• Leadership & Strategy: developing and maintaining a unified roadmap for six technological verticals, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams and establishing consistent product development and release strategies. Spearheading the company’s transformation into a tech-centric business, aligning product roadmaps with growth strategies, including strategic hires and market positioning.• Technology Stack & Innovation: integrating AI-driven enhancements across the product portfolio, whilst ensuring continuous improvement in development processes through CI/CD pipelines, comprehensive QA practices, UX-focused design, and top-tier security compliance.• Team Management: scaling the R&D department from a 3-person team to four teams of 25+ professionals, fostering leadership and technical growth through mentorship, regular 1:1s, and promoting leadership development within the organization.• Customer & Stakeholder Engagement: playing a pivotal role in customer-facing interactions, supporting the sales process and developing strategic partnerships. Reporting directly to the board of directors on technology roadmaps, aligning technical advancements and costs with business goals.• Achievements: successfully led the company to ISO27001 certification and launched a range of products, including digital twins, mixed reality training software, a SaaS platform, and a mobile application.• Challenges & Solutions: managing the complexities of scaling a fast-growing business across multiple regions, ensuring both rapid expansion and the retention of operational excellence.

• Reporting directly to the board of directors• Building positive and productive working relationships with customers for business growth and providing input to the commercial teams for delivery rates and to the CFO for financial forecasts • Managing the Digital Twin, IoT, and Augmented Reality product development teams (onshore and offshore resources – project managers, engineers, developers, business analysts, DevOps, QA testers and DBAs) to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.• Managing relationships with partners/vendors• Established the Smart Buildings department within the company • Actively engaging with internal and external stakeholders for business analysis and digital requirements management • Reviewing customer orders, setting delivery priorities, and defining resource allocation accordingly.• Making critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.• Evaluating performance of the team by analysing and interpreting data and metrics and determining training needs• Leading employees to encourage maximum performance and dedication and setting comprehensive goals for professional growth

• Managed the R&D department, as well as Operations departments with full PnL responsibility• Successfully consulted and managed multiple development projects with international companies (British Petroleum, Nestlé, Castrol, Hoyer, Wincanton, Lockheed Martin, Air Products, Bentley Motors, Jungheinrich)• Led development of new hardware and software products providing the company with a competitive advantage over competition: cutting edge connected 3G and 4G vehicle dashcams, video recording DVR systems, IoT location and temperature tracking devices, remote tachograph data downloading equipment, etc.• Created and implemented the order fulfilment processes within the company to manage and support sales/aftersales of 50+ different products from 30+ suppliers worldwide in a cost-efficient just-in-time manner.• Established solid work relationships with development partners in Shenzhen (China) and Hong Kong to ensure the high quality hardware product supply at exceptionally competitive prices• Jan 22 – Oct 22: Facilitating the post-acquisition company merger and role handover to AddSecure Smart Transport UK including staff TUPE, warehouse optimisation, team restructuring, business process reengineering, development and budget handover, etc.

• Delivered projects in required standards, rigour and transparency, while at the same time enabled the fast pace, change and control• Successfully adopted PMP, Agile, and Scrum project management practices• Organised all stages of product delivery including risk assessment, planning, workflows, quality control, unit testing, CI/CD, cross-department communication and team member mentoring• Managed the local team of 10+ hardware and software developers and a number of on-site and off-shore development contractors

• Served as key team member in the complex Digital Library software development project (C#) for the Latvian National Library• Established and maintained strong working practices to continually drive personal growth• Possessed strong all round interpersonal skills, with an ability to analyse problems and exercise good judgement in finding effective solutions• Maximised performance under hard pressure of deadlines, developed emotional maturity and results-oriented attitude.

• Developed a successful start of the career in software development• Progressed form junior developer position to the development team leader• Developed Windows Forms applications (C#, SQL) for the Latvian National Forest Company