Heard out hundreds of human stories and helped students ideate, structurize and write their best stories that would open them the opportunities to live a more fulfilled life. Helped students (undergrad and grad school applicants) win over $1M in scholarships on aggregate. Helped over +300 students to get into top universities (incl. MIT, UC Berkeley, UPenn, UofT, UMich, Parsons, HKU, etc.).Conduct 20-40 one-on-one consultations on motivational essays per week.Give weekly… Show more Heard out hundreds of human stories and helped students ideate, structurize and write their best stories that would open them the opportunities to live a more fulfilled life. Helped students (undergrad and grad school applicants) win over $1M in scholarships on aggregate. Helped over +300 students to get into top universities (incl. MIT, UC Berkeley, UPenn, UofT, UMich, Parsons, HKU, etc.).Conduct 20-40 one-on-one consultations on motivational essays per week.Give weekly lectures and trainings to the audiences of 30-100 people. Show less

Moderated +200 live conferences with an aggregate of 10,000+ attendees.Built a mindful community through daily evening live streams with the opinion leaders, mental health workers, and healers. (+400 evening live streams, +200 guests speakers, +50 moderators, +10000 attendees).Managed a team of 5, coordinating scheduling, guest selection, hosts management, branding, positioning, promotion, design, naming, messaging, social media marketing, communications, administrative work, and… Show more Moderated +200 live conferences with an aggregate of 10,000+ attendees.Built a mindful community through daily evening live streams with the opinion leaders, mental health workers, and healers. (+400 evening live streams, +200 guests speakers, +50 moderators, +10000 attendees).Managed a team of 5, coordinating scheduling, guest selection, hosts management, branding, positioning, promotion, design, naming, messaging, social media marketing, communications, administrative work, and operations.With a lion share of livestreams dedicated to mental health, JB provided an unprecedented (for the region) online safe space for the audience to be vulnerable to talk about their challenges, traumas and triggers, essentially becoming a platform where people could be free of cultural stigma and fears (that often serve as an obstacle for progress). This attracted 50+ mental health professionals to conduct sessions on art therapy, psychology, writing meditation, freeform dance, singing open mics, etc., with the overarching goal of raising the consciousness of the Nation. Show less

Conducted lectures and 1:1 sessions on College Essays and Life Purpose Search to high school students.Facilitated building a top-notch team (one of the leaders in the education sector in Kazakhstan) of 15 mentors.

Launched a gallery with an exclusive representation of +20 creme de la creme artists of Kazakhstan and Central Asia with a combined artwork price of +$1M.Managed the prospecting, closing and promotion of the artists, including SMM, branding, positioning, production (documentary film making) and exhibition organizations (event management).

Raised $100,000 seed round from Singapore Venture Fund "Idea Wave Labs." Integrated with major cinemas, theaters, sports events, and largest concert venues. Led the planning, directing, supervising, and controlling the execution of the technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of Foxout.kz online ticketing platform zero to launch with a team of 15 people.Managed an e-commerce startup (ticket box platform) from zero to Launch. Oversaw a 15 people team including Product (running… Show more Raised $100,000 seed round from Singapore Venture Fund "Idea Wave Labs." Integrated with major cinemas, theaters, sports events, and largest concert venues. Led the planning, directing, supervising, and controlling the execution of the technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of Foxout.kz online ticketing platform zero to launch with a team of 15 people.Managed an e-commerce startup (ticket box platform) from zero to Launch. Oversaw a 15 people team including Product (running sprints with the engieerig team zero to launch), Product Marketing (end-to-end), Hiring (Building Teams from Scratch), Fundraising (raising Seed money), Finance (Monitoring and Reporting the P&L to the stakeholders), Design (overseeing the tone, messaging, naming of the sub-products, positioning, and branding), R&D (for inspiration and data), and Partnerships (venues, event organizers). Show less

Evangelized outsourcing of software development to Kazakhstan.

Contributed to transitioning the Xamarin Partner portal into Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Portal by drafting the preliminary design of the updated Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Portal.

Developed an automated process to integrate data about customers’ use of the partner extensions into Salesforce CRM for Xamarin’s 1.4M developer base and our 100-person sales force.Developed the value proposition for one of the Xamarin built apps displayed at Xamarin Evolve Conference.

Managed Google Adwords, Facebook and Vk.com campaigns of Coca-Cola, BMW, HTC, KLM Airlines in Kazakhstan.

Identified prospective firms to hire from.Held preliminary interviews of potential candidates for various positions within the firmPrepared the detailed job descriptions and target lists of companies.Identified potential candidates within the target list, arranged meetings with the candidates.