Location
PolandRate
Years of experience
12+About
I am an accomplished Product Owner and business analyst with an MSc in Professional Communication and an MBA in Information Technology Systems. With over eight years of extensive experience, I have excelled in roles ranging from developer to CTO, and I have co-founded three startups in software development and IoT/automation. My career has been marked by a strong focus on maximizing Return on Investment across various business domains, where I have successfully led cross-functional teams to deliver outstanding results. Proficient in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, I bring a versatile skill set that includes BABOK and ITIL frameworks to manage comprehensive business solutions. At UBS, I currently lead a team as an Associate Director, focusing on product development and process transformation within the digitalization landscape. My role involves strategic framework creation, coaching Scrum Masters, and acting as an internal consultant to spearhead innovation. My professional journey is underpinned by a passion for technology integration and process excellence, which has driven significant business transformations in each of my engagements.Tech Stack
Product Owner, Agile, Git, Jira, SQLExperience
- Product Ownership and Management: Oversee product development and lifecycle management, ensuring alignment with business goals and adherence to the Scrum framework for efficient delivery.
- Process Transformation Leadership: Lead the process transformation team, managing a team of seven in Poland, and spearheading initiatives to streamline and digitalize business processes.
- Business Analysis and Requirement Gathering: Perform complex analysis to align technology solutions with business requirements, establish business analysis activities, and deliver detailed requirement specifications for various projects.
- Project and Delivery Management: Manage end-to-end project delivery, including setting up business analysis deliverables, driving User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality projects.
- Team Leadership and Mentoring: Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, including business analysts and Scrum Masters, fostering a collaborative environment and ensuring team members are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge.
- Stakeholder Communication and Reporting: Engage with stakeholders at all levels to gather requirements, provide meaningful IT reports, and ensure transparent communication regarding project progress and deliverables.
- Technical Consulting and Solution Design: Serve as an internal consultant for process transformation and digitalization, evaluate high-level solution designs, and provide technical guidance for the development of automation projects and internal applications.
Employment history
-Responsible for performing highly complex analysis to match technology, requirements and business options
– Setting up Business Analysis Activities to be performed by all the BAs in the project
– Setting up Business Analysis deliverables for each phase of the project
– Driving UAT activities from The Business Analysis side and Tech side.
– High-level evaluation of solution design with Technical team
– Leading end-to-end discovery of Automation Projects
– Acting as Resource Manager for a team of 5 BAs
– Acting as the Delivery Manager for highly profitable projects with 10 people in the project team
– Leading the Dev Team to deliver the RPA Project
– Creation of artifact templates for project usage Backlog management and requirement elicitation end-to-end
– Mentoring of other BAs in the unit and outside the unit
Primary computer skills used: Agile, Prince2, EXCEL, GitHub, COBIT, ITIL, JIRA and
Confluence.
– Driving end-to-end scope definition activities for requirement gathering
– Responsible for Requirement and system roadmap
– Product Owner of internal applications
– Roadmap creation, Backlog management and Ownership of the application end-2-end.
– Providing meaningful IT Reports directly to Business Partners onshore
– Sole responsible for the prioritization and backlog management of internal tools
– Working focused on CRS and FATCA Global Standards
– Creation of epics and user stories for several applications within the HSBC group
– Proposing solutions to improve data quality in HSBC Bermuda
– Looking after data quality in HSBC Bermuda
– Creation of advanced macros
Primary computer skills used: Prince2, EXCEL, GitHub, COBIT, ITIL, JIRA and Confluence.
– Responsible for data extraction and manipulation for report generation
– Generating results via Business Presentation of data collected through various systems
– Acting as an IT Stream Leader to analyze risk dependencies across multiple projects
– Creation of Macros to speed up data extraction activities
– Reporting monthly metrics to stakeholders
– Managing and controlling a portfolio of project
– Verifying changes within the portfolio to comply with the best practices
Primary computer skills used: Prince2 and Advanced Excel.
– Responsible for clarifying business needs and convert them to workable requirements
– Recognized as one of the best performers due to high quality of deliverables
– Development of recommendation documents based on IT best practices frameworks
– Process Modelling based on BPMN and Mindmap creating
– Project Management and Risk Management
– Part of the team who created an IT Master Plan with 5 years road map for large enterprises
– Working directly with Business Partners to gather stakeholder’s requirements
– Evaluation of solution implemented for IT asset management tools
Primary computer skills used: COBIT, BPMN, PDCA and Microsoft Project 2013.
– Converting demand to workable items for Dev team
– Performing the UAT phases of behalf of the client due to high knowledge on the domain
– Creation of requirement specification based on workshops and business discussions
– Direct interaction with executives to negotiate project scope and main requirements
– Estimation planning with Tech Team and Project Manager
– Detailed non-functional requirement gathering based on IT input
– Creation of requirements specification
– Direct alignment with the development team
– Continued use of interpersonal skills
– Work based on continuous improvement
Primary computer skill used: ITIL, Business Analysis, PowerPoint, SQL
Education history
MSc Professional Communication
MBA in Information Technology Systems
Bachelor in IT Management