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Vilniaus, Lithuania

Leading IT strategy, aligning technology with business objectives to drive innovation and competitive advantage in the logistics sector. Building on the foundation I established as Head of IT, my focus is on ensuring our technology initiatives propel the company’s growth.Key Responsibilities and Strategic Objectives: • Executive Leadership: Guide the company’s IT strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals and seamless technology integration across all operations. • Digital Transformation: Lead digital innovation to enhance operational efficiency, customer experience, and create new revenue streams within the logistics industry. • Scalability and Resilience: Oversee the development of scalable, secure, and resilient IT infrastructure, supporting our expansion in markets like Kazakhstan and China. • Cloud Strategy: Champion strategic cloud initiatives to increase agility, cost-effectiveness, and support growth. • Agile Development: Refine the IT organizational structure to foster agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned with SAFe practices. • Leadership and Talent: Cultivate high-performing IT leaders, focusing on IT Product Management, Service Management, and Enterprise Architecture. • Business Digitalization: Drive the adoption of emerging technologies, positioning IT as a key enabler of business innovation. • Governance and Risk: Establish strong IT governance frameworks to manage risks and ensure compliance with industry standards.In my role as CIO, I am dedicated to positioning Everwest Group as a leader in technological innovation in logistics, driving strategic initiatives that deliver business value and support our growth and success.

Vilniaus, Lithuania

In response to a strategic business split within the group, I assumed the role of Head of IT at the newly established company with the mission to build a robust IT organization from the ground up. Tasked with cloning and migrating all IT infrastructure and business applications without disrupting ongoing operations, I successfully led the transformation within a tight timeline of under 10 months.Key Achievements: • Established a New IT Organization: Built the entire IT department from scratch, setting up a resilient foundation for future growth. • Infrastructure Migration: Seamlessly migrated over 1,000 workstations to a new domain and transferred hundreds of servers, including terabytes of business-critical data. • Application Migration: Efficiently migrated hundreds of line-of-business applications, ensuring uninterrupted business processes. • Organizational Transformation: Spearheaded the transition to an agile work environment by implementing SAFe best practices across the IT organization. • Cloud Migration: Successfully moved mission-critical systems to the public cloud, enhancing scalability and resilience. • Rapid Team Expansion: Grew the IT team from 0 to over 50 full-time employees within 6 months, fostering a high-performing culture. • Geographical Expansion: Supported business expansion into new markets in Kazakhstan and China by ensuring the IT infrastructure was scalable and secure. • IT Structure Formation: Designed and implemented a four-pronged IT structure, focusing on Core Business Systems, Business Digitalization, Collaboration Systems, and Core IT Systems. • Leadership and Governance: Established key roles such as IT Product Management, Service Management, and Enterprise Architecture, recruiting top talent to lead these critical functions.My role has been pivotal in ensuring that the new company not only achieved operational stability post-split but also laid the foundation for sustainable growth and innovation.

Vilnius

Double leadership role: - As Senior director of R&D in EMEA leading product management and engineering teams developing integrations with 3rd party systems.- General manager of vArmour Lithuania operating as shared service center for vArmour Networks Inc. providing range of business operations services (software development, DevOps, Sales support, Customer support). Responsible for daily operations, budget and headcount planning, brand development and people wellbeing.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

Leading engineering tribe of Digital.ai applications protection products (Android apps, Android SDKs, Web / Hybrid and App Aware). Additional responsibility is to lead Lithuanian R&D site, represent Digital.ai company as CEO of Lithuanian subsidiary, promote brand and ensure operational excellence.

Vilnius

Responsible for bank employees’ daily workflows digital transformation strategy and execution within Danske Bank Group. Leading three teams: DevOps Engineering, Software development, Mobility Center of Excellence.Technologies stack: C#, .NET Core, JavaScript (Ionic, React, Kotlin, Node), Objective-C, Java, Erlang / Jenkins, MS SQL, RabbitMQ, PowerShell, NetScaler, Windows and Linux Servers and virtualization.Notable achievements:• Established enterprise mobility center of excellence to unleash mobile workforce productivity and value creation for bank customers regardless of location.• Released internal mobile development framework, to enable business areas develop internal mobile friendly web and native mobile applications for daily business process.• Established “talents incubator program” targeting high potential graduates to foster their IT carrier in Danske Bank Group.• Recognized as high potential leader and selected to participate in "NextGen Executives" development program facilitated by Korn Ferry

Vilnius

Responsible for new IT service creation - enterprise mobility management, based on MDM and MAM enabling iOS and Android devices securely connect to internal bank network.Technologies stack: Citrix XenMobile, NetScaler, ShareFile, MS SQL, Linux and Windows servers, PowerShell, Bash.Notable achievements:• Technical project leadership of enterprise mobility management (EMM) system implementation for 20.000+ employees (Citrix XenMobile)• Established (hired and developed) high performance technical support and engineering teams.• Owner of continuous service quality and user experience improvement process.• "Hands-on" technical leader of process automation and proactive monitoring tools development.

Vilnius

Leading team of IBM Tivoli automation and IBM Maas360 enterprise mobility management technical pre-sales engineers. Responsible for solution implementation and following maintenance projects management. Leading sales activities for public and enterprise sectors.

DC infrastructure services portfolio management, encompassing cost optimisation, investment projects and business plans development. Responsible for infrastructure services and successful data center development, including sales channel development, sales team training and representation of the companies’ services in the large outsourcing projects. All operations were performed by analysing changes in the volume of sales or using seasonally adjusted performance analysis, analysis of competitor’s actions affect to the business plans execution and ongoing cost analysis using ABC (Activity-Based Costing) methodology.

As custom software development services business leader, I was responsible for customers and investors attraction, product design and development. Company introduced innovative (at that time) solutions for business workflows transformation – QR codes and apps for smartphones.Technologies stack: Java, Dojo, PostgreSQL

Management of IT solutions implementation projects and leadership of the project teams. Active products portfolio management (Cisco, IBM, Autodesk, Microsoft) - relationships and negotiation with the vendors and distributors. I was responsible for the entire value creation chain, from the first customer contact and relationships establishment to solution delivery and final implementation.

Direct sales of GPS fleet management systems to business and public sector organisations. Product development leadership - business analysis (definition of user's stories), roadmap planning and product introduction to the market. Responsible for the company's core service known as "Webfleet" development and competitive advantage creation.