Egils Meiers Email & Phone Number

Riga, Latvia

Riga

The second wave of 100+ people was enlightened in Product management practice.

Latvia

I prepared and conducted a lecture course in Product Management at RISEBA University. So happy of opportunity to help others to see the pragmatic way of product development.

Riga

• Joined to lead the company's transformation into a product-based organization.
• Identified the key focus of the organization and defined the main product portfolio.
• In partnership with the CEO and according to the new organization strategy, reviewed and reduced not relevant development to 0.
• Implemented the Agile practices in the development; increased the development efficiency by 30% and the planning accuracy by 40%.
• Attracted several new experts to strengthen the operational management of the organization.
• Managed and ensured the implementation of a standardized internal communication platform (Intranet) for two major customers.

Riga

• Took ownership of the group product evaluation and launch for the local market.
• Evaluated more than 10 group products and selected 4 for implementation in the Baltic market.
• Planned for the selected target market, prepared business case, developed sales strategy and materials, and executed.
• Established support and implementation environment, ensured training, created international communication channels for the EasyCruit product launch in the Baltics.
• Led ClaudBI platform launch.
• Developed recommendations for the group politics of cross-country product sales.

Riga

• Managed the new product research and development program - five projects in three years, with three new products and product lines launched.
• Established a Research and Development (R&D) practice.
• Led new product - Horizon REST integration platform development. It has launched as the bestseller of the year.
• Established tight and productive cooperation with academic partners and prepared more than 10 scientific publications.
• Implemented design thinking principles for new functionality development.

Riga, Latvia

• Headed the development of new HRM product PeopleIn from scratch.
• Managed internal and external stakeholders and partners.
• Created the first international product in the company's portfolio.
• Prepared and executed product development roadmap, go-to-market, and sales strategies.
• Increased payslips processing 6 times, from 50 to 300 according to one accountant.
• Reduced legislative change implementation costs by 30%.

• As a business development manager, prepared the proposals for tenders, identified and managed partners and suppliers. Signed new contracts worth 1.5 mil euro.As the department manager, took full ownership of client.
• In two years, expanded customer base up to 70 customers (20x times).
• Reduce employee turnover from 35% to 2%.
• Ensured rapid employee development – 24 certifications in the first year.

• Applied to lead the team of 40 specialists on in the most ambitious project on company's history.Achievements:
• The project delivered in time
• The profit was twice as big as planned (24% instead of 12%)

• Starting as a junior programmer quickly become a senior programmer and then a system architect.
• Requirement gathering
• Defining principles of large IT systems
• Development management

Master’S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Master thesis "STRATEGY OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION IN COMPANY"

Bachelor’S Degree, Management Sciences

Bachelor thesis „SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE” IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY"

Bachelor, Computer Sciences; Unfinished Studies