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Our Founder's Story
Christine Szczepanski has spent over a decade being the person companies call when everything's on the line. She's run complex, multi-year projects across 15+ countries—the kind where you're juggling time zones, cultures, languages, and million-dollar stakes all at once—and she genuinely loves the puzzle of it all.
Whether it's a Fortune 500 enterprise migration to boost revenue, a cost-cutting transformation, a critical product rollout, or to save a key client relationship, she's the single point of contact who figures out what needs to happen and makes it happen.
Her favorite kind of challenge? The impossible one—like the time a senior manager had a serious accident right before a critical launch, and Christine got the call to step in cold. She rallied the scattered team, untangled the mess, and delivered on time. That's when she realized her superpower wasn't just managing projects—it was seeing the whole system, connecting the dots others missed, and adapting on the fly.
Now with Hachi Connect, she brings that same systems thinking and problem-solving obsession to companies who need someone battle-tested, versatile, and ready to jump in when it matters most.
Projects
Multi-Market E-Commerce Transformation
Fortune 500 Healthcare & Consumer Goods Company
Scope: 17 International Markets | 2 E-Commerce Product Lines
Challenge →
When a Fortune 500 client needed to scale e-commerce across 17 markets with evolving regulatory requirements and competing priorities among 30+ stakeholders, Christine served as Product Owner and Delivery Lead, bridging business and technical teams.
The developers were skeptical because they never delivered these number of releases prior.
Solution →
She introduced continuous improvements, implemented compliance-by-design principles, and translated complex requirements into actionable user stories while managing a team of 8+ developers and analysts.
Value:
The result:
Successful delivery across all markets that supported client retention and revenue growth, established scalable processes, and optimized resource allocation while maintaining business continuity.
Global Financial Services Cloud Migration
Fortune 500 Financial Services Institutions
Scope: 20+ Countries | Multi-Year Infrastructure Transformation
Challenge →
A multinational firm needed to migrate mission-critical trading platforms handling billions of dollars to modern SaaS/IaaS/PaaS infrastructure across 20+ countries—with zero downtime tolerance and complex regulatory requirements in each jurisdiction.
Solution →
As Global Project Manager and single point of contact for Fortune 500 clients, Christine led cross-functional teams and coordinated 50+ stakeholders across time zones, and managed the end-to-end lifecycle. She successfully implemented the cloud with tiered packages and pricing, including hosted real-time market data infrastructure, and delivered multi-year migrations within hard deadlines.
Value:
The impact:
Zero downtime during billions of dollars in daily transactions, 100% on-time/on-budget delivery across a $5M+ portfolio, improved operational efficiency through new IT service management processes, and maintained client relationships that led to contract renewals—establishing replicable migration patterns that became industry benchmarks for large-scale financial services cloud adoption.
Education
2025
Professional Certificate in Data Science and Analytics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A program where Christine explored how data can be used help drive strategic business decision making. Here, she explored how to
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Apply AI and ML techniques to help organize and analyze data, maximizing performance in an organization.
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Leverage data in order to optimize strategies and improve decision making in your organizations.
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Analyze and translate technical results into actionable insights for executives.
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Use Python and Google Colab to train, organize, run and analyze datasets and models that yield meaningful results.
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Develop a portfolio of modeling tools that showcases hand-on application for prediction, classification and optimization in practical business context
2019-2021
Master in Advanced Studies in Management, Technology, and Economics
ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
A program where Christine gained insights on how to create sustainable business by leveraging technology and combining it with economics.
2013-2015
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Globis University
A case and hands-on based MBA program where Christine gained insights on venture management, venture strategy and marketing.
Certifications
2024
2023
2022
2021
IPMA Level D Agile Project Management
Product Management, Product Academy
SAFe 6.0 Product Owner Product Manager
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) from Scrum.org
PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner
Past Projects
A few logos where our founder ran small to large technology enterprise projects.
