Marko Majkic
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal member since November 8, 2018
Marko is on the mission of creating highly motivated and agile teams and helping them to become highly effective and efficient, delivering high value to the business. He uses his strong technical background, agile and coaching competencies to improve the processes, communication, and teams. He's adept at organizing, managing, coaching, teaching, and leading on projects, products, and organization levels.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Jira
- Kanban
- Product Owner
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Story Mapping
Work Experience
Agile Coach
Bosch
- Conducted the State of Agility (Agility Maturity) and created a plan of improvements.
- Served the three pillars of BDO organization within PowerTools to improve agility.
- Coached the leadership and Scrum teams and conducted the organizational changes.
Agile Consultant and Owner
Agile Consulting
- Trained in agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
- Coached teams and individuals on software development lifecycle topics.
- Coached teams and individuals on system architecture and solutions.
- Mentored teams on agile organizations and practices.
Consultant
TMS
- Introduced agile and Scrum.
- Helped in forming new product backlog using Impact Mapping and Story Mapping approaches.
- Contributed to project artifacts definition and review the progress.
- Helped in team and individual definition.
COO and Senior Agile Coach
HubX
- Implemented an agile technology, worked in a scrum environment, and established new processes and practices.
- Helped in getting projects back on track. Restructured the backlog and the team's structure.
- Worked with the team on defining product backlogs on several projects.
- Managed the Serbian branch office with development teams of 30+ people.
- Worked on coaching teams and individuals on the process, productivity, and results improvements.
- Led whole Belgrade branch, being responsible for 40+ people. Seven leads reported directly to me.
Director of Engineering
ConveyIQ
- Consolidated the development process, including agile practices, quality, and got the product on track.
- Encouraged the creation of an agile environment, working with the executive team and the engineering teams on establishing agile practices and embracing agile principles.
- Delivered a new generation of a live product. We had a lot of performance issues that were killing the product. Leading the technology team and product management, we got the product back on track.
- Consolidated the product backlog; worked with the executive team and the product team on translating the company vision to product vision and product roadmap. Used themes and epics to groom the backlog and released a high-quality product backlog.
- Established high agile development standards in the product team and engineering.
- Established great communication between two teams, between product and engineering departments.
- Trained the engineering team in agile and coached the team and the individuals on a regular basis.
Senior Scrum Master/Release Manager
TomTom
- Took ownership of the teams' deliverables on cadence—worked with 10+ teams on five geographical locations and successfully delivered the most sophisticated product in the company's history.
- Managed 10+ people and directed their professional development.
- Introduced Agile and Scrum, taking care for the process.
Senior Software Engineer | Scrum Master
Sungard (now FIS)
- Transitioned and implemented agile for the teams working on the Leo project.
- Developed a custom big data module, domain-specific (software development).
- Developed an error handler module (software development).
Head of Software Department
BeotelNet
- Led agile transformation of the department.
- Delivered ERP size telco software (in an incremental manner) with half a million lines of Java code with a small team.
- Worked with a business part on moving towards business agility.
- Created complete system architecture in a microservices manner and trained all team members in best software engineering practices.
Senior Software Developer
Mogul (now AdNode)
- Led several software projects - mostly for Nordic media companies.
- Delivered several enterprise-level web applications using Java technologies.
- Led several project consolidation phases and saved the clients and helped to keep the contracts.
Senior Portal Developer
Qualysoft
- Delivered the pilot version of the most popular local social portal using PHP technologies.
- Delivered a new generation of social portal using Java technologies.
- Worked as an outsourced expert and consultant, led Qualysoft team within Accenture team working on Telenor ERP.
Software Developer/System Administrator
Telefonija A.D.
- Consolidated all hosting services (Microsoft and Linux) - including data provisioning, accounting, and billing applications.
- Delivered several smaller PHP applications to support business.
- Delivered enterprise web application for optical network system for national electrical power company.
Software Developer
Mikrokom
- Delivered ERP system (written in Delphi) for several Serbian companies.
Project History
HUBX Platform
I led the agile transformation of teams working on core company’s product in fintech industry in role of Senior Agile Coach.
ELITE Platform
Team's transition to agile. Consolidation of product backlog. Putting the project back on track when needed.
Convey Communication Platform
I led the project in role of Scrum Master and Director of Engineering in order to get revolutionary platform software in HR.
Live Interviewing Platform
https://www.conveyiq.com/I led the process of reviving Live platform with teams and getting back it on track. Used Story Mapping and Impact Mapping.
TomTom Bandit Action Camera
Led the process and multiple multifunctional, multicultural teams working on several applications within Camera ecosystem.
Sungard LEO
Introduced agile and Scrum to project stater teams. Created infrastructure for the project and developed initial component.
Sunflower
Launched the team, project setup, and architecture from the scratch. Delivered 500,000+ lines of code with one team only.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications
School of Electrical Engineering of Applied Studies - Belgrade, Serbia
Degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication
School of Electrical Engineering of Applied Studies - Belgrade, Serbia
Undergraduate Degree in Telecommunciations
School of Electrical Engineering - Belgrade, Serbia
Mathematical-programming Associate Diploma in Mathematics and Programming
Mathematical High School "25. Maj" - Belgrade
Certifications
ICAgile Certified Professional | Coaching Agile Transformations (ICP-CAT)
ICAgile
Advanced Certified Scrum Developer℠
Scrum Alliance®
Enterprise Agile Coaching
ICAgile
Certified LeSS Practitioner
LeSS
Management 3.0 Foundation
Management 3.0
Certified Agile Leadership I
Scrum Alliance®
Business and Management Coach
European Coaching Association
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance®
Certified Scrum Professional
Scrum Alliance®
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance®
Skills
Tools
SQL, Confluence, Jira, Rally, Trello, Atlassian
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Agile Leadership, Management, Change Management, Testing, DevOps, Agile Software Development
Platforms
MacOS, Windows, WordPress, Linux, Drupal
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications, Technology
Other
Project Management, Technical Project Management, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Delivery Management, People Management, Project Tracking, Sprint Planning, Project Lifecycle, Product Delivery, Story Mapping, CTO, Strategic Planning, Roadmaps, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Process Optimization, Leadership, Less, MySQL, PHP, Java, Post-merger Integration, Agile Coaching, Product Management, Scrum Coaching, Release Management, Team Leadership, Spring, Apache Struts, Mail Servers, APIs, Organizational Design, Organizational Structure, Organizational Leadership, Agile Transformation, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
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