Andrei Polevoi Email & Phone Number

Westerville, Ohio

Cayosoft is a global software company delivering products to manage, monitor, & recover AD, Azure AD, Office 365 & beyond.We help IT departments at companies of any size to protect user identities, maintain service availability and deal with everyday tasks. We support companies in their journey from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft's cloud services. We are a group of talented and dedicated engineers, with decades of experience in the field.Achievements:- Established… Show more Cayosoft is a global software company delivering products to manage, monitor, & recover AD, Azure AD, Office 365 & beyond.We help IT departments at companies of any size to protect user identities, maintain service availability and deal with everyday tasks. We support companies in their journey from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft's cloud services. We are a group of talented and dedicated engineers, with decades of experience in the field.Achievements:- Established engineering lab in Armenia and grown this lab to 30+ engineers- Oversee product strategy, innovation, design, development and delivery- Manages the operations for the lab, including legal, accounting and HR Show less

Moscow, Russian Federation

Acronis is a global technology company delivering products and services to protect the data, applications, systems, and productivity of every organization - safeguarding them against cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and human errors. While in Acronis, I have managed the Acronis Backup Advanced product family and led a group of talented product/program managers for the product delivering data protection, backup, and disaster recovery in heterogeneous environments to… Show more Acronis is a global technology company delivering products and services to protect the data, applications, systems, and productivity of every organization - safeguarding them against cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and human errors. While in Acronis, I have managed the Acronis Backup Advanced product family and led a group of talented product/program managers for the product delivering data protection, backup, and disaster recovery in heterogeneous environments to small and medium businesses and enterprises.Achievements:- Rebuilt the B2B product management group.- Managed the core business product line through 4 years of growth and success - Navigated the global and highly competitive market.- Spoke for the company on trade shows, user groups, and industry events.- Guided a team of 200 developers through the software lifecycle process. Show less

Moscow, Russian Federation

Moscow, Russian Federation

Jelastic is an innovative technology company based in Palo Alto, California that brings to the market a PaaS solution for hosting providers to better address the requirements of a wide range of users. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic is a Full-Control Platform-as-a-Service that can run and scale any application with no code changes required, and is available from a large number of… Show more Jelastic is an innovative technology company based in Palo Alto, California that brings to the market a PaaS solution for hosting providers to better address the requirements of a wide range of users. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic is a Full-Control Platform-as-a-Service that can run and scale any application with no code changes required, and is available from a large number of hosted service providers across the globe.Achievements:- Applied 12 years of expertise in software development and delivery to help startup vendor of cloud services to grow into mature global company with sustainable business- Established company-wide policies and procedures to ensure product delivery in time and with appropriate quality- Drove product version definitions and feature scopes within the area of expertise- Managed product deployments for our partners all over the world, successfully completed and launched them into public commercial usage- Designed operations structure, roles, policies, procedures and KPI for PSO/Operations and Support organizations- Grown the PSO/Operations team into solid and mature department- Built PSO and Support organizations from the ground-up Show less

Moscow Region, Russian Federation

Moved to the Lead Program Manager (Product Analyst) to build and maintain program management activities for the primary product. Later, as a Group Program Manager, expanded these activities to all products being developed in the Moscow lab.Achievements:- Focused on such activities as requirements and scenarios elaboration, release scope definition, implementation review, inbound and outbound communication, market, competitive and technology research- Built a team of 5 Program… Show more Moved to the Lead Program Manager (Product Analyst) to build and maintain program management activities for the primary product. Later, as a Group Program Manager, expanded these activities to all products being developed in the Moscow lab.Achievements:- Focused on such activities as requirements and scenarios elaboration, release scope definition, implementation review, inbound and outbound communication, market, competitive and technology research- Built a team of 5 Program Managers, expanding activities to all products developed in Moscow lab- With the team, drove the product to leadership in the Active Directory market space and to the 2nd best selling product at Quest- Transformed the product into an expandable framework with a suite of various extensions, to balance product and codebase maturity with agility and time-to-market- Regularly visited customers in NA and EU regions, spoke for the company on user groups, conferences and other events- Launched, solidified and expanded on-line product community- Led cross-product integration with R&D teams in Russia, US and Germany- Supervised the Custom Development group- Delivered technology and product due dilligence on potential M&A targets in the Active Directory and Identity Management spaces- Took Pragmatic Marketing course, learned and applied best practices in product/program management practices to software product development Show less

Moscow, Russian Federation

Was promoted to a Project Manager position with a team of 7 engineers, developing Microsoft Active Directory administration and automation product - ActiveRoles Server.Achievements:- Over the next 4 years, scaled up the team and processes and expanded the product functionality to support the growth of customer base and market needs- Expanded the team to 20+ engineers- Successfully released 6 major versions to the market - Supervised core architecture decisions-… Show more Was promoted to a Project Manager position with a team of 7 engineers, developing Microsoft Active Directory administration and automation product - ActiveRoles Server.Achievements:- Over the next 4 years, scaled up the team and processes and expanded the product functionality to support the growth of customer base and market needs- Expanded the team to 20+ engineers- Successfully released 6 major versions to the market - Supervised core architecture decisions- Managed outsourced development of selected components- Learned world-class software development and management practices, like Rational Unified Process (RUP), CMM/CMMI, Microsoft Solution Franework, PMBOK; applied selected practices to increase team effectiveness, reduce friction and grow maturity of the development process and the product- Deployed performance review and appraisal process for the team Show less

Moscow, Russian Federation

Joined a newly organized development lab to build administration and automation products for Microsoft Windows NT, and later for Active Directory.Achievements:- Started as a setup developer, developed multiple setup packages for various components- Continued as a Windows GUI developer, developed rich console UI for the product- Continued as a core Service architect/developer, redesigned a multi-threaded Service core application towards new requirements and technologies… Show more Joined a newly organized development lab to build administration and automation products for Microsoft Windows NT, and later for Active Directory.Achievements:- Started as a setup developer, developed multiple setup packages for various components- Continued as a Windows GUI developer, developed rich console UI for the product- Continued as a core Service architect/developer, redesigned a multi-threaded Service core application towards new requirements and technologies - Learned and used multiple software development technologies, including but not limited to OOP, C++, COM/DCOM, C#, .NET, DHTML, SQL, ASP/ASP.NET. Show less