Vanja Ostojic

• Led scrum master for multiple development teams, conducting all team meetings and facilitating scrum cadences.
• Managed product discovery sessions with multiple stakeholders, using various discovery techniques, such as user story mapping, design thinking, etc.
• Progressed to a technical program manager and took over the QA leadership, data team, and infrastructure team management.
• Directly managed data migrations and data productization for the company's mobile and web products,
• Project and product-managed core project related to financial factoring for operators and oil field haulers.
• Worked on the strategic decisions related to the engineering direction in relation to the other company sectors, setting up quality audits and aligning engineering, data, and infrastructure decisions.

I managed over 20 developers, QAs, software architects, and DevOps engineers in transforming the startup from a yearly release to the more Agile biweekly release process. Furthermore, I facilitated numerous discovery workshops for the project and worked with teams on the process and technical improvements, building a strong and transparent relationship of trust with the client.

I managed the development team consisting of software architects, front-end and back-end developers, and QAs during a 6-month period of complex refactor and redesign of the existing solution. I also worked on creating full project functional specifications, from mapping the existing state to documenting the desired one. In addition, I contributed to the wireframes and database models with the cooperation of a software architect.

I ensured a great client-team relationship of trust and proactiveness in a fully remote multinational environment. I also trained chatbots and created workflow schemes for user intents with emphasis on COVID-19 themed chatbots.

Tallium is a business platform created to facilitate knowledge sharing, content management, and communication. Its primary purpose is to break information silos and facilitate knowledge sharing by connecting experts from various fields.

I managed a team of developers and a UI/UX designer during discovery workshops, working as a proxy product owner and assisting the client in communicating the business vision and mission. This resulted in successful discovery sessions and fully shaped UI/UX design for the app.

Coached the client on the Agile practices and Scrum framework.

Led product discovery workshops, defined user journeys with the team of developers and a designer, worked with internal and external design team members; ownership over entire Jira process and product backlog.
Was also led estimation sessions with the team.

Managed the entire discovery flow. Used various techniques to carve out product features and product backlog, making sure we stayed as lean as possible and cut costs for our client. Along with the team, developed cutting-edge logistics feature ideation for a hybrid mobile PaaS application.

I managed a cross-functional team of developers, QA, and designers from ideation to actual product discovery. I used various techniques to create a comprehensive outline of the product requirements and smoothly transitioned to the scrum master/project manager role in the project's implementation process.

We completed the project before the initial estimated scope.