IT professional with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. With strong technical background, with experience in leading all phases of diverse enterprise technology projects, with experience in setting up a services company from scratch. For the last 9 years heavily involved in the following:Strategic Management - Defines and drives company strategic initiatives - Participates in company strategic initiatives - Identifies and defines new service offerings - Understands very well the company goals and values. Discusses, explains and promotes them in the company Operations Management - Supports and mentors Engineering Managers in their operational work and career development - Manages own projects and people without supervision - Manages several projects at a time in parallel - Mentors team members how to react in certain situations with the client and the team - Provides technical leadership when needed - Participates in projects staffing processRelationship Management - Operates on all contractual items with the client – statements of work, timesheets, invoices - Sets up a given project with the client and the team (accounts, communication channels, regular meetings, etc.) - Maintains open communication with stakeholdersTalent Development - Works with people to set goals, develop their skills and help them grow to the next level. - Provides timely and meaningful feedback. Ensures people are adequately trained to perform their work proficiently Innovation Development - Monitors technology trends and proposes new technologies for adoption in the company - Monitors technology certifications space, proposes suitable certificates and promotes them in the company - Proposes, organizes, builds technology trainings and workshops - Runs or participates in innovation initiatives like hackathons HR Development - Identifies and participates at recruitment events - Participates in recruitment processes definition - Participates in interviews and candidates evaluation - Creates and leads technology trainings for HRBusiness Development - Writes technical proposals for new projects - Organizes and participates in effort and cost estimation for new projects - Extracts business and technology information from existing projects and writes project descriptions - Reviews project candidates, participates in or leads their preparation for seamless introduction to new projects - Reviews marketing materials for business case and technology accuracy - Creates and leads technology trainings for Business Development