Peter Benovic

Division Lead in s IT Solutions, the IT Entity of Erste Bank Group. Responsible for the divisions Project Management, Security (CSO) and Technical Infrastructure in eight countries in CEE. Set up of a virtual regional organization with international Project Managers Pool and Project Management Office, implementation of unified methods, processes and group-wide standards in the areas Project Management and Security. Member of Extended Board and Direct Report to Board, responsible for 90 staff with four DRs.

Group IT Director in AAA Auto a.s. group of companies. Developed IT strategy that supported the growth of the company to an international car seller. Managed 75 IT specialists in the areas Development and Implementation, Services and Infrastructure, Management Information, and IT Business Management in four countries. Introduced Service, Project and Business Management disciplines and processes. Opened new branches in Czech republic, Slovakia and Romania.

managed Tesco’s regional IT Support organization by implementing Help Desk, Second Line support, Service Management and Systems Management and Operations in CZ , SK, PL and HU, based on ITIL. Managed more than 60 support and operations specialists in the region. Responsible for relationship with business divisions as well as with development teams. Managed services from 10 major suppliers on regional level. Responsible for the regional yearly service budget of over 9m GBP. Member of the IT Board.

Manager of Tesco’s Central Support and Operations. Implemented second line support with 10 support specialists for Tesco’s key applications Gold and Oracle Financials in Central Europe. Built and managed a team of 16 operators and administrators to centrally operate more than 60 Unix based servers in the CE region, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Responsible for the implementation of CA’s Unicenter TNG systems management software in the region.

Responsible for Projects between Retail Business and IT, e.g. the Data Acquisition that loaded the data of over 50.000 products and 10.000 suppliers into the new retail system, Data Quality that set quality standards for product and supplier data and many more.

Project Manager, running a project for a commercial software package for Creditanstalt, an Austrian bank.

Manager of the company, which was mainly providing software consulting services to Kmart CR/SR, later on to Tesco. Maintaining and extending Kmarts Ingres-based retail software system.

Manager and Development Lead of the company. CABS Bratislava was a software company specialised in computer application based on relational database Ingres. Besides my commercial duties I lead a team of software developers in creation of the standard software package Delphos.

Manager and Development lead of the company. Before 1990, I have designed and implemented various commercial software systems for Austrian customers. After 1990 I was responsible for the Czechoslovak subsidiary in Bratislava.

During all my studies I worked at the Institute for Real-time Programming of the university as an assistant and lecturer.