Summary
CTO, independent consultant, and coach with over ten years experience with leading agile software development projects. Having a strong technical background covering almost everything from Oracle databases, programming, software architecture to networking, embedded systems, data security and e-commerce. One of a few managers in Czech Republic who is experimenting and exploring agile and project oriented management techniques and combining them with systemic coaching.
Experience
Independent Software development consultant
Last two years i have spent doing consultancy work at various companies. I wanted to share my knowledge and work in different environments. The biggest highlights were:
AngelCam.com
March 2016 – August 2016 • Prague, Czech Republic
Contracted by a small yet cute start-up company to help them focus more on delivery of customer-oriented changes and improving communication between the development team and the business people. Changing roles based on the needs of the situation, currently being a product owner.
GoodData.com
November 2015 – December 2016 • Prague, Czech Republic
GoodData is the number one in the business intelligence area. I worked closely with the directory of the engineering and the scrummasters to find optimum performance, align business needs with the technical skills of the teams, and improve overal communication within the company.
Next to that, running internal workshops for scrummasters, product owners, and workshops about BDD and agile testing.
DatingFactory
August 2014 – November 2015 • Doneck, Ukraine / Sofia, Bulgaria
Hired by one of the biggest dating white-label platforms to improve internal project management processes, communication, software development quality and prepare company for PCI (payment card industry) Level 1 security audit.
Skills: PCI compliance, BDD & TDD, agile, scrum, continuous integration, data security
Past Jobs:
CTO / Verotel Merchant Services
August 2004 – September 2015 • Prague, Czech Republic
Responsible for all technical operations at the e-commerce provider. CTO at well-known payment processing provider. Managing director of its daughter company Netsafe Solutions, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Facilitating the role of CSO (Chief Security Officer), PCI Level 1, cooperating with several acquiring banks (Wirecard, Payvision, Equens)
Created an environment of self-organized teams of software developers, continuously improving their skills and product by applying lean and cybernetic principles.
Skills: PCI compliance, test driven development, lean, agile, kanban, continuous integration, coaching of staff
IT and security consultant
September 2002 – August 2004 (2 years ) • Prague, Czech Republic
Running own IT consultancy office. Primary focus on the database administration, data model design, network security, and DDoS protection.
Skills: Oracle, Data security, Relational databases, Linux / Unix / network administration
Oracle DBA / Verza BV
August 2000 – August 2002 (2 years ) • Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Oracle DBA, fully responsible for management of the production databases of the payment system provider. Multi-master replica environment, Oracle RAC clusters.
Skills: Oracle administration, data model design, PL/SQL, Perl
C Software Developer / Datalink BV
August 1998 – August 2000 (2 years ) • Haarlem, Noord Holland
Programmer in C / embedded SQL / ODBC. Working on the project of resolving Y2K problem of a large EDI (electronic data interchange) system.
Skills: C, SQL, ODBC, Linux
Education
Systemic Institute
Systemic coaching and management
2011 – present (unfinished/interrupted)
training in management and systemic coaching of individuals, teams, and organizations
SPŠST Panská 3, Prague
Telecommunication
1991 – 1995
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
July 2009
Certified Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
August 2011
Agile Coaching Master Class
Scrum Alliance
July 2011
Lean Software Development
Tom and Mary Poppendieck
October 2011
Workshop about understanding lean principles and ideas behind lean and agile software development.
Specification by Example
Gojko Adzic
March 2014
Workshop on agile specification, user stories, and automated acceptance testing.
Kanban in action
Klaus Leopold
November 2012
Oracle 11g workshop
Oracle University
June 2010
Oracle APEX
Oracle University
June 2009
Oracle DBA / PL/SQL / HP Unix
Oracle Czech
1995
Personal profile
I am a solution oriented person, using lean principles for continuous improvement of products, services, and work processes in organizations. As I worked on projects I have identified number good and bad patterns that are common to the software development process. I have been always trying to emphasize the good processes within the teams and find solutions to the problematic ones. As many problems were quite often present in communication between the business and software people I have focused on that area, bridging this communication gap and later making people more competent to carry out proper communication by themselves.
Hobbies
Horsemanship
I am running a horse riding school for children with my wife. This activity occupies most of my spare time. The manual work and thinking about completely different non-IT world serves me as a real source of energy. http://www.rkrisuty.cz/
Boat building
I am a semi-amateur boat builder. Using the lean and project oriented work management made it possible for me to build several boats, from award winning composite seakayaks to 18m long alive-aboard barge. http://www.proteak-kayaks.com/
Embedded devices
I am also a big fan of hardware design and software development of embedded devices, especially in the area of electronic musical instruments.
