Curriculum Vitae  ·  2026
Branimir Kušanić
BranimirKušanić
Head of IT  ·  IT Director  ·  Technology Leader
Above all a family man, passionate about IT and management.
Self-aware, with a strong belief that one person can make a change.
02 / Background
Work Experience
20+ years in IT
leadership &
management
Current
Jun 2025 — Present
Perutnina Ptuj
PIPO d.o.o.
Head of IT
  • Team assessment and reorganisation for 45 people across 4 countries
  • Leading IT team in Croatia and Slovenia (32 people)
  • Building relationships with all relevant business stakeholders
  • Working on projects: fiscalisation 2.0, digital contract signing
  • Core infrastructure inventory, upgrade and development planning
  • IT processes revision and implementation
  • Budget planning and control; vendor management
Jan 2022 — Jun 2025
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
IT Operations Director
  • People management for international team across 6 markets, 28 people
  • License management for entire Atlantic Grupa (Microsoft, Oracle and others)
  • Responsibility for smooth IT services operation of core business processes
  • Operational support for all IT systems and infrastructure
  • Overseeing end-user IT environment for 3,000+ users
  • Budget planning and realisation; experience in due diligence
  • Team reorganisation performed
Oct 2019 — Dec 2021
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
Head of IT Operations
  • People management across 5 markets, 20 people
  • Coordination between 3 IT Operations teams
  • License management for entire Atlantic Grupa
  • First and second level support organisation and improvement
  • Business processes and applications ownership and support
Jan 2018 — Sep 2019
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
Head of IT Data Centres & Operations, Zone West
  • Infrastructure and operations team management (2 countries, 6 people)
  • IT data centres infrastructure development and maintenance
  • User support for Zone West (Germany, Austria, Italy, UK)
  • Budget planning and execution in IT data centres area
Aug — Dec 2017
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
Acting Head of IT Operations, Zone West
  • Operations team management; user support for Zone West
  • Supporting business needs in competitive markets
Mar 2016 — Dec 2017
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
Head of IT Data Centers
  • ICT infrastructure maintenance and development
  • Infrastructure team management and budget monitoring
  • Procurement in IT infrastructure area
Jan 2013 — Feb 2016
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
IT Infrastructure Manager
  • Leading IT infrastructure team (sysadmins and technicians)
  • IT planning, budgeting and group-level projects (incl. project lead)
  • Managing tenders and contracts with IT infrastructure partners
Jan 2007 — Dec 2012
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
Head of System Administrators
  • Leading system administrators team
  • Maintaining IT systems: Windows Server, Exchange, backup, networking
  • VIP user support
Jun 2005 — Dec 2006
Atlantic Trade d.o.o.
Zagreb
IT Support Technician
  • Laptop/desktop, mobile and printing device support
  • IT inventory management and internal events support
Sep 2003 — May 2005
Getro d.d.
Zagreb
IT Technician
  • IT user support and PC/equipment maintenance
  • POS systems support
03 / Formation
Education & Training
Continuous
development &
lifelong learning
2019 — 2022
Zagreb, Croatia
Master of Business Administration
Algebra University College
algebra.hr — Financial and leadership capabilities
2010 — 2014
Zagreb, Croatia
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
College for Applied Computer Engineering "Algebra"
Aug 2019 · AXELOS
ITIL V3 Intermediate
Continual Service Improvement
Oct 2017 — Jan 2018
Zagreb
German Language — Level 1
Berlitz
Apr 2016 · EXIN
ITIL V3 Foundation
EXIN Certified
1995 — 2000
Zagreb, Croatia
Electronics Technician
High School "Sesvete"
04 / Competencies
Skills & Languages
Technical depth
meets leadership
breadth
Technical Skills
Microsoft OfficeVMwareHyper-VWindows ServerActive DirectoryVirtualizationNetworkingMicrosoft ExchangeDNS / DHCPCloud SystemsLinuxOracleLicense ManagementMicrosoft 365
Languages
CroatianNative
EnglishC1
GermanA1
Leadership & Management
Leadership of teams up to 45 people across 6 international markets
Financial skills — budgeting, business cases, tendering, MBA programme
International experience in team management and business communication
Due diligence and disinvestment project participation
Successful team reorganisation on multiple occasions
Coaching programme (6 months) and Leaders Lab graduate
Communication & Interpersonal
Excellent communication and VIP user support experience
Speaker at Windays XV conference
Feedback conversation and emotional intelligence training
Business process redesign and active improvement
🏆 IDC Adriatics — Best IT Project, Private Sector 2013
Actively contributed to a project recognised by IDC Adriatics as the best IT project in the private sector in 2013, awarded in 2014.
Thank you
End of Curriculum Vitae
ThankYou
Thank you for taking the time to explore my journey.
I look forward to connecting and creating something meaningful together.
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