Manage development department (population varied from 25 up to 70 cloud software engineers) at a mid-size company (≈300 employees total), which provides consulting and custom AWS cloud solution development service.Duties, responsibilities and activities:→ Annual department planning\reporting – in collaboration with CEO, CMO and CFO define OKRs and identify KPIs; work on annual business plans for the subordinate department; monitor progress and report results.→ Steer department’s technical competencies – identify directions to elaborate, supervise development of the competencies; put together a plan for personnel skills training and self-development; designate goals and monitor an execution of people’s AWS certification.→ Manage department’s resource and workload – plan department’s capacity and monitor proper engineering resource utilization and resource provisioning among on-going projects, pre-production etc.→ Delivery monitoring – supervise pre-production and on-going projects, control following the OKRs and achievement of KPIs; monitor delivery execution processes within the subordinate department; maintain one-on-ones and syncs with department’s TLs, PMs and CTO; contribute to project and people problem resolution.→ Contribute to pre-sale – triage of incoming deals; dispatch deals across technical experts; monitor a process of shaping the scope and building technical design and LOE; review presale SOW, RFI, RFP and TP and plan out future deals.→ Contribute to delivery budgeting – in collaboration with the fin department, define, oversee and control budgets of software development projects.→ Active participate in HR activities – hire (interview and negotiation), drive employee PRs, establish personal development plans, define personal salary, participate in personnel conflicts resolution.→ Service quality management – establish quality standards, implements service quality measuring and quality improving programs, set production lifecycle processes.

Manage a software engineering department (≈40 employees, 5 software project managers and ≈35 engineers) at a mid-size company (≈100 employees total), which provides custom software development service. Department’s major specialization is .net & mobile projects for US clients.Duties, responsibilities and activities:→ Annual department planning\reporting — in collaboration with CEO, CMO and CFO define KPI and work on annual business plan for the subordinate department, monitor progress and report results.→ Manage department’s resource and workload — plan and monitor department resource utilization among projects, pre-production and other activities.→ Production monitoring — supervise pre-production activities and projects, control KPI’s achievement, monitor execution of production processes within subordinate department.→ Production budgeting — define, oversee and control budgets of software development projects across the subordinate department.→ Service quality management — establish quality standards, implements service quality measuring and quality improving programs, set production lifecycle processes.→ Participate in HR activities — hire (interview and negotiation), review employee performance, establish personal career/professional development plans, define personal salary.

Participated as project manager is more than 50 software development projects of a different size and type.Duties, responsibilities and activities:→ Participate in pre-sale activities — preliminary analysis of incoming project requests and feasibility analysis and approximate of anticipated cost/duration, writing (in collaboration with technical expert) and negotiating implementation proposal with customer.→ Control project execution — project initiation, define project configuration, taking part in team staffing, define and control project schedule, manage team tasks, day-to-day project activities control, team meetings, problem analysis and resolution.→ Project scope, schedule and expectations management — define and document project scope and schedule; negotiate, plan and process changes.→ Project budget management — define, monitor and report project budget and project budget changes.→ Delivery, quality and risk management.