Cluj, Romania
Antal is a British MBA qualified business leader with a PMP certification from PMI and a technical background in software development (B.Eng.). He first began coding in 1986 and has since developed into a multi-lingual manager, fluent in English, Hungarian, and Romanian, with basic German language skills. Antal has a proven track record of leading Agile software product development teams, projects and programs to create innovative, cost-effective, and fast-to-market software systems. He is experienced in leading and developing distributed teams across time zones, cultures, and language barriers. Furthermore, Antal is customer-obsessed and has successfully won customers in strategic and pilot projects by setting up high-performance and efficient teams.
Embedded Technical Program Management: Stepping in to own complex delivery end-to-end, from dependency mapping to cross-border partner coordination. Delivery Rescue: Diagnosing blockers, restructuring out-of-control scopes, and turning around failing multi-million euro programs fast. Process & Capability Scaling: Designing robust delivery frameworks and building high-performing technical cultures from scratch. With over 15 years of technical delivery experience, we operate deeply within complex ecosystems: Hardware-Software Systems & Industrial Infrastructure Regulated Environments (Healthcare IT, Clinical Trials, ISO 9001/27001, GDPR) Enterprise SaaS & On-Premises/Private-Cloud AI Tooling Fastvex operates as an agile, independent engineering practice, scaling dynamically via a trusted network of specialists. Currently scaling our roadmap for physical systems infrastructure, supported by our ongoing application for Startup Nation 2024.
Investigated entrepreneurial ventures through market research, feasibility studies, and networking to explore industry trends, to secure funding from Startup Nation 2024 Learned about the equity investments, making ~15% realized profit in less than a year, reaching a sustainable passive income (financial independence). Reached zero net energy consumption home by a combination of self a design&install solar system with government funded programs (Casa Verde Fotovoltaice, RepowerEU) and reduced home's energy consumption by 40% with insulation (energy independence).
Aided the COO to meet the target of the 3 month organizational transformation program working towards a scalable matrix structure with delivery units and putting people first, creating centralized tools bringing visibility on project health, customer accounts, talent engagement Laid the foundation towards ISO 9001 certification, organizing existing processes, identifying gaps and delegating, following up with process owners Line managed (up to 34 colleagues + 10 consultants) in three countries (RO, MD, MY), reaching zero churn in the last 8 months by enabling and constantly improving high performance software development teams including the introduction of team OKR performance management and focus on a feedback culture Account management responsibilities (5-6 customers): cutting losses on difficult ones and making the remaining ones the most profitable in the organization by optimizing resource allocation, upselling and rate negotiation, being responsible for up to 4MM/year from the EBITDA Participating in presales, drafting contracts, winning a Swedish insuretech and a German AI orgs as customers Accountable on project success (for up to 15 projects) by coaching the two project managers, team leads and collaborating closely with stakeholders
As an external project manager initiated and led the creation and launch of two (2) global health-care solution web-applications with mobile counterparts taking up also the product manager/owner role and facilitating the launch of one solution to eight (8) long term care providers within the first year Later employed into the R&D manager role to stabilize the Cluj branch, a team of 21 of mobile/full stack devs, testers, test lead, PM, architect, UI / UX designers and 7 external collaborators after several major organizational changes, strengthened the team by hiring a project manager Introduced OKR’s in target setting over KPI’s for clarity Established relationships with global product managers and regional sales directors to mediate between conflicting interests, solve dependencies, delivering the highest possible value by negotiating scope and quarterly releasing six (6) desktop product increments and their mobile counterparts based on the available resources
Delivery of MVP software products (up to three in parallel) in the role of a PM - resourced up to EUR 2MM/year by leading globally distributed cross functional teams of UI/UX/BA/QA/FE-BE DEV/Architects, bridging the gap between tech and business Transform e.Sigma Systems GMBH defense industry experience in releasing their first commercial MVP for an AI integrated cloud platform to be used by the infrastructure inspection market (e.Sic cloud) by German governmental agencies Increased efficiency of future project management activities by aiding the ISO 27001 certification of the organization by structuring and defining a unified software development process and providing Confluence templates Helped PRMA Consulting UK becoming the second biggest customer of the department and to obtain funds from AMGEN by creating, among other products, a collaborative Global Value Dossier management cloud application as a bio-pharmaceutical market access tool in a budget of EUR 0.5MM resulting in PRMA Tracker, PRMA Navigator while improving PRMA HealthCheck Winning Emerson Corporate in 2015 as a long term customer for the organization by delivering a SharePoint RVO2 management system still in use today Turned around a failing project for Phillip Morris International, a cloud HR recruiting platform linked to a native iOS app, thus obtaining six (6) more projects for the organization Very low employee attrition rate by coaching cross functional and distributed agile teams of up to eleven persons, up to five product teams in parallel. From a total of 54 employees in ~six (6) years only four (4) left; mentoring newly hired project managers, empowering them to take up a project just by themselves in less than a month. Being remembered by interns and employees as holding the best gamified presentations every year on Agile / SCRUM in groups of 16 and being remembered by my superior as the only manager he knew who always had success delivering fixed priced projects