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Dejan Kalejski

Project Manager / Scrum Master

€350/day
Belgrade, RS
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Dejan

  • Senior Project Manager with 7+ years delivering enterprise software, telecom, and financial services initiatives in multinational environments. Experienced managing full delivery lifecycles across Agile and Waterfall frameworks, with a track record of sustained stakeholder alignment at senior level, robust delivery governance, and cross-functional team coordination across complex, distributed programmes.
  • Previously led a global service desk operation for 6.5 years, building a Quality Assurance function from scratch and driving Six Sigma process improvement across a high-volume enterprise support environment. Brings operational leadership depth that reinforces delivery discipline at programme level.
  • Serbian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Belgrade (up to 50km)

Experience

  • TIAC (outsourced to FIS Global)
    Project Manager / Scrum Master
    DIGITAL AND IT
    July 2025 - January 2026 (6 months)
    Novi Sad, Serbia
    Contract — concluded following FIS client budget cancellation affecting multiple contractor teams

    Project Manager (Professional Services / Product Liaison)
    • Coordinated enterprise client onboarding and implementation across Pre-Sales, Product, and Professional
    • Services teams, ensuring smooth handover and delivery readiness at each stage.
    • Acted as primary liaison between client delivery requirements and internal product teams, translating business
    • needs into actionable product requirements and managing stakeholder alignment at senior level.
    • Tracked risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams; drove resolution through structured escalation
    • and cross-functional coordination.
    • Streamlined internal handoff processes to reduce cycle time and improve client experience across the delivery
    • pipeline.

    Scrum Master (AML/KYC Compliance Maintenance — FIS Investor Services Suite)
    • Facilitated Agile delivery for the AML/KYC compliance maintenance team — an 8–10 person cross-functional squad responsible for regulatory reporting, client issue resolution, and compliance operations on the FIS
    • Investor Services Suite, an enterprise fund administration platform.
    • Coordinated with Build and Onboarding teams for aligned releases, managing cross-team dependencies within a
    • regulated, multi-stream compliance platform.
    • Maintained sprint cadence, backlog discipline, and stakeholder reporting across a distributed, multinational
    • team.
    Scrum Agile method Atlassian JIRA Stakeholder Management Sprint Planning
  • NCR Atleos
    Senior Project Manager
    DIGITAL AND IT
    February 2025 - May 2025 (3 months)
    Belgrade, Serbia
    Contract — departed following assessment that foundational processes and stakeholder buy-in required for effective delivery were not in place

    • Programme-managed onboarding of new ATMaaS customers; owned full suite of delivery governance artefacts including Project Plan, RACI, RAID logs, and Communications Plan.
    • Coordinated software build and services activation teams through delivery milestones in a newly formed team operating without established ways of working.
    Stakeholder Management Project Management Risk Management
  • Star Telecom — Remote
    Agile Project Manager
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    September 2023 - January 2025 (1 year and 4 months)
    Belgrade, Serbia
    • Delivered contact centre and telecom/telephony solution projects end-to-end: scoping, requirements definition, planning, scheduling, budgeting, stakeholder management, and risk tracking.
    • Managed concurrent projects to scope and deadline; maintained delivery visibility through structured reporting using Jira, Confluence, and MS Office.
    • Served as primary client interface throughout delivery: defining requirements, managing expectations, and ensuring readiness at each milestone.
    • Led internal process improvement initiatives that reduced delivery friction and improved team coordination across distributed teams.
    Project Management Agile method Stakeholder Management Risk Management slack

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Education

  • PRINCE2 Foundation
    Axelos
    2021
    PRINCE2 Foundation
  • AgilePM Foundation
    APMG International
    2020
    AgilePM Foundation

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