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Nenad Vlaski
Project Management Replacement of Legacy System with Cloud Solution
Experience
Jun 2025 - Dec 2025
7 monthsGermany
Project Manager Replacement of Legacy System with Cloud Solution
Vlaski Consulting
- Project management at a financial service provider, correcting the project approach, realigning the project including a new project organization to achieve project success.
- Operational management of the project
- Conducting workshops to identify project obstacles
- Creating operational transparency based on numbers/data/facts
- Developing a methodology to ensure project success
- Securing the executive board's decision in the steering committee for the new project approach
- Project planning (time, resources, milestones, budget)
- Full project responsibility (accountability for results)
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
6 monthsGermany
Subproject Lead Cloud Migration
Vlaski Consulting
- Project management at a financial service provider, analysis and feasibility study for migrating on-premise legacy business applications to a modern cloud environment using the lift-and-shift method.
- Operational management of the project
- Project planning (time, resources, milestones, etc.)
- Conducting a technical POC
- Conducting a functional POC
- Securing decisions at the project level; escalating if necessary
- Reporting to internal responsible parties: program management/steering committee/project board
- Budget responsibility at the project level
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
1 year 8 monthsGermany
Interim IT Manager - Project Lead Cloud Migration
Vlaski Consulting
- Disciplinary and functional leadership of 20 IT employees.
- Direct reporting line to executive management and the investor.
- Reorganizing and optimizing processes in software development (C#, Python, Java).
- Sustainable improvement of software quality by introducing quality gates (pull requests and pair programming).
- Restructuring custom software from monolithic to microservices.
- Increasing development speed by introducing automation (CI/CD).
- Operational management of the cloud migration.
- Migrating a market-leading AI-based monolithic on-premise platform for the music industry to Google Cloud (GCP).
- Project planning (time, resources, milestones, etc.).
- Securing decisions at the project level; escalating if necessary.
- Reporting to internal responsible parties: program management/steering committee/project board.
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 9 monthsGermany
Consulting Test Concept and Test Automation for Document System
Vlaski Consulting
- The central bank uses the document management system from OpenText and, as part of a project, this system is to be set up on a new infrastructure, updated to the standard software, and upgraded to the current version 24.1.
- Conceptual consulting for test automation.
- Conceptual groundwork for load and performance tests.
- Reviewing the test concept.
Jan 2022 - Dec 2025
4 yearsHeilbronn, Germany
Founder
Vlaski Consulting
- Project management, interim management, consulting, and coaching in the context of complex, strategic, and/or critical IT projects.
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 4 monthsGermany
Project Lead for Migration of Document System from On-Premises to MS Azure
Vlaski Consulting
- Project management at a finance service provider, migrating the on-premises CRM and DMS landscape to a modern cloud environment using SAP C4C, SAP PI/XI, and OpenText xECM.
- Operational management of the project.
- Project planning (time, resources, milestones, etc.).
- Driving decisions at the project level; escalating when necessary.
- Reporting to internal responsible program management/steering committee/project board.
- Budget responsibility at the project level.
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 9 monthsGermany
CEO, COO, Managing Director
ROQQIO Commerce Cloud GmbH (REMIRA)
- Full responsibility for ROQQIO Commerce Cloud GmbH.
- Direct responsibility for the following business areas with over 45 employees: Development, Customer Onboarding and Consulting Department (Projects & Configuration), Solution Design (Consulting), Support, Cloud Infrastructure, Office Management.
- Development (PHP, Java).
- Transformation of software development to agile methods.
- Introduction of 3-tier architecture.
- Establishment of quality gates (DEV tests, SIT, UAT).
- Establishment of software automation (CI/CD).
- Introduction of technical requirements management.
- Responsibility for strategic corporate development and building market position.
- Strategic, operational, and commercial management of the Operating division in the ROQQIO group.
- Direct responsibility for 84 employees.
Sep 2014 - Mar 2020
5 years 7 monthsWiesloch, Germany
Head of IT Project Management and Functional Management
MLP Finanzberatung SE
- Responsible both technically and disciplinarily for two organizational units with a total of 10 internal and about 20 external employees.
- Overall program management for the two major projects BudgetGuide (PgF) and product selection.
- Management of a total of 100 project staff, total budget > EUR 15 million, program duration of 1.5 years, direct reporting to the board.
- Program management in the "IT Vision 2022" - restructuring of the entire IT area from a classic to an agile organization and migration from on-premise to cloud services.
- Served on the strategic and tactical decision-making committee with the Head of IT and the board.
Oct 2008 - Sep 2014
6 yearsFrankfurt am Main, Germany
Senior Manager Financial Services
BearingPoint GmbH
- Solution leader for core banking and payments.
- Workstream lead for test planning and test control in retail banking for the harmonization release during a major bank merger in Frankfurt am Main.
- Management responsibility for eight work packages with around 250 employees.
- Subproject portfolio responsibility in IT, including group business unit planning for a public-sector bank.
- Planning responsibility for 3,500 IT workdays.
Aug 2003 - Oct 2008
5 years 3 monthsEttlingen, Germany
Senior Consultant and Acting Team Lead Payments
entory AG, Deutsche Börse Group
- Responsible for payment run at a leading automotive bank.
Jan 2003 - Aug 2003
8 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Chief Information Security Officer (acting) – Freelance Management Consultant
mg technologies AG
- Project lead for implementing a global VPN.
Aug 2001 - Jan 2003
1 year 6 monthsMannheim, Germany
Senior System Engineer (Security), Strategic Security Consulting
it´ Services and Solutions
- Building and expanding an IT security team.
Aug 1998 - Jul 2001
3 yearsHeilbronn, Germany
Account Manager, Security
IntegralisCentaur GmbH
- Accounting, key account management, presales, project management, consulting.
Oct 1996 - Jul 1998
1 year 10 monthsSaarbrücken, Germany
Diploma in Business Informatics (FH)
FH Saarbrücken
- Thesis topic: Neural network applications in visual and acoustic peripherals.
Sep 1993 - Jul 1996
2 years 11 monthsHeilbronn, Germany
Physical Engineering (pre-diploma)
FH Heilbronn
Sep 1987 - Jun 1993
5 years 10 monthsSchwäbisch Hall, Germany
Apprenticeship as an electrician
Vocational-Technical College
Skills
- Prince2 Project Management
- Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Devops And Hybrid
- Bearingpoint Delivery Framework (Based On Prince2 And Pmi)
- Bearingpoint Tmf (Test Management Framework Based On Istqb)
- Leading And Managing Software Development Teams
- Personnel Responsibility And Leadership Of Employees As Well As Direct Functional And Disciplinary Leadership Of Managers
- Establishing And Expanding Organizational Units Considering Strategic, Operational, And Commercial Requirements
- Strategic, Operational, And Commercial Corporate Management
- Corporate Planning Including Financial, Personnel, And Investment Planning
- Strategic Alignment
- Planning And Coordinating Complex Large-scale Projects (Major Bank Mergers, Test And Release Planning, Sepa Direct Debit)
Languages
German
NativeCroatian
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 1996 - Jul 1998
FH Saarbrücken
Diploma in Business Informatics (FH), thesis topic: neural network applications in visual and audio peripherals · Business Informatics · Saarbrücken, Germany · 1.2
Sep 1993 - Jul 1996
FH Heilbronn
Pre-Diploma · Physical Engineering · Heilbronn, Germany
Sep 1987 - Jun 1993
Berufskolleg Gewerblich-Technisch
Training as an electrician · Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
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