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Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Turkey

Russia, Usa

Achievements:• Due to my direct team management, my customers rolled out to the market 4 digital products:o B2C mobile application for e-commerce, o Decentralized Cryptocurrency exchange, o System of intergovernmental interaction,o B2B design CRM.• Ensured that all principal deadlines and budget constraints were met to deliver effective products to the market;• Negotiated with stakeholders including contractors to reduce internal and external project risk set up and meet predictable deadlines; • Implemented adaptive scalable working environments using the most suitable tools and frameworks including Requirement management system and CI/CD processes;• Built-up effective collaborative development teams;• Successfully used best practices of development approaches to coordinate and monitor working processes with remote personnel and stakeholders from different countries and time zones;• Developed and introduced internal standard processes for each project phase according to customer’s needs;• Organized helpdesk team to maintain end-user support accordingly to strict SLA.Responsibilities: • Requirements evaluation and LOE estimation;• Team members recruitment;• Project planning and budgeting;• Selection of development approaches with team leads;• Coordination of designers, analysts, developers, testers, helpdesk managers, and contractors to deliver a required quality product on time;• Project risk management and scope control;• Design and implementation of internal standard processes.

Led multiple projects including requirements analysis, LOE estimation, budgeting, and reporting.Achievements:• Managed to meet all strong contract duties of my company’s external projects due to creating trusting relationships with customers and organizing relevant project management activities; • Helped to roll out the main product to the international market;• Established scalable software development processes (SaaS, on-premise, white-label products based on a single core functionality) at the company in short term; • Hired personnel (managers, analysts, developers, testers, technical writers) for project needs;• Helped to reorganize main project activities including planning, budgeting, requirement management, and testing;• Our team sufficiently improved the quality of products, implementing a range of competitive features.Responsibilities: • Management of the whole cycle development processes;• Evaluating, training, planning, motivation, and personnel management;• Leading multiple projects including requirements analysis; • LOE estimates, and specifications, budgeting, and reporting; • Administration of Jira and Confluence.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Project: Complex SaaS Clinical Trials management system.Achievements:• Tailored QA performance according to the company’s needs by improving processes efficiency;• Implemented SOP with the best practice and regulations, developed the system of onboarding and mentoring; • Implemented CI (continuous integration) and automated testing processes; • Set up the regulations and templates for Department according to validation standards; • Successfully passed all external and internal audits of documentation and system compliance to international standards;• Developed KPIs (key process indicators) to monitor the quality of processes and software;Responsibilities: • Hiring, evaluating, training, planning, motivation, and personnel management (10 internal + additional outsourced staff) of testers;• Organizing internal testing processes according to general FDA (Food and Drug Administration) compliances and regulations;• Providing ongoing feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring support to team members;• Communicating progress, test results, and other relevant information to stakeholders;• Producing reports and documentation for all testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging, and tracking;• Managing internal software projects development including the implementation and integration of Jira, Confluence, TestLink, and internal tools for backlog development, resource planning, and system validation.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Projects: High load Operator-to-Business and Operator-to-Customer platform, mts.ru site, flexible web-form constructor and single validation system for the lead Russian telecommunication operator, 2b2 portals.Achievements:• Successfully led teams that implemented a wide range of high-load systems for 40 million end-users including structured web applications for regional subscribers that increased my company’s turnover in 2 times;• Implemented subscribing system with an overall turnover of more than $30 million;• Established Business Analyses department;• Recruited, onboarded, and trained personnel such as Project managers, Analysts for the PMO.Responsibilities: • Managing the full software development process lifecycle; • Preparing pre-sale and RFP (request for proposal) response documentation • Working with client expectations and goals; • Project budgeting and resource planning;• Development of functional and technical specifications. • Leading the development team (12 people including analysts, developers, testers, and technical writers) using agile and waterfall processes.• Tracking all project activities (releases, communications, demonstrations, contractor coordination) according to the roadmap.

Projects: SaaS education management system, Government preschool education monitoring system. • Conducted interviews with product stakeholders, facilitated requirements, provided business analysis;• Designed new features and reporting systems; • Created UML and IDEF diagrams, developed functional specifications; • Conducted marketing research and functional audit of competitor's IT systems;• Integrated school reporting system dnevnik.ru with ESIA;• Developed global reporting and monitoring systems for local Education Ministries;• Designed e-commerce and marketing products for dnevnik.ru users.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

• Worked as the leading analyst in 30 projects of development and supporting money transfer, financial and remote banking systems;• Gathered functional requirements for internet banking, e-commerce, and financial systems;• Developed functional specifications, scope documentation, business requirements, and end-user documents (including all-union state standards);• Conducted marketing research and functional audit of competitor IT systems;• Coordinated team members including developers, testers, and technical writers;• Developed internal development processes.

Master'S Degree, Language Interpretation And Translation

Master’S Degree, Management Information Systems, General, Honours Degree