Jakub Simkovic

Experience

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  INNO Slovakia

  Jan 2015 - Apr 2017

  Developer & E-Commerce Manager

  - Developed and supported maintenance of e-shops with goal of meeting clients KPIs- Managed e-shop catalogues and marketing strategies for e-commerce clients- Worked as developer on 2 commerce products: autoPub and autoCloud

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  KPMG

  Dec 2015 - Jul 2016

  WebSite Redesign

  https://home.kpmg.com/sk/sk/home.html

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  Accenture

  May 2017 - Sept 2019

  Senior Business Analyst

  In Accenture, I have covered following roles:- Senior Business Analyst- Training Lead- Incident Manager- Release ManagerIn my roles, I have covered following areas:- Analyzed specific work flows using UML to come with improvement proposals- Worked on documentation of designed components- Evaluated consistency and importance of different business intelligence data against needs to determine optimal courses of action- Assigned as Training Lead for major project, creating training manuals and organizing training sessions for 30+ client stakeholders on how to use delivered software- Bridging Project Management / Client Teams and their requirements, with Technical Teams and their views- Worked on case study and market research, serving as base for setting up new affiliate of Accenture in Slovakia (Kosice)Clients were from Banking and CMT Industry. Show less

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  Hays

  Sept 2019 - May 2021

  IT Consultant

  Providing management consulting services to Telco Corporate Client in Vienna, as free-lancer company Simkovic Consulting s.r.o. in cooperation with Hays.For the client, I have covered following roles:- Technical Project Manager- Release ManagerIn my roles, I have covered following areas:- Coordinated development, architecture and testing teams in process of project delivery- Being in contact with client or their business teams, to align on project delivery status, planning, changes, potential risks or issues, with main goal of building strong relationships beside the delivery- Responsible for internal budget and time plan creation, management, update and regular reporting towards variety of teams- Empowered 20+ project teams for 5+ major projects in both Agile and Waterfall environments, covering all phases of project lifecycle- Led major migration project with scope of 500 000+ customers migrated to new switch- Organized and coordinated 10+ project go-lives including multiple-days long executions, done continually days & nights- Defined and supported adoption of Release Management Agile process, including definition of roles, timeliness, reports and partial automation, in order to align Austrian affiliate with global processes- Coordinated all delivery streams in matter of deployment & release schedule to ensure smooth conflict-less deliveries Show less

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  A1 Digital

  Nov 2021 - now

  Platform Program Release Manager