Director IT Product development, IT Business consultant

Lead the IT & BI department where we build and grow Gemseek digital products. Accomplishments:

* Define mission, vision, strategic goals.
* Build and lead functional and product teams (Product management, Solution & software architecture,
Software development, Quality assurance, Project management, Managed services & support).
Isolate and reassign alien activities (business development, account management).
* Lead the team throughout the phases of organizational development:
Undefined > Defined > Stable > Predictable > Efficient > Self Improving
...including definition of roles and processes, standardization of operations, knowledge management
/ training programs, strategic change management.
* Optimize product portfolio (50% decrease the number of products); Outsource non-core products.
* Implement project budgeting

In the dynamic time of Teva restructuring right after acquisition of Actavis...
* Manage platform projects (web development and IT infrastructure) part of digital marketing programs
through distributed cross-functional teams. Promote the platform expansion.
* Advocate the managed growth of the platforms by building the concept of platform-of-platforms.
* Consult on and deploy strategic organizational changes (Agile methods, extended teams).
* Manage local outsourcing partners.

* Lead incredibly dynamic and interdependent software projects across the world biggest software
archive (ownership of ASML: the world biggest lithography systems supplier).
* Build and maintain healthy customer relationships.
* Manage people & teams.
* Implement project budgeting. Continuously negotiate the budget limits.
* Tailor Agile (Kanban, Scrumban) and Prince 2 practices to fit the outsourcing business model. Define
and set up the right project management practices.
* Deploy PM practices across the organization. Mentor Project managers.
* Support management of highly critical projects across the organization.