Accountable for the entire lifecycle of implementation projects within the private banks from scope to production launch, including determining the internal budget, establishing timelines & resource planning, coordination of all workstreams and identification of deliverables, activity planning of consultants, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management.Managed multiple parallel projects using shared resources and competing with other projects.Facilitated functional and technical workshops between client and internal team members, requiring razor-sharp focus on objectives, adopting and instilling a positive attitude, focusing on consensus and trust-building, and expectation setting.Role required high degree of polyvalence, as I interfaced with (and had to earn the trust and respect of) C-level roles at the banks as well as developers within the company.

Team leader for a small group of ~15 developers and graphic designers, distributed across various countries (Norway, Ukraine, Switzerland, USA) responsible for product development and for client implementations.Lead architect of the platform: accountable for the product development & road-map, production data centre operations.Acted as the main bridge between the management and commercial aspects of the company, and the development team.Spearheaded a re-design of the existing product, addressed stability, security, and scalability issues.Improved operational efficiency by implementing a fully virtualised data-centre environment.Established a formal Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) process and critical-path project planning.Participated in board meetings and fundraising initiatives, as well as many commercial/sales initiatives, and writing proposals.Selected and managed all technology suppliers (technical infrastructure, off-shore development & QA, support systems).Established detailed product and operational cost/pricing analyses.Technologies used: C++, C#, .Net, MS SQL, Windows Server 2003/2008, AJAX, Flash/Flex, XML, SOAP, video streaming, cryptography

As co-founder, I co-developed the original business plan and raised ~EUR 8 million in two rounds of VC funding.Was the principle architect and design lead of the entire eInvoicing ASP-model platform.Lead and organised the activities of the technical team (~20 developers).Implemented unit and integration testing methodologies, and a continuous integration/build practice.Helped establish support procedures, including disaster-recovery plan - achieved SunTone™ Certification level for system reliability (the first in the Netherlands).Designed the data centre topology (network infrastructure, firewalls, load-balancing, VPNs), achieved 99.97% up-time in first 4 years of operation.Negotiated terms of contracts with vendors for hardware and software procurement.Responsible for managing all resources, deliverables and milestones for customer implementations, and budget (~ EUR 1MM) of Product Life group.Participated extensively in writing proposals (RFPs), presenting technical overview to prospective customers, and defending the design during client and VC due-diligence.Active member of the management team, and participated actively in all board-level, steering committee, and investor meetings.Technologies used: Java/J2EE, Message Queues, Oracle DB, XML/XSLT, XML database (ODBMS), SOAP, X.509-based cryptography, ANT, VPNs, Solaris/Linux, Mercury Load Runner.