Tomasz Konopka

Experience

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  Polkomtel Sp. z o. o.

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Data Architect (BI)
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  Orange Polska

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2018

  Business Analyst, Solution Architect

  Gathered and specified business requirements. Conducted workshops with business stakeholders and developers- Elaborated business (feasibility studies, requirements' analysis) and technical (High Level Design) solutions- Implemented new products, offers- application development

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  T-Mobile Polska

  Apr 2018 - Jan 2020

  Technical Project Manager, Product Owner

  Ran and coordinated projects from early stages (feasibility studies) through design, tests till implementations and production support for central product catalogue (CPC) in the telecom.Solution Architect, Technical Project Manager @ FastTrack Section- business and technical analysis- provided solution design - described changes in systems and assisted technical implementations- planned and run projects- allocated team members for the project (2-7 members), supervised and approved their work- maintained relationships with vendors - RFP, was accountable for delivery, work and cost approvals. Thanks to my analytical skills, written specifications and cooperation with internal developers in the company I saved ~30% of the project budgetProduct Owner - developed Central Product Catalog and gatheredand elaborated business rules engine for telecommunication company- run day by day activities, sprints planning, demos and reviews based on Scrum Methodology Show less

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  ORBA

  Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  E-Commerce IT Project Manager

  Coordinated teams in parallel running projects (2-4). Responsible for allocations, projects planning and managing including scope and work coordination, reporting and budgeting.- Led projects (initiation phase, analysis, design, development) and service management (handling incidents, bug fixing, change requests, work estimations, RFI) in Waterfall, Agile. Learned advanced management in JIRA (automation, plugins - roadmaps, Portfolio, BigGantt) and e-commerce system Magento 2 B2C, B2B (functionalities: shopping cart, checkout, category, product page, administration panel)- Cooperated with external customers: projects’ supervision, reporting, and accounting projects (Time and Material, Fixed Price) Show less

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  Orange Polska

  Aug 2020 - Jul 2022

  Scrum Master (IT Delivery Manager)

  Collaborated with two technical teams, Product Owners, project stakeholders - senior managers, section and chapter leaders. Sourced, planned and coordinated projects for the B2B section.- ensured, facilitated all scrum events took place (daily, planning, review and retrospective); drove and helped to implement improvements after retrospective meetings - tracked, monitored Agile results, reporting metrics, allocations, scopes' realization and budgets at the iterations, project levels- protected the teams from outside interruptions and distractions- responsible for budget and cash flow in B2B section; thanks to raising funds, billing other sections and negotiation skills gained extra budget (>20%) at the end of 2021- Played a role as Delivery Manager – I was responsible for delivery projects’, documentation process - the first point for delivering projects to other departments; allocations; project estimations, schedules, vendors’ collaboration Show less

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  Roche

  Jun 2022 - now

  Scrum Master (IT Delivery Manager)

  Supported and coached an 11 person team (developers, DevOps, testers) as Scrum Master. Cooperated with Product Owners (PO), Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineer (RTE) in Agile Release Train (ART).- Facilitated and ensured all scrum events (daily, planning, review, and retrospective) and workshops took place; drove and helped to implement improvements after retrospective meetings e.g. increased sprint goal delivery by over 270% in a year- Assisted with works’ prioritization, sprint goals and PI objectives definition, helped with Product Backlog management and tracked progress over each quarter to deliver over 85% committed objectives- Strongly collaborated with other 5 teams, tech leaders, RTE and Product Managers in scope and work prioritization; scheduled and optimized delivery process, ways of working (shift left initiative, epic coverage, tech. refinements)- organized and coordinated PI Planning for >40 people - raised about 20% team confidence voting- cooperated with vendors - workers’ allocations, timesheets approvals, contracting and cost settlements Show less