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Москва, Москва, Россия

As a project manager in Wink's New Products team:- Supervised an outsource team on a mobile app development project- Leading 3 inhouse development teams & coordinating a QA team in a continuous feature delivery proccess- Improving new product team's end-to-end processes for faster feature delivery in collaboration with project management office- Managing mobile app publications in App Store and Google PlayMain accomplishments:- In collaboration with project management office organized and documented end-to-end processes for a new cross-functional product team (50+ colleagues), - Provided the built processes with all jira and confluence configurations needed,- In collaboration with all product teams published several major releases for iOS and android apps

Worked as delivery manager in mobile and smartTV app development team untill and through M&A process with WINK videoservice.- Lead 3 development teams (iOS, Android and smartTV app development) and coordinate a QA team - 12 people in total - to provide effective product delivery process;- Facilitated SCRUM-like activities in development & QA teams;- Facilitated meetings with other cross-functional teams (backend developers, architects, product owners, devOps etc.);- Published new mobile and tv app versions to global and Russian national app markets and AOSP tv vendors;- Corresponded with vendor and app market representatives to address and resolve any questions concerning app development and publishing;Main accomplishments:- Organized a transparent process of communication with marketing team to update all the promo materials in app markets in time for a new release;- Organized and documented a proccess for a first publication to any new app market/AOSP vendor and applied it to first publications for Zeasn TV, KvanTV, RuStore TV;- Through sprint retrospective meetings lead smartTV development team to address blocks for a release train process, which reduced average time to market for smart TV features by 2-4 weeks;

As a project manager on an MDM-system development and implementation project:- coordinated a remote team of 20+ people (analysts, developers, QA, support engineers, DevOps). Comunicated with decision-making parties within client's company; - assigned and prioritized tasks for the team, oversaw the completion of tasks according to planned deadlines;- managed client's expectations and translated them into tasks for the team;- composed project documentation and status reports for the client;- optimized team proccesses.Main accomplishments on the project:- arranged planning and control of project tasks via Microsoft Project. This raised team's efficiency and made project progress more transparant for the client.- implemented a proccess of providing the client with reports on new product features after each release- optimized jira workflow for the team to minimize the time spent on finding out the real status of an issue- Wrote several pieces of contract required project documentation (such as a project roadmap, software test reports, initial data normalization report, user instructing methodology etc.)- Systematized information on getting access to client's IT resources

- Managed two software development projects for external clients and an internal project for the Marketing Department. - Led full cycle of communications with potential clients from clients' RFI to the signing of a contract.In software development projects (teams of 3-5 people (developers, UX designers, architects)):- participated in negotiating the projects' deadlines and budgets with clients, and was responsible for the team meeting those deadlines and budgets.- Managed and organized all the project activities: meetings, negotiations, reports, presentations, document flow, etc.- Collected the customer's requirements, transformed them into tasks for the team.- Performed manual testing of new developed features according to the requirements.Main achievements:- One of my software development project teams has made three major releases, which brought Gridnine Systems significant income. The client signed a contract for further software maitenance and support.- Another project was handed down to me from another manager and demanded addressing communication problems. I successfully established contact with client and te team and together we agreed on new processes of communication. This change helped to make the project more profitable.

Москва, Россия

- Searched for relevant CVs for IT-specialised job openings in MTS;- Conducted initial phone interviews with candidates and arranged technical interviews with those who met minimum criteria.