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Nenad Vlaski

Project Management Replacement of Legacy System with Cloud Solution

Nenad Vlaski
Heilbronn, Germany

Experience

Jun 2025 - Dec 2025
7 months
Germany

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 months
Germany

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 months
Germany

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 months
Germany

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 years
Heilbronn, 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 months
Germany

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 months
Germany

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 months
Wiesloch, 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 years
Frankfurt 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 months
Ettlingen, 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 months
Frankfurt, 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 months
Mannheim, Germany

Senior System Engineer (Security), Strategic Security Consulting

it´ Services and Solutions

  • Building and expanding an IT security team.
Aug 1998 - Jul 2001
3 years
Heilbronn, Germany

Account Manager, Security

IntegralisCentaur GmbH

  • Accounting, key account management, presales, project management, consulting.
Oct 1996 - Jul 1998
1 year 10 months
Saarbrücken, 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 months
Heilbronn, Germany

Physical Engineering (pre-diploma)

FH Heilbronn

Sep 1987 - Jun 1993
5 years 10 months
Schwäbisch 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
Native
Croatian
Native
English
Advanced

Education

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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