About
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Founder & CEO & CTO & Consultant
- Startup experience: Yup, VC funded
- Product development: Multiple succesful products
- Phone: +421 903 25 1234
- City: Bratislava, Slovakia, EU
- AI experience: Yes, lead R&D & development of AI
- Age: 43
- Email: jb at jozefbalaz.com
- Freelance: Available
Jozef Balaz is a highly experienced CEO and CTO, who leads iERP.ai, an AI business prediction platform that helps reduce costs and improve customer experience for medium and large companies. He is also the AI Chapter Director for StartupGrind, the world's largest network of entrepreneurs, and has run projects / programs at 13 Fortune 500 companies. Jozef has had a lifelong passion for technology, beginning to code at just 7 years old.
Facts
Here are a few facts derived from experiences in both the corporate and startup realms.
Founded startups
Certified
Fortune 500 corporations
On stage
Skills
It is hard to sumarize 20+ years of experience into 6 sliders :D. If you would like to learn more, ping me and we can have a chat
My projects
These are my business endevours
- All
- Startup
- My products
- Speaker engagements
Services
I'm ready to work with you!
Remote CTO
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Startup consultant
I will help you review and improve performance of your business. See this as a gig on fiveer.com
Co-operation
If you have interesting project, I'm always up for a co-operation. Drop me a line!
Resume
This is how 20+ years of experience looks like.
Professional Experience
Co-Founder & CEO & CTO
2019-2022
iERP.ai
- Jozef co-founded Slovak AI business prediction startup iERP
- 2 Investment rounds has been closed (pre-seed, seed) with total investment of 750K
- Jozef designed and put into production with customers 2 products: iERP Studio (on-premise AI prediction platform), Nostradamus.cloud (SaaS prediction solution)
- Startup scaled from 0 to 15 people
- Recognitions: Best AI startup Gitex 2020, Best AI startup (European Data Incubator)
- iERP was representing coutry of Slovakia on Dubai World Expo 2020
Capability manager
2018-2020
HPE / DXC
- Jozef is responsible to lead Worldwide DXC Asset management capability by overseeing numerous initiatives and projects to increase competitiveness of the service on internal and external market.
- Asset management organization have 700 people spread in 15+ countries managing more than 12 million assets.
Program manager (PMP Certified)
2013 - 2018
HP / HPE
- Jozef lead 6 programs overseeing team of project managers delivering transformation for multinational corporations.
- These programs focused on business process transformations for very demanding customers.
- Jozef was responsible for full program lifecycle from the contract signature, thru scope development, program execution till successful handover to ongoing operations.
- Typical program team size: 30-40 people with 3-5 project managers reporting to Jozef
- Customer references: Nokia, Alcatel Lucent, General Electric, Sykehuspartner, HP, DXC
Project manager
2006 – 2013
HP
- Jozef lead more than 20 implementation projects for multitude of customers from all around the Europe.
- Project management customer references:Allianz, SaraLee, Unilever, Hewlett Packard, Konecranes, TNT Express, Aon, Telecom Italia, Panasonic, Xchanging, Philips, Stern auto, Commerzbank, Aviva investors, Wartsila
Variours project management and team lead roles
2000 – 2006
T-mobile, Euroit, Self employed
Recognitions
Dubai world expo 2020
iERP was selected by Slovak ministry to represent Slovakia on prestigious Dubai Expo 2020
Best AI startup
Jozef won pitch competion in Dubai Gitex 2020 and iERP has become best AI startup
Won European Data Incubator program
iERP joined EU funded European Data Incubator program and won final round (out of more than 1000 companies, iERP won together with 6 others EDI program)
Global AI Chapter director
Startup grind
Leading AI chapter for Startup Grind with 500+ members
Certifications
PMP certification (active)
2011 - 2023
Project Management Institute
Jozef is certified project manager by PMI organisation. Certification ID: 1445852
ITIL Certified
2013
Contact
Best way to contact me, is to shoot an email or chat with me on LinkedIn.
Location:
Bratislava, Slovakia, EU
Email:
jb @ jozefbalaz.com
Call:
+421 903 25 1234