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Brno, South Moravia, Czechia

Program manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x releases, the latest and greatest flagship product. End to end responsibility for the whole release cycle from schedule planning to successful launch. Main responsibilities:■ Overall management of all functions contributing to the release, the "glue" between all teams, go-to person for the RHEL9 related items■ Teams coordination, reporting consolidation, chairing of program meetings, being on top of everything each week, maintaining good agenda, facilitation, followup.■ Schedules for product releases, progress tracking, backlog monitoring, conflict resolving■ Chairing program kick-offs, situation rooms, retrospectives■ Final bug triage management during release stabilization phase■ Release coordination, checklist creation and execution, tracking, release day management■ Managing Improvement group, an inclusive, functional, and accountable forum for responsibly raising and adopting changes in RHEL■ Keeping positive team spirit especially when handling all the challenges

Brno

Taking care of entire release cycle of RHEL 7.9, the last release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This was great learning lesson about how enterprise operating systems are managed to successfully get out of the door.Key responsibilities:■ Project planning / coordination / tracking / delivery / retrospective■ Working with all teams participating on a release, from development, quality testing, delivery teams, documentation, localization, legal, marketing, layered products, partner management, and others I probably forgot to mention.

Managing entire software localization group working on one of the largest SW projects on the market.■ Leading a team of 6 project managers as direct and 20+ indirect subordinates■ Driving the cross-team collaboration of other local and world-wide teams in various locations■ Working on continuous loc type projects (debt free, free-flow, agile)■ Responsible for product localization into 100+ assigned languages, validation testing, bug fixing■ Coordination of task transitions between various intl locations■ Handling escalations, reporting, balancing resources

Since October 2010 holding the Senior Project Management position keeping my focus on software localization for an American multinational technology company. Key responsibilities: Project schedule preparation, project cycle initiation, budgeting, tracking throughout the whole life-cycle of a release preparation, weekly reporting, invoicing. Managing team of 6 direct reports engineers + leads. Coordination of other internal or external teams.

Since 2005 successfully managing one of the largest and long term SW projects for leading global software company. With a team of 6 direct reports and the ENG and TEST function underneath, this has been the greatest experience when it comes to driving a waterfall type of projects with all the usual attributes like weekly reporting directly to customer, and occasional on-site work in Ireland.

Moved to London for 6 months, working in their offices as an eBay Sales Manager, maintaining the company online e-shop and eBay.

Product and customer support, SW engineer.

Ing., Business And Management

Activities and Societies: Economics and Business Management, Graduated on February 12, 2003 with ranking “A”.

Bc., Electrical And Electronic Technology

Specialization „Electrical and Electronic Technology“ in the study programme „Electric components and systems“. The final evaluation was.

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