Vladislav Cech

Experience

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  Clark NetProject, s.r.o.

  Jan 1999 - Dec 2000

  Network Administrator

  My first job, while still at the university, was with a Czech startup company, a leader in online advertising. As a Network Administrator and Webmaster in one, I took care of company servers, web servers, and workstations - supporting users. I was also facing our customers, coordinating various internet projects.

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  Computer Press

  Jan 2001 - Feb 2006

  Senior Systems Administrator

  Having experience with IT, I have joined this established Czech media house to take care of both internal, and customer facing infrastructure systems. Soon after, I was promoted to a senior role of a Senior Systems Administrator. I was managing around 50 Windows Servers, including mission critical customer facing systems – at the time famous sites vltava.cz (top Czech books e-shop), zive.cz (leading IT news site), hyperlink.cz (leading free webhosting platform). The server management included deployment, architecture, troubleshooting, hardware support, including networking (firewall, VPN), webservers, company communication solutions.One of the big successful projects of our team was an upgrade of Microsoft Exchange and also Active Directory services at the same time, while minimizing disruption to the users. Show less

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  IBM

  Feb 2006 - Oct 2008

  OpenVMS Specialist

  Attracted by the big name, I have joined IBM, and got assigned to a new team which started learning OpenVMS from scratch. We went live only in 3 months, taking over 1st and 2nd level support of IBM’s customer systems – and it was a success.One year later I was promoted to a “Focal point” role, effectively leading our multicultural team of 12 people, hosting team meetings, evaluating performance, acting as a point of contact for our line manager and 3rd level specialists.

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  Xura (formerly Acision)

  Nov 2008 - May 2016

  Senior ICT Specialist, ICT Service&Process Manager

  With Acision company, I was hired as OpenVMS/Unix specialist. Thanks to my Microsoft Server platform background, my role expanded into high-level Windows Server infrastructure. During 2010 I was working for one year with Acision USA in Texas, managing the USA headquarters and data center besides global projects. In the next years, my role kept dynamically evolving. In 2012 I was on the team that implemented ServiceNow to replace our old ITSM tool with an impossible deadline of one month to go Live. This included redesigning the processes, and going from in-the-house app into the cloud SaaS solution. We made it. One of my project lead achievements in 2014 was optimization of our core datacenter, reducing the footprint and cost by 20%, increasing utilization to 97%. When we decided to re-align the ICT department to a service delivery model in 2014, I was the key person of the transformation, being promoted to ICT Service&Process Manager. I have redesigned the Service Catalog and processes, created new ones, aligned our ITSM tool ServiceNow to reflect the changes.In 2015, when the two companies Comverse and Acision were merging into one, named Xura, I was the technical leader delivering the project of email integration to support the new email addresses starting from Day One. Delivered on time and budget – made the business (our customer) happy. Show less

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  System4u

  Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

  Senior EMM Specialist

  Joined the Czech leader in Enterprise Mobility Management. Helping enterprises find the way in today's mobile-first world. Providing solutions to manage the ever-growing needs of mobility, diverse mobile device portfolios (including people bringing in their own devices), while staying on top of security. The core of my work was VMware AirWatch suite, the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2016 winner in EMM segment. I have deployed (end-to-end) AirWatch mobility solutions for three happy customers - diverse environments and mobile platforms. Show less

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  Freelancer/Contractor

  Apr 2017 - Nov 2020

  Lead IT Specialist

  Long-term contract as a Lead Microsoft SQL Specialist for a large Finnish IT company Tieto (www.tieto.com). In the beginning of this assignment I was leading several small teams in a large scale transition project, each of them mapping and documenting (both process-wise and technical) applications of our customer, a large Nordic bank. Now we are taking care of these applications in continuous service mode. Also, I have coordinated the GDPR compliance for the whole department.

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  Tietoevry

  Dec 2020 - now

  Lead Solutions Consultant

  Switched from external contract role into internal employee. Forming up a new team which designs and manages MS SQL and IIS solutions on Public Clouds, as a part of Application Operations in TietoEVRY company.