Nick Vlasov

CEO

Brno, South Moravia, Czechia15 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI and ML product management.
  • Proven track record in revenue growth strategies.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional team collaboration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in AI/ML and Cybersecurity sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyLeadershipProduct ManagementGo-to-market StrategyInnovation ManagementStakeholder EngagementProduct DiscoveryOperations ManagementStrategic ThinkingAgile ManagementProgram ManagementAgile CoachingProject ManagementData Warehousing

Other Skills

Big-Picture ThinkingBusiness StrategyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Competitive AnalysisRevenue & Profit GrowthStrategic PartnershipsData-driven Decision MakingDelivery ManagementNegotiationCloud ComputingBusiness Case DevelopmentPublic SpeakingTeam MotivationFacilitationSQL

About

IT is my job, my hobby and my lifestyle. That's why people around me, the company's goals and results matter to me much. Any area of business in the world is finally about people. People make decisions, consume values, deliver values, give feedback etc. Resource management, leading operations, product management and pre-sales management gave me the unique experience to understand people and their goals from all sides of IT. This understanding helps me much to collaborate and deliver business values while keeping the motivated team members. I like to learn from others and share the knowledge with people surrounding and my special pride is to see how my mentees gain perfect results and career growth.

Experience

Progress

2 roles

Head of Product Management (Flowmon)

Promoted

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Brno, South Moravia, Czechia · Hybrid

  • This new role is an exciting opportunity to continue driving Flowmon towards and providing extra value to our customers!
Big-Picture ThinkingProduct StrategyBusiness StrategyLeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Competitive Analysis+1

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Brno, South Moravia, Czechia · Hybrid

  • Flowmon is a network security and performance monitoring product which has had big success in the CEE market and now expanding to the US as part of the Progress family.
  • My main focus as PM is revenue growth and expansion to the new market.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Identifying the best Go to Market(GTM) approaches for other markets
  • Implementing the data-driven decision-making process within the product
  • Erasing communication and understanding gaps between departments and stakeholders.
  • Coordinating the partnership and distribution opportunities
  • Uncovering new features and opportunities
  • Enhancing Customer Journey and Delivery Funnel
Big-Picture ThinkingStrategic PartnershipsProduct managementProduct DiscoveryData-driven Decision MakingBusiness Strategy+3

Iba group cz/sk

Transformation Product Manager

May 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Brno, South Moravia, Czechia

  • The objective is to increase the current company's competitiveness and revenue. Our main focus is to transform the sales funnel and build domain expertise teams.
  • We have already raised a number of domain services and continuing company transformation. During transformation, we work with Top management, Sales, Business Development, Delivery, and Security departments.
  • New company approaches/services move to market
  • Business domain market demand research
  • Market research
  • Team ramp-up and processes setup
  • Pre-sales activities
  • Strategy and business goals coordination
  • Decision-making sessions facilitation
  • Rebuilding the current resource providing approach
  • Reporting to top management
Big-Picture ThinkingInnovation managementDelivery ManagementProduct managementAgile managementNegotiation+5

Iba group

5 roles

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2020Mar 2021 · 5 mos · Minsk, Belarus

  • Mould detector is a chatbot Computer vision system which helps the german market to coupe with Mold. We delivered the project from scratch to the MVP and got early adopters. It was sunset due to the company's "B2B focus" strategy.
  • Product Vision and roadmap handling
  • Discovery initiation, implementation
  • Market research
  • Team ramp-up and processes setup
  • Existing analytics analysis
  • Scope, backlog, and priorities covering
  • Sales activities
  • Reporting to portfolio managers (C level)
  • Processing users’ feedback into backlog items
  • Product sunset
Big-Picture ThinkingPublic SpeakingDelivery ManagementProduct managementAgile managementProduct Discovery+3

Product Manager

Aug 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Minsk, Belarus

  • Marker was an aside product that appeared after VISE started its first integration. Clients had data and were ready to provide it to us, but they were not ready if their data will be annotated in third-party software. Here appeared Marker. Currently, we are introducing the revamp of the existing marker with auto annotation features for Computer vision.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Defining product vision and roadmap
  • Problem solution fit discovery
  • Market research
  • Products monetization
  • Existing analytics analysis
  • Team ramp-up and processes setup
  • Prioritizing product’s features
  • Product’s Sale / Pre-sales activities
  • Product investments covering
  • Product business models verification
  • Competitors analysis
  • Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product
Big-Picture ThinkingPublic SpeakingDelivery ManagementProduct managementAgile managementProduct Discovery+3

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2018Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Minsk, Belarus

  • VISE was a big-size infrastructure-oriented product, which can perform visual monitoring activities using computer vision technology.
  • The product was built from scratch. After a few months of the discovery cycle, the MVP backlog budget was assigned. My role was to collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams, and early adopters to make this product happen. After we got the first client, there was a start for other segments. Finally, "VISE" was working in 3 countries.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Defining product vision and roadmap
  • Problem solution fit discovery
  • Market research
  • Products monetization
  • Existing analytics analysis
  • Team ramp-up and processes setup
  • Prioritizing product’s features
  • Product’s Sale / Pre-sales activities
  • Product investments covering
  • Product business models verification
  • Competitors analysis
  • Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product
Big-Picture ThinkingPublic SpeakingAgile CoachingDelivery ManagementStakeholder EngagementProduct management+8

Head of Research And Development (AI&ML)

Nov 2017Aug 2018 · 9 mos · Minsk, Belarus

  • I was leading AI/ML lab which in future grew into a separate business area in the company. The objective was to introduce absolute new for the company development area, with its community inside the company.
  • In 6 months we have grown into a 13 Ml engineers department. In 1 year we had extra covered with specialists from all areas (backend, frontend, DevOps, QA,ba, PO, dm) who had AI project experience.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Area strategy definition
  • Engaging stakeholders into the area
  • Products and solutions business gating
  • Hosting and leading ML&AI events
  • Ai Incubator initiation
  • Human resource management
  • Community initiation
  • Education initiation
  • Budgeting and resource covering
Big-Picture ThinkingOperations ManagementDelivery ManagementProduct managementAgile managementProduct Discovery+1

Product Manager / Scrum master

Dec 2016Oct 2017 · 10 mos · Minsk, Belarus

  • IT was an RPA product for DataStage technology, which is widely used in IBM projects. During this project, I shared my role with the Scrum Master role. It was not a long and big product but I have gained positive and negative sides from sharing such positions.
  • Covering product vision, roadmap
  • Performing discovery phase
  • Sales, Pre-sales activities
  • Product roadmap delivery
  • Backlog management
  • Support process set up
  • Integrating process set up with Internal IBM/IBA projects
  • Team coordination
Innovation managementInnovation ManagementAgile managementNegotiationStrategic ThinkingCloud Computing+1

Ibm

Program Delivery Manager

Nov 2019Jun 2020 · 7 mos · Germany

  • “Analytics solution” is a portfolio of multiply projects. I have been set there as Program manager from Contractor’s agency Side to coupe with overall improvement strategy, resources handling, improve teams’ mindset and cross-team interaction. My position has been combined with agile-coach activities to deliver knowledge to the current team. The team size is 75 people.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Program strategy defining
  • Team ramp-up and processes setup
  • Improving the cross-team communications
  • Managing “strategic” program risks
  • Leading the education set-up processes within the project
  • Setting and tracking change control procedures
  • Planning, tracking, and reporting on outputs and outcomes
  • On-boarding\off-boarding and improvements
  • Team leads mentoring
  • Setting and tracking change control procedures
  • Technical innovations management
  • Program’s positioning improvement
Delivery ManagementProduct managementAgile management

Ibm

6 roles

Program Manager

Nov 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • I was assigned to cover the whole infrastructure for one of IBM's business units. For two hard years, we have achieved the clear responsibility zones for each application in the program and decreased “dependent system issues” resolve time to 2 hours. We have completed the path from "nobody knows the webserver IP" to automatically system alerts and bi-weekly management reporting sessions where all were on the same page about the maintenance, issues, and plans.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Covering 12 applications’ (ETL and DWH) infrastructure sets
  • Program processes setup
  • Covering all infrastructure changes/upgrades regulated by IBM
  • Deployments processes coordination
  • Managing overall program risks
  • Infrastructure incident management
  • Planning, tracking, and reporting on outputs and outcomes
  • Health check and infrastructure processes covering
  • Hardware and hosting projects coordination
Operations ManagementProgram ManagementAgile managementNegotiation

Project Manager

Promoted

Jul 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Big Data Warehouse had complicated ETL processes and regulations. Our goal was to increase the amount of systems which were using us as a trusted source. For 2 years we have raised 6 extra applications with our 4 existing ones.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Heavily shared resources workload (3-7 projects per developer)
  • Presenting MVP for customer
  • Infrastructure management
  • Project planning and resource management.
  • Project documentation covering (BRS, SRS, FRS etc.)
  • Incident management activities
  • Procurement process covering
  • Remote multi-international team
  • Clients’ applications On-boarding
  • Driving technical innovations and improvements
  • High team rotation covering (onboard, off-board activities)
  • Release management
  • Setting up L1/L2/L3 support levels
  • Risks management
  • Project audits
Operations ManagementDelivery ManagementProgram ManagementAgile management

Project Manager

Jul 2014Dec 2014 · 5 mos

  • System a portal where all dependant application owners or their ops teams may check what data and when was uploaded into our Data Warehouse. The challenge was, no budgeting extra rather from the core DWH project.
  • We've completely revamped the solution from scratch and turned it into a useful tool for surrounding systems.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Heavily shared resources workload (3-7 projects per developer)
  • Presenting MVP for customer
  • Infrastructure management
  • Project planning and resource management.
  • Project documentation covering (BRS, SRS, FRS etc.)
  • Incident management activities
  • Procurement process covering
  • Remote multi-international team
  • Clients’ applications On-boarding
  • Driving technical innovations and improvements
  • High team rotation covering (onboard, off-board activities)
  • Release management
  • Setting up L1/L2/L3 support levels
  • Risks management
Operations ManagementDelivery ManagementAgile managementProject managementData Warehousing

Program Support Manager

Promoted

Dec 2012May 2018 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • During my work as Support Manager, our team has completed the way from simple "OPS answering questions" team to the team with KPI, Automatization, and DevOps practices. The team has transformed into a predictable and transparent team, with visible improvement points and clear workload estimation. In general, there was over 50 000 daily users in all applications.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Initiating\Rebuilding and optimizing the support processes
  • Designing and integrating the metrics systems
  • Initiating and setting up DevOps practices
  • Incident management
  • Human resource management (dev\ops)
  • Support team budgeting and planning
  • Reviewing customer requirements to improve with the development team from the OPS side • Customers’ requirements review
  • Balancing between standards and common sense
  • Deployment preparation and implementation control
  • Application automation development coordination
  • Team coordination and estimation activities
  • Support “transparency” implementation
Big-Picture ThinkingOperations ManagementInnovation managementAgile CoachingDelivery ManagementProgram Management+5

Technical Lead

Jun 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Financial application with complex ETL. The main challenge as Tech lead was to cover all issues from R0, because it was done under high pressure in minimal time and that was followed by tonnes of bugs.
  • BRS, SRS discussions within the team
  • Providing database & web solutions based on customer’s requirements
  • Task management within the team
  • Designing\developing\reviewing stored procedures for data transfer (ETL)
  • Designing\developing\reviewing DataStage jobs for ETL
  • Designing\developing\reviewing shell scripts for data quality control
  • SQL statements optimization
  • Test\pre-prod environments control
  • Deployment packages preparation
Delivery ManagementAgile managementProject managementData Warehousing

ETL Developer

Aug 2010Jun 2011 · 10 mos

  • Financial application with complex ETL. I was administrating and developing code for financial calculations.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designing and developing stored procedures for data transfer (ETL)
  • Preparing deployment packages for deployments
  • Compiling sets of shell scripts into a single structure
  • Developing ETL jobs within DataStage
  • Optimization and tuning SQL statements from data amount and performance sides
  • Responsible for test environment
Data Warehousing

Education

Czech Technical University in Prague

Magister degree of Computer Science — FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Mar 2006Mar 2011

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics

Magisters of Computer Science and Network systems — Computer Systems and Networks

Jan 2006Jan 2011

University of Management

Magister of Business Administration

Aug 2011Jun 2017

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