certification)
| Microsoft 365 (MS-900 certification) | Troubleshooting | Defender for Office365 | Defender for Endpoints | Azure
AD | Governance, Security and Compliance for M365 | Technical Program Management | M365 Apps

Language skills
English (proficient – CAE C1 2013) | German (proficient – DSD C1 2013 and Goethe Certificate C1.1 2017) |
Spanish (fluent) | Italian (basic) | French (basic) | Romanian (native)

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Trainings
Aspiring People Managers Program Microsoft (online program, 2023)
Advanced Facilitation Course Soliya NGO (online program, 2020)
Essential Educate Trainers Microsoft – Train the trainers course June 2019
Code Week Ambassadors and Educational Coordinators Meeting Brussels, Belgium (September 2018)
MACH Ready FY19 Training Las Vegas, USA (July 2018) | Training on Value Negotiation Microsoft (2017)
MACH Academy - Business and Technical trainings, Bucharest, Romania and Warsaw, Poland (2017)
European Fellowship on Youth Leadership (http://www.geyc.ro/2017/06/efyl.html )
Symposium on Youth Participation in a Digitalised World Budapest, Hungary 2015