Magdalena Pawlowska-Talarek

My name is Magda and I’m a flesh and blood Warsaw girl. I’m leading couple of roles in my life – wife of home automation lover guy, mother of 11-year old daughter full of energy and horse passion and (last but not least) Women in Tech. Merging all these roles and responsibilities helped me to raise my project management skills to a very high level. I have spent past 14 years working within banking sector as a Project and Program Manager, mainly within Information Security space (Identity and Access Management and Privileged Identity Management). However, I have also strong financial background, as I get bachelor’s degree within finance and banking (accounting). My main area of interest lays within process improvements and quality assurance. I’ve spent tons of hours talking with engineers, developers, analysts, subject matter experts and senior managers to figure out how to built security processes in such a way, to minimize audit findings, please risk and control team and also sleep well during the night 😉 I took part in all of the stages of that processes. Starting from analysis, architecture, project management, tracking, testing, implementation and ending as an advocate discussing with audit authorities. My courage, stubborn striving for goals, not giving up and strong communication skills, brought me to where I am today – I’m a Women in Tech – and I’m proud of it. Adding some more flavour to my personality - I’m a big fan of F1 racing and fast cars. That usually helped me to establish good cooperation with all the men that I met on my business journey.