Kamil Imański
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Poznań, Poland
Toptal member since May 4, 2022
Kamil is an agile project manager and scrum master with a robust background in business analysis and change management. He has extensive experience leading teams and implementing Agile scaling practices at international companies, including BAE Systems, an FTSE100 company and the largest defense contractor in Europe. Kamil is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, and PMI-ACP.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Business Analysis
- Change Management
- Jira
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Waterfall Development
Work Experience
Scrum Master
Owens Corning - Digital Center of Excellence
- Built an Agile team and implemented improvements to improve the teams' communication, developed predictability using relative estimates, and improved the process of gathering, analyzing, and elaborating on requirements from business stakeholders.
- Provided coaching on Agile and Jira for product and project managers unfamiliar with these methods and tools. Created a productive working environment for a team of more than 15 working together on the same product backlog.
- Built an automated workflow, improving the decision-making process for prioritizing business requirements and projects. This process reduced the amount of manual work to maintain up-to-date worksheets.
- Understood stakeholder needs and business requirements, built product backlog, wrote business and technical user stories, managed dependencies, and prioritized backlog with the product owner.
- Performed accessibility testing for the existing solution, created a backlog for improvements, and prepared a process to prevent accessibility debt from compounding.
- Improved the process of building and communicating the product strategy through product roadmaps. Kamil connected the product roadmap with Jira tickets, creating an experience that the product roadmap is a living document.
- Improved the process of gathering data about product users with Adobe Analytics. Moreover, I prepared and presented multiple presentations to the business stakeholders with various statistics and charts based on the data pulled from Adobe.
Project Manager
The Recycling Partnership Inc.
- Created a project structure using Notion. Managed the project documentation and reporting tools by organizing Notion structures and connecting them to the version control tools like Dropbox.
- Brainstormed and implemented organizational improvements like improvement of the meeting notes management, creating Notion database for stakeholders engagement, or organizing information using Notion Timelines and Calendar.
- Established proper communication with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in the organization.
Project Program Manager
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
- Led crucial investment program initiatives within the EMEA company branch, which required assembling and leading a cross-functional team of 15+ highly-motivated professionals and managed 35+ stakeholders.
- Developed and implemented cyber-security projects for 5G technology in the telecommunication sector. Despite issues with other vendors as well as product bug-fixing, the project was delivered with success.
- Developed and standardized requirements management processes using Jira and Confluence in the department of around 60 people. Used change management techniques to minimize the impact of different objectives and make change durable.
- Implemented Agile techniques and practices on project, program, and portfolio levels. Improved the way business was developing Investment projects using Scaled Agile practices, integrating the work of multiple teams.
- Assumed responsibility for performing strategic initiatives on product backlog management with the department portfolio. Created, estimated, prioritized, and monitored the product backlog.
- Managed a portfolio of projects for worldwide clients, leveraging Microsoft Project and other tools. Managed to handle stakeholders' expectations despite constant issues with human resources and SLAs, which impacted the portfolio performance.
- Implemented cyber security projects for the telecommunication industry. Projects were related to 4G (LTE) and 5G data. Despite the ongoing industry problems (suppliers do not follow the standards), projects were delivered with success.
Scrum Master
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
- Worked as a scrum master, leading three teams of developers from the BAE, client, and supplier companies. Quickly onboarded into the team, guided and coached developers and product owner in Agile, especially in the Scrum framework.
- Integrated work of three scrum teams, working on different projects within the portfolio. Conducted sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings using Jira and Figma as collab tools. Also, quickly solved impediments and improved team performance.
- Implemented multiple Jira improvements, among which the most important were using fixed versions to track the progress of development across several epics, improved management of epics, and the use of a Jira roadmap.
Business Analyst
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
- Elaborated and implemented migration project requirements into the final anti-money laundering (AML) and customer due diligence (CDD) product solution for the banking industry.
- Contributed to the successful scoping and execution of the banking migration project by performing as-is and to-be gap analyses and presentations to clients.
- Moved customized product features from the legacy banking AML system to the new version of the software.
- Became a subject matter expert in AML product solutions and organized internal pieces of training for knowledge-sharing with other consultants and analysts.
- Created, elaborated, and monitored the project scope, wrote user stories and enablers (technical US), and estimated the activity size and duration through frequent backlog refinement sessions.
Project History
Front-end Refreshment Project for Legacy System
Launched and managed several releases of front-end refreshment project for a legacy, cyber-security product, which had not been upgraded for 10+ years.
5G Cyber Security Project for Telecommunication
Successfully delivered 5G Telecommunication Cyber Security project.
After the bid was won, I quickly mobilized the project team due to the previous collaboration with the portfolio manager about project resource demand. In the meantime, I managed to create a product backlog with the product owner, solution architect, and developers.
The work progress was monitored closely during the development because of the different dependencies (like providing test samples) between the CSP (Content Service Provider) and the project team. The project team released increments several times to the customer representative testing environment for internal testing (FAT) and external testing (SAT). In the end, the project was slightly behind schedule (due to the external risks), however within the budget and, most importantly, with good customer satisfaction.
Project Manager for a Recycling Company
Supporting Grant Agreement process, implementation of Notion enhancements.
AML and CDD Software for Banking
Migrated customer data and implemented state-of-the-art features in an anti-money laundering (AML) and customer due diligence (CDD) product.
Data Validation Tool for a Legacy Product
Managed a small team of C++ developers, ensuring the frequent delivery of validation tool increments according to the roadmap.
Scrum Master on a Time and Materials Contract
Improved the implementation of Agile methodologies in development teams, positively impacting Jira workflows, project documentation, and planning.
Education
Postgraduate Studies in Product and Brand Management
Collegium Da Vinci - Poznań, Poland
Master's Degree in Informatics and Econometrics
Poznań University of Economics and Business - Poznań, Poland
Postgraduate Studies in IT Project Management
Higher Business School in Poznań - Poznań, Poland
Bachelor's Degree in Informatics and Econometrics
Poznań University of Economics and Business - Poznań, Poland
Certifications
The Credential of Readiness
Harvard Business School Online
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSGB)
The Council for Six Sigma Certification (CSSC)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
MSP 5th Edition Foundation
AXELOS
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
ITIL 4 Foundation Certification
AXELOS
SAFe 5 Agilist Certification
Scaled Agile, Inc.
AgilePM Practitioner
APMG International
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
PRINCE2 Agile Foundation Certification
Axelos
TERP10
SAP
Skills
Tools
Jira, Microsoft PowerPoint, Confluence, Figma, Trello, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Excel 2016, SQL, Microsoft Project, Adobe Analytics, GitHub, Slack
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Agile Project Management, Servant Leadership, Waterfall Development, Agile Leadership, Kanban, Change Management, DevOps, Iterative Development, Requirements Analysis, Management, Agile Product Management, Test-driven Development (TDD), Lean, Capacity Management, Six Sigma, Testing, UX Design
Platforms
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Java EE
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), Lean Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Other
Project Management, Planning, Technical Project Management, DSDM, Backlog Management, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Communications Management, Project Planning, Scope Management, Adaptive Planning, Cost Estimation, IT Governance, PSM-1, Stakeholder Management, Estimation & Planning, Remote Team Leadership, Scrum Coaching, Agile Coaching, User Stories, Project Discovery, User Requirements, Project Management Office (PMO), Enterprise Project Management, PMO, People Management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), IT Projects, Project Timelines, Software Development, Project Delivery, Communication, Leadership, Monitoring, Controlling, Project Tracking, Project Coordination, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Project Leadership, IT Project Management, Product Management, Business Analysis, Value Proposition, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Program Management, Human Resources (HR), Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Evaluation, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Management, Risk Management, Continuous Improvement, Performance, Conflict Resolution, Process Improvement, Program Planning, Requirements, Problem Management, SLA Management, Lean Portfolio Management, Systems Thinking, Agile Certified Practitioner, Portfolio Management, Communication Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Jira Administration, Jira Administrator, Functional Testing, Feasibility Studies, Product Discovery, Coaching, Technical Documentation, Web Development, Agile Transformation, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Forecasting, Design, Notion, Reporting, Optimization, Freelancing, Accessibility, Manual Software Testing, IT Business Analysis, Accessibility Testing, Employee Benefits, Analysis, Change of Control, Needs Analysis, Regression Testing, User Experience (UX), PMO Development, Project Management Operations, Data Visualization, Process Documentation, Business Process Analysis, Web App Development, Product Ownership, Branding, Brand Management, Feature-driven Development (FDD), ITIL 4, IT Service Delivery, Service Delivery Management (SDM), Scrum Master, Product Owner, IT Program Management, Lean IT, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Stakeholder Engagement, Business Cases, Negotiation, Resource Management, Availability Management, Configuration Management, Customer Service, Incident Management, Relationship Management, Deployment, Issue Management, Business Agility, Release on Demand, Program Coordination, Economics, Discovery Workshops, Microsoft Office, 5G, Mobile, Scrumban, DevSecOps, Release Management, Vendors & Suppliers, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), MongoDB, Econometrics, SAP, SAP ERP, Waterfall Methodology, Web UX Design, Web UI Design, QA Testing, Manual QA, Business Rules, Business, Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, System Integration, Business to Business (B2B), UX Research, Analytics, SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD), SAP CRM, Finance, Financial Accounting, Accounting, Business Analytics, Managerial Economics
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