Feb 2019 – May 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Prague, Czech Republic

• Eurostellar is Czech-Vietnamese joint venture company which naturally evolved from Jablotron South East Asia. Based on the success with Jablotron in Vietnam, we took it to the next level and boosted our portfolio with great Czech products such as automatic parking solutions, LED lights, equipment for security companies or access controls.
• My role is to establish and maintain the relationships with our Czech suppliers and act as the interface between European and Asian mindset. With my Vietnamese team based in Saigon, we come up with new opportunities and strategies how to position our products and market them in Vietnam and we are starting to expand to Malaysia and Cambodia.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Prague, Czechia

• Startup consultancy services. Main focus: B2B sales, Product Proposition (what your product is and why your customers should buy it).
• Helping companies like Vimovsem, Roletik, Advertoo, Zonky, DeepTime, Lamael and others.

Jan 2017 – May 2023 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Prague, Czechia

• Oil Painting. www.nomeansmore.com
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Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Saigon, Vietnam

• I started this enterprise without knowing much about the alarms or the security business. My top achievement in this area so far was changing the light bulb, but I saw the opportunity and took it. Vietnam is 100mio country with a steady economic growth and vast potential. But it is also a very challenging place to do business, more than 9 out of 10 EU companies fails there. It's crucial to understand the local mindset, accept it and use the best from the European approach to break through. I can't express how difficult it is, but it is also super exciting to look for new business models, to deploy what works well in Europe but to stay in line with the local customs.
• We have introduced not just Jablotron to Vietnam, we actually educate the whole market about burglar alarm. It's unbelievable, but most people and companies still use CCTV instead of alarm. The challenge is to come to an empty market, which is not educated about the product, and find the right positioning, the right communication, the right cooperation with vendors and end users.
• I set up the company in a completely new territory, found the right people to work with, did the market analysis and deploy the products. We develop and implement distribution strategy, pricing schemes, training models for our partners, we have made tons of marketing materials and now we have working wholesale company in Vietnam.

Nov 2016 – Apr 2017 · 5 mos · Saigon, Vietnam

• I had the opportunity to help with the project of Education Academy in Saigon. I was able to fix the business model and find more revenue streams while cutting down the costs.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos · Czech Republic/South Africa

• I gave lectures on software production and interactive design to truly talented students in Cape Town. The communication proceeded via Google Classes and Skype.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 · 5 yrs · Prague, Czech Republic

• I started up Banzai interactive as a developer of casual games. We have produced ten games, some of them as internal projects, some of them as work for hire projects. All teams were fully agile, very focused on prototyping. Our main target group was US women, we were able to understand what they liked, what they wanted and delivered products that resonated with them very well.
• My role, apart from the company management, was the project management of some of our games, budgeting & finance, team leadership and projects scheduling.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 · 6 yrs · Prague, Czech Republic

• I founded a company that provided a huge amount of artwork for companies like Disney Interactive, Playdom, Kiwi, Gogii Games, King.com, etc. We established relationships with major clients from USA and Canada, including the providers of TV franchises for Castle or Criminal Minds. The key to our success was the Kzilla system, which I designed, and which served as the main tool for the cooperation with clients and suppliers. Thanks to Kzilla, our clients were always updated on time and able to comment on our work, we didn't struggle with specifications and we had perfect overview about our productivity, and the workload allocation per employee.
• My role was managing the company, building a worldwide network of specialized vendors, establishing contacts with clients and setting up workflow which enabled the company to run smoothly without headaches.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs · Prague, Czech Republic

• Mindware studios was a Prague based video games developer that produced games for PC and Xbox. We pitched many projects to worldwide publishers looking for co-funding. The company was backed up by an angel investor and later venture capital fund.
• My role was to manage the company, reporting to US/EU shareholders. Strategic planning of our resources, budgeting projects, pitching the projects to publishers, project management of multimillion projects, etc.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 · 0 mo · Prague, Czech Republic

• Czech Telecom approached me to put together the first online gaming portal in the Czech Republic.
• My role was to find the suitable technology provider and design the gaming portal, where players could play online games, attend tournaments. We built there loyal community.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 · 0 mo

• Publisher of exclusive magazines like Esquire, Speed, Top Gear, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Style, etc.
• My biggest achievement was a very special TV campaign for the launch of new magazine called Style. The campaign, using viral elements, was a smashing success.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs · Prague, Czech Republic

• GameStar was a video-games magazine, published by IDG.
• My role was to launch this new magazine from scratch - hire the editorial team, DTP, distribution, and an advertisement department.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr · Prague, Czech Republic

• Score was a video-games magazine, published by Art Consulting.
• My role was to hire the editorial team and take the magazine to the next level.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr · Prague, Czech Republic

• I was an editor and speaker of shows School of Internet, DaVinci and GamePage.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1993 · 2 yrs · Prague, Czech Republic

• Altar Publishing is a publishing house focused on game-books.
• I was a co-writer and co-publisher of the original paper RPG game "Draci Doupe" (Dragon's Lair) which became a massive success among RPG fans.