Damian Kaczmarek

Adform is a global company that offers to its clients an independent and fully integrated advertising platform built for effortless modern marketing.

• End-to-end coordination of both portfolio and delivery management processes focused on maximizing development throughput
• Manage Development & IT hiring pipeline to achieve agreed coding capacity goals
• Ensure Stakeholders at all level are equipped with both required data and tailored insights that helps them in achieving agreed goals and targets
• Define and establish process governance and process management practices and protocol to improve company operational excellence, and to reduce onboarding cost
• Act as Subject Matter Expert for effective Software Development Process and lead various initiatives associated with improving process scalability and performance
• Act as member of Senior Leadership Team in Poland and support Team in creating happy workplace for all employees
• Manage team of 7 direct reports, located in both Warsaw and Vilnius, and ensure all agreed team SLAs and KPIs are met

• Managed both portfolio and delivery management processes focused on maximizing development throughput (on time delivery increased by ~30%)
• Managed Agile Center of Excellence department and worked closely with Scrum Masters on sharing practical knowledge of SCRUM, Kanban and SAFe to increase employees and management agile maturity and improve eNPS
• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy
• Communicated monthly performance of development roadmap, invested development resources and status of platform stability KPIs to Executive Leadership Team
• Performed role of Software Development Process owner and manager
• Manage team of 7 direct reports + 6 as dotted-line manager, located in both Warsaw and Vilnius
• Managed entire development capacity management process to synchronize business roadmap with actual Development & IT capabilities (successfully implemented dependency management process for ~30 development teams)
• Designed, introduced and implemented wide set of delivery/quality KPIs, including but not limited to: cycle time,throughput time, lead time, predictability and velocity, sprint radar, cost/schedule performance index
• Optimized operational processes using analytics tools to address identified performance issues (improved predictability of work estimates by implementation of uncertainty factor, ~70%; reduced time to collect estimates by implementation of Team Shirt, ~50%)

• Implemented and developed portfolio management framework
• Established two successfully operating services: Portfolio Analytics & Reporting and Delivery Management
• Managed team of 3 direct reports, located in both Warsaw and Vilnius
• Analyzed, re-designed and re-implemented company-wide Software Development Process
• Enhanced operational performance and reduced labor expenses by developing and optimizing roadmap planning and delivery practices
• Performed quality control and monitored utilization of development resources
• Delivered multiple training opportunities regarding implemented processes, practices and tools (JIRA, Portfolio for JIRA) for more than 200 employees
• Designed various training and onboarding materials for multiple roles and functions (Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Directors, Architects, Scrum Masters)

American multinational company with 125 years of history. GE has invented the future of industry and it best known for its work in the Power, Renewable Energy, Aviation and Healthcare industries.

• Oversaw large portfolio of NPI projects (~$7M) to support teams, report progress, and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
• Managed R&D projects of size ranging from $0.5M to $5M for internal and external clients (e.g., Shell, BP, Total)
• Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
• Developed and led multi-disciplinary, international project teams to deliver required results according to agreed scope, schedule and cost targets
• Provided technical guidance, peer review and mentorship to junior engineers engaged in building system designs
• Created full-scope cost estimates for bid builds and design-build projects
• Acted as Subject Matter Expert for GD&T, and as Approver of project technical documentation
• Provided regular support during RFP, RFI, RFD and Bidding Phases