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Boleslaw, Karol Czerwinski

Boleslaw, Karol Czerwinski

www.linkedin.com/in/karolczerwinski

Summary

Senior Project Manager with 15+ years of international experience in banking and insurance (Citi, MetLife, Volkswagen Group). Proven record of delivering regulatory (ISO 20022, Solvency II), technology, and data governance programs across EMEA and APAC. Certified PMP/PRINCE2/SAFe, skilled at leading cross-functional global teams and aligning delivery with business strategy.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Project Manager

Bank Handlowy w Warszawie (TTS) via DCG
Warsaw
01.2024 - Current
  • Leading ISO 20022 migration program for ICG Statements, aligned with NBP and SWIFT timelines.
  • Responsible for project delivery, risk, reporting, and stakeholder management and testing.
  • Built and managed backlog, defined user stories, supervised testing, rollout and PVT.
  • Prepared project and risk reports for senior management and regulators.

Scrum Product Owner

Volkswagen Group AG via ATOS
02.2022 - 12.2023
  • Drove continuous improvement by staying informed on Agile and Scrum best practices.
  • Translated unstructured work requests into actionable features, epics, and user stories using Jira.
  • Liaised with Product Management to prioritise product backlog based on business value and ROI.
  • Managed client expectations through clear and accurate scoping documentation.
  • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and leads.
  • Consulted product development teams to enhance offerings using customer data insights.
  • Championed customer experience throughout product development lifecycle.
  • Fostered effective collaboration, leading all sprint ceremonies.

Private Bank Technology Manager - contracting

Citi Private Bank, Citibank Europe plc
London/Warsaw
09.2019 - 01.2022
  • I implemented JIRA product backlog for the Client Onboarding applications and scrum ceremonies
  • Managing Client Onboarding Technology
  • Supporting various Onboarding teams with issues, projects and ad hock requests resolution
  • Managing teams in Switzerland, Poland, UK, Singapore in India, reporting globally
  • Working with businesses on requirements and timelines, supporting new initiatives from gathering requirements to implementations
  • Scrum Product Owner for Client management application. Capacity planning and budgeting, planning and analysis, migration, tests and rollouts of transferred application functions

Technology Project Lead

Citibank Europe plc
London
09.2018 - 09.2019

Creating Technology Plan for the Brexit - setting up a new Bank in the UK

- identifying processes impacted

- creating scope for creating independent tech platform

- managing number of projects to setup technology foundations

Data Quality & Governance APAC & EMEA Manager

Citibank Europe plc
Singapore
03.2016 - 09.2018

APAC and EMEA Decision Management Department.

  • Integrate APAC and EMEA Data Governance Team of 27pax. Reporting to Chief Data Office and Regional DG Lead
  • Establish & Manage Data Standardization Programme incl. new and updated Data Quality Processes.
  • Delivering Data Governance and Data Quality Projects, Development and Implementations, Enterprise Data Management for 17 markets.
  • Review and update Data related processes in the whole life cycle including customer facing, middle office and back office processes.
  • Managing senior level stakeholders across different areas including Risk, Finance, TTS Trade and AML.

Interim Senior Regulatory Project Manager

MetLife (Amplico) S.A.
Warsaw
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Managing the entire SOLVENCY II - regulatory project to comply with most recent regulatory requirements: gap analysis, risk evaluation, project design, implementation & execution while staying in line with group policies.
  • Cross organization Data Governance implemented to support Decision Management Process, Risk and Finance.
  • IT Sec policies review and implement changes.
  • Establish Data Governance office and manage team to implement requirement and standards.
  • Senior Managers Stakeholder management.

Application Support Manager

Citibank N.A (Bank Handlowy)
Warsaw
01.2013 - 01.2015

Regional Systems Maintenance Bureau.

  • Leading Application Support and Data Transfer team of 8, supervising Incident and Problem Management

Project Manager/Senior Project Manager

Citibank N.A. (Bank Handlowy)
Warsaw
01.2010 - 01.2013

Strategic Solution Delivery Department.

Rainbow project and Integration Layer project.

  • 30 core databases migrated.
  • Leading team of 4 PMs to set up and migrate 240 interfaces.

IT Project Manager

Luxmed S.A.
Warsaw
01.2009 - 01.2010

Reporting directly to the Board Member. IT leader of the process to integrate 5 medical brands.

  • Managing project team, up to 120 pax involved.
  • Designing, and delivering customer facing application and infrastructure. Project budget USD 11 m.
  • Delivered savings of over USD 1m by redesigning server architecture.

Business Owner

Smart-com IT and Strategic Advisory Company
Poland
03.2001 - Current

IT and Project Management company providing advisory, IT analyses & optimization strategies.

Designing networks, data centres & wireless spread analyses.

Amplico Metlife Group - provided project management competences for Solvency II project, leading the e2e project to fulfil the regulatory requirements, including analyses, policies, procedures, processes and tools.

BRE Leasing (the finance company) - designed and supervised the composition of Data Centre.

Societe Generale Equipment Leasing
Warsaw HQ - project management for IBM Maximo implementation.

Deutsche Leasing Poland - supervising storage migration as substitute investor.

Education

Master of Science - MSc Banking & Finance Management – Warsaw

Warsaw School of Management - University
Poland

Faculty - BSc Applied Physics

Poznan University of Technology
Poznan/Poland
2002

Skills

  • Agile & Waterfall Project Delivery (Scrum, SAFe, Prince2)
  • Regulatory & Compliance Programs (ISO 20022, Solvency II, Brexit)
  • Data Governance & Quality Management
  • Budgeting, P&L, Vendor Management
  • Stakeholder & Regulatory Engagement (NBP, SWIFT, EMEA regulators)

Certification

SAFe Product Owner, Scrum Master

Prince2 Practitioner, PMP Project Management Professional,

ITIL V3 Foundation for IT Service Management, SixSigma Yellow belt,

Project Risk Management, Negotiation and Sales Techniques.

CGEIT® Certification in Governance of Enterprise IT

LANGUAGES

English - Full professional proficiency, Polish - Native, German - Basic proficiency.

Legal clause

Wyrażam zgodę na przetwarzanie moich danych osobowych dla potrzeb niezbędnych do realizacji procesu rekrutacji zgodnie z Rozporządzeniem Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2016/679 z dnia 27 kwietnia 2016 r. w sprawie ochrony osób fizycznych w związku z przetwarzaniem danych osobowych i w sprawie swobodnego przepływu takich danych oraz uchylenia dyrektywy 95/46/WE (RODO).

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Bank Handlowy w Warszawie (TTS) via DCG
01.2024 - Current

Scrum Product Owner

Volkswagen Group AG via ATOS
02.2022 - 12.2023

Private Bank Technology Manager - contracting

Citi Private Bank, Citibank Europe plc
09.2019 - 01.2022

Technology Project Lead

Citibank Europe plc
09.2018 - 09.2019

Data Quality & Governance APAC & EMEA Manager

Citibank Europe plc
03.2016 - 09.2018

Interim Senior Regulatory Project Manager

MetLife (Amplico) S.A.
01.2015 - 01.2016

Application Support Manager

Citibank N.A (Bank Handlowy)
01.2013 - 01.2015

Project Manager/Senior Project Manager

Citibank N.A. (Bank Handlowy)
01.2010 - 01.2013

IT Project Manager

Luxmed S.A.
01.2009 - 01.2010

Business Owner

Smart-com IT and Strategic Advisory Company
03.2001 - Current

Master of Science - MSc Banking & Finance Management – Warsaw

Warsaw School of Management - University

Faculty - BSc Applied Physics

Poznan University of Technology
Boleslaw, Karol Czerwinski