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Business Analyst bridging strategy and technology to drive digital transformation.

Business Analyst
Digital Strategist
Process Expert
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Réka Mészáros-Erdei - Business Analyst

Core Competencies

Business Analysis

Requirement gathering, stakeholder interviews, GAP analysis, functional specifications, and user stories.

Digital Transformation

IT strategy, digital roadmaps, process optimization, and driving technology adoption.

Agile & Project Management

Backlog management, sprint planning, release coordination, and cross-functional collaboration.

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft 365JiraConfluenceOSIsoft PIPythonSQLWordPressFigma

Soft Skills

  • Analytical Problem Solving
  • Customer-Oriented Attitude
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-functional Communication

Professional Experience

Business Analyst

CommIT Smart · Budapest, Hungary

2024 – 2025
  • Initiated and launched online event-ticketing platform projects covering ticketing integrations and event-management workflows.
  • Authored user stories and maintained a healthy product backlog aligned with stakeholder priorities and release plans.
  • Ran the full agile ceremony cycle — sprint planning, refinement, review and retrospective — bridging product and engineering teams.
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Backlog ownership
  • Ticketing platforms

IT Consultant

Onespire · Budapest, Hungary

Client: Wizz Air

2022 – 2023
  • Served Wizz Air as primary client across strategic HR digitalisation and operational subsidiary stand-up workstreams.
  • Led HR recruitment digitalisation for ~1,000 employees — requirement gathering, stakeholder interviews and GAP analysis — a building block of Wizz Air's multi-million-USD 2030 strategic programme.
  • Validated and refreshed back-office HR processes for the Wizz Air Malta entity launch — a high-stakes new subsidiary requiring rapid process readiness.
  • Identified digitalisation potential, optimised onboarding workflows and authored functional specifications together with development teams.
  • HR digitalisation
  • GAP analysis
  • Functional specs

Product Owner

Medicover · Budapest, Hungary

2022
  • Owned the product backlog and business requirements for an outpatient & inpatient process-optimisation platform serving ~200 physicians and several thousand patients ($200K).
  • Led the IT-side launch of a new private maternity service — coordinating system readiness, process design and release across clinical and operational stakeholders.
  • Defined and communicated the product roadmap; led the agile delivery cadence and release coordination.
  • Engaged physicians directly as domain experts to gather, refine and validate requirements that reflect real clinical workflows.
  • Product ownership
  • Healthcare IT
  • Roadmap

Downstream IT Senior Domain Expert — Production & HSE

MOL Group (Downstream) · Budapest, Hungary

2017 – 2022
  • Owned 10–15 parallel digitalisation projects within the Production & HSE portfolio ($3M / ~50 projects Group-wide) across 5 refinery and petrochemical sites in Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia.
  • Led Group-wide flagship deliveries: LIMS implementation ($3M, multi-year, ~500 lab staff), HSE digitalisation roadmap incl. waste-management & HSE mobile app ($500K), laboratory digitalisation roadmap ($300K) and the blue-collar mobile-app portfolio.
  • Served as the trusted go-to IT partner for Production, HSE and Laboratory functions — from early ideation through requirements, scoping and delivery hand-over.
  • Drove Group-level harmonisation of HSE processes across all blue- and white-collar staff at the HU/SK/HR sites.
  • Led annual CAPEX/OPEX planning, vendor reviews and budget defence with Group leadership.
  • IT portfolio
  • IT governance
  • Stakeholder management
  • Oil & Gas

Process Information Engineer

MOL Plc. (Downstream) · Százhalombatta, Hungary

2015 – 2017
  • Designed and deployed predictive-maintenance analytics on the OSIsoft PI System — Integrity Operating Window (IOW) monitoring, corrosion & thickness trending and automated early-warning logic — used daily by operators, technologists and integrity engineers.
  • Built operational dashboards and business logic on PI for daily throughput & yield tracking, off-spec prevention and process-stability monitoring.
  • Supported refinery mass & energy balance reconciliation with Pimsoft Sigmafine.
  • Introduced machine-learning–driven decision support into operations — the business case identified $500–800K annual savings potential.
  • OSIsoft PI
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Machine learning
  • IT/OT

Education

MSc in Chemical Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2012 - 2014

BSc in Chemical and Process Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2005 - 2009

Languages

🇭🇺 Hungarian - Native
🇬🇧 English - Intermediate (Business)
🇩🇪 German - Intermediate (Passive)
🇪🇸 Spanish - Elementary (Passive)

My Work

A selection of projects and deliverables from across my career in industrial and enterprise IT.

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