Apr 2018 – Jun 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos

• In charge of a unit responsible for:
• Engineering teams
• Technical product managers (Product Owners)
• Project managers/Scrum masters

Jan 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Responsible for multiple functions:
• User Experience Design team.
• Creative team - covering end to end visual design needs of the company, from the overall branding, marketing materials, web design to the product design.
• Technical Product Management (Scrum Product Owners) team.
• Documentation.
• Localisation.
• Selected accomplishments:
• Restarted role of the UX team in the company, the charter of the team, defined the core principles and goals of the department.
• Played a key role in a scaling of Scrum in the R&D - the main concepts were inspired by LeSS and DSDM frameworks.
• Established and executed a process for a transparent requirements prioritisation and forming of the product roadmap.
• Run several trainings and workshops for the people managements in the company focused on key skills like performance management, hiring, emotional management etc.
• Scaling the team to support fast growth of the R&D centres in Prague, Brno and Vietnam.
• Update of the corporate brand.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Prague, Czechia

• In charge of global UX department, which consists of multiple international teams (San Francisco, Florida, Atlanta, Ottawa, Prague, Brno, London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv), responsible for the end to end UX.
• Close cooperation with top management on new innovative product and service offerings.
• Establishing and applying new approach to product and service design and innovation based on methodology from Stanford University and IDEO (Design thinking).
• Successfully managed the rapid growth of the department from a few individuals into multiple teams with deep integration into company structure and establishing appropriate relationships and processes to cover all projects.
• Took part in several acquisitions and their teams and products integration into AVG.
• The team was essential to the company product portfolio diversification: from one product company AVG shifted to a company with more than 30 products, for desktop, mobile, cloud; focused on b2c as well as b2b; with various monetisation models: freemium, direct and indirect.
• Selected projects:
• In 2012 we completely redesigned the core, most monetising product AVG AntiVirus to meet new business goals. The redesign was very successful, with a positive impact on business KPIs and was followed by many competitors.
• We have set the core design principles and strategy for the AVG mobile portfolio. The AVG Antivirus for Android was one from the most dowloaded apps from the Google Play (more popular than Skype for example) with a very high monetisation model.
• We designed a brand-new cloud-based product (AVG CloudCare) for small and medium businesses.
• First version of AVG ZEN was released in 2014. This product concept was completely driven by "design first" and agile (scrum) approach. It was a big success and it’s a main source of a future revenue for the company: http://www.seekingalpha.com/news/2576065 AVG ZEN also defined new design patterns for the family of AVG desktop products.

Feb 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Prague, Czechia

• Joined AVG to establish User Experience design and introduce UX principles into the company.
• Doing "everything what's needed": from design of individual features and resolution of small UX issues to planning UX strategy and vision of the product portfolio with c-level executives.
• Growing the team to be able to cover the end-to-end user experience from web presence and product installation to day-to-day usage in support of company acquisition, retention and monetization goals.
• Integrating UX principles into the company: evangelization of UX, integration into processes, structure, etc.
• Completely revisited company approach doing design, mainly what's kept in house and what's outsourced and way of selection and management of external partners, which led to significant increase of efficiency.
• Conducted several weeks of ethnographical research across the US to collect data about specific US user needs, which established the main base of later product portfolio redesigns.
• Attended Customer Focused Innovation program at Stanford University.
• Selected projects:
• In 2011 we redesigned the main parts of www.avg.com, which had a very significant (positive) impact on revenue.
• We designed two big changes in the core antivirus product: an in-app store to cross-sell other AVG products and changes to the product's look and feel based on emotional design testing to increase it's retention.

Sep 2010 – Jan 2011 · 4 mos

• The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010 in the US, in September 2010 in the Czech Republic. I received an job offer from AVG and gave a notice shortly after the acquisition was completed, so I worked mostly just on integration and transition related activities.

Jul 2007 – Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Responsible for an international team of user experience professionals (interaction designers, visual designers and user researchers) located in Europe and USA.
• Responsible for all kinds of products: development tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio), enterprise products (SOA/BI), web 2.0 (Project Kenai, Zembly), platforms (Java FX for desktop and mobile), cloud computing (Q-Layer), product webpages (www.javafx.com) and end-user applications (Communications Suite – email, calendar, IM etc.).
• Cooperating with top management on developing priorities and appropriate assignment of resources.
• Built relationship with newly supported teams (some of them from acquired companies).
• Dealing with people management tasks: personnel and organizational challenges, reduction in force, cooperation with remote teams, career development of employees in remote team.
• Participating on management of overall organization and establishing connections with similar teams in other companies (mainly in the US).
• Involved in European Union FP7 projects.
• Participated three times in Sun's internal mentoring program SEED as a mentor.
• Selected projects:
• JavaFX user research - goal to get data about target audience of the new platform.
• Experimental designs and prototypes of a new generation of authoring tools for JavaFX.
• New NetBeans installation and download process
• Introduction a concept of “permanent UI specifications of a key part of the UI” to increase NetBeans consistency.
• Leading a project to make UX as the main charter for whole Prague engineering center.

Jul 2004 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs

• Responsible for a local team of user experience professionals focused mainly on Sun’s development tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio, Java Studio Enterprise and Java Studio Creator).
• Close cooperation with remote engineering teams, located mainly in California (which we successfully supported from Prague).
• Re-established and strengthened the relationship between the User Experience team and other teams, both local and remote.
• Cooperated with top management on developing of priorities and appropriate assignment of resources.
• Hired 8 new members of the team (from junior to senior), which formed a full-featured Prague UX team (visual design, interaction design, user research).
• People management (personnel and organizational challenges, hiring, reduction in force, cooperation with remote teams).
• Selected projects:
• The UI Design of Matisse: a world class, advanced Java GUI builder for NetBeans, Sun currently has pending patents on the UI concepts. It helped to meet NetBeans adoption goal.
• Redesign of www.netbeans.org, which had a goal to increase conversion rate (increase number of downloads).
• NetBeans 6.0: integration of former Java Studio Creator and Enterprise products into NetBeans.
• Worked on brand compliance with a new Sun Brand, which in our case mainly required finding the most cost-effective way to rebrand thousands of icons.

Oct 2002 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Led a transformation of the team from UI development to UI design.
• Started cooperation between Sun and Czech Technical University, which included a project of building a usability lab in Czech Technical University (CTU).
• Selected projects I was involved in:
• Participated on redesign and usability testing of the new core NetBeans paradigms: projects system and window system which appeared in NetBeans 4.x releases.
• Wrote and reviewed NetBeans UI Styleguide chapters (internal project, not open sourced).
• Led a project to define Java developer personas and tasks for NetBeans IDE.

Jul 2000 – Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsible for establishing relationship and form of cooperation with the rest of Prague engineering teams and the UX design team located in the US. As a result, the "NetBeans UI Team" was formed to "clean up" (redesign and reimplement) the user interface to meet Java Look and Feel Guidelines and other Sun standards.
• Led a one-year project focused on accessibility (Section 508) compliance of NetBeans, which required getting the appropriate know-how, development of testing tools, identification of NetBeans accessibility issues, their fixing and final testing. This project (one of the biggest projects of its kind that time) enabled Sun to meet all legal requirements related to accessibility of the product, so it could be shipped in the US.

Jan 1995 – Jan 2000 · 5 yrs

• Developed specialized customer software in Visual Basic and Java for international clients, responsible for end-to-end development cycle: from gathering customer requirements to implementation, testing, writing of documentation, sustaining of old releases and development of special features tailored to individual customers.