Ivan Boskovic Email & Phone Number

Montenegro

Strategic Leadership;Operational Management;Partnership Management;Financial Oversight;Team Leadership & Development;Risk Management;Stakeholder Communication;Performance Reviews.

Montenegro

Co-founder and President of NGO eCommerce Association of Montenegro

Podgorica, Montenegro

Montenegro

• Ensuring the establishment of a right system of controls and effective risk management• Analyzing and proposing technical, team, and organizational changes and improvements• Preparing strategy for the development of payment operations and enforced collection• Analyzing the findings of internal and external audit, and implementing recommendations• Proposing and organizing activities on the implementation of the annual procurement plan• Responsible for instant payment project plan and digitization of current services• Implemented the PSD2 directive in the new Payment System Law, which is submitted to the Government for the further initiative of its adoption in the Parliament of Montenegro • Initiated transformation strategy, including the integration of fintech within the Central bank• Developement of a new organisational unit with fintech function: Payment Systems & Fintech division. Key functions are to maintain existing RTGS system and apply global practices related to regulation and supervision of Fintech products, and services;• In charge of national payment system RTGS • Number of national payments initiated via mobile apps raised 54% since, while value increased 27%• Initiated introducing a Regulatory Sandbox that will allow startups and FinTech firms to provide innovative banking and financial solutions, which will foster innovation within the payment sector

Montenegro

• Also acted as a Deputy IT Executive Director and managed a team of 9 engineers• Managed activities including IT security, project management, procurement and budgeting, change management, team building, leadership, product management, strategic and operational planning• Completely renewed and reconstructed IT infrastructure, and introduced internal cloud• Built 2 Datacenters from scratch and introduced cyber-security standards and procedures

Belgium

• Supported with RAN network modernization and consolidation of RAN technologies (2G, 3G, and 4G) on ZTE along with 4G expansion and migration from Ericsson to ZTE for Telenet/BASE

Montenegro

• Advised on IT Service planning and development, Project management, Purchasing, Disaster recovery

Montenegro

• Responsible for leading team of engineers for maintenance and development of infrastructure for Real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), Enforcement Collection System, Core Banking System, SWIFT, network security (intrusion-prevention system - IBM, PKI Entrust), LAN & WAN, Database (Oracle), virtual servers (VMware), Backup, E-mail, Web, SharePoint• In charge of ICT security (intrusion-prevention system - IBM, PKI Entrust), collaboration - coordination across multiple cross-functional work streams, OS administration (Linux, Unix, Windows), Database Administration (Oracle, SQL Server), maintenance and development of Virtual server infrastructure (VMware), LAN, WAN and WiFi infrastructure (Cisco, CheckPoint)

Montenegro

• Started as NMC and RAN center engineer, responsible for alarm handling and operation of 2G and 3G access nodes (BSC, RNC, Node B) for more than a year, afterward responsible for Operation and planning of Telenor's Packet Switch Core Network, Ericsson and ZTE (SGSN, GGSN, SASN)• Worked as a team member during core network swap project core nodes replacement: MSC, HLR, MGW, SGSN, GGSN from Ericsson to ZTE • Responsible for network strategy development, supervision of network elements implementation, project management, service development, risk management, budget, and purchasing

Bachelor'S Degree

Postgraduate Degree