Janos Ver - Director

Budapest, Hungary

Experience

Oct 2024 - Present

1 year 4 months

Budapest, Hungary

Director

Supver Informatikai Kft

Oct 2024 - Feb 2025

5 months

Budapest, Hungary

Delivery Management Consultant

ArrivaBus Kft

Led a Depot Management System introduction project (part of the Zero Emission Vehicle programme) for a fleet of 80+ fully electric buses serving Budapest's public transportation network from 2026 in late preparations phase
Evaluated tenders and negotiated contracts with potential vendors for physical charging infrastructure, Charge Management Systems and user facing FrontEnd solutions and Depot Management System to reduce IT risks, uncover key limitations and highlight potential future hidden costs
Facilitated planning of direct data exchange with Public Transport Authority (BKK) to get better data quality and improve operational efficiency
Researched the potential implementation of public and private 3rd party electric vehicle charging solutions and prepared materials that increased shared understanding and assisted with selecting the appropriate vendors
Conducted a thorough assessment of key business processes that uncovered parallel work which then was eliminated by changing the processes and improved cross-department collaboration
Developed a project timeline and introduced regular reviews to drive the introduction of a bespoke traffic scheduling system forward (1 PO, 3 SMEs, 1 IT expert, 6 trainees)

Jul 2022 - Sep 2023

1 year 3 months

Product Management Consultant

Vodafone Group Services GmbH

Engaged to improve service request delivery originating from internal and 3rd party customers, and improve the Container as a Service (CaaS) offering
Provided agile coaching for 6 infrastructure teams (CaaS, API Gateway and Developer Portal) with 30+ DevOps engineers, 4 Scrum Masters, 5 architects, 3 Technical Product Owners and a Service Lifecycle Manager
Reduced the average service request resolution time from 135 days to 36 days (73% reduction) within 3 months, increasing tenant satisfaction and operational efficiency
Developed and successfully introduced a bespoke framework to re-allocate resource and service costs to drive budgeting
Implemented new data-driven dashboards to improve transparency, fostered agile ways of working (Kanban, Scrum) that streamlined workflows and boosted efficiency
Developed governance and service overview dashboards to provide KPIs for the team and managers to focus on and insights for customers to make operations more transparent
Developed an escalation feature using JIRA automation, MS Power Automate and MS Forms to standardize the process, ensure all escalations were logged and generate automatic notifications improving response time.

Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

6 months

Product Management Consultant

Calero-MDSL

Engaged to build a B2B Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) product in the introduction phase that provides visibility, optimization and overall technology expense management
Collaborated with sales and marketing to reduce friction and spread understanding of the product capabilities and values
Tripled customer base in 6 months by implementing highly relevant features
Established clear goals and priorities, increasing team efficiency
Translated the product strategy into a detailed roadmap and development backlog, leading to the successful launch of new features

Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

1 year 7 months

London, United Kingdom

Delivery Management Consultant

Toyota Connected Europe

Engaged to lead two globally distributed backend data development teams building microservice architecture IoT solutions to collect, process and enrich vehicle data and APIs to make it available for car owners and to generate highly relevant sales leads
Managed and prioritized the product backlog
Planned and ran high-level requirement workshops and documented solution architecture
Facilitated requirement refinement, estimation, sprint planning and retrospective sessions
Analysed various interface specifications
Liaised with a large number of stakeholders and vendors within and outside of Toyota group
Delivered a greenfield solution for collecting and processing vehicle telemetry data, managing the entire device lifecycle and complying with privacy regulations
Delivered a greenfield data pipeline for processing vehicle telemetry data, integrating various internal systems to enhance data and comply with GDPR
Created APIs to generate highly relevant sales leads and make them available for Toyota dealerships
Introduced team morale-boosting and stakeholder trust-building video demos
Coached the team in Scrum and helped resolve roadblocks
Iteratively improved processes and working practices to deliver faster
Created project health reporting and forecasting

Dec 2019 - Jul 2024

4 years 8 months

London Colney, United Kingdom

Director

Supver Ltd

Jan 2017 - Nov 2019

2 years 11 months

London, United Kingdom

Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst

Trainline

Participated in leadership team for web development squads (30+ developers) delivering a major re-platforming programme, transitioning the previous monolith system into microservices architecture
Achieved PCI compliance re-certification and increased application security
Re-platformed web booking flow to enable serving UK and International offers from 220 rail and coach carriers on a Single Global Platform
Facilitated requirement refinement, estimation, sprint planning and retrospective sessions
Created a bespoke release burndown chart to support resourcing, scope decisions and communicate on progress
Liaised daily with backend teams to ensure their backlog priorities supported achieving frontend milestones without disrupting dependencies
Conducted extensive as is analysis on the legacy UK and EU websites
Wrote and quality assured epics and user stories using BDD approach
Prepared, managed and prioritized the product backlog
Problem solved throughout discovery sessions, workshops and 3 amigo sessions
Set up custom JIRA workflows, fields, boards, migrated projects and provided JIRA training for the team
Spoke at the internal tech summit about successful requirement analysis approach

Sep 2011 - Dec 2016

5 years 4 months

Lead Business Analyst

EPAM Systems

Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA): Development and launch of a greenfield, bespoke pricing system which increased the number of revenue-managed destinations tenfold (20 → 200+) and calculated 140M+ hotel prices every 24 hours using near-real-time booking and inventory data
Thomson Reuters: Discovery phase of a major overhaul programme for EndNote reference management software
Affinitext: Created long-term roadmap and product strategy
Ryanair: Opportunity backlog review
Helped grow EPAM UK Business Analyst practice by assessing external Business Analyst job applicants and internal mobility candidates

Aug 2006 - Sep 2011

5 years 2 months

Budapest, Hungary

Software Development Team Lead

AEGON Hungary

Managed the software development lifecycle of all sales support systems, including insurance quotation systems, mortgage application and repayments calculation APIs, insurance agent self-service web platform, insurance and pension customer support and self-service web systems
Represented the engineering department at external meetings with business partners (banks, brokers, software vendors, subsidiaries)
Led 12 software developers and 3 BAs supporting insurance sales systems
Managed third-party software vendors and procurement decision support
Led and mentored BAs, defined, quality assured and prioritized functional specifications
Created system architecture diagrams
Trained internal and external sales teams
Ideated and delivered a self-service reporting system to support insurance product development and sales evaluation, reducing ad-hoc reporting requests and providing instant access to data
Simplified a complex insurance agent self-service platform through strategic review and removal of unused features, resulting in 70% less technical debt and reduced maintenance burden
Introduced replacement of the long-term leading property insurance
Introduced several new mortgage products and over 35 new insurance products
Achieved 250+ new software version deployments and delivered 1000+ business requirements
Measured and delivered significant (4x) performance improvements for the sales system API, reducing average response time by 75%

Summary

Results-driven professional with over 18 years of experience in digital product development and project leadership across diverse industries like automotive, transport, hospitality, telecommunications and insurance.
Proven ability to set up high-performing teams, manage dependencies, risks and optimize resources, leading to successful deliveries of bespoke solutions, including solutions for infrastructure, connected mobility services, e-commerce, revenue management and reporting, insurance quotation API and policy management

Skills

Certified Scrum Product Owner
Certified Scrum Master
Certified Less Practitioner
Dual Track Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Jira
Confluence
Trello
Azure Devops
Iot
Pendo
Balsamiq
Miro
Draw.io
Aws
Azure
Restful Apis
Postman
Swagger
Ms 365 Suite
Sql

Languages

Hungarian

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2003 - Jun 2006

Óbuda University

Bachelor of Science, Engineering manager · Engineering manager · Budapest, Hungary

Certifications & licenses

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Amazon Web Services

Certified LeSS Practitioner

Craig Larman

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance

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