With over 20 years of experience in Information and Communication Technologies R&D, product management, operations and business development areas, Lucia Gradinariu is recognized as thought leader and subject expert matter on Service Delivery Platforms, Business Service Management and value networks, OSS/BSS transformation through SOA and eTOM/ITIL alignment. She has technical contributions in the areas of communications over IP, high availability platforms based on database, application server and middleware technologies, design and operations of large scale Internet services and platforms as well as management of next generation of telecom services.
With an innovative mind and ability to rapidly transform ideas to reality due to her vast knowledge of vendors, her affinity with many technologies and a thorough understanding of what is needed, Lucia developed excellent customer and partner relations by bringing solid, long lived and highly performing solutions to real business problems. Today Lucia runs her vendor independent consultancy, LGG Solutions, to help IT Services, Business Development, Product Management and Marketing organizations gain Intellectual Property, create competitive products and solutions, position for best value, partnership and collaborate for growth, and improve their operational efficiency.
For more than 2 years Lucia has led CA’s efforts in defining and building its Service Provider business as a Sr. Director for CA's Industry Programs – an organization responsible for generating over $100 million in new contract revenue annually. In that role, Lucia identified and brought to market Service Provider industry solutions to enable business development and sales and worked to align CA’s product roadmaps with areas of market demand, industry standards and best practices.
Lucia spent 8 years with Oracle Corp. in several senior positions, from implementing new lines of business for bolstering revenue with new delivery models such as OnLine DBA, generating over $10M/year, to advising the senior executive team and creating Oracle’s strategy to capitalize on opportunities opened to IT vendors by the new generation of telecom platforms and services. She executed on several acquisitions and new product developments to generate over $30M/year from offerings to this nascent market. She successfully managed large reference customer projects and partner engagements in Western Europe and Middle East, Asia, Latin America and US.
In the early 90’s, Lucia led multi-vendor implementation projects that leveraged million dollars investments in new technologies to create and manage high speed Internet access to multimedia services across French research and academic institutions.
Guest speaker at many SDP events and conferences and active member of TeleManagement Forum, Lucia also contributes to technical specifications, industry catalyst solutions and is an invited SME to OASIS SOA for Telecom Technical Committee.
An Honors Electrical Engineering Graduate, Lucia has a MS degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Technical University of Iasi, Romania and a MS and PhD in Computer Sciences from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France. In her spare time, she teaches Master Degree classes in Computer Science, advises college students on career paths in technology professions, studies basics of financials and investment banking, organizations psychology and management and enjoys traveling, skiing and mountain biking.