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As a Senior IT Project Manager, I manage Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration, operational efficiency, and alignment with organizational standards.Key Responsibilities:- M&A Project Management: Oversee all aspects of M&A projects, focusing on integrating acquired companies into a standardized enterprise IT environment.- Network/Infrastructure: Manage critical network infrastructure upgrade projects, network segmentation initiative in factories, ensuring improved performance, reliability, and scalability.- IT Implementation: Direct full-scale IT implementations, including new network deployments, server installations, and application migrations, ensuring compliance with security and industry standards.- Standardization: Drive the integration of IT systems and infrastructure from various projects into cohesive, standardized environments to support business continuity and growth.- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure objectives are met while delivering measurable value.- Handover to Operations: Ensure the smooth transition of completed projects by providing comprehensive handovers to operations teams for ongoing support and maintenance.This role requires expertise in managing complex IT and infrastructure projects, a strategic approach to project delivery, and a strong focus on maintaining quality, security, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

I joined Luminor Bank as a contractor for the Senior IT Project Manager position. In this role, I was responsible for overseeing and managing the DORA Compliance initiative and the Network Security project, ensuring they were delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.Key Responsibilities:- Project Management: Led and managed IT projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to project scope, schedule, and budget.- Documentation: Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, risk assessments, and status reports.- Risk Management: Identified, assessed, and mitigated project risks to minimize potential impacts.- Stakeholder Management: Built and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, including project sponsors, team members, and clients.- Budget Management: Developed and managed project budgets, tracked expenses, and ensured financial accountability.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

As a Delivery/Deployment Lead, I manage the delivery of all project scope in line with recognized best practice methodology. I manage day-to-day transition project communication both within the company and all other stakeholders, and produce relevant reports accurately and in a timely manner at the agreed frequency. I am responsible for producing detailed project plans to manage interdependencies, ensuring a realistic and achievable path is in place to achieve project/program objectives according to the target dates. I interface with 3rd party suppliers, involving agreement, planning, timelines, and quality of deliverables. I adhere to relevant escalation processes to escalate resource issues, delayed project phases, missed deadlines and other planning issues that are posing a serious risk or issue to the achievement of project objectives. Finally, I review the outcomes of each deliverable to determine any corrective actions that could be taken for future sites and to improve overall delivery.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

As Senior Project Manager I was managing Settlement New Products and Offerings team as well as driving delivery of complex initiatives. I was working on digital wallet delivery project, settlement product improvements and settlement migration projects. Delivery tasks included scope definition, roadmap planning, risk, stakeholder, management, coordination of tasks within relevant team and vendors. My responsibilities also included supervising team of business analysts – couching, coordinating tasks and setting goals and priorities, administrative tasks.

I have joined Western Union as Product Manager to drive E2E integrations with APN partners for wallet and bank payouts. I am leading Agile/cross-functional teams throughout all delivery phases from partner engagement and analysis to development, testing, release, and handover to operations, also engaging and collaborating with multiple internal functional teams - Accounting IT, Enrollment, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, security.As part of my role, I am setting up priorities for delivery teams, coordinating large and complex product enhancements (e.g., travel rule implementation, migration to new APN bank data model), conducting competitive and product analysis (rejection rate, rejection reasons, traffic volume dynamics etc.), contributing to process improvements and optimization.

Vilniaus, Lithuania

In Alna Business Solutions I was leading complex ERP implementation project for the manufacturing company. Project included team and vendor management from Lithuania, Denmark, Germany, Poland as well as process SMEs from client company.I joined project in analysis phase and had to quickly adapt to customer requirements, product specifics and managed project team to complete deliverables in time. My responsibilities included budget, schedule, scope management, resource planning, stakeholder management (C-level), reporting to steering committee, project management process improvements.

Vilnius

I joined Western Union as a fixed term contract project manager for accounting transition. My responsibilities included transition schedule preparation, budget planning and control, risks & issues management, stakeholder management. Main scope of the project was knowledge transfer from existing accounting teams Costa Rica to new teams in Vilnius. I was applying my knowledge and experience to develop suitable reporting and tracking structure, ensuring that appropriate controls and measures are in place and up to date. I was also driving IT initiatives of accounting department such as process automation, data migration and document repository implementation.

Vilnius

After Barclays decision to exit Lithuania was announced I was responsible for IT transition of internal support teams to external 3rd party vendor. Project included networks, IT segregation (email, access rights, data) and employees’ workspace migration. I was operating in politically sensitive environment and involving top management of Barclays and vendor company. I was acting as single point of contact to ensure proper and timely communication and reporting between vendor and internal teams, ensuring smooth migration from Barclays bank to vendor company.I have joined Barclays to drive Barclaycard customers identification and validation (CIDV) system remediation project. My daily duties included stakeholder, team, scope, budget, schedule management. Project was aimed to bring live system to vendor-supported state and meet resilience and security standards. Project activities included: application re-platforming, external API development (coding & testing), 3rd party engagement to implement new security requirements. Project involved around 50-60 stakeholder who required active management (from IT Service Management teams to Chief Technology Officers and Accountable Executives). During this project I gained extensive experience of project stakeholder management, planning, risk management and control.

Vilnius, Lithuania

After CSC/HPE-ES merger, I took a Project Manager role in Cloud Solutions Delivery team. Project activities included: cloud infrastructure deployments (network and platform hardware, software configuration, cloud tools deployment), solution handover to run & maintain, tools integration, change control, risk & issue escalation to appropriate management levels.As I joined CSC, I was responsible for delivery of IT solutions within agreed timelines, scope and budget.Infrastructure: network hardware upgrade (e. g. network changes in data centers), business critical database and application server migration from physical to virtual environment, server and network monitoring tools implementation, decommissioning of old environment, network upgrade for service desk operations. Service management: ITSM tool (ServiceNow) implementation, Service Desk deployment including knowledge and process analysis, gaps identification, knowledge gathering and documentation, training, internal testing and user testing, preparation for service commencement day.Software: managing release cycle of virtual client (Citrix) images upgrades and deployments, systems integration, infrastructure monitoring tools deployment.

Vilnius

I was sustaining relations with existing clients and acquiring new customers, fully responsible for sales process and partially responsible for delivery process. Product range included software and hardware for retailers: MS Navision, LS Retail, Partner Tech, Checkpoint etc.

Master'S Degree, Knowledge Management & Leadership

Bachelor Of Communication And Information, Publishing