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Minsk, Belarus

Irvine

As Program Manager, I managed 6 large-scale, cross-functional programs spanning across 60+ teams including engineering and product, sales, marketing, and support. Partnered with Product Managers, Engineering, User-experience professionals to scope and deliver on-time and with high quality.• Established common progress measurement and reporting for 12 diverse programs. Gathered data served as main source of up-to-date status, timelines and facilitated programs risk discussions• Created… Show more As Program Manager, I managed 6 large-scale, cross-functional programs spanning across 60+ teams including engineering and product, sales, marketing, and support. Partnered with Product Managers, Engineering, User-experience professionals to scope and deliver on-time and with high quality.• Established common progress measurement and reporting for 12 diverse programs. Gathered data served as main source of up-to-date status, timelines and facilitated programs risk discussions• Created detailed end-to-end delivery plans for 6 programs. In the beginning most of them had a lot of ambiguity and no clear scope, so I put structure in place and broke them down into sub-projects, identified clear milestones and targets• Exercised business and deep technical understanding to drive the organization’s long-term objectives• Defined detailed measurement & monitoring metrics and created overview, facilitated data discrepancies identification• Implemented scalable communication strategies• Facilitated cross-functional discussions to drive blockers resolution Show less

Irvine, Ca

As Technical Program Manager on API Migration program was responsible for coordination of 65 teams migration from old API to various types of alternative solutions. Created, monitored and communicated the program roadmap, managed program risks and issues, escalated critical risks and issues beyond control to steering committee. Established communication plan for each work stream type. On regular basis interacted with API clients to identify the up-to date migration timelines and progress, also… Show more As Technical Program Manager on API Migration program was responsible for coordination of 65 teams migration from old API to various types of alternative solutions. Created, monitored and communicated the program roadmap, managed program risks and issues, escalated critical risks and issues beyond control to steering committee. Established communication plan for each work stream type. On regular basis interacted with API clients to identify the up-to date migration timelines and progress, also provided support and guidance on individual work streams. Sent out API turndown communication emails and surveys. Filed turn down requests for access points that completed migration. As Technical Program Manager on umbrella program that comprises different efforts to improve infrastructure across business unit. Was responsible for gathering weekly updates on OKRs from multiple teams. Issued monthly program newsletter. Triaged bugs, attended cross-team meetings and took care of assigning action items to the responsible parties based on the discussion outcomes and checked on them to keep assignee accountable. Show less

Irvine, Ca

As Program Manager contributed to the successful launch of 4 extensive programs involving multiple teams (~5-7 teams/~25-30 engineers) * Defined and tracked program work streams through close collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, UX and Support. * Exercised technical and product judgment to scope projects, identified dependencies, managed multi-quarter roadmap and timeline, anticipated and mitigated risks, defined and implemented processes to… Show more As Program Manager contributed to the successful launch of 4 extensive programs involving multiple teams (~5-7 teams/~25-30 engineers) * Defined and tracked program work streams through close collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, UX and Support. * Exercised technical and product judgment to scope projects, identified dependencies, managed multi-quarter roadmap and timeline, anticipated and mitigated risks, defined and implemented processes to speed up and/or scale feature development without sacrificing quality. * Established excellent working relations with all partners with an emphasis on unblocking team members when they are stuck, providing day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for project and tasks. * Kept all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines As a Project and Product Manager: ensured support and sales teams are well-instrumented by extending the feature set of the system in use (Team Size: 2-7 engineers)* Gathered user requirements and aligned them with objectives and capabilities of development team; * Performed quarterly planning and prioritization, risk anticipation and mitigation; * Conducted weekly sprint planning sessions and backlog grooming to ensure project milestones are met on time and budget; * Monitored quality of releases and interim development, triaged and assigned issues; coordinated fixes for production releases. * Was driving process improvements, discussed technical solutions, improved test coverage Show less

Irvine, California, United States

* Building and further management of org structure aligned to EPAM’s common practices and policies within Irvine location unit of 35+ employees.* Developing appropriate processes and workflows to ensure strong integration between Shared Services and Irvine unit; * Running locally 7 main programs in people management: staffing coordination, technical interviewing, mentoring, performance review and promo campaign, vacations tracking, internal engineering initiatives (20% projects, tech… Show more * Building and further management of org structure aligned to EPAM’s common practices and policies within Irvine location unit of 35+ employees.* Developing appropriate processes and workflows to ensure strong integration between Shared Services and Irvine unit; * Running locally 7 main programs in people management: staffing coordination, technical interviewing, mentoring, performance review and promo campaign, vacations tracking, internal engineering initiatives (20% projects, tech talks, technical interviewing process improvements). * Planning career advancement and professional development for unit members (training, mentoring within the group). Making decisions about changing job titles and compensation of reports, based on the evaluation of their professional level and work quality. Show less

Irvine, Ca

Project: application that provides a front-end for viewing and managing configuration data, primarily to be used by support and sales teams.Responsibilities:• Assign tasks and coordinate project work• Track the progress and quality of work being performed, handle any issues that arise• Ensure project communications run smoothly, keep key stakeholders and decision makers engaged• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports• Ensure… Show more Project: application that provides a front-end for viewing and managing configuration data, primarily to be used by support and sales teams.Responsibilities:• Assign tasks and coordinate project work• Track the progress and quality of work being performed, handle any issues that arise• Ensure project communications run smoothly, keep key stakeholders and decision makers engaged• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports• Ensure clients’ needs are met in a timely and cost effective manner• Communicate ideas for improving company processes with a positive and constructive attitude, and for developing this attitude in others Show less

New York

Project: publisher advertising platform and interactive media ads sdks Responsibilities:Integration testing on all stages of video advertising process starting from trafficking the ad within publishing platform, checking that it was served correctly, making sure that it was rendered and that various reporting events were recorded correctly. For this I had to use various mobile devices, platforms (iPhone, iPad, Andriod) and PC environments.

New York

Project: Testing of Newsweek and The Daily Beast CMS platform and migration of all legacy content that included: Articles, Videos, CDN-based Images and Galleries.Responsibilities:• Cross-browser functional testing of continuously changed Web Content Management System based on CQ5 platform (http://www.newsweek.com/ and http://www.thedailybeast.com/ websites);• Testing of website transition to a new CQ5 version (from 5.3 to 5.4 version);• Testing of legacy content migration… Show more Project: Testing of Newsweek and The Daily Beast CMS platform and migration of all legacy content that included: Articles, Videos, CDN-based Images and Galleries.Responsibilities:• Cross-browser functional testing of continuously changed Web Content Management System based on CQ5 platform (http://www.newsweek.com/ and http://www.thedailybeast.com/ websites);• Testing of website transition to a new CQ5 version (from 5.3 to 5.4 version);• Testing of legacy content migration from PHP-based CMS (http://www.thedailybeast.com/ website) to CQ5-based content management system. Legacy content included articles, videos, CDN-based images and galleries;• Analyzing and correction of mapping rules during data migration;• Testing of Newsweek iPad application;• Testing of Dailybeast iPhone application. Show less

Babylon, Ny

Project: Test automation of IntelliConnect (intelliconnect.cch.com) instrumented with Test Content Generator (tool particularly designed and implemented to aid ETL and Data Warehousing infrastructure)Responsibilities:• Participated in analysis and the architectural design of visual models for sophisticated test content (arbitrary digital media and electronic text structures) generation utilizing the following programming languages, frameworks and development environments: Test… Show more Project: Test automation of IntelliConnect (intelliconnect.cch.com) instrumented with Test Content Generator (tool particularly designed and implemented to aid ETL and Data Warehousing infrastructure)Responsibilities:• Participated in analysis and the architectural design of visual models for sophisticated test content (arbitrary digital media and electronic text structures) generation utilizing the following programming languages, frameworks and development environments: Test Content Generator, UML, Freemarker, HTML, SQL, XML;• Provided technical support and customer consulting for Test Content Generator• Interacted with senior level management to establish project scope, requirements, and understand stakeholder expectations• Worked on removing all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams' to deliver assigned goals;• Coordinated with off-shore and collocated teams. Show less

Minsk, Belarus

Project: ActivTest products (http://www.activ-training.com/): desktop and web-based Test Clients, variety of Administrative components, Web Administrative site and Assessment Content Management System. Roles: Testing Team Lead on the project and Staff Manager of a unit (~15 individuals)Responsibilities:• Assisted business analysis on requirements gathering, writing requirements documentation and diagramming.• Participated in document walkthroughs with project managers… Show more Project: ActivTest products (http://www.activ-training.com/): desktop and web-based Test Clients, variety of Administrative components, Web Administrative site and Assessment Content Management System. Roles: Testing Team Lead on the project and Staff Manager of a unit (~15 individuals)Responsibilities:• Assisted business analysis on requirements gathering, writing requirements documentation and diagramming.• Participated in document walkthroughs with project managers and stakeholders.• Created manual Test Cases from specifications design documents and user perspective business requirements.• Worked closely & constantly with software developers, testers and business analysts to define and implement QA test plans and test strategies, including dependency analysis, code coverage and use cases.• Responsible for Installation testing (user-driven & silent modes; configuration settings testing), Functional testing (Win & Web administrative applications; Data Archiving; Database Synchronization via Web Service), Localization testing (administrative applications and simulations l10n), Integration with 3rd party system testing.• Estimated testing efforts and coordinated the allocation of resources to different modules to speed up the process of tests execution.• Worked closely with the developers on the application to clarify/understand functionality, help resolve any incidents and issues and provide feedback to nail down the bugs. • Performed troubleshooting of the problems originating in the production that involves taking a complex scenario that fails and reduce the scenario to a less complex test that demonstrates the same failure. • Applied knowledge of relational database structure, design, and SQL query commands to satisfy advanced troubleshooting.• Regularly kept management abreast of risks and quality issues and how they would impact the business.• Prepared weekly status reports, metrics and slides for management reporting. Show less

Master'S Degree, Computer Information Systems

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