Ivaylo Piskov

- Responsible for setting strategic goals and objectives. Manages relationships with key alliances, partners and clients. Looks after strategy implementation - Provides mentoring, coaching and direction to cardinal clients related to Project Management, IT Management, Decision Making, Leadership, etc. Evangelizes process improvements, adoption of best practices and agile methods - Implements and maintains detailed KPIs to ensure productivity and quality using Lean Six Sigma methodologies

- Acted as a senior manager coordinating projects for development and implementation of a suite of order management and trading platforms - Worked with functional experts to define policies, formulate business cases, outline project plans, prepare SDLC documents and implement key system components across multiple native and external business flows. - Responsible for full project lifecycle from planning, analysis, design, coordination, execution and evaluation of large scale IT projects

- Managed software development projects for key business activities - short sales, locate, trading, compliance and reporting - Oversaw global teams responsible for development and implementation of trading platforms - Responsible for outlining and coordinating change mgmt. plans and IT release schedules - Liaised with business, operations and other stakeholders for defining objectives and setting priorities - Monitored performance of key indicators and worked on improving the agility of processes

- Coordinated, supervised and executed University-wide IT processes, policies and initiatives - Worked on developing University’s long-range technology strategy. Defined policies for IT services, coordinated IT strategies and monitored implementation of related IT projects - Served as liaison between technical and non-technical staff. Consolidated data and prepared reports, presented to upper management and external stakeholders - Created and managed departmental IT budgets and inventories.

- Designed, developed, implemented and supported business-specific software applications - Spearheaded production support team, introduced enhancements in company’s reporting systems