Ioanna RENTA
Sr. Director Engineering
Stahnsdorf
Summary
Strategic leader in ICT and Location industry applying more than 20 years of experience to exceptional technology product development, team engagement, and profits. Passionate for Product and Service Excellence, pioneer in operations and results oriented person with analytical mind and strong leadership skills. Serial intrapreneur who creates vision and turning it to a concept plan. Encouraging leader and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior SW Engineering Director – Navigation Solutions
Delivery Hero
2 2022 - Current
- Part of the world’s leading local delivery platform led Restaurants Division in Pandora leading more than 200 engineers and full scope of where the foodpanda app should be expanding in the relevant space
- Working at scale of up 7M/calls per second on all client facing platforms, exceeded establishing OPS excellence, reliability, availability and security methodologies to ensure record availability times on multi-national environment spread across 40 countries.
Senior SW Engineering Director – Navigation Solutions
HERE Deutschland GmbH
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Led the transformation of navigation solutions to new technology stack incorporating modern data sets and applying BYOD modeling
- Establish strong alliance between Product Management and Marketing running surveys and aligning roadmap targets
- Customer facing function for big Automotive Customers
- Leading engineering teams including financial, operations, quality and DEVOPS functions.
Map Rendering Director – HERE Platform Group
HERE Deutschland GmbH
11.2016 - 01.2022
- Accountable to transform HERE’s Rendering department from client only oriented service, to a fully optimized, flexible and interactive Rendering Platform, able to serve all location-oriented assets, such as Mobility, Augmented Reality, embedded navigation systems, geospatial visualization in an absolute dynamic and interactive way of data processing and ingestion.
Senior Business Operations Manager
HERE Deutschland GmbH
10.2015 - 10.2016
- Established End to End Governance model for Core Group Platform in HERE, focused on leading and supporting business agility by aligning the technology strategy, portfolio investment, business operations and program execution across CPG teams and stakeholders in the HERE Organization.
Vice President, Global Customer Support - Machine To Machine Center
Unify GmbH & Co.KG (former Siemens)
12.2012 - 09.2015
- Responsible to set up and drive the Machine To Machine Department for Service Operations inside UNIFY, driving two main areas: #1: Automation Department: Development of Automation Concept and deployment in all products/technologies of UNIFY’s portfolio
- Focus on automating service tasks with regards in changes, health and functional stability of highly complex IP solutions
- Founder and leader of a global virtual team #2: Monitoring Department: setup customized monitoring farms worldwide and improve the stability of customers’ installations achieving uninterrupted service.
Crisis Manager
SIEMENS ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS
06.2006 - 12.2012
- Exceptional Leadership of most challenging escalated projects to completion and formal customer acceptance and excelled in fast paced development improvements, executive dashboards and fast Time To Production.
- Undertake roles of Program Manager and Level 2 escalation Manager, interacting with Customer directly and on site and all levels of hierarchy including CEO, CFO, cross functional and project based
- 100% customer retention.
Senior Engineer & Development Manager
SIEMENS ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS
12.2003 - 05.2006
- Outstanding leadership of staff of 15 maintaining HiPath3000 family of platforms while developing new products and resolving cases marked by issues
- Participate in core design of HiPath3000 platforms with specialty on Device Handler, sustain V3.0- V7.0
- Design CorNet-TS Opera phones, and redesign initialization algorithm of telecommunication platforms.
Team Leader
INTRACOM
10.1998 - 11.2003
- Worked on Intelligent networks with Prepaid Card Specialty.
- Led a team of 5 engineers.
- SPOC for worldwide integrations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics
National & Capodestrian University of Athens
Athens, Greece 04.2001 -
Master of Science - Radioelectricity
National & Capodestrian University of Athens
Athens, Greece 04.2001 -
Master of Science - MBA
National & Capodestrian University of Athens
Athens, Greece 04.2001 -
Skills
Global Corporate Leadership
OPS Excellence
Performance Management
Decision Making
Change Management
Staff development
Negotiation Excellence
Risk Assessment
Agile Development
Accomplishments
- Pioneering Engineering and Product Leadership of Restaurants Platform at Delivery Hero, establishing OPS excellence, market growth in several countries and stable product and technology landscape.
- Exceptional Leadership of Rendering Department in HERE Platform Group establishing geo-spatial visualization, embedded navigation foundation, Augmented Reality and Mobility Visualization assets.
- Global Engineering Leadership of market enablement for all HERE’s products.
- Establishment of End To End Governance Model in HERE Core Platform Group introducing trade off scenarios, Change and Portfolio Management.
- Founder and Global owner of UNIFY’s Machine To Machine Center accountable for Automation and Monitoring.
- Exceptional Leadership in Crisis projects. Golden Award from CEO for 100% client retention.
- Elimination of projects’ non-conformance costs by 50%.
Timeline
Senior SW Engineering Director – Navigation Solutions
HERE Deutschland GmbH
01.2021 - 01.2022
Map Rendering Director – HERE Platform Group
HERE Deutschland GmbH
11.2016 - 01.2022
Senior Business Operations Manager
HERE Deutschland GmbH
10.2015 - 10.2016
Vice President, Global Customer Support - Machine To Machine Center
Unify GmbH & Co.KG (former Siemens)
12.2012 - 09.2015
Crisis Manager
SIEMENS ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS
06.2006 - 12.2012
Senior Engineer & Development Manager
SIEMENS ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS
12.2003 - 05.2006
Bachelor of Science - Physics
National & Capodestrian University of Athens
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Radioelectricity
National & Capodestrian University of Athens
04.2001 -
Master of Science - MBA
National & Capodestrian University of Athens
04.2001 -
Team Leader
INTRACOM
10.1998 - 11.2003
Senior SW Engineering Director – Navigation Solutions
Delivery Hero
2 2022 - Current