Imre Kovács Email & Phone Number

I keep the wheels turning and the coffee flowing. Think of me as the juggler who makes sure all the balls stay in the air – and occasionally catches one on fire for dramatic effect. From streamlining operations to ensuring our clients are happy, I’m the behind-the-scenes magician that keeps the show running smoothly.

Assisting and helping a really good company in Szeged, working in the professional software development domain for different customers.I help the company growing, obtaining new clients and optimizing the existing processes. Helping sales and marketing activities all across the board.

Budapest, Hungary

Assisting and helping a really good company in Szeged, working in the professional software development domain for different customers.As an external consultant, I help set up internal processes within the company, optimizing existing ones, introducing and following up new ones. I also configured the company's JIRA for several different projects, creating whole customized workflows, issues, triggers, implementing the needed workflow processes.

Budapest

Scrum Master for 2 teams in online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company. Teams are working on the checkout area of the web application. Roles:- Daily routine of the team to make sure we reach our commitments in every sprint (Scrum)- Introducing, following and improving processes- Discussing goals / progress / impediments with the customer, based in London- Making sure that we stay on the agile way and try to improve ourselves every day (kaizen)

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

I was responsible for 2 teams (15-18 people), working on microloans websites, mainly for South America and Europe. Main activities:• Acting as a servant leader of the teams, removing impediments, organizing support from different departments of the company to make sure of the uninterrupted delivery.• Organizing Scrum ceremonies, following up retrospective items, looking for other improvement opportunities through the internal Agile community.• Supporting the ongoing Agile transformation of the company by organizing region level workshops, travelling to locations where no Scrum Masters have been employed yet and facilitating Scrum ceremonies there.• Organizing a local developers’ community to foster knowledge sharing in the office.• My greatest achievement was a new site in a new country, which was the pilot project for the Agile Transformation. The application was delivered in less time than usual, with close to zero bugs, by doing constant presentations to business and gathering instant feedback. As Scrum Master I was helping the team to focus on the Agile values and make sure we can deliver without issues.

As an EPAM Delivery Manager, I worked for a major UK retail bank, based in Scotland.I was responsible for the staffing and the deliverables of the project. Main activities:- building up the team and joining them onsite from the very first day, introducing EPAM and the development team to the customer- making sure that the on-boarding process is as efficient as possible for all team members- understanding the customer's internal processes, goals and visions and adjusting the team's work to those- handling the delivery of the team, improving the quality and the amount of their output, constantly discussing it with the customer's management- creating weekly highlight reports to management about progress, risks and issues and actively handling / resolving those- taking care of the staffing, discussing additional opportunities with the customerThe project had 16 team members, I was responsible for their work and progress.

Budapest, Sofia

I was responsible for the staffing activities, helping the newly opened local EPAM office in Sofia. I worked with the local management to hire the right people for the different customers. Main activities:- creating job descriptions based on the customers' requirement and interview feedback.- reviewing and prescreening CVs for the different positions- organizing and controlling the different stages of the interviews, from technical to customer's internal ones- collecting feedback to constantly fine-tune the process- reporting to executive management about the progress and issuesDuring my time in this position, 40+ professional have been successfully hired for the different positions of our customers.

Budapest

Technical Product Manager for 2 teams, in online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company. Teams are working on the payment sections of the web application.I have to take care of the stakeholders' requests, clarify those and let the team deliver them in the proper order at the needed time. Both teams are using Kanban, so I act as an agile product owner.- managing bigger projects, creating plans and timelines- creating user stories, making sure the team gets all the answers and clarification they need- triaging bugs, setting priority order according to their business value- reporting progress and status about the projects to the main product owner in London- taking care of the A/B testing of the checkout area, assessing ideas, results- working together with other product owners, identifying and resolving dependencies on time

Budapest

Scrum Master for 2 teams (25 people) in online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company. Teams are working on the payment sections of the web application. The teams used both Scrum and Kanban. I took care of the process change from Scrum to Kanban.Roles:- Daily routine of the teams to make sure we reach our commitments in every sprint (Scrum)- Taking care of the Kanban process, WIP limits, whether everyone is working on the right item at the right time.- Introducing, following and improving processes- Discussing goals / progress / impediments with the customer, based in London- Making sure that we stay on the agile way and try to improve ourselves every day (kaizen)

Senior Java software developer in online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company.Participated in agile projects using Scrum, implementing different important features' to the customer's website, leading a team of 3-5 developers.

Budapest

Lead a 3 man team to implement already existing manual test cases with Java / Selenium to be able to extend the actual automation test coverage - online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company..Several hundred test cases have been automated during the project.Daily result analysis and continuous improvement of already created test scripts.Mentoring the junior developers of the team.

Szeged

Java software developer in online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company. Participated in both waterfall and agile projects, implementing key features' to the customer's website.Major delivered features:- "special deals" pages, where the daily offers of the hotels are shown in an intuitive and seo-friendly way- account details page for logged in users to track their loyalty rewards

Szeged

Scrum Master of a 7 men team in online traveling area for a leading provider of hotel accommodation company. Helped the introduction of agile methodologies to replace the so far used waterfall approaches. Supported the migration from the classic US site of the customer to a new, global one.Participated in many projects to migrate the key features of the already existing site. One of the biggest project was to re-implement the promotion pages of the old site with the help of a freshly introduced CMS system, Alfresco. The team finished the project before the December deadline, allowing the customer to use it during the Christmas season.

Szeged

During my work, I helped different Telco operators around the world to migrate their systems to Nokia Siemens technology stack.I participated in project specific tool developments, where I had to understand the actually used, poorly documented applications and come up with solutions how to migrate the data to NSN environment.I customized the existing tools as per the projects' needs in Java, C++, UNIX shellscript.Created all the documents (both technical and end user ones).Participated in customer workshops (e.g. Berlin, Bangkok) to identify their requirements and come up with solutions.

Szeged

Participated in a P2P VoIP application development.Taking part of the implementation of high-performance servers on Linux platform and a VoIP soft-client on Windows. During this project gained expertise in network protocols, NAT, SNMP.Created a standalone SNMP management application in Java from scratch and implemented built-in SNMP agents for 5 different server types.