Ivan Pashkov Email & Phone Number

Tivat, Me

Tivat, Montenegro

Manage several development teams (20 people), including C# & Salesforce developers, QAengineers, Product Owners, and Designers.- Responsible for 4 projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.- Collaborate with stakeholders, including senior leadership, to define project scope, goals, andtimelines.- Develop and implement project plans, including resource allocation, risk management, and mitigationstrategies.- Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning andimprovement.- Conduct performance evaluations, goal-setting, and career development discussions with teammembers.- Monitor project progress and provide regular status updates to stakeholders, identifying and resolvingissues as they arise.- Maintain and improve engineering processes and standards to ensure high-quality delivery andefficient operations.- Act as a Product Owner and Project Manager, I led the development of DMD (Document MistakeDetector), a Salesforce AI app integrated with OpenAI, which streamlined document review byanalyzing legal documents against prebuilt rulesets, maximizing the use of AI technologies andpromoting their adoption within the organization.

Manage the team of 15 Product OwnersEngagement Manager at RingCentral, a Silicon Valley located client, provider of state-of-the-art cloud communications solutions that help modern companies work the way they need to. Aquiva Labs is working on automating different marketing, support and sales processes, creating Quoting Wizard,Support portal, and much more.Delivery Management: Manage project delivery at 4-8 distributed development teams (Moscow, Minsk, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Miami). 20-40 FTE (Product Owners, Developers, QA engineers, ReleaseEngineers, Admins).Project Management: Member of the PMO. Act as a PM on different projects. Monitor scope, budget, quality, timelines.Project and Backlog review: Provide business and technical analysis, estimate projects, help ProductOwners prepare backlog, monitor and control project execution and report to the client on contract execution.Resource management: Assign resources from the company to the client, help to invoice and bill clients, assist HR with candidates search, conduct interviews.Coaching: Help teams learn and adopt Scrum, project management best practices, soft-skills, etc.Design and conduct training programs to improve individual and organizational performance. Conduct performance reviews and set smart goals for the employees.Development standards: Member of Center of Excellence. Participate in corporate development lifecycle standards design. Improve, standardize and document development processes.

I was acting as a Product Owner for Amadeus, one of the the top ten travel technology companies in the world. We built a Salesforce app called DirectBook that provides a secure, customizable, always available online environment for planners to book small group function space. https://www.amadeus-hospitality.com/distribution-diagramming-software/direct-book/Execution: Provide leadership related to sprint execution and product roadmap executionStrategic outlook: Meet with stakeholders to understand the strategic vision for the product. Work closely with product management and business leaders to define and manage roadmap items and break them down into logical, discrete units for developmentBacklog Refinement: With input from the product manager, architects and other stakeholders, build, prune, and maintain the team backlog. Prioritize backlog items based on user value, time and other team dependencies which are determined in release planningSprint Planning: Assist in epic/story reviews and re-prioritization of the backlog as part of thepreparatory work for sprint planningStory elaboration: Elaborate backlog items into user stories for implementation. Work closely with the team to aid and contribute in user story development and acceptance criteria, to ensure that the process is smoothAcceptance Criteria: Ensure that a baseline is established.Demos and Retrospective: Participate in the sprint showcase / product demo. Responsible for thorough review and acceptance of stories in the baseline, and in the retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processesIssue triaging: Active participation in problem analysis, resolution of application issues. Diagnosing and clarifying functional requirements during defect managementPI planning: Responsible in supporting the Program Increment planning by creating product backlog items and laying out the priority for the quarter based on the product roadmap

The Hague Area, Netherlands

I moved to the Netherlands and worked under 'highly-skilled migrant' program at the European PatentOffice.I've been working on the EPO online services project dealing with multiple on-premise and web-basedapplications. EPO online services allow applicants, attorneys and other users to interact with theEuropean Patent Office electronically in a tailor-made, state-of-the-art secure environment.Responsibilities:• Provide expert-level technical support to EPO clients and employees in English, French and Russian• Document technical solutions and workarounds in Atlassian Confluence. Manage, update andmaintain the database.• Act as a team lead of the group of software engineers, responsible for maintaining and updating EPO'sapplications. Gather, review and analyze data requirements, create backlog• Assist QA management in estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating testing activities• Assist with writing tender documentation• Maintain EPO's XML Data Standards used for filing, processing,publication, and exchange of all types of patent information. Create, edit, verify xml documents;maintain DTD, ODD, XSLT schemas.Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Maven, Jenkins, JIRA, LotusNotes, Confluence, Notepad++, Oxygen,Altova XMLSpy.

Moscow

Exchange Student, Translator, Interpreter (Exchange Student)

Translator, interpreter

Master'S Degree, Interpreting And Translation Studies (French, English, Spanish)

Activities and Societies: Simultaneous interpretation courses, Spanish language course, Interpreting and Translation studies (French.