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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Led a team of 17 professionals (industrial design, graphic design, engineering, manufacturing, and software development) and built from scratch a drone-operated rapid delivery service concept for consumer goods outside city limits. • Defined the roadmap, as well as the marketing strategy, brand positioning, and corporate brand identity. • Delivered system design and prototypes of a proprietary electric drone, a ground control station, and a cloud management system

• Led user research, hypothesis testing, and product-market fit validation for 50+ digital and physicalproducts with up to 65M MAU.• Developed product growth strategies, supervised feature prioritization, and managed backlogs with theaim of enhancing customer experience, boosting retention, and increasing LTV.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Led a team of 25. The team developed all aspects of CX/UX for 6 spatial design projects with development budgets of up to 70M EUR.• The work included interior design, customer flows mapping and floor plans, navigation design, UX/UI of interactive media screens, as well as brand identity, merchandise, websites, and mobile applications.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Hired and managed an internal team of 14 (+freelancers) in the field of UX/UI design, graphic design, web, and mobile development.• More than 30 projects were launched from scratch under my supervision. I controlled the whole product lifecycle including research, prototyping, iterative development and testing, launch, and continuous improvement.• Launched three mobile apps as a Product Manager including the ‘X-Factor’ show mobile app from 0 to 20+k DAU.• Developed a b2c e-commerce website from scratch (frontend, backend as well as third-party integrations for payment processing, fulfillment, customer support, etc.)

Remotely

Launched a dating app from scratch to 1K DAU. The second product of the day and the first in the dating topic on Producthunt.

Moscow

Industrial and automotive design studio ATOM developed the innovative R1 full-size tram prototype for Uralvagonzavod Corporation (a major automotive manufacturer in Russia). The R1 tram project won the Red Dot Award in 2015 and was highly praised by such prominent designers as Chris Bangle (Chief of Design for BMW Group, 1992-2009), Marat Günak (Head of Design for Volkswagen, 2003-2008), Karim Rashid and Ross Lovegrove.Main duties:- The R1 design team management at the company’s Moscow office.- Managing manufacture of some of the exterior and interior tram parts in Moscow.- Design and production management of the driver's panel. The control panels of existing tram models were put under an ergonomic study and, as a result, a newly-designed control panel was manufactured. It received positive reviews from experts.- Managing the development of the on-board software.- Managing the design of an exhibition booth for Uralvagonzavod Corporation. The exhibition booth was erected on an area of 700 sq. m and was recognized as the best booth presented at the INNOPROM-2014 trade fair.

Moscow, Russian Federation

IKRa is a major Moscow-based school of digital advertising.Lectured and organized practical training courses on the following topics:- Project management;- Planning methodologies both agile and waterfall;- Project infrastructure and tools;- Team building;- Production technologies.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Grape (part of Possible Group) is one of the leading digital advertising agencies in Russia. Grape offers a wide range of brand promotion services, including web and mobile apps development, presence strategies, mass media campaigns, SMM support, offline campaigns and other related services.Duties:- Unit lead: focused on the development of highly loaded and technically complex projects.- Managing development projects for mobile applications, games and social networking apps.- Planning team workload, creating sprint network, serving as a scrum master.- Preparing project engineering requirements, documentation and budgeting.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Vizerra specialists worked on creating detailed interactive models and locations using the Unity 3D game engine. Interactive experience displays were used for presentations, education or as a design and construction tool.Main duties:- Project management in the field of interactive 3D modeling based on gaming technologies.- Analyzing and evaluating all incoming projects before distributing tasks between teams.- Team workload monitoring, traffic management for teams of more than 20 members.

Moscow

Sahar LLC was an agency offering digital marketing services for film distribution companies. The agency supported the distribution of more than 30 movies in Russia. The service package included the creation of promotional websites, print materials and advertising as well as organizing offline marketing activities. As a Project Manager and UX Designer, I completed over 40 web development, branding, graphic design and advertising projects.