GTD Estonia (Brightwork OÜ)

Changing lives by helping people learn personal productivity method Getting Things Done. I'm blessed to be able to do it as a Certified Coach (1:1 work with the best and the brightest) and as a Master Trainer (public and private training). Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them!

GTD Estonia (Brightwork OÜ) is the  license owner of the GTD® (Getting Things Done) program in Estonia. Born out of passion to introduce GTD and other modern self-management practices to individuals and organizations in Estonia, Brightwork aims to help everyone in their journey of self-improvement.
			
We conduct coaching, training, and presentations on Getting Things Done methodology. Our Mission is to help People, Teams and Organizations thrive in their implementation of GTD, help them live stress-free lives and give them tools that help them realize their dreams.

Productivity Coach

Microsoft

Setting L&D strategy for Microsoft Development Center Estonia (MDCE) in cooperation with MDCE leadership, people managers, and Microsoft's Engineering Learning leadership. 

Working globally with L&D leads of other development centres.

Organizing hybrid hackathon events at MDCE as part of Microsoft Global Hackathon and Fix Hack Learn initiatives.

Senior L&D Consultant

Organizing learning & development activities and advancing growth-mindset in Microsoft Development Center Estonia.

Setting L&D strategy in cooperation with MDCE leadership, people managers and Microsoft's engineering learning leadership. Working with other development centers L&D leads globally. Providing learning and teaching opportunities for engineers through training, peer-to-peer sessions and hackathons.

Senior L&D Manager

Coordinating and organizing of pan-European engineering summit in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2019. Bringing together engineering leaders from 20+ offices in Europe and worldwide. Facilitating networking, knowledge transfer, and promoting collaboration culture within Microsoft.

Participants response to the event: 100% satisfied with event, 100% would recommend to colleague, 100% would attend again.

Senior Project Manager

Crosslake Technologies, LLC

Management of business and sales operations of Crosslake Europe. 

- Staffing of project teams. 
- Handling of legal documentation.
- Monitoring and management of sales pipeline. 
- Implementation and management of internal tools and training staff in their use.
- Management of internal communication and documentation.
- Office management and procurement. 
- Collections. 
- Marketing.

Director Of Operations, Europe

Filled first sales role of software consultancy service in Crosslake Europe team.  Working closely with management and technical consultant teams we took Crosslake Europe to next level by growing revenue 300% in 12 months. Besides increasing sales to existing client base I signed up several industry-leading businesses as repeat clients. 

Additionally I handled staffing of projects with technical consultants, selection of internal tools, marketing and collections. Helped in conducting an technical due diligence of an SaaS business.

Director, Business Development and Client Relations

Microsoft via Hype

Organizer of internal pan-European engineering conference in 2017 (Prague, Czechia) and 2018 (Cambridge, UK). Bringing together engineering leaders across 20+ offices in Europe, facilitating networking and knowledge transfer. Participants response to 2017 event: 100% satisfied, 97% would recommend it to colleague. Participants response to 2018 event: 100% satisfied, 100% would recommend. 

Coordinating //oneweek Hackathon 2015, 2016 and 2017 across Microsoft European offices. Plan and execute live events in London, UK (2015) and Tallinn, Estonia (2016).

- Recruiting 20+ local offices to participate on company-wide event.
- Managing information flow, budget and logistics management.
- Guiding local event organizers in planning, delivery and post-delivery.
- Planning and executing live events in London, UK and Tallinn, Estonia.

Project Manager at the Microsoft Garage

Project Manager for Skype University Hackathon 2016. Planned and executed a delivery of external hackathon for students from European universities.

Drove awareness and event recruitment, created and executed marketing plan and content. Recruited event judges and managed leadership participation. Managed event budget. Executed 3-day event, coordinated volunteer engagement and follow-up activities.

Project Manager & Event Host

Project Manager for the first Skype University Hackathon. Planned and executed a delivery of external hackathon for IT students from Estonian universities.

Drove awareness and event recruitment, created and executed marketing plan and content. Recruited event judges and managed leadership participation. Managed event budget. Executed 3-day event, coordinated volunteer engagement and follow-up activities.

Project Manager for Skype Tallinn Hakcathon, Winter 2015. Planned and executed a delivery of internal hackathon in Skype Tallinn office.

Drove awareness and event recruitment, created and executed marketing plan and content. Recruited event judges and managed leadership participation. Managed event budget. Executed 3-day event and follow-up activities - participant surveys, wrap-up e-mails, plans and transition for next event.

Project Manager

Hype

Consulted HIV digital competition organizers regarding planning for and execution of hackathon portion of the competition. 

Moderated (MC-ed) the hackathon launch event, checkpoints and final event.

Hackathon Moderator (MC) and Consultant

Technical Community Manager in Skype. I built the infrastructure for and drove various communities (technical exchange, grassroots innovations, cloud services, and Agile practitioners) helping Skype and Microsoft engineers to connect with each other, share and find dispersed information on particular subject matters.

• Built a web portal for internal communities; 
• organized community sessions across multiple locations; 
• managed community channels; 
• recorded, edited and published event videos; 
• organized large scale innovation events (hackathons and science fair); 
• performed Scrum Master duties - facilitated team meetings.

Engineering Communities Development Manager

Inglise Kolledži Sihtasutus (English College Foundation)

Organizing the gathering of donations from 700 donors. Arranging the board meetings of volunteer-run organization. Making payments (salaries, invoices), managing of money-reserves. Organizing of scholarship contest and conducting the interviews. 

With the help of other volunteer-colleagues we brought the organization out of its low point, improved communications with its partners, improved budgetary inflows. I envisioned IT solution that improved effectiveness of fund-raising and oversaw (PM-ed) its creation.

Member of management board

Causa OÜ

Organizing the activities of the company, creating the service solution, communicating and servicing the customers, finding partners and organizing co-operation with them. Causa OÜ (Start-Company-in-Estonia.com) enables foreigners quickly and conveniently obtain Estonian private limited company (OÜ). Because of effective organizing the customer needs to be in Tallinn only for few hours.

Founder and Managing Director

Mises Institute Estonia

Organizing the work of non-profit educational foundation, editorial work, organizing and giving of courses and lectures. Mises Institute Estonia publishes the ideas on Austrian school of economics in Estonian. Website http://mises.ee

Productivity Coach @ GTD Estonia | Certified Coach, Master Trainer

I am a certified Getting Things Done® Coach and Master Trainer. My passion as a productivity coach is to support individuals and companies in achieving better results and helping them manage their tasks and responsibilities more efficiently and with less stress.
 
I am happy to talk with you about how Getting Things Done can help you and your company to be more productive, reduce stress, and to achieve a better life for you.

Paul Vahur

Adven – The leading partner in the energy transition

IT Project Manager

Kõnetoru

Kõnetoru pakub koolitusi ja nõuandeid tarbeteksti kirjutajale ja muidu keelehuvilisele. Meie eesmärk on aidata eesti keele kõnelejail keeleteadmisi ja -oskusi värskendada ja täiendada.

Paljud meist kasutavad keelt igapäevase töövahendina, kirjutades tarbetekste, esinedes avalikult või tehes õpetajatööd.

Ometi mõeldakse keelele kui töövahendile üsna vähe. Kõnetoru aitab mõelda, mis on keel, kuidas see toimib ning kuidas oma sõnumit mõjuvamalt ja teadlikumalt edasi anda.

Kõnetoru keelejutud on üldharivad, pakkudes huvitavaid ja kasulikke fakte.

Keelejutu või koolituse tellimiseks võta ühendust kodulehe kaudu.

Founder

Seaberries Solutions

Localization of digital products and services
Local marketing for digital products and services
Local marketing and PR for devices
Business development for digital services

Institute of the Estonian Language

Managing the product portfolio (Ekilex, Sõnaveeb, Teatmik, Keelenõuvakk)
User research
Managing IT projects
Leading a team of developers

Product Manager

Adven Group

Partnering with business owners to understand their processes and needs
Councelling the business owners about the optimal processes and solutions
Documenting processes and solutions
Partnering with dev teams to create the needed solutions/infosystems

Information Technology Project Manager

Finestmedia AS

Building speech recognition solution for Estonian Parliament Riigikogu:
Leading the team
Managing project scope and budget
Gathering customer's requirements

SMIT (IT and Development Centre at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior)

Building person identification service for personal identity documents proceedings:
Leading customer expectations and co-operation
Mapping customer's processes
Identifying user stories
Prioritising functionalities
Arranging UAT
Leading development team and development process
Setting up maintenance and monitoring routines
Testing the service, listening to customer feedback
Making sure architectural and technical questions are identified and answered


Taking care of proceedings for e-residency digi-ID card:
providing the platform for applying for e-residency - https://apply.gov.ee/
enabling processing of the applications

Working with dev teams in agile frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban)
Assessing business value of the user stories and prioritizing the stories
Working with customer to identify the needs and map processes
Making sure development team has the right input

Product Owner

OpusCapita

Responsible for OpusCapita digital signature offering eSign.

Responsible for product development;
Working  with the dev teams to implement the product offering;
Working with marketing to plan and execute marketing strategy;
Working with business management to plan ROI and billing;
Training the sales and support teams;
Working with sales to offer best solutions to customers' problems.

Responsible for service design for new products.
Responsible for product documentation in CMS (MadCap Flare).
Responsible for product offering presentment.

Biggest achievement: getting sales to see the value in the product.

Product Manager, eSign

Responsible for business line's product documentation.
Supporting product managers with documentation and marketing activities.
Responsible for service design for new products.

Biggest achievement: building service design for two new products.

Product Specialist, Document Transaction Business Line

Supporting Skype dev teams with localization, taking care of the process end-to-end: managing language files from repo to Translation Management System (TMS) and back, configurating TMS if needed. Making sure user understanding would not be lost in localization. Delivering good enough quality in agile environment.

Biggest achievement: successfully managing a localization project with 100+ languages in agile environment.

Program Manager

Skype

Creating and managing translation/localization quality processes and documentation; leading the Skype linguist team; vendor governance; planning and implementing localization tools in co-operation with the team.

Biggest achievement: building up successful Skype translation quality process; leading the virtual team of Skype linguists.

Translation Quality Manager

Passionate about making products work for people's needs. Best at product management, (tech) project management and service design. Very good at planning and communication. Quick learner. Works best in great teams. Brings measured doses of fun, inspiration and random facts of the day to the hard working organizations.

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