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New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Led flagship engagements as product owner and oversaw product management discipline firm-wide:- Built stakeholder relationships and effectively translated user requirements into technical specifications, created roadmaps and strategic plans to address business problems.- Analyzed and streamlined 10+ company initiatives simultaneously across multiple countries in various domains/industries, built effective collaboration model across 5+ departments.- Championed agile internally, facilitated team scrums and company meetings.Select project examples:- Led design, development and successful launch of a digitally enabled cutting-edge diagnostic tool and custom information system for an anatomic pathology laboratory; coached key client stakeholders and distributed team members on agile methodology for effective work process.- Managed development and support for 20+ applications for a major global sports event.- Developed high fidelity prototype solution for the cFive cross platform application.

Greater New York City Area

- Led design and development efforts for key client products.- Developed and executed strategy for the ThorTech 2014 Election Analytical System ensuring successful launch on time and on budget. Automated team work using Agile methodology with Atlassian. Defined quantitative and qualitative success metrics for the team.- Improved daily scrums reducing time spent on meetings by 90% and getting things done increased by 50% on the ThorTech. Tripled team effectiveness by implementing self-responsibility tactics and constantly prioritizing company’s wildly important goal.

Greater New York City Area

IT Business AnalystAnalyzed complex business processes to facilitate efficiency and growth for clients:- Managed the roadmap and team interactions using scrum.- Facilitated adoption of Agile methodology and tools (e.g. JIRA) for multi-shore teams.- Reviewed project documentation (functional requirements, solution proposals, architectural documents, plans and testing methodologies).Select project examples:- Served as a Business Analyst on the team to redesign the Mediaspace Solutions internal flagship product following a very tight schedule to convert a VB6 Windows application to a web application using ASP.NET, MVC, C#, Entity Framework, Angular, Telerik and SignalR. - Helped assembling an onsite and offshore developer staff. Worked with the management to simplify and stabilize the system and establish development best practices.

Minsk, Republic Of Belarus

Planned, mapped out, executed and finalized implementation of various IT solutions:- Gathered business requirements, created wireframes and system specifications, translated business requirements into development stories and tasks.- Demonstrated developed features, validated the implementation, created operational readiness documents, conducted user acceptance tests with customers.Achievements and project examples:- Delivered high-quality system in a tight schedule on time and on budget for the Smith Brothers Advertising Agency.- Collaborated with multi-shore team on delivery of the President’s Box application for the US Open tournament.

Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, And Group Studies, Holder Of Gfps Special Scholarship

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Political Science And Government

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