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Zagreb, Croatia

Helping companies and state administrations to align technology strategy with their overall business strategy and goals. Leading a team of other strategic consultants and solution architects in several projects helping small, medium, and large companies make necessary changes in their internal organization and critical technical issues.Selected achievements: ■ Acted as a complementary product architect/product manager for a series of products awarded by more than 15 international awards for innovations■ Engaged as external lead consultant in a large project of complete redevelopment and redeployment of the existing IT solutions in the National Healthcare Insurance Agency with particular emphasis on data migration and BI/Reporting solution stack■ Led a small team of experts in several assessment and re-architecture projects for the National Post Office

Zagreb, Croatia

Consulting medium and large companies in understanding, starting, and coordinating various aspects of digital transformation projects. Helping organizations’ to align technology strategy with its overall business strategy and goals. Led the architectural design for the internationally acclaimed Bookmedia AR platform.

Zagreb, Croatia

Consulting medium and large companies in understanding, starting and coordinating various aspects of digital transformation projects. Helping aligning organizations’ technology strategy with its overall business strategy and goals. Developed enterprise and solution architecture for large EU railway reservation system. Developed enterprise and solution architecture for innovative publishing global digital platform.

Croatia

Globally lead local teams in critical digital transformation projects.Responsible for data warehouse modernization initiative. Led the development of HPE’s new global products and services.Coordinated a team in development of new concepts, services and solutions to be used in various vertical industries.Selected achievements: ■ Successfully led the development team in creating one of the very first solutions for new HPE OneAI platform. The innovative architecture introduces the concept of Data Warehouse Extension and reduces typical response time for the "Real-time recommendation engine" use case down to less than a minute (instead of hours).

Zagreb, Croatia

Combined management, sales and technology skills to identify, support, negotiate and oversee delivery of complex service-based solutions in different vertical industries. Involved in many projects, including a transformation of the Croatian and Albanian primary and secondary national education systems, national Cloud transformation project for APIS d.o.o. (Croatia), national e-Toll mega-deal for RIA (Bulgaria) and Big Data projects for the intellectual property protection in Ukraine as well as MTel (Bulgaria), Vipnet (Croatia) and INWI (Morocco) telecoms.Selected achievements: ■ As Digital Transformation Architect led the team in the mainframe migration project for the Croatian National Pension Fund with the goal to replace the current IBM mainframe environment with a new solution based on open platforms and private cloud technologies.■ Lead Solution Architect from the HPE side for the national e-Toll mega-deal for RIA (Bulgaria) developed in cooperation with T-Systems (Germany and Hungary) and Kapsch (Austria).■ Lead Solution Architect for the significant national organizational Cloud transformation project for APIS d.o.o. in Croatia.■ Led a major, cross-functional team, including seven HP partners from six countries, during the presales and sales phase of the Croatian Railways Infrastructure bid covering comprehensive asset management with emphasis on the LAM region. This included SAP integration, GIS, documentation and facility management.

Zagreb, Croatia

Designed solution architectures based on client’s needs and requirements and made sure that they are being followed by the rest of the delivery team, thus ensured a desired level of quality during deliveries of complex projects in various vertical industries.Selected achievements: ■ Led the design and development team in the first strategic BI solution (data warehouse, GIS design and implementation and Tableau customization and development) for the national healthcare system. Delivered to the Croatian Ministry of Health, financed and supervised by the World Bank.■ BI, Data Transformation, and Data Migration Solution Architect and member of the design team preparing a complex bid covering the nationwide eHealth platform for the significant World Bank tender in Kazakhstan.

Zagreb, Croatia

Managed engagements and client relations, supervised critical RFP responses and consulted large companies in a variety of industries (including public sector) to determine business needs in order to create most suitable solutions.Architected, designed and led the development and implementation of various complex solutions.Selected achievements: ■ Project coordinator and BI head for the Emergency Response IT system in Croatian Ministry of Health (in coordination with Microsoft and other partners). The system included application development and integration of Microsoft SQL Server with the SharePoint Server in the early warning solution for covering and managing the “swine flu” epidemics in Croatia.■ Strategic consultant in Croatian Employment Service for BI and other areas. The task included preparing a 5-year strategy for developing the BI related projects within the existing IT services as well as the recommendations for the future.

Zagreb, Croatia

Built relationships with key client contacts and consulted medium and large companies in a variety of industries to determine business needs in order to architect and implement IT solutions.Led the development and implementation of the globally recognized OLAP client software for Microsoft platform.Selected achievements: ■ Product owner, architecture designer and lead developer for Manager 2000 and Manager 4.0 product that included custom application development on Microsoft .NET platform and integration of Microsoft SQL/OLAP servers with the existing IT infrastructure.■ Achieved business expansion and sales growth by architecting a business plan and sales strategy for businesses in a variety of industries.

Zagreb, Croatia

Trying to survive with leading-edge technological solutions in the small, underdeveloped market, expand the existing customer base and keep all employees within a company.

Zagreb, Croatia

Establishing the foundations of the development department in the young integration-oriented company.

Zagreb, Croatia

Building a startup company and participating in almost every aspect of the process.

Zagreb, Croatia

Technical support for the first Microsoft distributor in Croatia.