2020 – 2023

• Agile transformation initiative, promotion of agile philosophy and methodology across the company, strong focus on promotion of model similiar to unFIX Spotify SAFe while involving senior management
• R&D for hybrid agile implementation model (mix of agile and waterfall, depending on the department/group), allowing two very different methodologies to efficiently coexist together (utilizing Atlassian tools)
• R&D for Synthetic Data research, later leveraged for ML/AI & by QA teams
  • Research on VAE, GAN and diffusion models
  • Released synthetic data microservice as a product (mainly for QA teams)
• Development and release of ‘Employee Journey Portal’ to support entire employee lifecycle, functioning as a self-service portal, integrating into multiple internal and external services in the back-end, providing seamless service experiences
  • 25K+ user base, saving close to 10K support staff hours on yearly basis
• Establishment of globally accepted, standardized framework for collection of events from nearly all internal applications (30+) and also centralized user feedback collection
  • Standardized event log format, UX feedback rules, KPIs, event correlation ID rules
  • Providing multiple language specific SDKs for easy integration
  • Utilizing Kafka, Hadoop & capturing tens of thousands event daily
  • Utilizing DOMO, Tableau for analytics
• Introduction of data-driven insight on English skills improvement & communication tones and conducted data-backed research
  • efficient & confident communication in a multinational global company = higher productivity & less problems/miscommunications

2019 – 2020

• Succesfull development of the new infotainment system for Europe’s most advanced train units – Sirius (from CRRC)
• Complete overhaul of security infrastrucure in multiple offices, transition from multi-brand multi-supplier to Fortinet and SentinelOne and single supplier, achieved better price terms, performance and security
• Routines improvement for IT support teams, mainly communication and ticket handling procedures
• Successfull price negotiations with hardware and software suppliers, achieved >40% OPEX reductions
• Development and release of a new statistical system capable of showing passengers tall, load factor, generated income from all train units in nearly real-time (projections in offices and lobby), leveraged even further in finance & marketing departments
• Development and release of purchasing & expense validation system and automation workflows, leveraging MS Power Platform and Sharepoint
• Sucessfully negotiated improvement of 4G coverage near the railway tracks with telco company and government institution (CETIN)
• Succesfully led the project of transitioning to RPi thin clients connected to VMs in private cloud for all ticket counters, OPEX reduction more than 50%
• Complete analysis and revamp of nearly all security and privacy policies of MS365 environment

2017 – 2019

• Company-wide deprecation of all IBM systems (reaching end of support) and transition to MS365 and Azure, minimizing the yearly OPEX by around 20%, including the early contract termination negotiations with IBM
• Unifying 4 old and no longer efficient server farms into one, minimizing the yearly OPEX by more than 60%
• Unification of hardware suppliers, leading to servicing improvements, lower purchasing costs and better internal manageability
• Transition to 100% paperless company – finance, accounting, HR, PMO, architecture office
• Replacing all routers, switches and other network assets consisting of multiple brands and models to unified and better working ecosystem (leveraging Fortinet and Uniquiti brands)
• Replacing old accounting system & payroll system with a completely new one along with complete DB migration of more than 10M transactions, ensuring that all accounting data was transferred correctly, passing external audits as well
  • Automation of more than 3/4 of accounting operations using RPA and OCR, minimizing the needed headcount for accounting by 1 staff member
• Implementation of LEAN, ITIL and Agile practices through entire company
• Implementation of fully automated back-up systems for each office and HQ using a network of interconnected NASes in multiple locations
• Implementation of completely new, cloud-based working time registration system including the installation of necessary hardware inside the factory and offices
• Implementation of quality and work safety assurance digital handbook system and its mandatory used inside the company
• Cooperation with local government, chosen telecommunication company and army authorities to extend and connect the optical fiber line into company HQ and factory (>20mil. USD project) while making the optical fiber line connection available for households, other companies and government office in its proximity available as well
  • This included also a new contract negotiation with the telecommunication company not just for the optical fiber internet connection, but also for company wide mobile subscription tariffs, offered as a package resulting in around 10% lower OPEX
  • This was also a transition project from a different telecommunication company while preserving all the mobile numbers, automated call reception system settings and achieving zero down-time of internet connectivity during working hours
• Implementation of wireless network mesh system inside the entire factory with nearly 100% coverage including areas with thick reinforced concrete walls & making it ready as a foundation for implementation of various IoT technologies in production