Product Management Consultant
Vodafone
(Telecommunications, >10.000 employees)
Keywords
Product Management
Automotive Industry
Telecommunications
DevOps
Hospitality
Insurance Management and Aftercare
Project Management
Product Design
Stakeholder Management
Kanban
Skills
Experienced consultant providing Software Product Management and Agile Delivery Management services.
Janos has built amazing software products. Key strengths include setting up software delivery teams and processes to turn roadmaps into features, launching them and learning to improve and iterate. Managing dependencies and risks, while optimizing project resources. Successfully engaging with various business stakeholders, architects, designers, software and DevOps engineers co-located, distributed or remotely, apply dual-track agile, scrum and kanban in practice.
He has solid experience in digital product development and project leadership across the automotive, transport, hospitality, telecommunication and insurance industries.
Janos has built amazing software products. Key strengths include setting up software delivery teams and processes to turn roadmaps into features, launching them and learning to improve and iterate. Managing dependencies and risks, while optimizing project resources. Successfully engaging with various business stakeholders, architects, designers, software and DevOps engineers co-located, distributed or remotely, apply dual-track agile, scrum and kanban in practice.
He has solid experience in digital product development and project leadership across the automotive, transport, hospitality, telecommunication and insurance industries.
Project history
07/2022
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09/2023
• Engaged to manage and prioritize the backlog to deliver service requests originating from internal and 3rd party customers, and improved and developed the Container as a Service (CaaS) offering
• Provided agile coaching for 6 infrastructure teams (CaaS, API Gateway and Developer Portal) with 30+ DevOps engineers, 4 Scrum Masters, 5 architects, 3 Technical Product Owners and a Service Lifecycle Manager
Key Outcomes
• I dramatically improved their Container as a Service (CaaS) offering by reducing the average service request resolution time from 135 days to 36 days (a 73% reduction) within 3 months, increasing tenant satisfaction and operational efficiency
• Developed and successfully introduced a bespoke framework to re-allocate resource and service costs to drive budgeting
• Implemented new data-driven dashboards to improve transparency, fostered agile ways of working (Kanban, Scrum) that streamlined workflows and boosted efficiency
• Developed governance and service overview dashboards to provide KPIs for the team and managers to focus on and insights for customers to make operations more transparent
• To improve customer experience I developed an escalation feature using JIRA automation, MS Power Automate and MS Forms. This standardized the process, ensured all escalations were logged and generated automatic notifications improving response time.
• Provided agile coaching for 6 infrastructure teams (CaaS, API Gateway and Developer Portal) with 30+ DevOps engineers, 4 Scrum Masters, 5 architects, 3 Technical Product Owners and a Service Lifecycle Manager
Key Outcomes
• I dramatically improved their Container as a Service (CaaS) offering by reducing the average service request resolution time from 135 days to 36 days (a 73% reduction) within 3 months, increasing tenant satisfaction and operational efficiency
• Developed and successfully introduced a bespoke framework to re-allocate resource and service costs to drive budgeting
• Implemented new data-driven dashboards to improve transparency, fostered agile ways of working (Kanban, Scrum) that streamlined workflows and boosted efficiency
• Developed governance and service overview dashboards to provide KPIs for the team and managers to focus on and insights for customers to make operations more transparent
• To improve customer experience I developed an escalation feature using JIRA automation, MS Power Automate and MS Forms. This standardized the process, ensured all escalations were logged and generated automatic notifications improving response time.
09/2021
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02/2022
Product Management Consultant
Calero-MDSL
(500-1000 employees)
• Engaged to build a B2B Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) product in the introduction phase that provides visibility, optimization and overall technology expense management
• Collaborated with sales and marketing to reduce friction and spread understanding of the
product capabilities and values
Key Outcomes
• Tripled customer base in 6 months by implementing highly relevant features
• Established clear goals and priorities, increasing team efficiency
• Translated the product strategy into a detailed roadmap and development backlog, leading to the successful launch of new features
• Collaborated with sales and marketing to reduce friction and spread understanding of the
product capabilities and values
Key Outcomes
• Tripled customer base in 6 months by implementing highly relevant features
• Established clear goals and priorities, increasing team efficiency
• Translated the product strategy into a detailed roadmap and development backlog, leading to the successful launch of new features
02/2020
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08/2021
Delivery Management Consultant
Toyota Connected Europe
(Automotive and vehicle construction, >10.000 employees)
• Engaged to lead two globally distributed backend data development teams building microservice architecture IoT solutions to collect, process and enrich vehicle data and APIs to make it available for car owners and to generate highly relevant sales leads
• Managed and prioritized the product backlog
• Planned and ran high-level requirement workshops and documented solution architecture
• Facilitated requirement refinement, estimation, sprint planning and retrospective sessions
• Analysed various interface specifications
• Liaised with a large number of stakeholders and vendors within and outside of Toyota
group
Key Outcomes
• Delivered a greenfield solution for collecting and processing vehicle telemetry data, whilst managing the entire device lifecycle and complying with privacy regulations
• Delivered a greenfield data pipeline for processing vehicle telemetry data, integrating various internal systems to enhance data and comply with GDPR
• Created APIs to generate highly relevant sales leads and make them available for Toyota dealerships
• Introduced team morale-boosting and stakeholder trust-building video demos
• Coached the team in Scrum and helped resolve roadblocks
• Iteratively improved processes and working practices to deliver faster
• Created project health reporting and forecasting
• Managed and prioritized the product backlog
• Planned and ran high-level requirement workshops and documented solution architecture
• Facilitated requirement refinement, estimation, sprint planning and retrospective sessions
• Analysed various interface specifications
• Liaised with a large number of stakeholders and vendors within and outside of Toyota
group
Key Outcomes
• Delivered a greenfield solution for collecting and processing vehicle telemetry data, whilst managing the entire device lifecycle and complying with privacy regulations
• Delivered a greenfield data pipeline for processing vehicle telemetry data, integrating various internal systems to enhance data and comply with GDPR
• Created APIs to generate highly relevant sales leads and make them available for Toyota dealerships
• Introduced team morale-boosting and stakeholder trust-building video demos
• Coached the team in Scrum and helped resolve roadblocks
• Iteratively improved processes and working practices to deliver faster
• Created project health reporting and forecasting
01/2017
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11/2019
Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst
Trainline
(Internet and Information Technology, 500-1000 employees)
An all-encompassing role as part of the leadership team for the web development squads (30+ developers) delivering a major re-platforming programme, transitioning the previous monolith system into microservices architecture
• PCI compliance re-certification and increased application security
• Re-platformed web booking flow for trainline to enable serving UK and International offers
from 220 rail and coach carriers on a Single Global Platform
• Facilitated requirement refinement, estimation, sprint planning and retrospective sessions
• Created a bespoke release burndown chart to support resourcing, scope decisions and
communicate on progress
• Liaised daily with backend teams to make sure their backlog priorities supported achieving
frontend milestones without disrupting dependencies
• Carried out extensive 'as is’ analysis on the legacy UK and EU websites
• Writing and quality assuring epics and user stories using BDD approach
• Prepared, managed and prioritized the product backlog
• Problem-solving throughout discovery sessions, workshops and 3 amigo sessions
• Setup custom JIRA workflows, fields, boards, migrated projects, JIRA training for the team
• Spoke at the internal tech summit about my successful requirement analysis approach
• PCI compliance re-certification and increased application security
• Re-platformed web booking flow for trainline to enable serving UK and International offers
from 220 rail and coach carriers on a Single Global Platform
• Facilitated requirement refinement, estimation, sprint planning and retrospective sessions
• Created a bespoke release burndown chart to support resourcing, scope decisions and
communicate on progress
• Liaised daily with backend teams to make sure their backlog priorities supported achieving
frontend milestones without disrupting dependencies
• Carried out extensive 'as is’ analysis on the legacy UK and EU websites
• Writing and quality assuring epics and user stories using BDD approach
• Prepared, managed and prioritized the product backlog
• Problem-solving throughout discovery sessions, workshops and 3 amigo sessions
• Setup custom JIRA workflows, fields, boards, migrated projects, JIRA training for the team
• Spoke at the internal tech summit about my successful requirement analysis approach
09/2011
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12/2016
Lead Business Analyst
EPAM Systems
(Internet and Information Technology)
• Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA): Greenfield revenue-management system development.
• Thomson Reuters: Discovery phase of a major overhaul programme for EndNote (a reference management software).
• Affinitext: Created long-term roadmap and product strategy.
• Ryanair: Opportunity backlog review.
• Helped grow EPAM UK Business Analyst practice by assessing external Business Analyst job applicants and internal mobility candidates
• Thomson Reuters: Discovery phase of a major overhaul programme for EndNote (a reference management software).
• Affinitext: Created long-term roadmap and product strategy.
• Ryanair: Opportunity backlog review.
• Helped grow EPAM UK Business Analyst practice by assessing external Business Analyst job applicants and internal mobility candidates
08/2006
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09/2011
Software Development Team Lead
AEGON Hungary
(Insurance, >10.000 employees)
• Responsible for managing the software development lifecycle of all sales support systems, including insurance quotation systems, mortgage application and repayments calculation APIs, insurance agent self-service web platform, insurance and pension customer support and self-service web systems
• Represented the engineering department at external meetings with business partners (banks, brokers, software vendors, subsidiaries)
• Led 12 software developers and 3 BAs supporting insurance sales systems
• Third-party software vendor management
• Third-party software procurement decision support
• Led and mentored BAs, defined, quality assured and prioritized functional specifications
• Created system architecture diagrams
• Trained internal and external sales teams
Achievements
• Ideation and delivery of a self-service reporting system to support insurance product development and sales evaluation, which reduced ad-hoc reporting requests and provided instant access to data, saving time for various business units
• Simplified a complex insurance agent self-service platform through a strategic review and removal of unused features, that resulted in 70% less technical debt, reduced maintenance burden, and freed up development resources for new features
• Introduced the replacement of the long-term leading property insurance and several others
• Introduced several new mortgage products (implementing application process, repayment calculation, internal and external interfaces, mortgage-related survey questionnaire and other legal and regulatory documents and reporting)
• Introduced over 35 new insurance products (implementing their quotation, premium calculation, internal and external interfaces, insurance policy related survey questionnaire and other legal and regulatory documents, reporting), including car (liability, comprehensive), motorcycle, property, contents, life, critical illness, health, casualty, pet and business asset insurances
• 250+ new software version deployments, 1000+ business requirements delivered
• Measured and delivered significant (4x) performance improvements for the sales system API, reducing average response time by 75%
• Represented the engineering department at external meetings with business partners (banks, brokers, software vendors, subsidiaries)
• Led 12 software developers and 3 BAs supporting insurance sales systems
• Third-party software vendor management
• Third-party software procurement decision support
• Led and mentored BAs, defined, quality assured and prioritized functional specifications
• Created system architecture diagrams
• Trained internal and external sales teams
Achievements
• Ideation and delivery of a self-service reporting system to support insurance product development and sales evaluation, which reduced ad-hoc reporting requests and provided instant access to data, saving time for various business units
• Simplified a complex insurance agent self-service platform through a strategic review and removal of unused features, that resulted in 70% less technical debt, reduced maintenance burden, and freed up development resources for new features
• Introduced the replacement of the long-term leading property insurance and several others
• Introduced several new mortgage products (implementing application process, repayment calculation, internal and external interfaces, mortgage-related survey questionnaire and other legal and regulatory documents and reporting)
• Introduced over 35 new insurance products (implementing their quotation, premium calculation, internal and external interfaces, insurance policy related survey questionnaire and other legal and regulatory documents, reporting), including car (liability, comprehensive), motorcycle, property, contents, life, critical illness, health, casualty, pet and business asset insurances
• 250+ new software version deployments, 1000+ business requirements delivered
• Measured and delivered significant (4x) performance improvements for the sales system API, reducing average response time by 75%
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