Babak Heydari

Senior Product Manager

Babak Heydari
Vienna, Austria

Experience

Jun 2025 - Present
8 months
Vienna, Austria
Hybrid

IT Project & Product Manager

Wiener Stadt Werke - Wiener Linien

Development and expansion of the drivers' app system, including the mobile app (frontend), system infrastructure (backend), and required interfaces to the various Wiener Linien core systems.

Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
6 months
Hybrid

Senior Product Manager

CRIF Austria

  • Analysis, design, and ongoing development of risk management, scoring, and credit check products in the DACH region (Jira)
  • Functional and technical product documentation (Confluence)
Mar 2014 - Nov 2024
10 years 9 months

Senior IT Manager

UniCredit Services GmbH / Bank Austria

  • Project management of 46 local and global UniCredit initiatives using the waterfall method (HP PPM) in requirements engineering, analysis/design phases, and the agile method (Jira-Kanban/Scrum) in software development phases, quality assurance/testing, release management, and software bug fixing
  • Use of state-of-the-art solutions like cloud technology (MS Azure) in OCR service integration projects (2019, 2020, 2023)
  • Run-the-bank, compliance & regulatory, and security & IT infrastructure initiatives with a focus on digital transformation categories
  • Tactical planning optimization and strategic support for global initiatives
  • Service delivery and security, as well as service availability and support (incident/problem/change/release and configuration management)
  • Portfolio management of 8 applications: financial/vendor management, service availability/support management, solution delivery, and security
  • Setup of a central repository system for internal (core banking) and external (channels) application systems
  • Preprocessing and archiving of European (SEPA) and international/domestic (non-SEPA) payment data formats
  • Project management for the modernization of system infrastructure (digital transformation)
  • Setup of a web-based online payment documentation system including function and service catalog
  • Project and portfolio management for the modernization of the Bank Austria payment system as part of a UniCredit group solution
Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
1 year 4 months

Senior Service Manager, IT Analyst

Brandt Partners – Management Consultants

  • Functional analysis of the current BMW online marketing website and creation of a complete function catalog for company-wide, client-independent use (BMW Group)
  • Requirements/scope management, design, and concept of the new MINI online marketing website for integration into the BMW.digital platform (BMW Group)
Nov 2005 - Oct 2012
7 years

Senior Service Manager, IT Analyst

BAWAG P.S.K.

  • Introduction and integration of marketing initiatives (static and dynamic advertising) into the self-service platform, and implementation of interfaces to analytical (Teradata) and operational (Marketing Manager) CRM systems and other processing systems (multi-channeling)
  • Modernization, further development, and optimization of payment infrastructure, systems, applications, and operational processes
  • Use of multifunction voucher scanner-account statement printers on a platform-independent WSDL–XML basis (Wincor Nixdorf)
  • Decentralized scanning in branches and back-office operations (Reiner, Schifer)
  • Voucher processing system with automatic adjustment, correction, amount matching, and signature verification, as well as interfaces to front/back office applications/services and back-end booking and archiving systems (Navensis, BancTec, SoftPro)
  • Integrated document management system for automatic classification of various documents and forwarding for processing in third-party systems (Navensis, BancTec)
  • End-to-end monitoring and supervision of clients for various products
  • Short- and long-term archiving systems for account statement creation and audit-proof data storage (IBM)
  • Intranet/internet query and complaint management system with interface to easyBank's eBanking system (Active Solution)
  • SEPA introduction: business logic, document types, and processing rules in payment and voucher processing systems (Navensis, Schifer)
  • SWIFT infrastructure modernization, outsourcing of infrastructure, operations, and services, and connecting the service desk to internal routing and third-party systems (Vocalink, BBP)
  • Modernization and further development of Western Union infrastructure, operations, and services, payment processing, and reconciliation (Western Union, Unisys)
Apr 2004 - Oct 2005
1 year 7 months

Project Manager

Braintribe Technologies GMBH

  • Implementation of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) projects in the financial services sector
  • Management and coordination of project tasks with clients and project partners
  • Coordination of project requirements with product and release management
  • Design and delivery of ECM solutions for large customers (UNIQA, IBM, Raiffeisen Informatik)
Apr 2003 - Mar 2004
1 year

Head of Development

bwin.com

  • Multi-project management of internal and external software projects
  • Reengineering internal software products, building and structuring an IT framework
  • Defining and introducing workflow standards
  • Designing and planning to standardize complex components
  • Client/server architecture design and corporate design of web applications
  • Re-/engineering development processes (requirements management, development, configuration/change management, rollout)
  • Reorganizing IT and marketing projects and establishing workflow standards
  • Personnel and staff management as well as service-oriented restructuring and reorganization of IT development teams
Sep 2002 - Mar 2003
7 months

IT Consultant

IT Consultant

  • IT consulting, software engineering and development, training and workshops
Apr 1999 - Aug 2002
3 years 5 months

Project Manager

Anite Consulting GMBH, GMO

  • Defining, analyzing and designing software development projects as well as managing, implementing and training
  • Developing and deploying a company intranet portal including a content management system
  • Modernizing and further developing the financial tech product for ASFINAG
  • Developing an internet/intranet application for the internal administration of operating instructions for ÖBB
  • Developing the new Austrian telephone directory, roaming system and preselection system for Telekom Austria
Oct 1997 - Mar 1999
1 year 6 months

Project Manager

Management Data GMBH, SmartStream

  • Modernizing and redesigning financial technology products (ARES CS)
Oct 1994 - Sep 1997
3 years

Software Engineer

Municipal Hospital Association of Vienna

  • Modernization and redevelopment of the hospital information system KIS for the Austrian public service (KAV-ADV)
Jan 1989 - Dec 1993
5 years

Software Engineer

SIEMENS Austria

  • Programming and system development in the Transdata product environment (1989 and 1990 as a summer intern, June–October 1993 as an employee)

Skills

  • Project Management (Jira-kanban/scrum, Prince2, Cobit)
  • Requirements Management, Service Designer, And Business Analyst
  • Itil, It Service Management (Itsm)

Languages

Persian
Native
German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Jul 1987 - Apr 1993

TU Vienna

Diploma in Engineering, Computer Science · Computer Science · Vienna, Austria

Jul 1979 - Jun 1987

Primary and middle school

Matura in Mathematics and Physics · Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Certifications & licenses

Jira-Kanban/Scrum ETC

ETC

Scrum Master

BAWAG PSK

SWIFT Services & Infrastructure

SWIFT Austria

IT Process Management

Integrata

IT Service Management

Serview

Internet Technologies

WIFI Vienna

Rational Certified Consultant

Rational University Austria

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