Keywords
Product Management
Automotive Industry
Telecommunications
DevOps
Hospitality
Insurance Management and Aftercare
Project Management
Product Design
Stakeholder Management
Kanban
Skills
Experienced consultant providing product management and delivery management services. Previously helping companies like Toyota, Trainline, EPAM Systems, Aegon, Thomson Reuters, Michelin, Vodafone and more.
Janos has built amazing software products, some of those from scratch (like a web booking flow or a pricing engine), some others he helped making better. He has solid experience in digital product development and project leadership across automotive, transport, hospitality, telecommunication and insurance industries. He knows how to work with business stakeholders, architects, designers, software and DevOps engineers co-located, distributed or remotely, apply dual-track agile, scrum and kanban in practice.
Janos has built amazing software products, some of those from scratch (like a web booking flow or a pricing engine), some others he helped making better. He has solid experience in digital product development and project leadership across automotive, transport, hospitality, telecommunication and insurance industries. He knows how to work with business stakeholders, architects, designers, software and DevOps engineers co-located, distributed or remotely, apply dual-track agile, scrum and kanban in practice.
Project history
07/2022
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03/2023
Product Management Consultant
Vodafone
(>10.000 employees)
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Supported reorganization, established new boards and ways of working for Container as a Service (CaaS) - 4 infrastructure teams with 20+ DevOps engineers, 2 Scrum Masters, 4 architects, 2 Technical Product Owners and a Service Lifecycle Manager
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Built service overview dashboards to provide KPIs for the team, managers and customers
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35% reduction of average service request turnaround time
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Managed and prioritized the backlog to deliver service requests originating from internal and
3rd party customers and improve and develop the CaaS offering by automation
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Built a framework to re-allocate resource and service costs to drive budgeting
09/2021
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02/2022
Product Management Consultant
Calero-MDSL
(500-1000 employees)
* Built a B2B Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) product in the introduction phase
that provides visibility, optimization and overall technology expense management
* Tripled number of customers
* Executed the product strategy by turning it into a roadmap and a development backlog
* Created and communicated clear goals and a priorities
* Collaborated with sales and marketing to reduce friction and spread understanding of the
product capabilities and values
that provides visibility, optimization and overall technology expense management
* Tripled number of customers
* Executed the product strategy by turning it into a roadmap and a development backlog
* Created and communicated clear goals and a priorities
* Collaborated with sales and marketing to reduce friction and spread understanding of the
product capabilities and values
02/2020
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08/2021
Delivery Management Consultant
Toyota Connected Europe
(>10.000 employees)
* Led two globally distributed backend data development teams building microservice
architecture IoT solutions to collect, process, 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
* Introduced team morale boosting and trust building video demos
* Analysed interface specifications
* Coached the team in Scrum and helped resolving road blocks
* Iteratively improved processes and working practices to deliver faster
* Created project health reporting and forecasting
* Liaised with a large number of stakeholders and vendors within and outside of Toyota group
architecture IoT solutions to collect, process, 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
* Introduced team morale boosting and trust building video demos
* Analysed interface specifications
* Coached the team in Scrum and helped resolving road blocks
* Iteratively improved processes and working practices to deliver faster
* Created project health reporting and forecasting
* Liaised with a large number of stakeholders and vendors within and outside of Toyota group
01/2017
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11/2019
Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst
Trainline
(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
* Problem-solving throughout discovery sessions, workshops and 3 amigo sessions
* Setup custom JIRA workflows, fields, boards, migrated projects, JIRA training for the team
(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
* Problem-solving throughout discovery sessions, workshops and 3 amigo sessions
* Setup custom JIRA workflows, fields, boards, migrated projects, JIRA training for the team
09/2011
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12/2016
Lead Business Analyst
EPAM Systems
Internet and Information Technology
Delivered various projects for Gullivers Travel Associates, Affinitext, Ryanair and Thomson Reuters
11/2008
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09/2011
Software Development Team Lead
AEGON Hungary
Insurance
08/2006
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11/2008
Junior Business Analyst
AEGON Hungary
Insurance
04/2005
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06/2006
Graduate Business Process Analyst
Michelin Hungary
Certifications
Local Availability
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