Jiri Mzourek

VP of Engineering

Bloomreach

Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)

VP, Product Engineering + Technical Product Management

GoodData

Apr 2018 - Jun 2024 (6 years 3 months)

In charge of a unit responsible for:
● Engineering teams
● Technical product managers (Product Owners)
● Project managers/Scrum masters

VP, User Experience & Technical Product Management

GoodData

Jan 2016 - Mar 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Responsible for multiple functions:
● User Experience Design team.
● Creative team - covering end to end visual design needs of the company, from the overall branding, marketing materials, web design to the product design.
● Technical Product Management (Scrum Product Owners) team.
● Documentation.
● Localisation.

Selected accomplishments:
● Restarted role of the UX team in the company, the charter of the team, defined the core principles and goals of the department.
● Played a key role in a scaling of Scrum in the R&D - the main concepts were inspired by LeSS and DSDM frameworks.
● Established and executed a process for a transparent requirements prioritisation and forming of the product

Director, User Experience Design

AVG Technologies NYSE AVG

Jul 2012 - Dec 2015 (3 years 6 months)

● In charge of global UX department, which consists of multiple international teams (San Francisco, Florida, Atlanta, Ottawa, Prague, Brno, London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv), responsible for the end to end UX.
● Close cooperation with top management on new innovative product and service offerings.
● Establishing and applying new approach to product and service design and innovation based on methodology from Stanford University and IDEO (Design thinking).
● Successfully managed the rapid growth of the department from a few individuals into multiple teams with deep integration into company structure and establishing appropriate relationships and processes to cover all projects.
● Took part in several acquisitions and their tea

Senior User Experience Manager

AVG Technologies NYSE AVG

Feb 2011 - Jun 2012 (1 year 5 months)

● Joined AVG to establish User Experience design and introduce UX principles into the company.
● Doing "everything what's needed": from design of individual features and resolution of small UX issues to planning UX strategy and vision of the product portfolio with c-level executives.
● Growing the team to be able to cover the end-to-end user experience from web presence and product installation to day-to-day usage in support of company acquisition, retention and monetization goals.
● Integrating UX principles into the company: evangelization of UX, integration into processes, structure, etc.
● Completely revisited company approach doing design, mainly what's kept in house and what's outsourced and way of selection and ma

Senior User Experience Manager

Oracle

Sep 2010 - Jan 2011 (5 months)

The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010 in the US, in September 2010 in the Czech Republic. I received an job offer from AVG and gave a notice shortly after the acquisition was completed, so I worked mostly just on integration and transition related activities.

Senior User Experience Manager

Sun Microsystems

Jul 2007 - Aug 2010 (3 years 2 months)

● Responsible for an international team of user experience professionals (interaction designers, visual designers and user researchers) located in Europe and USA.
● Responsible for all kinds of products: development tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio), enterprise products (SOA/BI), web 2.0 (Project Kenai, Zembly), platforms (Java FX for desktop and mobile), cloud computing (Q-Layer), product webpages (www.javafx.com) and end-user applications (Communications Suite – email, calendar, IM etc.).
● Cooperating with top management on developing priorities and appropriate assignment of resources.
● Built relationship with newly supported teams (

User Experience Manager

Sun Microsystems

Jul 2004 - Jul 2007 (3 years 1 month)

● Responsible for a local team of user experience professionals focused mainly on Sun’s development tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio, Java Studio Enterprise and Java Studio Creator).
● Close cooperation with remote engineering teams, located mainly in California (which we successfully supported from Prague).
● Re-established and strengthened the relationship between the User Experience team and other teams, both local and remote.
● Cooperated with top management on developing of priorities and appropriate assignment of resources.
● Hired 8 new members of the team (from junior to senior), which formed a full-featured Prague UX team (visual design, interaction design, user research).
● People management (personnel and orga

Managed the Tools User Centered Design Group in Prague

Sun Microsystems

Oct 2002 - Jul 2004 (1 year 10 months)

● Led a transformation of the team from UI development to UI design.
● Started cooperation between Sun and Czech Technical University, which included a project of building a usability lab in Czech Technical University (CTU).
● Selected projects I was involved in:
- Participated on redesign and usability testing of the new core NetBeans paradigms: projects system and window system which appeared in NetBeans 4.x releases.
- Wrote and reviewed NetBeans UI Styleguide chapters (internal project, not open sourced).
- Led a project to define Java developer personas and tasks for NetBeans IDE.

Tech lead of newly established team

Sun Microsystems

Jul 2000 - Oct 2002 (2 years 4 months)

● Responsible for establishing relationship and form of cooperation with the rest of Prague engineering teams and the UX design team located in the US. As a result, the "NetBeans UI Team" was formed to "clean up" (redesign and reimplement) the user interface to meet Java Look and Feel Guidelines and other Sun standards.

● Led a one-year project focused on accessibility (Section 508) compliance of NetBeans, which required getting the appropriate know-how, development of testing tools, identification of NetBeans accessibility issues, their fixing and final testing. This project (one of the biggest projects of its kind that time) enabled Sun to meet all legal requirements related to accessibility of the product, so it could be shipp

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Sr. Engineer

InterInformatics

Jan 1995 - Jan 2000 (5 years 1 month)

Developed specialized customer software in Visual Basic and Java for international clients, responsible for end-to-end development cycle: from gathering customer requirements to implementation, testing, writing of documentation, sustaining of old releases and development of special features tailored to individual customers.

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