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Martins Untals
Date of Birth: 03.07.1981
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
I have been active in science-fiction readers community for a long time. Now I have less time for that, but when I do read fiction, I always pick science-fiction.
As a second major interest, I like reading and learning about economics, psychology and mix between the two in the related fields of cognitive psychology and behavioral economics. Also I closely follow all the technology trends as well as general science topics.
And for the last couple of years, I am also deeply interested in linguistics
SKILLS
Accomplishments
- Completely turned around failing IT department after joining company from abroad
- In-sourced, categorized and rebuilt large array of small legacy systems in one push
- Created and launched full startup technology stack, from devops to frontend. twice.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Business analytics
Software development
Team management
Product delivery
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Key Competences
- Managing teams that are diverse in age, sex and nationality
- Lifelong learning of new industries, technologies and scientific advances
- Good understanding of accounting, marketing and product development
- Full scale technology skills - from hands-on programming to CTO level
- Have led implementing agile with in-house and for distributed teams
SERVICES
IT Complexity Consultancy
IT Complexity Consultancy
Helping your organization to assess and manage current and planned IT complexity.
Independent Board Member
Independent Board Member
Joining your advisory board as an independent director. Providing technology and innovation oversight and advice.
Cross Industry Product Ideation
Cross Industry Product Ideation
Delivering new ideas crossing industries, approaches, and business models. Together with your team or as an independent consultancy.
Vendor Evaluation
Vendor Evaluation
Evaluating proposals, doing technical due diligence towards current and potential technology vendors.
Technical Strategy Assessment
Technical Strategy Assessment
Helping leadership team with an independent assessment of the overall strategy and the details of specific strategic initiatives
EXPERIENCE
SALARIED PROJECTS
Technical Sales in MEA region
Pre-sales consultancy, preparing sales materials, client engagement
Self-service mobile app and web portal for a Smart City initiative in MEA
various roles for different sub-projects of the larger initiative - architect, scrum master, product owner and consultant
E-Services delivery project in MEA
Product owner and delivery team lead
E-Services assessment and digitalization consultancy in MEA region
Team lead and senior consultant
Revamp of Baltic online and sales system platforms
Delivery team manager and solution architect
Introducing new B2B sales pipeline system
Project Manager
Replacement of core IT systems
Receiving organization IT manager and architect for a subset of systems
In-sourcing a large set of legacy systems
Project manager, analyst
Speeding up billing processes and restoring trust in IT
Manager
Various small projects and change requests
Team leader and scrum master
Upgrade of order management system
Business analyst, working in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nearshoring system management services
At first a team member, and then in later phases of a project a system architect and subject matter expert
Supporting bank employees in telecommunications area
Support engineer
Several projects for the Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
Junior Developer
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Fintech startup technical delivery
CTO, analyst and delivery team lead for ongoing intiative to build a new licensed fintech startup in retail investment space in European Union - Fundvest.
Writing a book "The Invisible Complexity"
Author - writing a book about the invisible complexity that is present in any IT landscape in any enterprise. How it causes the constant tension between the business and IT sides of the company.
Diving deep into how this hard to identify complexity is making it harder and harder over time to maintain and expand the digital infrastructure and why exactly companies end up failing their large IT projects again and again.
Diving deep into how this hard to identify complexity is making it harder and harder over time to maintain and expand the digital infrastructure and why exactly companies end up failing their large IT projects again and again.
Construction startup technical delivery
Development lead, strategist, devops engineer, analyst for a 3D customized housing startup Creatomus.
Company is doing good, helping thousands of people to configure their custom built houses, but I am no longer actively involved .
Company is doing good, helping thousands of people to configure their custom built houses, but I am no longer actively involved .
Implementing data warehouse and ETL for retail chain
Developer, Analyst, DBA - doing a freelance project to implement and maintain data warehouse with a large number of ETL jobs to consolidate and maintain the data for a large retail chain
Sports teams management startup technical delivery
CTO, Lead developer. Spent significant effort developing sport team management service in Ruby on Rails. Startup idea failed in a very classical manner - there was a lot of code written, but zero customer validation.
Publishing a book translation
Publisher, project manager. Handling rights acquisition, translation, design and distribution.
Building social network startup
Development lead, co-founder.
We had a great ambition and a good timing (there was no Facebook yet but social networks were already hot) to copy Friendster in specific European market localizing it into under represented local language - Catalan.
But startup ended in failure as we spent all our savings on development and hosting, but had no plan for the next steps.
We had a great ambition and a good timing (there was no Facebook yet but social networks were already hot) to copy Friendster in specific European market localizing it into under represented local language - Catalan.
But startup ended in failure as we spent all our savings on development and hosting, but had no plan for the next steps.
Developing content in MUD
hobbyist developer in the online text based adventure game called Zebedee MUD (Multi user Dungeon). Creating interactive content using C-like programming language
Education/Certificates
BA Comp Science Institute of Transport and Communications – Graphic Design, Bachelor Degree, 2013
• ITIL foundation, 2011
• Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA), 2012
• Certified scrum master (CSM) and product owner (CSPO), 2013
• MongoDB for Java developers, MongoDB for NodeJs developers, 2013
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 2021
Coursera and other MOOC courses:
• Gamification, 2013
• Developing Innovative New Ideas for Companies, 2013
• Startup Engineering, 2013
• Introduction to Financial Accounting, 2013
• The Power of Microeconomics, 2014
• The Power of Macroeconomics, 2014
• Programming Mobile Application for Android, 2014
• Introduction to Marketing, 2014
• Introduction to Operations Management, 2014
• New Venture Finance: Startup Funding, 2014
• Beginners guide to irrational behavior, 2014
• Innovation for Entrepreneurs, 2015
• Entrepreneurship, launching innovative business, 2015
• Introduction to Corporate Finance, 2015
• Competitive Strategy, 2016
• Machine Learning Foundations, 2017
• The properties of human language, 2017
• Agile Planning for Software Products, 2020
• Agile Meets Design Thinking, 2020
• Managing an Agile Team, 2020