Gyula Ferencz
About
Gyula Ferencz is from Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. Gyula works in the following industries: "Computer Software", and "Information Technology & Services". Gyula is currently Director of Business Solutions at SMP Solutions , located in Budapest, Hungary. In Gyula's previous role as a Director of Engineering at Cloudera, Gyula worked in Budapest, Hungary until Sep 2019. Prior to joining Cloudera, Gyula was a Connected Navigation Development VP (R&D) at NNG LLC and held the position of Connected Navigation Development VP (R&D) at Budapest, Hungary. Prior to that, Gyula was a Online Services VP at NNG, based in Budapest, Hungary from Jan 2016 to May 2017. Gyula started working as Enterprise & Partner Group (EPG) Director at Microsoft in Budapest, Hungary in Jun 2010. From Jul 2005 to Jun 2010, Gyula was Enterprise Services Director at Microsoft Hungary, based in Budapest, Hungary. Prior to that, Gyula was a Business Operations Manager - Enterprise Services - Central and Eastern European Headquarters at Microsoft, based in Munich Area, Germany from Dec 2003 to Jul 2005. Gyula started working as Consultant, Managing Consultant, Consulting Practice Manager - Enterprise Services at Microsoft Hungary in Budapest, Hungary in Apr 1997.
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Gyula Ferencz's current jobs
Building teams of consultants, software engineers to help clients to go through digital transformation. (2019: 2 people to 2021: 96 people) Growing professional services business from 0 to 2mrd HUF annual revenue. Nurturing agility and quality culture. Building innovation capabilities around CRM, Data, Devops, Smart Office, Paytech. #financial services #business consulting #professional services #technology #engineering #development
Gyula Ferencz's past jobs
Responsible for leading growing engineering teams developing Hadoop analytics components (Apache Hive, Apache Spark, Apache Impala, Apache SolR, etc.) and building up teams for Machine Learning tools like (MLX, Cloudera Data Science Workbench). Pre-merge, also external site leader for Budapest engineering location.
Responsible for Connected Navigation Development (CND) organization (Growing teams from 250 to 350 people, about 40 teams). CND organization is developing and supporting base navigation software product for the connected car. Driving agile transformation program (using Scaled Agile Framework) to drastically improve the performance of its product development organization with respect to productivity, quality, efficiency, innovation, transparency, scalability and predictability.
I led the Services Business Unit (120+ people) of NNG which is responsible to develop, implement, operate and sell navigational content update services and other (Traffic, Fuel Prices, etc.) connected services to automotive business customers and for PND and mobile consumers. These services implemented based on Naviextras Portal and Toolbox software product. Transformed organization to more agile operation and moved online services platform to the cloud. Organization provided business functions of Sales & Marketing, Customer Care, Software Development, IT Operations, Incident Management and Business Excellence.
Responsible for the Enterprise Software and Cloud Business in Hungary. Team of ~30 people, 60 million USD revenue, Member of Microsoft Hungary Leadership Team. 2 times Subsidiary of the Year Award, Transformational Leadership Award and Best EPG Scorecard CEE , Best WW Scorecard, Overachieved financial targets in all fiscal years. Drove selling of Microsoft products and services into large enterprises (Top 30) with a team of account directors for Commercial customers coupled with solution selling team. Successfully transformed selling structure for “deeper and fewer” account coverage model with cross-functional agile account teams while transforming sales capabilities to sell solutions (especially cloud services based ones) instead of product licenses.
Responsible for the Enterprise Services Organization (Consulting and Premier Support Business),Team of 100 people, 20 million USD revenue (2009), full P&L responsibility, member of Microsoft Hungary Leadership Team. Grew the business and organization from 30 people to 100, Introduced solution selling into services organization. Introduced solution sales into services organization, Led the team to win and to successfully deliver major development projects such as Magyar Telekom T-Home IPTV, MKB Bank Retail and Wholesale CRM, Hungarian Police Traffic Point just to name few.
I moved to the regional headquarter where I was responsible for Business planning, business management, organizational improvements, country reviews (Budgeting, Forecasting), Services Business Process and Tool deployment in helping all subsidiary Enterprise Services teams and businesses to grow.
First as an individual contributor I drove several Microsoft products based software infrastructure planning and implementation project as a Subject Matter Expert and/or Project Manager. From 2000 I was appointed as a team manager of the infrastructure team (5 directs) than from 2002 I became the leader of the consulting group (10 to 15 direct reports) responsible for Sales, Delivery, Resource Management, Professional Development, Business Development, Partner Engagements, Business Operations and Finance.
Participated in several business data processing and application integration software development projects as Project Manager or Team member for Pannon GSM projects. Protomix was a software development company (~20 people) and Microsoft Solution Provider partner.