Jan Dryk
I'm an experienced leader with a passion for technology and learning. During the day, I leverage my experience with software engineering and agile ways of working to shape groups of individuals into highly-performing customer oriented product teams. At night I enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks and building small projects. This technical expertise helps me to be a better leader, and guide the developers to be more effective.
Experience
Nov 2023-
Present
Associate Director - Digital Marketing Engagement Delivery & Operations
@MSD- Reorganised the product line by value streams to focus on our customers.
- Built an internal team, internalized key knowledge and took ownership of the solution.
- Establed a mature tiered product management and architecture practices to support the delivery squads, adopted agile ways of working, mentored team members and colleagues.
- Lead a team of 10 employees, 50+ contractors.
- Managed a budget of ~$9M for delivery and ~$5M for operations.
- Established a mature release management process to address customer concerns about quality.
- Significantly increased the velocity of the team, helped the team to start make and meet commitments.
- Lead an effort to optimize operations costs by with ~$1M in cost savings.
Jun 2022-
Nov 2022
Associate Director - Marketing Execution Delivery
@MSD- Lead 6 agile delivery squads and a team of supporting roles (delivery leads, scrum masters, engineering managers, ...)
- Managed a budget of $6M, accountable for financial planning
- Responsible for managing relationships with strategic partners
- Responsible for E2E delivery, customer change management, operations, release management
- Pioneered DevSecOps, CI/CD using Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, SonarQube in the organisation
- Extra Assignment: Content Tagging Automation (CTAP)
- Rebuilt trust with the business stakeholders
- Significantly accelerated delivery, reorganized the team, coached team members and adopted agile ways of working
Jun 2020-
Jun 2022
Senior Delivery Lead - Marketing Execution
@MSD- Lead 4 agile delivery squads
- Coordinated multiple product teams to deliver an E2E solution to the customer as one team
- Lead an effort to change the ways of working of our product line to agile at scale
- Responsible for delivery, quality, release management, and operations for the product line
Mar 2020-
Jun 2020
Senior Technical Product Manager - Digital Identity & Consent
@MSD- Lead an agile product team for a solution partly SaaS partly developed on AWS
- Created features, prioritised backlog, communicated with stakeholders
Feb 2017-
Mar 2020
Solutions Architect - Digital Marketing & Channels
@MSD- Prepared an architecture vision for an integrated digital marketing platform, gathered buy-in for that vision from all stakeholders, and worked with developers to execute the vision
- Notable features included deeplinking, the front-end package, real-time integrations for sychronizing data across systems, and more.
- Sped up the delivery of the Digital Identity product from 1 year per market to 1 month per market.
- Lead the MDE packaging program aimed at building a cross value team integrated marketing ecosystem with 5+ integrated products.
Sep 2016-
Feb 2017
Innovation Developer - Digital Marketing & Channels
@MSD- Developed innovative tools and integrations using AWS, TypeScript
- Lead the effort to migrate ETL scripts from an EC2 to Lambdas
- Evangelised the team to use TypeScript
Skills
Proficient
Rust
Astro
F#
C#
ASP.NET Core
WPF
Entity Framework Core
MAUI
Umbraco
Java
LaTeX
VB.NET
SQL
Javascript
TypeScript
React
UML
Swift
Familiar
PHP
Objective-C
Matlab
Protege
Mathematica
Pascal
Kotlin
Python
Machine Learning
WordPress
Services
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure DevOps
Microsoft App Center
GitHub
Kubernetes
Traefik
Longhorn
ArgoCD
JIRA
Confluence
Mulesoft