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Zürich, ZH, CH

Zurich, Switzerland

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Helping enterprises securely hold and transact with cryptocurrencies at scale

Singapore

Interim role preparing a company for audit and regulatory approval, incl. ISO27k

Singapore

Helping airlines to increase reliability via predictive analytics

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• Deputy Program Manager for business and IT transformation program
• Built and led Cutover project team with responsibilities including Cutover design and execution, Fallback planning, Data Migration, Data cleansing, Reconciliation, BCM and Data archive
• Created a data governance model for the company.
• Managed deliveries and teams of ~20 vendors including CGI/LogicaCMG, IBM, Atos and others.
• Took over interim testing management role.
• Led two out of three phases of cutover… Show more Deputy Program Manager for business and IT transformation program

Singapore

• Designed and developed one of the first and most successful Bitcoin over-the-counter payment systems.
• Built a network of hundreds of merchants in five continents.
• Became one of the representatives of the industry, having been interviewed by BBC World, Channel News Asia, Thomson Reuters and others

Singapore

• Led product implementation and customization projects for retail customers in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and Indonesia including: o Largest world-wide luxury retail store network o No. 1 sporting goods.

Bratislava, Slovakia

• Ran Cutover and migration of core-banking, front-end, CRM, payments and middleware architecture in the largest bank in Slovakia with 3M customers and 4,000 employees.
• Finished the project with 40% savings compared to the budget I inherited
• Managed deliveries and teams of vendors including Sungard, Finantix, Oracle and Asseco CE
• Prepared and maintained master plan negotiated with all project managers and relevant line managers
• Reported to head of delivery and occasionally… Show more
• Reported to head of delivery and occasionally CIOResponsibilities and activities included:

Bratislava, Slovakia

• Designed the incident management process based on agile principles.
• Led a team of 50+ developers, analysts and testers in the pre-production phase of €40M public infrastructure program.
• Represented the company in incident prioritization board led by customer’s program manager.
• Successfully rolled out the product into production and left when it was stabilized.
• Deputized program manager in all matters related to stabilizaiton and rolloutResponsibilities and… Show more
• Deputized program manager in all matters related to stabilizaiton and rolloutResponsibilities and activities included:

Bratislava, Slovakia

• Led a middleware implentation project from prototype phase to implementation of all services for the new bank’s systems architecture
• First application of SOA principles at this scale in Slovakia.
• Managed deliveries of vendors including CapGemini, SUN and Oracle
• Ran the project on schedule and with 20% budget savings until the program was frozen.Responsibilities included:
• Budget planning, handling and reporting
• Project planning

Prague, Czechia

• Joined with no prior Java experience to work on multiple J2EE/three-tier architecture systems.
• Specifically and repeatedly requested as a developer by Accenture Consulting and LogicaCMG
• Relocated to Slovakia to deputize country head and take responsibility for delivery.
• Led agile development transformation for one of the largest banks in SlovakiaResponsibilities included:
• Pre-sales / Bid management.
• Staffing

Prague, Czechia

Bratislava, Slovakia