Business Transformation Consultant / Senior Project Manager

With a strong background in transformation management and project management, I possess a wealth of experience in leading significant digital initiatives and fostering effective change in various types of organizations and environments.

Employment History

2025: NOTINO Business Transformation Consultant

Supporting the company transformation team, redefining the company transformation initiative and ensuring the transformation serves as a tool to support individual business owners in accomplishing the changes necessary to accomplish the goals set in company’s vision and mission statements. The main value delivered was a transformation framework enabling team engagement and business ownership with reinvigorated functional management.

2022-24: GasNet Business Transformation Consultant

Leading a team of consultants and internal business architects creating the Target concept of Asset management and maintenance in GasNet (a 5-10 years vision), the largest Czech Gas distribution company covering 80% of the Czech Republic area with 65.000 km of gas pipelines approved by its Board of Directors in March 2024 and laying foundations of its company-wide program Digital transformation of the distribution network. The main value delivered when the product is ready is a consistent asset register with all context data available and well interpreted.

2020-22: CETIN Senior Project Manager

A newly established CETIN TV team struggling to deliver its end-product including constant scope changes and unrealistic timing. Driving conceptual changes in the delivery process, finding weak spots and finding a remedy. Reporting to all stakeholders and coordination of project managers and product owners. The main value delivered was a successful CETIN TV First Office Application in Serbia (current Yettel TV).

2019-2020: Nordic Telecom Transformation Manager

Leading the company transformation initiative, redefining the company structure, and goals and bringing a new operational model into life through many pilot projects creating an exciting aligned online working culture distributed into regions using common processes. The main value delivered was a step-by-step execution plan for each area.

2016-19: T-Mobile Czech Republic Senior Project Manager

1. A failed strategic intra-Deutsche Telecom Group project was turned around: a buy-in from the Czech team was acquired in weeks, and an excellent execution was organised with an international team based in Greece. The main value for the shareholders was outsourcing mail systems to one location, which was accomplished by closing this project.

2. Coordination and management of the company-wide project

2014-15: O2 Czech Republic Business Transformation Consultant

A high-profile project to completely separate the infrastructure business as a new company. The main value brought to the owner was splitting the current integrated incumbent telco operator O2 Czech Republic into a ComCo (Commercial Company) and into an Infrastructure company (Network Company/named “CETIN” - www.cetin.cz). The separation has been approved by the regulator, by the financing banks as well as shareholders in 9 months all accomplished within this project.

1999-2014: Other Experiences including Telco Operators and Telco Vendors

2009 - Turnaround Manager for Nokia Siemens Networks successfully helped to re-start implementation of ngHLR in T-Mobile Czech Republic
2008 - Transformation Program Manager for GTS Czech successfully planned and launched 3 strategic projects.
2007 - Business Transformation Manager at Ministry of Transport in CZ transforming the tasks within the ministry into projects and report them to the government office.
2006 - New Product Introduction Manager for Nippon Ericsson successfully launched 5 new products on Japanese Telco market (1 year in Japan)

Education

1993-99: Master of Arts, Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, English and American Studies /interdisciplinary program combining language/linguistics and social sciences and cultural studies (Brno, the Czech Republic)

1991-92: Graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, U.S.A.

Certifications & Courses

PMP® certified since 2010, PMP Number: 1332058, member since 2009

PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate 2017, License GR656044738OS

PRINCE2® Practitioner 2017 Certificate, License GR657026740OS