Andrey Barbier Email & Phone Number

Moldova

Chișinău, Chisinau, Md

Chișinău, Moldova

Dedicated and results-driven Senior Project & Program Manager with a proven track record of successfully managing a portfolio of projects, implementing consistent project delivery methods, and driving ongoing improvements. Adept at stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and ensuring the alignment of project outcomes with client expectations.- Managed a portfolio of 3 projects, ensuring adherence to project management and software development best practices.- Developed and implemented consistent methods for project delivery, team structure, and goals for continuous improvement.- Defined and adjusted work processes, ensuring quality deliverables through mentoring and coaching team leads.- Led the staffing process, clarified customer requests, coordinated interviews, and managed onboarding/offboarding processes.- Acted as the day-to-day escalation point for customer-to-team communication.- Conducted engagement delivery-related risk/issue management and performed project-level risk management.- Identified customer stakeholders and developed effective communication plans.- Managed customer expectations for schedule, budget, scope, and quality.- Led periodic account reviews and reviewed invoices for accuracy.- Developed the Project Managers JIRA Handbook for streamlined project management.- Conducted training and mentoring sessions for team leads and project managers.- Interviewed and onboarded new project managers.

Belarus

Oversee pre-sales, business analysis, development, testing, and maintenance of a diverse portfolio of projects (Web & Mobile - Sport & Fitness, AR, Real Estate, etc.).- Lead a team of 3 Project Managers/Project Coordinators, providing guidance and support for successful project execution.- Develop and implement consistent methods for project delivery, team structure, financial management, risk management, program/project reviews, escalation processes, and cross-functional team leadership.- Define and maintain a standard methodology for projects, ensuring adherence to best practices.- Support the preparation of the organization's strategic planning.- Drive adoption and alignment of standards, policies, and procedures across the organization.- Partner with functional leadership for resource planning, execution, and tracking of projects.- Define and maintain expectations for project management roles and responsibilities in a disciplined and structured manner.- Collaborate with DevOps to automate organizational business processes, enhancing efficiency in project management, development, testing, and maintenance.- Improve and communicate changes to Statements of Work (SoW), Master Service Agreements (MSA), and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) documents.- Develop project management templates and business processes, integrating them into daily activities.- Supervise and train project managers and business analysts.- Supervise key organizational projects, ensuring successful delivery within scope, time, and budget.- Manage project pre-sale activities, gathering requirements, proposing cooperation models, estimating efforts, assessing risks, and preparing project schedules.- Provide consultation to C-level management on Sales, Marketing, HR, and other organizational business processes.

Belarus

Results-oriented Project Manager with a diverse background in overseeing end-to-end project lifecycles, from pre-sales and business analysis to development, testing, and maintenance. Proven success in managing projects across various domains such as Healthcare, AR, Insurance, and Telecom.- Oversee pre-sales, business analysis, development, testing, and maintenance of a diverse portfolio of projects in Mobile, API, and Web domains (Healthcare, AR, Insurance, Telecom).- Manage project pre-sale activities, including gathering base requirements, proposing cooperation models, gathering estimates, assessing risks, and preparing project schedules.- Review Statements of Work (SoW), Master Service Agreements (MSA), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA), and Proposals documents before delivery and signing by senior management.- Collaborate with project team members and stakeholders to define project scope, resource requirements, timeline, deliverables, and milestones.- Lead projects through all phases of the software development life cycle, ensuring successful initiation, requirements, design, development, testing, acceptance, and release to App Store and Google Play markets, including the warranty period.- Facilitate project activities such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Retrospectives, and Sprint Demos.- Manage project scope, budget, and quality throughout the entire project cycle.- Handle the product and sprint backlog, working with the team to prioritize, estimate, plan, and overcome issues affecting project progress.- Motivate project team members, encourage collaboration, and ensure a positive team dynamic.- Analyze and propose optimal solutions and technologies to customers and team members.- Identify and propose features to enhance the competitiveness of customer systems in the market.- Monitor and control the development process through all project phases.- Propose improvements to organizational processes to senior management.

Minsk, Belarus

ISO Auditing Consulting Services: - Supply Chain/Vendor Audits- Internal Audits- Risk AssessmentsISO Certification Consulting Services (with 100% certification pass guarantee): - Quality Management System (ISO 9001)- Environmental Management (ISO 14001)- Food Safety (ISO 22001)- Food Safety (BRC)- Food Safety (IFS)- Information Security Management Systems (ISO 27001)- Energy Management Systems (ISO 50001)- Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSAS 18001)- Good Distribution Practice (GDP)- Safety & Quality Assessment System (SQAS)- Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA)Software Testing Management & Improvement Services:- Assess the existing Software Testing department maturity.- Increase the maturity of the Software Testing department and align them with organizational objectives.- Develop and integrate the Software Testing audits.- Develop and integrate Software Testing processes (Organizational, Management and Dynamic layers).- Develop the Software Testing department from scratch.- Optimize existing Software Testing processes.

Minsk, Belarus

Activities: - Managing the development & quality Assurance projects for Mobile and Web applications.- Prepare the pre-sales documentation for development & quality assurance related services (processes description, company experience, case study etc.).- Participate in pre-sale meeting (act as consultant and technical expert) and gather the customer needs.- Research the it market, prepare relevant strategy and present to top management.- Consulting customers on the best and most effective methodologies to be used for their projects and further integration of the processes.- Developing plans, strategies with further agreement with the customers.- Manage projects resourcse (allocate work between engineers and development with further monitoring and control of the results).- Preparing Daily/Weekly/Monthly progress reports, quality reports.- Preparing invoices for customers and ensure timely payment is made.- Analyse the project needs and implement best practices and standards which help achieve the expected results in an efficient way.

Minsk

- Accountable for the Testing, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Consulting services delivery (>40 projects).- Accountable for the QC Department budget and department related projects/programs profitability.- Accountable for the QC Department policies and department development strategy & objectives.- Accountable for ISO 9001:2008 Certification Program.- Accountable for the ISTQB Partnership Program.- Develop, optimize and manage QC Department from scratch.- Develop QC Department Organizational Structure, Employees Skills Matrix, Metrics and KPIs for all employees, Career Path.- Develop and implement organizational Test Policy and Test Strategy compliant with ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 standard.- Implement test management processes (Test Planning, Test Monitor & Control, Test Completion)- Implement dynamic test processes (Test Design & Implementation, Test Environment Setup & Maintenance, Test Execution, Test Incident Reporting)- Implementation of the Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, documentation, compliant with international ISO/IEC/IEEE standards.- Manage the QC Department's Functional, Automation & Performance teams in various geographical locations (> 20 persons).- Monitor and Control the testing activities across all the projects- Standardize Quality Assurance and Quality Control Processes- Standardize Education, On-Boarding, Off-Boarding, Employee Certification & Training Processes- Implement best practices and standards (ISTQB, ISO 9001, IEEE 829, IEEE 1044, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119, TMMi etc.).- Interviewing and hiring new candidates for various positions (functional, automation, performance)- Initiate, Plan, Perform and report Quality Control Audits.- Prepare the Pre-Sale information and present to senior management.

Minsk

- Developing and Managing QA Department from scratch (QA Manager, Test Engineers, Automation Engineers, UAT Engineers etc.)- Developing and document the QA policies and processes.- Implementing Standards and best practices (IEEE 829, IEEE 730, IEEE 1061, TMMi, PMBok etc.)- Building and maintaining the testing infrastracture.- Working with Insource and Outsource testing teams.- Monitor and Control the testing activities across all the projects- Interview and hire new candidates on various positions.

Chisinau, Minsk

- Managing the completion of testing/quality assurance processes on different projects.- Responsible for the overall quality of the deliverable (manual, performance, automation) of a set of products.- Responsible for establishing and maintaining testing infrastructure, including test tools and environments.- Responsible for QA resources on the project, their number, qualification and training.- Communicate with other groups and individuals on behalf of QA function.- Report test progress, issues (if any) and problem resolution on regular basis to the management (QA Director, Product Management, Project Management).- Working with other groups in various geographical locations (France, Switzerland, Thailand, India, U.S.A., Great Britain etc.)- Accountable for the quality of testing performed for several project.- Create Test Plan/Strategy, Method of Work, QA Project Forecast for a set of products.- Negotiating use of the necessary resources and escalating issues if unsuccessful.- Managing tasks of Thomson Reuters Eikon products.- Monitoring testing results and communicating the overall status of testing across multiple programs and projects to key team members and stakeholders, including recommended development changes.- Recommending actions that focus on specific manual processes to the QA Director.- Ensuring compliance with quality assurance and development methodology and policies.- Implementing improvements to quality assurance processes to create efficiencies and best product testing coverage.- Managing a team of on-going QA professionals. Estimate effort required for own work, and check and agree other team members' estimates.- Accountable for planning work assigned to the team, including work breakdown, accurate estimate and identification of possible solution options. - Accountable for tracking status of team's work and ensuring deliverables are produced on agreed schedules.

Chisinau, Moldova

• Responsible for all QA activities (automation and e2e workflow) of a set of components / products.• Responsible for establishing and maintaining testing infrastructure, including test tools and environments.• Responsible for QA resources on the project, their number, qualification and training.• Communicate with other groups and individuals on behalf of QA function.• Report test progress, issues (if any) and problem resolution on regular basis to the management.• Working with other groups in various geographical locations.• Accountable for the quality of testing performed within area of responsibility.• Create high-level QA plans for a set of components / products, automation and program of work based on the risk management analysis.• Create metrics of a set of components.• Managing tasks of Thomson Reuters Eikon product.• Managing tasks of Thomson Reuters Eikon Child Project automation (analyse and define the scope, costs, strategy and the workflow).• Thomson Reuters product technical expert.• Product configuration/troubleshooting customers’ support.• Responsible for Product Definition static testing.• Train new-comers and employees.• Give a “Black Box/Specification Based Testing Techniques” courses at USM and UTM universities basing on ISEB Foundation certification program (Equivalence Class Partitioning, Boundary Values Analysis, Decision Table Testing, State Transition Testing, Use Case Testing, Exploratory Testing).

Chisinau, Moldova

• Reuters product expert (Reuters 3000 Xtra v4.5.3 – v5.1, Reuters Trader for Asia, Reuters Trader v2-3, Reuters Knowledge for Wealth Management, Reuters 3000 Xtra financial models).• Analysing/Updating/Writing Test Scenarios / Test Cases• Train new-comers and employees (Financial Background (Swaps); QA/Test Background).• Performing Integration and System Tests on a different Reuters projects (CME, RTEX, RTFX, RTFI, Reuters 3000 Xtra v4.5-5.1, Reuters Trader Asia, Reuters Trader v2-3, Reuters Knowledge for Wealth Management, XMS/Reuters 3000 Financial Models).

Bachelor'S Degree

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