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Espoo, Fi

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Responsible for storage solutions that are utilized to store and manage business critical data of RELEX’s Supply Chain Planning application.Key Responsibilities:– Prioritizing initiatives and setting the vision for the team. Backlog management. – Facilitating collaboration between various departments to ensure alignment between strategic long-term goals, operative product roadmaps, customer teams’ feedback and architectural ideas to deliver reliable platform.– Ensuring effective incident response and resolution, reducing downtime and improving system stability.– Defining test cases and conducting acceptance testing based on understanding both the company's context and business scenarios to facilitate alignment between the SRE teams and the product.Key Achievements:– Successfully orchestrated a seamless migration to a new infrastructure for >400 customers actively using the service.– Contributed to the strategic decommissioning of the DC resulting in monthly cost savings of €15,000.– Implemented streamlined communication between development, operations, and other teams, resulting in better alignment with both business targets and needs of our end users.

Working for the largest news agency in the CIS. Responsible for leading multiple projects and cross-team product initiatives to complete the overhaul of the agency's flagship digital product (34+ million monthly active users).Key Responsibilities:– Leading 3 cross-functional teams across multiple time zones. Prioritization and setting the vision for the teams.– Working collaboratively with technical, business and operational teams to accomplish key strategic business outcomes.– Collecting insights and documenting requirements. Market research. Analysis of the end users’ behaviour. USE-cases & CJM development.– Implementing of a scalable model for knowledge sharing and supporting the adoption of new capabilities across the organization.– Mentoring junior PMs.Key Achievements:– Built and estimated a product roadmap negotiated with Lead Engineers in a realistic yet time-efficient manner that allowed the teams to deliver 95% of the MVP in time.– Took an initiative to develop a procedure of cross teams interaction and reduced the time-to-production by 50%.

Nicosia District, Cyprus

Working for an international investment startup which is acting as professional asset manager for UHNWI. Responsible for providing leadership and direction to the distributed team, overseeing a variety of end-to-end IT products (B2C and SaaS) constituting the company ecosystem with involvement in all phases of the project lifecycle.Key Responsibilities: – Direct leadership of a cross-functional remote team.– Defining and prioritizing the product roadmap. Backlog management.– Partnering with business and operational stakeholders & gathering requirements. – Sales support during customer negotiations. Working closely with key clients to understand their unique requirements.– Orchestration of integrations between Luna applications and external sources from defining the structure and data flows to the support stage.– Agile implementation. Continuous improvement of our processes, workflows automatization. Key Achievements: – Launched IT asset management system and MVP version of B2B SaaS asset management solution, which resulted in increasing customers loyalty and 4% increased speed of orders execution.– Orchestrated several integrations with third-party supplies (IB, UBS, Alfa Bank and other banks and brokers).– Negotiated and implemented the custom support system with SLA which allowed to increase the percentage of successfully closed users’ requests from 15% to 86%.– Boosted my department’s internal Net Promoter Score scores by 25% in 6 months due to business process automation and organization of joint business activities.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Hardware startup: production of laboratory equipment for medical analysis and quality control in industrial processes.Grew from a developer to a leading engineer responsible for R&D and managing a team of 3 project staff. Key Responsibilities as a Lead Engineer:– Management of R&D hardware projects. Direct leadership of 3 employees.– Implementing Kanban and optimizing processes to start meeting project deadlines.Key Responsibilities as a Developer:– Embedded software development. Designing PCB topology. Launch strategies planning.

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

with honours

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: President Scholarship Laureatewith honours