Jiri Fiala

Objective:
Develop a new integrated tech stack to process robotic sales through big data engagement.

Role:
CTO

Result:
After eight months of development time, a fully automated lead generation engine was created. Currently processing monthly 960 million crawls and starting around 10,000 interactions with potential leads.

Detail:
Managed a team of 10+ distributed developers, designers, and marketing automation experts. The project is expanding rapidly with an MRR growth of over 34% monthly.

Tech Stack:
Google Cloud, BigQuery, Integromat, .Net Core, Python

Lessons Learned:
Latest advancements and usage of HiPaaS and RPA tools on the market. Formed partnerships with the leaders in the field.

Objective:
Perform full project discovery and propose a product roadmap redesign to suit a follow-up investment round.

Role:
Project and Product Manager

Result:
A project discovery led to the new product roadmap and reworked the business strategy outline, leading to a follow-up investment round of $1.5 million.

Detail:
Performed full due diligence of the product and team with its own N6DD methodology according to the significant potential investor's wishes. Helped out the team to redesign the product map and find its way back to the product-market fit thesis. Introduced them to the applied scrum automation toolset and helped to set up the process.

Tech Stack:
Microsoft Azure, .Net Core, SQL

Lessons Learned:
How to synthesize a new product thesis into a successful investment round.

Objective:
Create a full product-market fit strategy, hypothesis verification criteria, and roadmap to accomplish it. Manage the company in the execution of those.

Role:
CEO

Result:
A successful launch of the company and its flagship product within heavily regulated EU framework and success in fundraising effort from idea through seed to Series A.

Detail:
Part of the team behind one of closely watched cryptocurrencies exchanges to launch in 2018 (in the role of interim CEO as my own company had partial share and interest there). Negotiated with national and EU regulators on transparency towards bank houses, asset classification, and regtech licensing requirements.

Tech Stack:
Established product with enterprise-grade hybrid cloud security distribution, HSM keys, code vaults, and custom security solutions. Used a combination of .Net Core, Python, Java microservices solution with distributed storage options (MariaDB, Redis, Oracle), and latest microservices orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).

Lessons Learned:
How to made data-driven decisions for company growth tied to technical execution. How to establish operational and business models with metrics linked to performance evaluation of responsible people.

Objective:
Create a new valuation model for high-tech and radical tech startups based on data science and prediction models.

Role:
Product Owner

Result:
Model successfully tested on over 150+ startups globally. Currently in use by several VC partners. Total company valuation processed by the model over $11 billion.

Detail:
Complete product creation of a new valuation model through combined algorithms usage from idea conception, through detailed research and modeling tests, to final product delivery. Adaptable to rapidly shifting business models due to their platform economy nature, be it in subtle varieties like sharing, gig, hybrid, open innovation, or decentralized blockchain application. At its core is done by running six different independent algorithms (point of view) on the same core dataset (provided manually), but with different outside repositories allowed crawl data sets and macro forecast settings (growth, social, madtech metrics).

Tech Stack:
Google Cloud, BigQuery, Trifecta, Python, Integromat, Moz, BuzzSumo, Tensor Flow

Lessons Learned:
How to build/not to build a startup and their products on over 150 live examples. How to set up autonomous discovery, evaluation, and connection algorithms.

Objective:
Perform full project discovery, envision the enterprise architecture, and propose to a client a new approach to an existing platform.

Role:
Enterprise Architect and BDM

Result:
A successful project discovery and proposal with new enterprise architecture led to a 38 million EUR contract. The new solution was then deployed at 600+ sites in 24 countries.

Detail:
Support, automation, and knowledge platform for custom dealership solution deployment and monitoring at B2B Volkswagen partners locations. Served all brands that are part of the group and external dealers as well.

Tech Stack:
Microsoft Azure, .Net Core, MS SQL, Haven, IDOL

Lessons Learned:
Multiple parties negotiation (had to be approved by six brands and 24 countries. HW/SW global deployment and support bundle proposition.

Objective:
Develop a medium-sized mobile game, test our understanding of B2C segments and logics driving mobile application downloads and usage—archive minor commercial success.

Role:
Business Stakeholder and Product Owner

Result:
A small success with a few hundred thousand downloads, not a commercial hit. Costs recovered. Followed by two other cross-platform titles.

Detail:
Designed full application logic, and led a small team of four developers and designers. From whiteboard sketches to the deployed game, both on Android and iPhone. Minor success with hundreds of thousands of downloads.

Tech Stack:
Xamarin, Ionic, Unity, Android, iOS

Lessons Learned:
Full mobile app design and launch cycle. A more in-depth understanding of the retail segment and human behavior-driven development.

Objective:
Perform a broad program discovery across the whole KBC group IT projects portfolio in several countries of choice. Propose innovation and cost savings projects where feasible.

Role:
Enterprise Architect and Program Manager

Result:
A full analysis of the complete project and program portfolio led to a start of 34 separate projects with a budget of over €3 billion aimed at a 32% cost reduction and numerous innovations.

Detail:
Complete disassembly and recreation of the entire application and infrastructure portfolio using advanced data science project discovery services. Apply the latest theoretical methodologies against practical constraints in a multinational bank.

Tech Stack:
Elastic, Hadoop, REST

Lessons Learned:
How to run a massive project discovery, set up the board-driven KPIs for project success, and meticulously defend the outcome of the project thesis.

Objective:
Plan and execute a high-tech product launch in less than three months.

Role:
Project Manager and Enterprise Architect

Result:
Built a blockchain-based revolutionary risk management solution that manages actuarial insurance risk's through the capital markets in less than four months. The solution handles billions of dollars of securitized blockchain assets.

Detail:
An MVP build with the fragmentation of existing insurance securities into smaller tokenized asset packages and their resale on the blockchain-connected marketplace. Complete project discovery and delivery provided. Managed a full team of 30+ developers, designers, and analysts.

Tech Stack:
Solidity, ETH, .Net Core, MariaDB

Lessons Learned:
How to run a fully remote MVP build across the globe with minimum specifications, fast.

Objective:
Evaluate and discover business and technical requirements of a unified loyalty platform for dozens of multiple brands across all EU countries. Provide a feasibility study on tokenization and blockchain deployment of such a platform.

Role:
Enterprise Architect and Product Manager

Result:
Planned and modeled a deployment of a unified blockchain platform across a broad set of 40+ corporate eCommerce stores in Europe. The project got a green light with a €16+ million budget.

Detail:
Responsible for full requirements gathering, architecture, financial planning, and business case creation. Planned and modeled a deployment of a unified blockchain platform across a broad set of 40+ corporate eCommerce stores in Europe and prepared board.

Tech Stack:
jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Node.js, Redis, MongoDB, JVM, EOS, GCP, AWS

Lessons Learned:
Project discovery greatly increased my understanding of current loyalty program dysfunctions and more extensive data set modeling biases—also legacy eCommerce integration issues with multinational holdings.

Objective:
Perform due diligence on the recently acquired biscuit business of Danone (34 countries, 38,000 people, and 14,000+ applications) and propose the best migration option to a unified enterprise tech stack. Perform the migration on a per-country project base.

Role:
Enterprise Architect and Project Manager

Result:
Proposed a solution and future architecture got a green light from all global stakeholders, a new acquisition deal, and a program encompassing 34 countries with a value of €600 million was signed—41 separate projects had been completed within the next three years.

Detail:
Responsible as a core architect for EMEA in Mondelez acquisition of Danone biscuits operations and follow up integration into existing outsourcing model with the current provider. Included high-level network and ERP partial join solution for temporary access, migration of a few hundred applications, and 15,000+ users across EMEA.

Tech Stack:
SAP, multiple ERP systems, global WAN, LDAP, AD, SMCC, LAMP, Java, RoR, .Net, Delphi, Lotus Notes, AS400

Lessons Learned:
Running multiple projects simultaneously, global company enterprise architecture principles and practice, managing large teams of over 400 people across multiple countries.

Objective:
Propose a new long-term company and fundraising strategy with respect to global qualified investor regulations.

Role:
Product Manager and Strategic Advisor

Result:
Planned and launched a successful fundraising Series A for the company and reworked its long-term strategic direction.

Detail:
Modeled full company financial projections for the next five years, created an outstanding pitch deck, business plans, and explored potential investors worldwide. Led a team of seven full-stack developers to deliver a new STO concept for fundraising.

Tech Stack:
WordPress, GCP, BigQuery, Integromat, Java, Solidity

Lessons Learned:
How to run a fully regulated global fundraising campaign and plan global supply chain product workflow.

Objective:
Run a project discovery (PD) and business requirements gathering for a set of dozens of non-critical legacy applications with the aim of their migration or re-platforming.

Role:
Enterprise Architect, Product Manager, and Project Manager

Result:
The PD results were a newly proposed low code consolidation platform at Innogy Group with a 3-year development plan for migration of all legacy applications. The project was delivered within two years and a $3.9 million budget.

Detail:
Managed a team of 30+ developers, designers, and business analysts that re-platformed 26 existing applications into a completely new lightweight platform within two years and on time and budget, as originally estimated.

Tech Stack:
PHP (Laravel), Java (Spring), Scala (Play), MongoDB, PostgresSQL, Oracle, Apache

Lessons Learned:
How to architect and deliver a fully working hybrid cloud solution and develop, from scratch, a multi-use low code platform. Later on, a subset of the platform was released under MIT.