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Senior
Registration: 13.04.2023

Vitalijs Vickops

Specialization: Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, CIO
IT professional and certified PMP with 20+ years of experience, gained during career growth from UI and client-server applications developer to system analyst and then project and department manager. During last 10+ years, the portfolio has been enhanced with large international scale projects management and heading the support department and whole IT team
IT professional and certified PMP with 20+ years of experience, gained during career growth from UI and client-server applications developer to system analyst and then project and department manager. During last 10+ years, the portfolio has been enhanced with large international scale projects management and heading the support department and whole IT team

Portfolio

Ireland Passport card solution delivery

Full cycle, starting from customer requirement gathering and analysis till implementation and later maintenance.

www.delfi.lv - Paywall solution development and delivery

Full cycle, starting from customer requirement gathering and analysis till implementation and later maintenance.

Liberty Bank (Georgia) - online-banking solution development and implementation

Full cycle, starting from customer requirement gathering and analysis till implementation and later maintenance.

Skills

Project Management
IT department management
Fintech
IDV solutions

Work experience

CIO
03.2019 - 05.2023 |Delfi
Paywall solution implementation
● Led, managed, motivated and hired IT team including helpdesk, developers and webmasters ● Planned IT department budget ● Controlled maintenance of the infrastructure (including equipment purchase) ● Cooperated with external partners and vendors
Senior Project Manager / Head of Support
01.2012 - 08.2018 |X Infotech
Complex solutions for secure identity and payment solutions: electronic documents and payment cards chip personalization, security, PKI.
Complex solutions for secure identity and payment solutions: electronic documents and payment cards chip personalization, security, PKI. ● Direct reporting to company board. ● Led and managed company support team: - administrated the work of 10+ people, including help desk specialists, IT security officers and administrators and technical personnel - created and fine-tuned the processes of issues reporting, solving and escalation both internally and for external customers within the scope of Service Level Agreements - personally and independently handled the most complicated cases of problem escalation, finding the satisfactory solution for involved parties ● Managed large scale international projects: - up to 18 months active development and implementation phase - projects budget up to 5M EUR - internal team of 5 to 25 employees - 2 to 5 contractual partners per project - Projects geography included African, European, CIS, Asian and Latin American markets Led complex pre-sales projects including: - scope definition and responsibilities split between own company and partners - time, resource and budget calculation, including risks analysis and team planning - scope and concept presentation to external stakeholders ● Managed the processes of demo and PoC solutions preparation: - customer needs definition - preparation and customization of demo solution - management of demo solution hardware, software and human internal resources

Educational background

Computer Science (Masters Degree)
Latvian Uinversity
Certified Project Management Professional
2015
Project Management Institute

Languages

EnglishUpper IntermediateRussianAdvancedLatvianAdvancedGermanElementary