NENAD ANTIC

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Canadian citizen, origin form CEE region (Serbia), unlimited working permit in Austria

• Manager of Enterprise Architecture, Technology Innovation and Labs for the global organization (bwin.party Digital

Entertainment Plc. (1000+personnel in IT) – LSE FTSE 250, known brand in Europe/USA.

• Leadership based on vision and values and stemming from 20 years of international professional experience in Austria,

Canada, USA, and Serbia. Drive for transformation with ability to handle ambiguity and high stress situation.

• Expertise in inspiring and managing cross functional and intercultural/international teams. Proficient in all aspects of

SDLC, including Project management (RUP, Agile, etc.), Devops and Lean concepts.

• Experienced in Enterprise Governance and IT Assets Lifecycle management, processes/methodologies and

tools/software (e.g. ServiceNow). Led AAB and ARB (Architecture Advisory and Review Board), as well as IT Asset

Management Board (review and lifecycle of technologies, platforms, tools and techniques). CoBIt certified practitioner,

proficient in ITIL Service Management.

Ability to employ strategic, multidisciplinary and system thinking approach, strong belief in Service Orientation,

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connected

company, communication and collaboration, and Customer centric view. Variety of experiences in life

cycle of organization: mergers and acquisition, audits and due diligences, start ups, .com boom and bust, explosive

exponential growth, mature multinational corporations, outsourcing, market entries, downturns.

Proficient in Enterprise Optimization/Transformation, Digital Strategy, Portfolio Planning, Partners and Vendor

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negotiations and Management, modeling/design, and steering of execution:

o Multiple Enterprise Architecture frameworks, and models (TOGAF, Zachman, PEAF, Gartner)

o Ability to connect asset portfolio with financials, strategy, organizational set up, and program/projects

o Business Architecture: business modeling, profound knowledge of enterprise business capabilities (e.g. marketing,

financials, customer support, procurement, etc.), and business process mapping (BPM, customer and product life

cycles, business rule management (e.g. related to risk management/underwriting)

o Information Architecture, Domain Modeling, Big Data, lean metrics and KPIs

o Solutions (technology, applications, mobile/touch, middleware, and tools), Integration Architecture, based

on SOA and EDA, patterns for high volume eCommerce, payment industry solutions, and variety of

information systems/platforms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc., Vienna, Austria

Lead of Enterprise Architecture, Innovation & Labs

• Reports directly to CTO managing EAIL budget. Cultural and organizational transformation towards “Podular” set up of

products & platform services, Lean/Devops, and Agile orientation.

• Developed Canban based portfolio management, responsible for strategic steering of technology roadmap.

• Implemented Tech Radar approach to governance of IT assets lifecycle with elements of innovation.

• Instrumental in establishing Innovation collaboration center, employed scenario planning techniques, to instill and funnel

innovation.

• Worked on establishing strategic partners (e.g. Accenture) alignment of initiatives and strategy. Monitor and track

deliverables and progress of initiatives.

• Digital strategy development and communication as one pager and thru visual storytelling.

• Managed common ICT polices and standards, or rule/cook book for SOA/micro services based development and

architecture

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bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc., Vienna, Austria

Head of Enterprise Architecture 2010 2013

• Lead EA discipline for the multi cultural organization with staff from over 40 countries.

• Cooperated closely with C level (CTO, COO, CMO) and instrumental in steering the organization towards customer

centric, multi channel, touch/mobile first approach, real service orientation, business modularity, and Hybrid type

of IT services.

• Managed budget and conducted talent management.

• Defined Technology Organizational Design to support transformation. As a member of a Core Team defined IT Strategy

anchored in Corporate Strategy, using Gartner approach. Supported merger and further acquisitions.

• In charge of the stream consolidating Architectural/IT Governance and establishing unified global Enterprise wide IT

Asset Management methodology, process, and policies ITAM. Categorized IT assets and modeled relationships in

ServiceNow tool and CMDB to connect asset and financials portfolios with procurement, business unit

budgeting, etc.

• In charge of the stream consolidating Architectural/IT Governance and establishing unified global Enterprise wide IT

Asset Management methodology, process, and policies ITAM. Categorized IT assets and modeled relationships in

ServiceNow tool and CMDB to connect asset and financials portfolios with procurement, business unit

budgeting, etc.

• Responsible for Architecture Advisory & Review Board, based on Gartner and later PEAF approach and defined

Business and Technology Target Architecture for the organization. Implemented Iteraplan EA Tool for integration of EA

Portfolios.

• Responsible for the post merger products/platform streams integration, capability and business processes

mapping, and strategy execution. As a part of a team reporting to COO worked on formulating tactics and

associated risks & benefits, (e.g. to lower cost of entering multiple regulated markets, TCO Optimization, Platform

Integration), for the enterprise change. Coordinated with remote teams, primarily in Hyderabad, India.

• Introduced multileveled Business Capability mapping to the organization, and a concept of “trains” or executive

dashboard to monitor progress of the post merger. Developed risk/heat map for the migration of the business

platform, and Market Entry Blueprint based on Business and Operating Model.

Enterprise Architect 2009 – 2010

• Extensively participated in formulating IT Strategy, audit preparations, and CobIT implementation. As a part of pre merger

activities, worked on detailed bwin Party Gaming Merger talks and due diligence

• Business Case/Business Transformation scenarios with “C” level of management, Risk Assessment, mapping and alignment

of IT systems with business strategy/capabilities.

• Involved in interpretation and modeling of vision/mission/values/roles in extended Enterprise for the organization. Worked on

finding cost efficiencies and other important synergies for the future merged

entity, including outsourcing, consolidation, and decommissioning of systems. Developed TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

concepts for products and services. Conducted risk assessment of ventures and proposed control and mediation measures.

• Worked on formulating and performed gap analysis of Target Enterprise Architecture aligned with Business strategy, with

emphasis on an eCommerce platform, with agile change capability to support fast entering of new regulatory markets.

• Actively participated in effort to integrate/unify multiple legacy platforms, based on SOA/EDA concepts.

• Took part in a negotiation/evaluation team for vendors (e.g. Oracle) and potential merger/acquisition target organizations –

GioccoDigitale (ITA), Party Gaming (LSE listed). Participated in drafting RFP documents for Canadian provincial Atlantic

Lottery Corporation.

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Senior Architect eCommerce Platform Solutions

2008 – 2009

• Responsible for the eCommerce Platform. Translated business needs into solution architecture and design. Acted as needed

as a Project Manager, and as Agile Coach/Scrum Master of a cross functional teams.

• Designed service contracts/SLAs, specified key system interfaces. Derived and validated Business Process Models and

policies/business rules as Statements/Decision Tables. Worked on Fact/Domain Models, Business Entities Lifecycle

Management, and CEP. Identify KPIs/Critical Success Factors for BI.

• Co authored Service Dependency Meta Model to align business/development/IT operations. Promoted Rule Based

approach and Business Motivation Model (BMM) into the organization. Introduced and evangelized BPMN as a common

business process language shared by business and IT. Participated in a creation of a Domain Specific Language based on

xText MDD generator framework, to express Architecture model, and increase productivity by generating code from the

model. Worked on TIBCO EMS Message Broker design patterns and configuration for the Enterprise Service Bus.

• In charge of the implementation of CPI (Company Public Interfaces) SOA governance process, design time repository

for developing platform components in an iterative and distributed fashion, based on Zachman taxonomy, TOGAF, and

ITIL/COBIT methodologies.

• Designed and refactored it services: Regulatory Compliance, Fraud/Risk Services to automate key decisions in business

processes for French and Italian markets (e.g. Anti Money Laundering), Loyalty Program/Shop, Campaign and Promotion

Management, Account/Billing and Customer support, also services to manage Customer Lifecycle (KYC) in regulated

markets.

• Led implementation of “All In” business service to handle massive (several millions) customer db migration to bwin platform

using MS Workflow Foundation for process automation.

Sportingbet PLC/Alea Software Inc.,Vancouver, Canada

eCommerce/Payments Team Lead 2005–2008

• Managed a team of 5 10 developers/QA, and up to six concurrent projects. Was part of Agile Steering Committee, and

acted as a Scrum Master. Involved in projects scope definition, solution and physical (IT) architecture, analysis and strategy

for the team. Planned/coordinated and managed team activities, outlined key deliverables/ tasks, worked on mentoring and

motivation.. Coordinated offshore/onshore third party communication. Led performance evaluation process. Participated in a

creation of group’s Road Map.

• Converted eCommerce platform to SOA/modules based solution, using messaging middleware, EAI patterns, web services,

and hosted on clustered servers. The system was composed of: Cashier/ eCommerce Server for Deposit/ Withdrawal

Processing, Payment Gateways/Routing, Risk/Fraud tools and services, Customer Service/Account Management, CRM

admin tools, Payments History, Bonus/Incentive Management System.

Actively involved in Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standard Compliance planning, development and

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integration. Led effort to automate and optimize Money Withdrawal Process. Promoted Business Process

Management with jBPM, dRools and Rule Based Approach solution. Critical payment processor implementation projects were

delivered effectively on schedule using iterative Agile/Scrum process and estimation technique. Peak loads exceeded 40 million

$US per day in transaction

deposits, to a total of over 2.5 billion $US per year, with the highest transaction success rate in the gaming industry, according to an

independent source review.

Senior Software Developer 2004–2005

Worked on several components of company’s integrated eGaming platform, primarily eCommerce System.

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Iteratively developed online payment processing solution and Commerce Server for deposits, withdrawals,

and bonuses. Integrated numerous payment solutions . Refactored system to an asynchronous mode based

on components messaging framework, basedon EI architecture patterns. Achieved reliable fail over/high availability solution

with load balancing & clustering.

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• Involved in complete SDLC. Wrote high/mid level design documents under Rational Unified Process (RUP). Designed and

constructed: “Black Box” server component, risk management system using Rule Engine for risk evaluation, “Book Manager”

and “Pool Manager” admin and horse racing monitoring tools.

Software Developer Poligosys Software Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada 2003

•Developed Admin and Customer Management Services for Java/J2EE web based gaming application. Developed advanced

search engine tools. Responsible for Tomcat configuration and troubleshooting.

•Built transactional “Cashier” eCommerce services for deposits/withdrawals including credit cards, checks, and integration of

FirePay/SureFire, Visa/MasterCard and NETeller on line payment systems. Developed variety of accounting reports, and built

Refer A Friend system capability.

Senior Software Developer ICare/Snalf.com, Portland, OR, USA 2000–2003

Developed .ComUnity Content Management System/Portal for senior/long term care industry. The concept included

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extranet web for the network of pharmacies and skilled nursing/assisted living facilities,

rehabilitation, and hospitality services, and group purchasing organizations (Genesis Health Ventures–Nasdaq: GHVI) with

60000+ users. Dramatically improved system performance by more than 50%.

Implemented broad range of services ranging from newsletters to a different business tools for their employees, including

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e commerce for facility administrators:

o Adopted and customized CommerceOne Collaborative Platform solution on Commerceone.net exchange, e commerce

supply order/payments system.

Was involved in SSO solution implementation, worked on advanced session management based on event notifications.

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Built newsletter template engine framework, data storage and retrieval, facility census and financial supply reporting tool.

Developed from scratch user management engine.

In charge of application server administration: advanced configuration, clustering/failover, performance tuning, and

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deployment.

ProjectExperience ITI, Vancouver, BC, Canada 1999 2000

Built and designed a fully functional n tiered enterprise application for a Personnel Placement Agency.

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Designed and deployed “Imagine” Project Tracking System, enterprise wide systems application using 3 tier thin client

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Network Computer Architecture. Developed triggers, procedures and functions.

• Developed, coded, and implemented server side n tiered distributed application for a fictitious Virtual

Placement Agency, in a LAN environment.

• Developed and successfully presented interactive corporate web site for I2I Advertising Agency.

Lab Geologist Meridian Geosciences Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada 1999

• Conducted laboratory microscope examination and sorting of diamond indicator minerals for diamond exploration

programs on properties in NW Territories and Alberta.

Wellsite Geologist Optima Geological Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1996 1998

Supervised and directed onsite oil/gas exploration drilling in Western Canada.

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Successfully executed exploration programs with budgets of $500 000 to over $10 million.Worked often in

remote areas and under severe time constraints and pressure.

Conducted drilling along with drilling supervisor based on geological analysis, drilling parameters and hydrocarbon

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shows. Installed, maintained, and operated sophisticated gas detection equipment. Wrote geological reports to clients,

drafted well logs.

Petroleum Geochemist Naftagas Oil Company, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1994 1995

Responsible for geological and geochemical modeling of the potential petroleum rich basins related to petroleum

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generation, migration and accumulation. Interpreted results of different chemical analysis, generated geological maps and

carried out regional assessment of oil/gas reserves.

Developed petroleum drilling prospects and documented exploration programs resulted in the discovery of “Gaj”

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shallow heavy oil reservoir based on complex geochemical interpretation. Implemented geochemical modeling software –

Optim and MatOil (France) for MS Windows.

Wellsite Geologis Naftagas Oil Company, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

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1994

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• Monitored and directed on site over 20 oil/gas exploration and developmental wells. Prepared geological reports for

exploration manager. Supervised onsite personnel.

• Responsible for quick look geophysical logs analysis. Operated different types of logging and gas detecting units.

EDUCATION

Oxford Scenario Planning

Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK, April 2013

Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Information Technology, July2000

ITI Information Technology Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Information

Technology

Bachelor of Science in Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology (equivalent of North American Master

Degree according to Bologna Education System), March 1992

Belgrade University, Yugoslavia

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/ACHIEVEMENTS

Innovation Games http://innovationgames.com/ 2013

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Craig Larman`s Agile/Lean Workshops 2013

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Gartner EA Conference, London, May 2012

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CobIT4.1 Framework for IT Governance and Control Foundation Certification, ISACA, 2011

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Accenture Delivery Center in Bangalore, India Partner Knowledge Share Workshop, 2011

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Enterprise Decision Management Conference, Las Vegas, 2009

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QCon Conference, London, 2009

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Certified Scrum Master, SolutionsIQ, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2007

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Peer Mentoring Workshop, Solution Strategies Inc./ www.practicalleader.com,Vancouver, BC, 2006

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Internal BEAWeblogic 4.5 and 6.1 Developers Training, Portland OR, 2001 2002

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CommerceOne training, Pleasanton CA, Portland OR, 2001 2002;

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Professional Engineer designation, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1995.

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