Martin Ochotsky

Leading a team of ~20 developers and designers, building a web application connected to multiple other applications and systems.

Making sure my team is happy, motivated and mainly having fun as well as having my hands-on in solution design and architecture.

Daily Activities:

• Unblocking my team with any request or issue so they can focus on what they really enjoy.
• Hands-on technical solution design and system architecture to stay technically connected to project and ensure we are heading into right direction with the overall project vision.

Mid-term Activities:

• Gathering requirements from customers, prioritizing features, and conducting feedback sessions.
• Developing action plans and roadmaps and translating requirements into features, features into themes and epics.
• Tracking work progress, managing feature groups, and adjusting priorities as needed.

Overall Activities:

• Mentoring team members and managing their personal development.
• Setting a project vision and overall direction that aligns with my vision while incorporating feedback from both customers and my team.
• Coordinating vendor management and integration with contingent workers.
• Securing funding for the project through strategic proposals and investor relations.

Founder and Leader of a Collaborative Video Game and Software Development Studio:

• I established a studio with a "come and learn" mindset, creating a collaborative environment where enthusiasts can learn and grow in programming, graphics, and other game development areas.
• The studio currently has team of 5 dedicated members and we continually expand our network through events like GDS Prague and Game Access Brno venues.
  

Unity3D Experience:

• I am collaborating with Volcanoids Indie Studio on their survival multiplayer game, Volcanoids, which has achieved ~400k sales on Steam in Early Access.
• With overall 7 years of (hobby) experience in Unity3D using C# I consider myself as and early senior in C# programming.

Agile Methodology Educator:

• I teach startups agile methodologies, focusing on unlocking individual skill sets and team potential to really feel the benefits of agile and having fun instead of attending daily standups and doing boring retrospectives.
• I have an official Scrum Product Owner certification and hands-on experience with implementing scrum multiple times for different startup companies using Jira.
• I also implemented scrum and worked as a scrum master for my current employer MSD for about 2 years.

Fun Fact: I shared my game development journey with the "Google for Startups" organization and was awarded a scholarship to attend the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.

• Recommended new technologies and equipment with cost-benefit analyses.
• Supported plant expansions from planning to ramp-up.
• Identified and implemented process optimizations.
• Reduced downtime with root cause solutions.

• Led electrical engineering team to maintain and troubleshoot automated robotics machines and equipment.

• Improving and maintaining company e-shop.
• Supported new hires during onboarding process by acting as a primary point-of-contact for questions about job responsibilities.
• Coordinated weekly meetings to review progress toward established goals and address any emerging issues or concerns.