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Senior professional with 20 years of experience gathered in various roles related to fintech products and transformational leadership. Rooted in agile values, passionate, loving a good fight,
structure & culture supporter, strategic mindset, live & work in Prague, CZ.


Fast CV facts

  • first decade: TECHNOLOGY, developer, team lead, scrum master, project manager
  • second decade: PRODUCT, leadership roles, management, agility
  • third decade: TBD, aspirations to C(-1)


Recently done

  • Global IT function governance and organizational design
  • Managed a sw development site, direct 30, indirect 50+ people
  • Cross-functional leadership of product & dev teams (10+)
  • Overseeing strategic product initiatives, >10 million EUR, 100+ people


Roles performed

  • IT Director / Head of SW development site
  • Agile coach
  • Product manager
  • Scrum Product Owner
  • Project manager
  • Development lead
  • Scrum master
  • Software engineer
  • Analyst & Tester

Qualifications

Organizational Design IT Governance & Strategy

Cross-functional site management

Lean-Agile leadership

Scaling agility with LeSS Beyond Budgeting, Management 3.0
Product Management / Ownership Product development

Executive relations, Roadmapping

(multi) Team level coaching People management

Operational excellence

Vendor relationships Procurement & Negotiation

HR domain

recommendations and references

Work experience

Head of Software Development SITE

4finance, Prague, CZ
2021-072025-07

Summary

  • Establishing product-led governance within the entire IT function reflecting ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ, optimizing for adaptiveness
  • Envisioning, building and rollout of a ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง for the whole group
  • Managing and overseeing the ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ˆ๐“ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž
  • Leading the software development operations to ensure ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ ๐ž๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ
  • Guiding the organization in ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ & ๐ซ๐จ๐š๐๐ฆ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  to align with customer needs and business goals
  • Championing the ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž, driving cultural transformation through intrapreneurship, mentoring and coaching activities.

Key highlights

Restructuring the IT function while building

  • Envisioning, advocating for and driving a complete overhaul of the IT function;' organizational design, governance, product managementย 
  • Leading the change with different sites, teams, developers, architects, product owners, business users, and senior stakeholders

New lending platform for 4finance group

  • Innovative multitenant platform for all markets and products
  • Increased reusability / optimized cost of development by >50%
  • Enabled cross-product customer journeys
  • Significantly improved cycle time
  • Lowered onboarding of new members
  • Improved overall understanding for business with process visualization

ATS keywords

  • Overseeing and managing Czech IT site
  • Resource planning and processes
  • Ensuring optimal delivery capabilities
  • Ensuring allocation and utilization of the development teams
  • Recruiting and onboarding new developers and product owners
  • Global roadmap planning by bringing the capacity in
  • Building roadmaps and development plans
  • Follow-up and reporting to CIO / CTO
  • Overseeing and coaching staff allocated on high-profile projects
  • Responsible of team schedules
  • Ensuring team backlog follows global priorities
  • Taking corrective actions should the need raise

Coach: Mika Rekkilรค (CTO)
References on demand: executives, vendors, heads of departments, agile coaches, product managers, product owners,ย  architects, developers, business analysts

Product Manager

4finance, Prague, CZ
2016-112021-06

Summary

  • C-level executive enquiries (CIO/CTO, CFO)
  • close collaboration with the Heads of product and portfolio, Heads of development centers (IT directors) on organizational practices and product development skills
  • envisioning of and driving a product community across IT sites * member of a core product team with line management focus on coaching and/or mentoring for roles: product owner, business analyst
  • involved with sourcing & hiring processes and related vendor management
  • management in various areas for collections platform (process, vendor, procurement, resource, senior management communication, change management ..)

      Overseeing as a manager

      • Responsible for a program of projects with budget over 10 million EUR
      • Creation of a global IT platform for 13 countries and 25+ products on 3 continents and 5+ time zones
      • IT platform evolution/vision, goals and initiatives definition, product ideation, planning alignment, priority negotiation, production delivery
      • IT platform rollout/migrations of countries to a new platform, launches of new countries/brands on a
      • IT platform support/process implementation cross countries over multiple time zones and continents

      Involved in

      • creating product visions and strategies
      • various business areas (collections, credit bureaus, integrations with 3rd party vendors ..)
      • knowledgeable and continuously improving leadership and managerial skills * facilitating company-wide workshops
      • high level of expertise in agile and productivity tools

      Key highlights

      Global B2B integrations with Credit institutions and Communication providers

      • Credit bureaus data reporting: Providing reporting of own customers' data to credit bureaus in order to enable company to use credit bureaus as an additional source of credit checks of new customers.
      • Printhouse integration: Providing format-specific letters and metadata to printhouses
      • External debt collection agencies: Assigning debts to external agencies, updating on account/loan changes, recalling debts

      Debt Collection platform global rollout, evolution and support

      • Rolled out debt collection platform to 16 financial products in Czech Republic, Romania, Spain, Denmark, Georgia, Argentina, Mexico and Dominican Republic.
      • Managing change and support of the debt collection platform including 3rd party vendors.
      • Product / Project management responsibilities, mixed role cooperating directly with C-level.

      Debt Collection system pilot and migration (CZ)

      • Time to market - fast delivery of changes, cycle time improvements
      • Automation of collection strategies, worfklows - cost optimization
      • Configurability โ€“ business needs zero or little IT support - no or minimumย 
      • development needed
      • Unification of collection process across countries with ability to impact with global changes

      Coach and mentor: Mika Rekkilรค
      Coaches: Peter Fisher, Magdalena Marczak, Iain Blunden
      Additional references: on-demand roles: CTO, CIO, CFO, product managers, owners, scrum masters, agile coaches, dev leads, QA engineers, project
      managers, business managers, heads of product and portfolio, Heads of HR, vendor account managers

      Product Owner

      4finance, Prague, CZ
      2014-112016-11

      Single team Scrum Product Owner

      • responsibility over IT deliveries for 4finance businesses in Finland, Denmark, and Lithuania
      • migration of core IT platform for debt collection, a pilot project for Czech Republic (technical integration, business processes implementation)
      • additional accountability taken on as acting Scrum master for a period of few months

      Coaches: Xavier Gras, Tamas Hajdu
      Mentor: Mika Rekkilรค

      Project Manager

      Baud spol. s r.o, Prague, CZ
      2013-032014-10

      Hands-on project management of multiple projects

      • MS SharePoint migration project for the Czech Accreditation Institute
      • complex solution for one of the biggest casino in Czech Republic for operations involving web application, integration with 3rd party systems and physical devices (cameras, card readers)
      • web presentations of a major international petrol company with gas stations * peripheral management of various database related development projects

      General

      • consulting the management team of the company
      • creation and ownership of MS Project document designed to capture all company projects
      • management of project related invoices, procurement related tasks & customer relationship
      • management of a customer support
      • development process management in highlighted projects (planning, execution, closure) using MS Team Foundation Server
      • project branding of company's documentation
      • collaboration on proprietary tools configuration (deployments, ticketing, ..)

      Reporting to executive management: Pavel Vaลกek, Jiล™รญ Moravec

      Project manager & Development Team Lead

      Baud spol. s r.o, Prague, CZ
      2008-102013-03

      Responsibility over relationship and software development for BNP Paribas
      Cardif Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria.

      • differently sized projects in context of international utilization and vendors (<1 million EUR)
      • responsible for enterprise platform in Czech, Slovak and Austrian business of the customer
      • managing enterprise platform migration projects & creation/execution of migration strategies (data, systems, business processes)
      • managerial consulting (project team affairs, customer communication) * implementing own version of scrum-but framework with customer
      • leading a development team on daily basis * complete application life-cycle management
      • business requirements elicitation, analyses, solution proposal and negotiation with customer
      • implementing deployment strategies and technical processes
      • implementation of automated database testing, TDD * additional accountability of a Scrum master in the team

      Coach: Radek Seฤka

      Software Engineer

      Baud spol. s r.o
      2006-102008-10

      Member of a team implementing a primary insurance platform for BNP Paribas
      Cardif (Cardif pro Vita) using technologies:

      • .NET platform, C# development, thick client
      • MS SQL Server development
      • MS SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
      • Crystal reports and reporting in general
      • Integration with 3rd parties (Accounting - CODA, Documents EDM - Filenet)
      • Proprietary solutions for entity framework generation and proprietary import bridge (ETL)
      • Migrations of platform to Slovakia and Austria
      • Deployments of clients and databases via MS Visual studio

      Mentor: Radek Seฤka

      External Software Developer

      Baud spol. s r.o
      2005-012006-10

      On-boarded into a beginning of new project for insurance company Cardif Pro
      Vita (later BNP Paribas Cardif)

      • gaining experience with OOP and algoritmization (VB / C# .NET), SQL querying, optimization via understanding execution plans, database

      architecture, ETL technology application via BizTalk, MS SQL Server
      Integration Services

      • modelling processes in UML and documenting the platform from business to technical layers via Enterprise Architect
      • end to end quality assurance (mostly manual)

      Mentor: Radek Seฤka

      Administrator

      Ferokov s.r.o
      2001-012003-12

      intranet administration (Novell)

      HONORS & AWARDS

      • 4finance People Awards 2024 - Guiding Star, 2nd place
      • 4finance People Awards 2023 - We put people first, 1st place
      • 4finance People Awards 2022 - We are entrepreneurial, 1st place
      • 4finance People Awards 2021 - We are entrepreneurial, 1st place
      • 4finance People Awards 2018 - Striving for excellence, 4th place

      RECENT LICENSES & Certifications

      • Certified LeSS Practitioner, Craig Larman - LeSS co-creator (2023)
      • Professional Agile Leadership (PAL), scrum.org (2023)
      • Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced (PSPO II),ย  scrum.org (2023)
      • Collaboration superpowers with Nikoletta Tatar (2022)
      • Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced (PSPO I),ย  scrum.org (2022)
      • Business Agility foundations with Jurgen Appelo (2019)
      • Business Agility and Innovation leader, ShiftUp (2019)
      • various business analyses / project / product management courses

      Education & Trainings

      MANAGEMENT 3.0

      Jurgen APPELO
      2021

      Success and Failure. Learning from experiments

      Rewards and Incentives

      Delegation and Empowerment

      Leadership competencies

      zbynฤ›k rozboล™il - dev elopment atelier
      2018

      10-day leadership academy spread into 1 year, training -> application

      LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

      petr ลกpatenka
      2018

      Conflict resolution in multicultural environment

      business analysis

      petr ล patenka
      2018

      BABOK - foundation review

      BABOK - building business cases

      management competencies

      Aguarra / Knut fahlรฉn
      2017

      "Beyond Budgeting", Unlocking the performance potential

      BUSINESS ANALYSIS

      GOODEA.EU
      2015

      Business process modelling (BPMN 2.0)

      Czech Technical University in Prague

      no degree / studies put on hold
      20042008

      Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering

      Software engineering, Math, Physics