Position: CIO / CTO / Technical Director / R&D
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

20+ years of experience in IT industry and software development
30+ successed projects
10+ parallel projects
Opened IT Competence center in Kiev for TBC Bank 15+ team members.
Restructured team/process/motivation system GPI Holding (Vienna Insurance Group) increased software development productivity more than 20%
Implement Agile development GPI Holding and IRAO (Vienna Insurance Group) 30+ team members
CTO of IT Competence Center in Ukraine at TBC Bank
Aug 2017 - Current
•	Created IT center in Ukraine from scratch
•	Set clear team goals
•	Delegate tasks and set deadlines
•	Oversee day-to-day operation
•	Architecture back-end and front-end (technologies .Net Core, C#, ASP.Net Core Web API, Microsoft SQL Server, Elasticsearch as NoSQ, Redis, RabbitMQ, Angular 2-8, Bootstrap, JS, Angular Material)
•	Monitor team performance and report on metrics
•	Review team code
•	Develop/Manage IT operation team (24x7 NOC/SOC teams, 24x7 DB support/monitoring teams...)
•	Motivate team members
•	Discover training needs and provide coaching
•	Listen to team members’ feedback and resolve any issues or conflicts
•	Recognize high performance and reward accomplishments
•	Encourage creativity and risk-taking
•	Suggest and organize team building activities
•	Interview/hire new candidates
•	Monitor team in/out/absence.
•	Manage vacations and business trips
•	Review invoice/acts/contracts

Head of IT Department at GPI Holding and IRAO (VIG)
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017  (2 yrs)
•	Managing a team of over 25 administrative & technical staff
•	Architecture back-end and front-end (technologies: .Net Framework, .Net Core, C#, ASP.Net MVC, Win Forms, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, RabbitMQ, Angular 2+, Bootstrap 3)
•	Strengthening the IT infrastructure through to implementing new technologies
•	Responsible for and infrastrucure (Servers, Systems, Network, DB, DLP, DR) and development lifecycle cycle end to end (Architecture, Design, Development, QA, deployment to production).
•	Manage the IT budgets and expenditure on hardware and software
•	Implementing scrum based project management workflows
•	Develop/Manage IT operation team (24x7 NOC/SOC teams, DB support/monitoring teams...)
•	Developing & maintaining the company IT systems, software and databases
•	Recommending and implementing improvements and efficiencies
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For more information plese see in linkedin Giorgi Zekalashvili
Seeking CTO, CIO or R&D position in IT companies, banks, insurance companies, financian corporations...