Kristóf Gombás Email & Phone Number

Graz, Styria, Austria

* Actively engaged in the drone industry, leveraging my expertise to manage technical projects.* Focusing on driving innovation and improvements within the field of unmanned aviation.* Providing invaluable support to partners during test flight operations.* Championing the implementation of enhancements to enhance overall drone business operations.* Professionally supporting the writing of Operational authorisation and LUC applications.

Budapest, Hungary

-Built and maintained both formal and informal strategic partnerships and regular partnerships with commercial partners (distributors, suppliers, other companies along the value chain, etc) by attending conferences, visiting demos, understanding services/products/value propositions of partners-Led the business aspects of a CRM implementation project by acting as a change agent and reviewing the usage of the modules -Managed drone-specialists and seniors who are key people for the company, e.g. changed the status of a senior from headcount to supplier and made this key people aligned and understand the root of the decision and the process of this change-Took part in and drove HR processes and tasks: 2nd round interviews, hiring, evaluation, and dismissal-Built a performance evaluation and financial incentive system from scratch that the general manager and CFO accepted-Prepared a detailed 1-year financial plan by estimating the revenue streams with 4 correspondents business line responsibles and breaking down by services, products, industries, clients, and by making the baseline costs of Duplitec and its holding peers transparent by reviewing the general ledger with the CFO-Covered pre-sales activities, e.g. identified business and governmental organizations as leads, cooperated with ~3-5 sales agents and industry specialists who worked along their regular sales processes, and organized demos for potential clients, and maintained the relationship with existing clients, and exploited non-regular sales opportunities-Pioneered the quality assurance activities and prepared the company for professional (re)audits and (re)licenses, e.g. ISO 9001, licenses for military-grade UAS: reselling equipment, providing training for operating a UAS, repairing/maintaining UAS-Attended conferences and educated industry stakeholders by giving speeches/gave university lectures on EU CIR 947/2019

Budapest, Hungary

-Coordinated the work of ~10 software developers (and/or testers) in a semi-agile way of working by holding daily stand-ups, managing tasks in Jira and Kanban, gaining understanding of their work by asking them to involve me in the technical details of the challenges of the deliverables, giving feed-back and asking for upward feed-back, administrating their working hours for their projects -Made 2 external development teams and the in-house developers effectively work together in a positive micro environment, proactively liaised on a daily basis for 3 months, and delivered standardized webpages that update their contents through ~5 API connections and do not require human resources for their regular updates-Satisfied a rigorous key client by communicating effectively and transparently about the deliverable and weekly progress, providing precise overviews about the billable hours tied to tasks and progresses, and making sure that the delivered versions got more resources from the resource pool of software testers. These efforts paid off by receiving the "Employee of The Month" award out of 80 colleagues.

Budapest, Hungary

-Co-coordinated a project team of 8 that created a drone regulatory legislation (that is still in effect) and its supporting IT system -Specified and implemented a customer identification method that relies on E-Government Portal and other databases of the Ministry of the Interior-As the solely representative of the Civil Aviation Authority Interacted with and transferred knowledge to high-level leaders and professionals/specialists of other governmental bodies, e.g. Military Aviation Authority, Air Traffic Management Provider of Hungary, secret services-Coordinated suppliers: coordination and participation as business analyst in the creation of the system plan and business specification, in the planning of databases and relations of datapoints, and in the implementation of an online payment and registration system-Liaised with drone affair representatives of other EU members in order to share knowledge and channel in their learnings and experience-Prepared a risk management analysis framework and report, and updated the events on a weekly basis and discussed the new events with deputy state secretary-Reported to governmental bodies regarding legal and regulatory aspects of operating drones

Hungary

-Project management, coordination of project preparation processes-Maintained the relations with more than 20 clients (per year) from 9 countries, communicated with clients from pre-sales activities to post-project activities -Temporarily commuted to and lived in 9 countries for 2-3 months per year in order to take care of the onsite deployment-Gathered feedback from clients and worked with 2-3 Canadian system developers through JIRA to provide continuously improved solutions.-Liaised between the clients and the systems developers to manage the API integration and to localize and personalize the website used for user registration (500k+), top-up procedures (1m+) and refunding (500k+)-Codified procedures and training materials, made guidelines and trained 3 permanent team members who shadowed and supported the onsite operations work of project responsibles (e.g. myself) by interacting with various stakeholders of the client-Took part in front-end, software and systems testing, e.g. analyzed problems, dealt with issue resolution, and tested functions along customer journeys-Analyzed usage data and brought new insights (e.g. average gross spending VS average topup by access types) by using Tableau and Excel

Budapest, Hungary

- Preparation of business proposals- Designing schematic plans for tender documentation in AutoCad • Tender documentation support- Making presentations and preforming them at conferences (Hungarian Green Building Council)- Supporting Sales with creating BOQs for potential projects- Taking part in technical cooperations of the projects

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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