About
Innovation, from the lab to the boardroom.
I find enterprise opportunities others miss, pressure-test them, and turn ambiguous problems into business cases and decisions leaders act on. Banja Luka by birth, Belgrade by love, the whole world by curiosity — and I never really left science. I just learned to make it land.
The arc
Four rooms, one instinct.
Biologist, then product, then product strategy, then innovation. The title on the door kept changing; the way I read a problem never did: understand the system, find the opportunity, pressure-test it, make the case.
01
The lab — molecular biology
MSc in Molecular Biology & Physiology, specialising in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (2019–2020), after a BSc at the University of Belgrade. Science trains you to attack your own best idea, not defend it — still the most useful habit I own.
02
Product & client solutions — Seven Bridges
Product & Client Solutions Specialist at Seven Bridges (acquired by Velsera). Taught myself Python in two months; owned end-to-end client-facing delivery of complex SaaS in scientific environments, and turned real usage into product enhancements and roadmap.
03
Product strategy — Thermo Fisher Scientific
Product Solution Specialist: led product strategy and governance across analytics and operational platforms — stabilising high-risk products, restructuring requirements, and introducing structured UAT, release-readiness and decision-making that shipped better product.
04
Innovation — Thermo Fisher Scientific
Innovation Manager: enterprise opportunity discovery, business case development and investment evaluation across AI-enabled, digital and operational transformation. Assessed opportunities worth $50M+, taking ambiguous problems from hypothesis to executive go/no-go — and presenting the case to senior leadership.
The method
The order of operations.
- The question before the question.
- Assume — then try to break it.
- Read the field before the opinion.
- Triangulate. Opinion is cheap.
- A recommendation isn’t finished until someone can act on it.
Most people fall in love with their idea and look for evidence to support it. I was trained to do the opposite.
The kit
Tools I actually work in.
Strategy & research
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Miro
- Milanote
- Whiteboard
- Microsoft Forms
Docs & planning
- Notion
- Monday
- Google Docs
- Excel
Design & presentations
- Figma
- Canva
- PowerPoint
Delivery
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
Languages
Serbian — native
English — fluent
Spanish — basic
Certifications
Genomic Data Science — Johns Hopkins
Product Management — Udemy
Agile, Scrum & Kanban — Udemy
Elsewhere
Bring me in before the decision.
Available for
- Strategy consulting
- Innovation discovery
- Market research
- Presentation design
- Creative direction
- Writing
- Product discovery
- Brand strategy