Curriculum Vitae - Zsolt Berend
Contact Information
• Cell Phone - direct: +36-20-494-****
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Education
• Certified Scrum Master – Agile Project Management, Malvern, PA, USA
• Graduate: Physics, Astrophysics, Eotvos Lorand Science University Budapest, Hungary
Professional Experience
Jan 2012 – present
All You Can Stock agency Ltd., Budapest, Hungary http://allyoucanstock.com/
Founder and Co-Owner
Product: worldwide on-line market place for royalty free stock photography, illustration and art.
Activities: Market Analysis; Business Analysis; Requirement specifications; Building an international community of stock photographers, graphic designers (from 0 to current 140 000+ images and 300+ registered members from 49 countries); Advertising their work to engage buyers; Customer relations
Nov 2007 – Jan 2012
Employer: Morgan Stanley, New York City, NY, USA & Budapest, Hungary
Title: Vice President
Project: Sub-Ledger of the Institutional Securities
Role: BA, business unit lead, project manager, QA manager
Product: accounting system; balance sheet, journals, positions and balances keeper of the Firm
Activities: project acquisition; leading accounting infrastructure renovation project (for listed derivatives; cash dividends; stock loan); leading the business unit throughout the lifecycle of the project; integrations; supporting downstream data requests cross the firm; operations; service level agreement; Resource allocations; Budget planning; Testing Strategy planning; Back-end test automation; Integration and UAT planning; Regression testing; Client reporting.
Nov 2003 – Oct 2007
Employer: Siemens Medical Solutions, PA, USA
Project: Enterprise-wide Siemens Hospital Information System
Role: scrum master, systems analyst
Product: enterprise-wide clinical information system for US and international customers. http://www.usa.siemens.com/soarian.
Activities: scrum master, sprint planning, coaching, scrum of scrums, user stories, systems analysis
February 1999 – Oct 2003
Employer: Siemens PSE (Program and System Engineering)
Projects: HiCom and HiPath call processing applications (partners: Vienna, Boca Raton, Munich, Milano)
Role: designer, technical lead
Product: call processing features for new versions of HiCom300 and HiPath4000 Siemens Telephone switches. Customers: German Parliament, Daimler Chrysler,Activities: designer, developer, tester
September 1997 – January 1999: research and PhD studies - modeling the structure of the Milky Way based on large databases of red giant stars - at observatories in Budapest and Vienna.
Employer: Hungarian Academy of Science
Conferences/Publications
June 2006, Huntsville, AL: 1st North American Requirements Engineering Workshop: Current Trends in Requirements Engineering. Title: Experiences of Applying Agile in Offshore Environment
Technical Skills
• VB, SQL, Unix, (not used since 2003: C, C++, Java), Test Automation
• Methods and Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS5; Primavera; MS Project; MS Office; Mercury Test Director; Rational ClearCase; Rational Rose (UML); Visio
Language Skills
Hungarian – native, English – professional, German – professional (not practiced actively since 2003)