John Belaska
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Richard Cummins
I have worked with John for the better part of 20+ years. John is a great leader who takes the time to listen to his teams to understand their situation and work with them to develop a plan for success.
John Mesko
John and I worked together as peers for 9 years. I know John to be a strong and fair leader. His teams respect him for his servant leadership style and the way he welcomes each member to the team. His business acumen crosses a broad spectrum from general business management, managing large product development teams for multiple product lines, strategic product initiatives to specific leadership roles in the disciplines of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. John is a possibility thinker, an aggressive problem solver, process oriented and client focused. He continually demonstrated his ability to adapt and succeed regardless of the assignment or role. He strives for continual process improvement through the identification of best practices and the adoption of complimentary tools. He is disciplined in his approach to his work. If I were building a leadership team for a Product offering in the FinTech industry, John would be the first on my list.
Richard Cummins
I have worked with John for the better part of 20+ years. John is a great leader who takes the time to listen to his teams to understand their situation and work with them to develop a plan for success.
John Mesko
John and I worked together as peers for 9 years. I know John to be a strong and fair leader. His teams respect him for his servant leadership style and the way he welcomes each member to the team. His business acumen crosses a broad spectrum from general business management, managing large product development teams for multiple product lines, strategic product initiatives to specific leadership roles in the disciplines of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. John is a possibility thinker, an aggressive problem solver, process oriented and client focused. He continually demonstrated his ability to adapt and succeed regardless of the assignment or role. He strives for continual process improvement through the identification of best practices and the adoption of complimentary tools. He is disciplined in his approach to his work. If I were building a leadership team for a Product offering in the FinTech industry, John would be the first on my list.
Richard Cummins
I have worked with John for the better part of 20+ years. John is a great leader who takes the time to listen to his teams to understand their situation and work with them to develop a plan for success.
John Mesko
John and I worked together as peers for 9 years. I know John to be a strong and fair leader. His teams respect him for his servant leadership style and the way he welcomes each member to the team. His business acumen crosses a broad spectrum from general business management, managing large product development teams for multiple product lines, strategic product initiatives to specific leadership roles in the disciplines of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. John is a possibility thinker, an aggressive problem solver, process oriented and client focused. He continually demonstrated his ability to adapt and succeed regardless of the assignment or role. He strives for continual process improvement through the identification of best practices and the adoption of complimentary tools. He is disciplined in his approach to his work. If I were building a leadership team for a Product offering in the FinTech industry, John would be the first on my list.
Richard Cummins
I have worked with John for the better part of 20+ years. John is a great leader who takes the time to listen to his teams to understand their situation and work with them to develop a plan for success.
John Mesko
John and I worked together as peers for 9 years. I know John to be a strong and fair leader. His teams respect him for his servant leadership style and the way he welcomes each member to the team. His business acumen crosses a broad spectrum from general business management, managing large product development teams for multiple product lines, strategic product initiatives to specific leadership roles in the disciplines of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. John is a possibility thinker, an aggressive problem solver, process oriented and client focused. He continually demonstrated his ability to adapt and succeed regardless of the assignment or role. He strives for continual process improvement through the identification of best practices and the adoption of complimentary tools. He is disciplined in his approach to his work. If I were building a leadership team for a Product offering in the FinTech industry, John would be the first on my list.
Experience
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SwitchThink Solutions
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager
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Aug 2022 - Present
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Consultant
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Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Provide consulting on multiple projects including:• Tool selection for SwitchThink• Process improvement for conversions
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Fiserv
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, Quality Assurance, Credit Unions Solutions
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2014 - Aug 2020
Oversaw all software testing and quality engineering activities within CUS for all twelve products which included development, review and execution of smoke test and UAT test plans and test cases to ensure product quality. Led an organization of 150 QA analysts.• Created the Quality Assurance organization within CUS by moving all Quality Assurance Analysts from individual products into a single functional group at the division level.• Implemented a common toolset and processes across all QA within CUS in order to quickly move QA staff between various products depending on resource demands.• Negotiated with vendors to receive the best tool pricing.• Developed quality standards, best practices, documentation and process flows for all manual testing tools, automated testing tools and each business process.• Developed standard metrics for all CUS products using the new tools for executive dashboard reporting to demonstrate product quality.• Utilized data-driven metrics to make process improvements and improve operational excellence in automation and regression testing.• Integrated test automation into the devops CI/CD pipeline for each product.• Provided leadership in automating 50% of all CUS test cases which reduced the regression test time per iteration from weeks to days.• Conducted training and migrated 15 QA positions off-shore saving $750K annually. Show less
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Director, Business Analysis, Credit Union Solutions
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2013 - 2014
Orchestrated all business requirements within CUS.• Created the Business Analysis organization with in CUS by moving all Business Analysts from individual products into a single functional group at the division level.
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Director, Software Engineering, DataSafe
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2012 - 2013
Led all software engineering, IT strategy, enterprise architecture and compliance within the DataSafe credit union financial services product.• Developed the vision for the DataSafe product.• Delivered each release on-time according to schedule to meet customer expectations.• Improved the quality of each release over the prior year’s same release, 2012 annual release had a 46% reduction in customer reported defects and the first release of 2013 had a 35% reduction in customer reported defects.• Improved client satisfaction scores by 10% between 2011 and 2012 by delivering releases on-time with a high level of quality.• Automated the DataSafe regression test of 400 test cases and reduced the execution time from 5 weeks to 4 days. Show less
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Director, Software Engineering, CUS Mid-Tier Segment
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2010 - 2012
Led strategy, software engineering teams and all projects within the four CUSD Mid-Tier Segment products which included Advantage, CUBE, DataSafe and Galaxy.• Provided leadership in technology, vendor selection and deployment to impact cost reductions and improve efficiencies.• Initiated and led process development and implementation to improve processes.• In Advantage and DataSafe, built a product release schedule with interim milestones and delivered all planned releases on schedule to meet customer expectations.• In DataSafe, “right sized” the organization in order to reduce the number of developers and increase the number of QA staff which reduced staffing bottlenecks while completing projects.• In DataSafe, significantly improved the quality of releases by achieving a 21% reduction in customer reported defects between the first release of 2011 and 2012.• Provided leadership to select a common QA toolset for the segment, Microsoft TFS, Test Manager for manual test cases and Coded UI Test for automated testing and implemented the tool suite in Advantage, DataSafe and Galaxy. Show less
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Director, Business Operations, CUBE
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2003 - 2010
Oversaw IT strategy, software engineering, compliance and financials for one of four credit union financial services systems within Fiserv/IntegraSys. Developed and implemented a 5 year strategic business plan which included directing all projects in support of the plan.• Set the vision and strategic direction for the product.• Developed two sets of 5 year strategic plans with annual objectives and associated financials and implemented the one selected by management in 2003.• Provided leadership to set the technical direction and application design of the product.• Created a project management organization to manage all projects and provide organizational reporting.• Created a Professional Services group assigned to provide consulting and custom work for customers. The group’s impact to revenue and profit increased each year.• Moved a portion of the development team off-shore and saved $1.1 million in 2006.• Implemented Mercury Quality Center and reduced development rework by 20%.• Implemented CMMi processes within CUBE in 2009. Show less
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Education
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St. Louis University
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematical Computer Science
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