David Mantic
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Prague, Czech Republic
Toptal member since August 25, 2022
David's core beliefs and drive lie in continual learning, execution, and team inclusion while putting a customer at the center. His experience in leading, creating, and evaluating projects from corporate, client, supplier, and student perspectives demonstrate his ability to position himself in multiple roles while wearing various "hats." As a student mentor on different learning platforms, David regularly reviews and studies best practices and emerging concepts.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Project Management
- Facilitation
- Innovation Management
- International Projects
- Mentorship
- Online Tutoring
- Portfolio Management
- Vendors & Suppliers
Work Experience
Project Manager
IBM
- Joined the team as the business consultant, helping with the early stage product development from a scrum master perspective. Later on, I took on a more agile project management-oriented role.
- Performed financial management to help with planning, allocations, monitoring, and overall project management control mechanisms.
- Became certified in change management and applied these skills to our team set-up.
- Engaged in client-facing projects from telco, utility, banking, and medical industries.
Mentor and Lecturer
OpenClassrooms
- Mentored international students from the EMEA region one-on-one basis for the product manager path.
- Received positive reviews for his personalized mentorship approach from students.
- Provided feedback reports regularly as an active member of the mentorship community, which is highly appreciated by the OpenClassrooms staff.
- Taught over 300+ students since the beginning of 2023, as a sessional lecturer.
Mentor
Udacity
- Mentored 120+ students through tenure with Udacity while gaining more than 18 certifications in product management, Agile software development, data science for business leaders, and more.
- Reviewed and marked 200+ student projects in product management, UX, Agile software development, and AI for product managers.
- Listed in the top 30% of mentors within the whole network in 2019.
IT Project Portfolio Manager
ŠKODA AUTO
- Managed to transition into a more project and delivery-oriented role and create tailored project management and delivery methodology for the whole organization unit.
- Established vendor and supplier management practices for the entire organizational unit.
- Led and facilitated various workshops on a design sprint, user interview sessions, and discovery sessions.
- Created a knowledge management foundation for the team and particular projects.
Product Owner
T-Systems International
- Managed and led the software development team to focus on automation using the Hewlett-Packard Operations Orchestration tool.
- Co-established a community of practices within our department to deal with the automation project initiatives for internal clients.
- Volunteered in the event's organization as an active member of our team, including internal and public hackathons.
Freelancer
Corporate Innovation Portal
- Developed a campaign plan called "Move your minds, your body will follow" for Adidas Central and Eastern Europe.
- Delivered a detailed public campaign plan for an insurance company in Slovakia.
- Created the concept for an innovation project of new means of mobile payments in the Slovak banking environment.
Project History
Launch of the Summer Camp for Medical Students
Planned, organized, and launched a summer camp program for medicine students.
This detailed program with the accompanying materials and guidelines still serves the summer camps from 2015.
IT Project Methodology for an Automotive Environment
Co-created an end-to-end IT project management process for the IT department of 1000+ employees.
Mindfulness | IBM
Authored the mindfulness program initiative for IBM Slovakia and its employees.
I followed and applied all stages of the design thinking methodology. The final concept was acquired and implemented at IBM Slovakia and its employees.
Education
Master's Degree in Finance, Banking and Investments
Technical University of Kosice - Kosice, Slovakia
Bachelor's Degree in International Business
Huddersfield Business School - Huddersfield, UK
Certifications
Enterprise Design Thinking – Team Essentials for AI
IBM
Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Earn this Badge Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
Change Management
Tayllorcox
TOGAF Certification
TAYLLORCOX
SAFe 4 Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Digital Freelancer
Udacity
Agile Software Development
Udacity
MoP Certification
Axelos
UX Designer Program
Udacity
Product Manager
Udacity
PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner
Axelos
Skills
Tools
Zoom, Google Sheets, Miro, Office 365, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Trello, Asana, Slack, Figma, Jira, Confluence
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Agile, Kanban, Agile Product Management, B2B, Scrum, Agile Software Development, TOGAF, Design Thinking, Change Management, B2C
Platforms
Monday.com
Industry Expertise
Education Technology (Edtech), Automotive
Other
Google Drive, Reporting, International Projects, Product Delivery, Portfolio Management, Vendors & Suppliers, Online Tutoring, Mentorship, Agile Coaching, Project Reporting, Stakeholder Management, Project Tracking, Resource Management, Project Management, Training, Process Definition, Process Design, Project Planning, Project Discovery, Sprint Ceremonies, Project Coordination, Mobile/Web Project Management, Sprint Planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Agile Program Management, Program Management, Partner Management, Partnerships, Agile Sprints, E-learning, Training Content, Training & Training Content Development, Content Creation, Innovation Management, Facilitation, Relationship Management, IT Project Management, Consulting, Process Flows, Software Project Management, Project Scheduling, User Stories, Backlog Management, Software Development, Scrum Master, Edtech Design, Workshops, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Project Scoping, Complex Program Management, Startups, Risk Management, Planning, Business Analysis, Process Mapping, Best Practices, Notion, Process Optimization, Direct to Consumer (D2C), SAFe 6, Product Owner, Technical Project Monitoring, Team Management, Business Partnerships, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Backlog, Project Estimation, QA Testing, Marketing, Dashboards, Agile Transformation, Manufacturing, Web & Mobile Applications, Distributed Team Management, ClickUp, Workflow, Google Meet, Investment Cases, Statistics, Research, Writing & Editing, Business Model Canvas, Business Models, Lean Canvas, User Research, Prototyping, Economics, Digital Marketing Strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), International Affairs, Strategic Initiatives, Entrepreneurship, Research & Investigation, ITIL, Procurement, Tender Analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Product Management, Data Science, User Experience (UX), Freelancing, Coaching, Automation, Product Ownership, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), PRINCE2 Project Management, Design Sprints, Pitch Decks, Pitch Preparation, User Flows, Wireframing, Events, Projects, Workshop Facilitation, Copywriting, Innovation, Websites, Scrum Coaching, Lean Startups, Mobile App Development, ZenHub, Change Leadership, Change of Control, Technical Requirements, Discovery, Psychology & Mental Health, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Kaizen, Sales, Business to Consumer (B2C), Technical Project Management, Design, Complex Problem Solving, Web
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