Zdenek Svoboda

Current

• Product Manager at Good Data Corporation

Past

• Director of Professional Services at Hewlett Packard
• Director of Professional Services at Mercury Interactive
• Director of Professional Services at Systinet

• Senior Director of Product Management at Systinet Corp.
• IT Architecture Consultant at Alfa Consult
• Director of Eastern European Professional Services at SilverStream
• Consultant & Presales Engineer at Sybase
• Part time PowerBuilder and C/C++ Developer at Unicorn

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Education

• Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Flickr
• My Blog

Zdenek Svoboda’s Summary

* Managed several product lines at Systinet/Mercury/HP and Good Data.
* Managed of small team of product managers.

* Delivered large-scale consultancy engagements.
* Managed small team of professional services consultants.

* Advanced customer communication and presentation skills.
* Experienced IT architect (SOA, J2EE, client server)

Zdenek Svoboda’s Specialties:

* Product Management
* Systinet/Mercury/HP & GoodData

* Consultant
* Systinet/Mercury/HP, ClearStream, Sybase

* Architecture & Design
* Design and analysis methodologies (RUP, UML)
* J2EE & messaging
* SOA (web services & REST)

* Development
* Programming languages (e.g. Java, C++, C#)
* DBMS and related technologies (SQL, replication)
* Messaging systems (JMS, Tibco, MQ)
* XML technologies (XSLT, XQuery, XPath)
* Web services (SOAP/WSDL/UDDI)

Zdenek Svoboda’s Experience

• Product Manager

  Good Data Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Product manager at the BI startup company.

• Director of Professional Services

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

  Responsible for major European projects BT, Celesio, Telecom Italia, HP, SKAT, SNS and others. Helped with establishing Systinet European market.
  
  Managed EMEA SOA professional services group

• Director of Professional Services

  Mercury Interactive

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MERQ; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for major European projects BT, Celesio, Telecom Italia, HP, SKAT, SNS and others. Helped with establishing Systinet European market.
  
  Managed European SOA professional services group.

• Director of Professional Services

  Systinet

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Responsible for major European projects BT, Celesio, Telecom Italia, HP, SKAT, SNS and others. Helped with establishing Systinet European market.
  
  Managed European professional services group.

• Senior Director of Product Management

  Systinet Corp.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 10 months)

  Defined product and market requirements for all Systinet products.
  
  Participated on creation of Systinet vision. Built and led US based team of 3 product managers.
  
  Participated in leading standards consortiums.
  
  Presented to key Systinet customers including DISA, Wells Fargo, Nielsen Media, FileNet, BMC and others. Significantly helped with establishing US market for Systinet.

• IT Architecture Consultant

  Alfa Consult

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — December 2000 (1 year )

  Leading consultant of enterprise architecture at Clearstream (later acquired Deutsche Bank). Implemented various proof of concept architectures in Clearstream using Tibco technologies, Oracle DBMS and BEA Weblogic application server.

• Director of Eastern European Professional Services

  SilverStream

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1997 — December 1999 (3 years )

  Assumed responsibility for Eastern European professional services. Consultancy on large projects in Czech Postal Service, Prague City and others. Lead implementation of information systems for Societe Generale and Ministry of Trade.

• Consultant & Presales Engineer

  Sybase

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1994 — December 1996 (3 years )

  Responsible for technical pre-sales presentations for major Czech and Eastern European customers. Implemented information Czech Army system for NATO exercise Cooperative Challenge in PowerBuilder and MS SQL Server. Led consultancy engagements in Czech Postal Service, Czech TV and major Czech banks.

• Part time PowerBuilder and C/C++ Developer

  Unicorn

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1992 — December 1993 (2 years )

  Implemented key components of custom ERP Information System for Merkuria a.s. (one of the largest trading organizations in Czech Republic). This system was implemented in C/C++ on UNIX and Informix platforms.
  
  Participated on architecture design and implemented core components of CRM for Multiservis a.s. (the largest leasing company in Czech Republic). Multiservis a.s. was later acquired by General Electric and integrated into GE Money Bank.
  
  Implemented core components of reusable Unix C/C++ security framework.

Zdenek Svoboda’s Education

• Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze

  Masters , Nuclear Physics , 1991 — 1996

Additional Information

Zdenek Svoboda’s Websites:

• Flickr
• My Blog

Zdenek Svoboda’s Interests:

skiing, squash, new technology

Zdenek Svoboda’s Honors:

Certified Java Developer
Certified Java Architect
Sybase Presidents Club

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