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Prague, Czechia

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Responsibilities: Lead 9 development teams (number increasing over time), grow and hire team leaders, Product delivery and quality, Stakeholders: Customers, Product Management, Head of DevelopmentAccomplishments:* Increased decision transparency by creating a management team that shares common goals* Introduced project progress monitoring via a bi-weekly report on planned and achieved sprint goals* Ensured smoother employee onboarding by involving teams in the hiring process* Hired 23 new people in 2022, mostly junior level* Increased Senior programmer hiring from 0 to 1/quarter by moving the coding test after the initial interview, thus increasing their interest in the position* Improved morale in the teams by involving them in the discussion on which teams can “ingest” new team members* Unlocked processing of technical debt by focusing on discussion of product quality and introducing new views of the quality of a very complex product* Increased performance and cooperation by introducing stable development teams and educating agile principles* Increased shared understanding of development capacity by a push for higher transparency* Maintained the same productivity during the Covid remote working by having retrospectives about the methods of working* Delivered all customer projects by the deadline in 2022 by delegating them to the responsible teams

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Manage releases. Make sure software gets delivered to customers. Make sure development processes are well designed and folllowed. 2 direct reports- Increased performance and cooperation by introducing stable development teams and educating agile principles- Managed 10+ major releases to be completed on time and with less disruption than previous releases- Shortened feedback loops and increased dev team responsibility by introducing sprintly preview releases- Helped grow leadership by providing workshops, facilitation and coaching and implementing the Leadership Academy- Succesfully managed customer projects using agile within fixed time fixed budget constrains- delivered 8+ company wide quaterly development portfolio planning events

Cooperate on running the building cooperative smoothly so that tennants can enjoy their lives without hassles

Prague

Lead 7 country support teams in Java development. Cooperate with other development sites. Organize hiring.

Praha

Lead three teams - Java development and HW development. Handle personal growth of employees, Hire new team members, push teams towards better productivity and better alignment with company goals.- Hired 30% enlargement of the pre-existing team- Maintained 95% employee retention in 2013- Hired one Team Leader and grew one more internally- Improved cooperation within the department by building personal relationships

Prague, Czech Repulic

Manage directly 8 team leaders and individual contributors, 28 total staff, 20M CZK budget and report directly to the CEO.Manage the SW development organization budget, staffing and tasking.Set up and continuously improve development strategies and processes.Lead the team developing embedded, website and mobile software.The team was split into two geographical locations with international suppliers and customers.Main achievements:- Reduced time to publish a release from several months to 3-5 weeks- Managed changes to Quality Assurance from traditional to Scrum testing- Reduced cost by not replacing attrition while maintaining productivity- Changed the organization structure from 19 direct reports to 8- Organized the final push on a 2-year-long project which was started before me joining the organization- Improved the Nokia Scrum test score of the team from 0 to 2 in Level 1 and from 0 to 3 in Level 2- Managed the implementation of PivotalTracker to manage backlogs and tasks- Introduced employee performance reviews- Introduced internal customer-driven environment instead of a developer-driven one

Praha

Manage 5 directs.Manage development of all in-house developed software.The team is divided across two continents and three locations.Main achievements:- managed the team through 30% staffing reduction due to financial crisis- managed standardization of skills and tools used within the team- suggested and implemented a reorganization of the IT team to increase efficiency and skill usage- led a successful implementation of a PO and Material management system GE EPE - led a successful implementation of TMS software for major Air Filter, Automotive and Wind Turbine clients- managed an external supplier in the company web presentation upgrade project - completed in time and on budget- managed 4 routing guide projects for US clients - completed in time and on budget- analyzed business requirements for internal and external clients- presented the company and its systems to existing and potential clients- prepared on average one budget for systems implementation project per month- optimized the database to provide the same performance after 200% increase of database size- managed the shift of reporting to MS SQL Reporting Services gaining easier report management and historical data capabilities- prepared a business intelligence project

Praha

Manage 10 direct reports.Manage development and systems support sub-teamsManage software and network infrastructure projectsMain achievements:- Initiated and led employee development effort- Performed a successful SCRUM implementation- Increased productivity- Led successful cost-cutting initiatives. Reduced electricity consumption by 25%- Analyzed business requirements for internal and external clients

Responsible for all development efforts in Europe.Manage 7 employees in all aspects - Analyzed business requirements for internal and external clients

Manage 4 direct reports.Manage all web development in .NET 2.0 and MS SQL 2005.Main achievements:- introduced a wider usage of automated testing- implemented MSD (Material Ship Direct) module to the ALA Transportation Management System- analyzed business requirements for internal and external clients- distributed work between developers

responsible for development of the systems. Main responsibilities - Business Analysis, Database design and development, DBA duties- Analyzed business requirements for the new TMS system- Designed the new TMS system Database structure and development procedures.

Karlovy Vary

Organize cultural events accompanying the film festival

Praha

Individual contributor.Responsible for implementation of improvements in the enterprise SAP system. Work done in SAP 4.6 using the ABAP language and small .NET utilities.Main achievements:- Implementation of an electronic data interchange interface with mother company.

Praha

Individual contributor.Responsible for data preparation for payment calculations, Business intelligence solution development and data analysis.Main achievements:- improved data loading from the OLTP system to the data analysis & payment calculation systems. Decreased the time to load the data by 60% using MS SQL Server instead of MS Access technology- developed a 250GB OLAP database to provide rapid answers to basic questions by the insurance policy department.- designed a DataMart solution based on MS SQL Server- participated on choosing the supplier for a Business Intelligence solution

Master Of Business Administration

general MBA program, still ongoing

4Yrs, Unfinished, Computer Science, English Language, Unfinished

Temporary - No Degree, Computer Science

3 months - temporary during my father's being on faculty of the University

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