Stefan Ondek is a certified Senior Project Manager (PMI PMP, PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner, IPMA B+ - CIPM/CSPM, P3O Practitioner, MSP Practitioner), Consultant & PRINCE2 Approved Trainer with experience from management consulting, information & communication technologies and banking industries. 

Besides the project management qualifications mentioned above, he holds a Masters in International Business and the TOCICO Certificate of Achievement.

 

Stefan deals with project management since 1997 and with implementation of project management in organisations since 2002.

He has successfully managed large projects, be it core banking information systems implementation or analysis and planning of a universal bank's preparation for Euro adoption as national currency. He has participated in the development of individuals' and organisations' project management competencies & capacities from the creation of project management methodologies through deployment & development of Project Management Offices/ Portfolio, Programme & Project Management Offices (PMO/ P3O), consulting, education of project managers, sponsors & team members in project management, launch & assurance of independent project managers' certification according to leading international standards, to preparations for implementing a multiproject management support system.

He also has been intensely involved in not-for-profit professional activities to promote the spreading and use of good project management, and is a regular speaker at project management events.

 

• „Turnkey" setup and implementation of a project management system based on PMI standards and using Critical Chain principles for the Slovak and Czech branch of an international IT company.
• Consulting for the Slovak branch of mBank (member of Commerzbank Group) in the area of Euro Changeover preparation and its management.
• Project management of the preparation of VUB Bank (leading Slovak commercial bank, member of Intesa Sanpaolo Group) for the adoption of Euro as national currency - business requirements analysis, IT & business impacts evaluation and changes implementation planning phases.
• Project management of a full upgrade of VUB Bank's key core banking system used for loans, loan commitments and collaterals processing to the current version including the evaluation of all existing customisations of the original version, redesign/ retrofit of selected valuable customisations from the original into the current version of the system and conversion of all production data.
• Adjustment and enhancement of delivered functionality of VUB Bank's core banking system in the loan collaterals area, migration and data conversion from the legacy production system to this target system.
• Management consulting for the eSlovakia program, a common initiative of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Telecom (T-Com) aimed at supporting Slovakia's internetisation. Part of this program was e.g. the Project „PCs for Schools", in the scope of which every primary and secondary school received a PC training room connected to the Internet.
• Setup of the Project Management Office of Slovak Telekom (T-Com) - participation in the creation of the company's project management methodology, monitoring and coordination of the company's strategic projects, design and organisation of a project management education program for strategic projects managers and key team members.