Jarosław Woźnica

Responsibilities and achievements:

SAM accountability for BMC, VMWare, Red Hat, Dell vendors and Client Applications, SaaS portfolios, in the handover process of taking over Microsoft vendor. Budget: 5-30 MEUR.

Risk management and optimization for given vendors, portfolios, reported on the EMT level

Audit defense plan creation, audit responsible withing given and ad hoc area(s)

Supporting organization in external and internal software vendor audits, cooperation with external consulting partners and infrastructure suppliers

SAM Tool implementation project participation in both driver and member roles, responsibility for PoC

Continuous improvement to drive and maintain optimized and cost effective portfolios

Supporting the infrastructure outsourcing project within SAM area, for example software contracts and licenses

Full accountability for global deployments of applications, client configurations, security patches for the Volvo Group and external customers; ~200.000 users globally

Involvement and responsibility, as receiving manager, for the internal sourcing project to consolidate and optimize DO&D service – ongoing

Delivery and management of the 24/7 service

Continuous improvement to drive and maintain lean and efficient delivery team

HR responsibility for 22 people, hosting manager for resources reporting to different part of the organization

Full accountability for the software packaging deliveries for both internal and external customers with heavy involvement in global projects

Management of the software repackaging international team on the global level (15 people), including Product Manager

Financial responsibility for the manpower and product cost centers

Involvement in sourcing projects related to financial efficiency

Flexible management of resources, including contractors, and capacity to fulfill changing business requirements, creating short and long term plans

Optimization of the global function, ONE Team concept implementation by sharing workload, knowledge, responsibility and roles transfers

Execution of the global function strategy

Consolidation of the business and responsibility by driving organizational changes within the area of responsibility

Steering Committee chairman, Steering Committee member

Active work with KPI’s and quality indicators, establishment of the internal quality dashboard, tools and reports improvements, resulting in improvement of the service level and delivery by decreasing lead times, costs and improving the quality

Improvements on the global level by active participation in cross team and cross function workflow design

Succession plans management, leader sourcing management, induction for new IT Group Manager, supporting promotions to senior and professional positions, appointing employees for new roles

Acting as Business Site Coordinator representing Volvo IT Poland towards Process & IT

HR responsibility for up to 41 people working for different platforms and functions (Unix, N&T, Windows, Storage, Factory & Warehouse Support, Global Security), being functional and hosting manager for international groups, securing all HR aspects for employees and consultants

Talented in soft skills related to change implementation, leading workshops, meetings, delivering presentations.

Team Leader role since 2005 – by taking new responsibilities my team was extended from 5 to 22 people during the years and included Technical Responsible for COTS Applications, Software
Packaging WRO and Desktop Change teams.

Successful and cost effective sourcing of the Desktop Change group from Sweden to Poland;

Software Packaging Global coordinator function (international teams located in Brazil, Poland and Sweden)

Management activities:
o Reporting/Planning
o Coaching, mentoring
o Task delegation
o Participation in the recruitment process
o Representing company during external events, e.g. Career Day at Wroclaw University of

Technology, giving lectures at Wroclaw University

Functional steering of the activities within the group

Planning and controlling the capacity of the teams in cooperation with functional managers for respective teams

Organizing and structuring the workload within the groups

Active cooperation with Client Applications group regarding new solution and services development, for example application virtualization framework

Creating frameworks for one time repackaging services for external customers

Ensuring that agreed KPI’s for Software Packaging WRO deliveries are met

Contributing to projects, preparation for Windows 7 and Volvo Group reorganization, which includes:
o Setting up processes for ordering new applications
o Preparing and executing plans for applications migration to Windows 7
o Preparing and executing plans for applications migrations due to Volvo Group reorganization (exceeded project’s expectations)

Three days global meeting for the whole Software Packaging group organized by me that was held in Poland, including lectures and workshops

Established global QA Forum function responsible for new services, routines, adjustments of Software Packaging processes, product enhancements. The function consists of people from Sweden and Poland.