Jana Dakic, Project Manager in Belgrade, Serbia
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Jana Dakic

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Project Manager

Location
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal Member Since
March 19, 2019

Jana is a dedicated Agile product and project manager. She has experience in managing cross-functional teams and facilitating Agile practices in dynamic, remote environments. During her career, Jana has mostly worked in startup companies on projects ranging from the e-bike industry to the cryptocurrency market.

Project Highlights

Infinity - a Collaborative Platform for Organization, Planning and Management
Implemented processes in a challenging environment which resulted in a more stable application and a better user experience.
CAPP - Cryptocurrency Market Analytics Tool
Implemented agile methodologies; defined and delivered the MVP.
Ono Archont Bicycle and Ono Archont E-bike
Lowered production cost while maintaining product quality and production time.

Expertise

Work Experience

Product Manager

2019 - PRESENT
Infinity Innovations Inc.
  • Defined product requirements and prioritizing issues based on analytics, user and support feedback.
  • Introduced an agile development workflow, from design and requirements to testing, approvals and content.
  • Introduced a support workflow that ensures a good and clear communication with the development team while minimizing time loss and interruptions.
  • Defined and monitored analytics on product features and functionalities to measure assumptions, value, and suggest potential improvements.
  • Recruited development team members.

Operations and Analytics Team Manager/Product Manager

2018 - 2019
Moon Radar
  • Coordinated the operations and analytics team.
  • Created a workflow for trading, analytics, and token research.
  • Detailed research of dozens of cryptocurrencies.
  • Recruited team members for trading, social media marketing, and cryptocurrency research.
  • Analyzed news to identify trends and sentiment patterns.
  • Created user stories and backlog prioritization.
  • Manually tested and checked the system to make sure all acceptance criteria have been met.

Product/Project Manager

2018 - 2018
Solibo/Moon Radar
  • Researched the cryptocommunity users, popular social media, trends, and psychology.
  • Researched the crypto market, competitors and Blockchain technology.
  • Introduced Agile methodologies and coaching the development and analytics team.
  • Defined and suggested product features.
  • Created UI/UX mockups in Balsamiq for new features.
  • Created user stories and backlog prioritization.

Product Manager

2016 - 2018
Ono Bikes
  • Allocated contractors and partners for various production tasks.
  • Organized and planned production processes.
  • Researched market and competitors.
  • Prepared pitches and presentations for startup events.

Product Manager

2015 - 2016
BKTV news
  • Acted as a product manager and scrum master.
  • Successfully delivered the news portal web and mobile applications.
  • Closely collaborated with third parties regarding online advertisement and graphic design.
  • Designed the BKTV news portal CMS through close collaboration with the journalists.
  • Improved and suggested product design and features.
  • Recruited and managed the development team of five members.
  • Prepared complete documentation and managed publishing on App and Play Store.

Scrum master, junior front-end developer

2015 - 2015
BKTV news
  • Worked on the front-end development of the web application.
  • Facilitated scrum events such as daily standups, planning and retrospective meetings.
  • Recruited two developers.
  • Conducted user and market research.

Infinity - a Collaborative Platform for Organization, Planning and Management

https://startinfinity.com/

Implemented processes in a challenging environment which resulted in a more stable application and a better user experience.

Infinity is a super flexible collaborative platform where you can organize all your work in one place. All features in Infinity can be completely customized - views (table, list, column, calendar, Gantt), attributes (text, number, date, reference, labels, members..), boards, folders, etc., which gives the project a huge variety of use cases and user personas.

Technology stack: PHP/Laravel and Vue.js

CAPP - Cryptocurrency Market Analytics Tool

Implemented agile methodologies; defined and delivered the MVP.

Moonradar is developing a private platform that generates signals by collecting data from official crypto sources and by monitoring the crypto community on social media and other channels (Twitter, Reddit, Medium, Telegram and more). These many types of signals are generated with models and algorithms which are based on social media analysis, technical analysis, and other trading techniques. The platform is designed to clearly display these signals, as well as much more of other relevant information, to assist traders in making predictions of future movements in the Cryptocurrency market as well as suggest currencies of interest. All of the collected data is also secured and kept for future analysis and constant system improvements.

Technology stack: Java, Spring Boot, Restful API, MySQL, MongoDB, ThymeLeaf

Ono Archont Bicycle and Ono Archont E-bike

Lowered production cost while maintaining product quality and production time.

Ono Archont bicycle and Ono Archont e-bike are uniquely designed handcrafted bikes. The frame and fork are made from stainless steel. Each model is customizable and built-to-order. The customers can choose the size (from 2.5 to 2.9m in length), electric motor, battery pack, color, and coating material, reservoir design and the bicycle parts pack. The range of the e-bike is up to almost 100km while going 80km/h.

BKTVnews - News and Information Web and Mobile Applications

Recruited the entire development team and delivered the project with a very short deadline.

The BKTVnews project included the development of the news and information web and native Android and iOS applications for the end-users, and the CMS for BKTVnews' employees.

Technology stack: Spring Boot, AngularJS, Materialize CSS
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