Mariusz Szyszka

Senior Project Manager

Technical Delivery Lead

Mariusz Szyszka

PMP and Agile qualified Technical Project Manager with 14+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex Software Development and Managed Services projects. Seasoned professional able to demonstrate strategic thinking, strong work ethics, business results orientation and exceptional problem solving capabilities.

I bring a wealth of seasoned experience in delivering an end-to-end financial crimes compliance solution leveraging advanced AI technology for Anti-Money Laundering. As well as possess extensive experience overseeing and spearheading ServiceNow related projects, guiding them from conceptualization to fruition.

Passionate about FinTech concerning fraud detection, digital payments, process automation, and love to troubleshoot and experiment with composite AI capabilities. Enjoying tennis, ice hockey and ballroom dancing.

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What I Do

Project Management

Oversees the planning, execution, and successful delivery of IT projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and effective coordination of resources, timelines, and stakeholders.

Product Management

Defines and prioritizes features of a product, maximizing its value, and collaborating with development teams to ensure the delivery of a successful and market-aligned product.

Quality Assurance

Ensures that the established standards and processes are followed, systematically identifying, preventing, and addressing defects to guarantee the delivery of high-quality and reliable software.

Business Analysis

Gathers and translates requirements, and facilitates communication between stakeholders and development teams to ensure effective and efficient solutions aligning with organizational objectives

Resume

19 Years of Experience

Education

2007 - 2008

School of Banking - Toruń

Postgraduates - Project Management

Faculty of Finance and Management. Comprehensive project management education blending theoretical principles with hands-on trainings.

1999 - 2004

University of Technology and Life Sciences - Bydgoszcz

Master of Science

Faculty of Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering. Telecommunications and computer systems and networks.

Work Experience

2021 - Present

BlackSwan Technologies

Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead

Delivered cutting-edge enterprise software that leverages the advantages of big data and artificial intelligence to control money laundering, fraud, and financial crimes for the tier 1 international bank.
Implemented Enterprise AI Operating System for a global financial institution to streamline AML/KYC operations for smart data-gathering.
Managed engagements with financial institutions being technical, functional and non-functional SME and trusted advisor.
Facilitated strategic conversations with an investment management company to identify and explore opportunities, overcome challenges and ensure regulatory compliance.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to efficiently triage client issues and map out vision and direction of product roadmap.
Facilitated requirement gathering, verification and validation, and release deployment processes ensuring optimal delivery schedules, operational metrics and software quality.
Plan, execute and oversee aspects of engagement delivery from inception to business as usual maintaining expert knowledge of end-to-end solutioning, with the ability to identify risks, issues, impacts and recommendations.

2012 - 2021

Atos Poland Global Services

Senior Project Manager / Product Owner

Led a portfolio of related ServiceNow projects from a concept to reality being responsible for budget, scope, resources and schedule to establish new Atos Tooling Framework.
Captured business specific requirements and mapped them over the standard functionality and ServiceNow offering.
Managed cross-department teams of 40+ people to successful rollout 290+ Live Customers in ServiceNow production.
Improved Time to Market by 40% by leading the project of delivery 400+ Test Cases with coverage of test automation exceeding 95%.
Formulated the vision, strategy, and resource planning for Quality Assurance within the software development.
Liaised between global team of software engineers and stakeholders, steering, prioritizing and approving deliverables require to automate verification and validation processes.
Established processes to oversee activities throughout the software development life cycle (release and sprint planning, deployment, testing and defect management).

2005 - 2012

Alcatel-Lucent

Project Manager / Software Engineer

Managed software development life cycle activities from requirements gathering thru design, development, testing and implementation of custom telecom software solution for largest mobile network operators.
Produced and maintained system engineering documents, offering in-depth insights into software functionality and deployment instructions for the Messaging Systems.
Collated and integrated customer requirements with the technology, establishing a robust foundation that laid the groundwork for the successive stages of design, development, and testing for the Instant Messaging system.
Developed and executed test cases, validating software functionalities to guarantee optimal performance and user experience.
Proficiently identified and addressed flaws and defects, contributing to the enhancement of overall software quality and functionality of messaging platform.