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Moscow, Ru

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• For the first 3 months analyzed the market, detected perspective market niches to fulfill, elaborated the practice’s strategy along with its budget and an idea of own IoT product; approved the strategy with the CEO• For the 8 months developed a pilot IoT product in the area of predictive diagnostics of industrial equipment along with the team of 7 people; made the laboratory tests of the product’s functioning on the basis of MPEI (Moscow Power Engineering Institute)• For the 18 months built up the portfolio of 8 IoT products from own and partner solutions in 5 domains: industry, ecology, Smart City, transportation, retail; developed the strategy of products promotion• For the 24 months built up the partner ecosystem with 10 IoT and digitalization solution vendors in 7 domains: energy & utilities, oil & gas, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, transportation, mining, retail• Participated in negotiations regarding partnership, products usage and projects implementation with Cisco, Bosch, Huawei, Transneft, Rosseti, ERG (KZ), Samruk-Energo (KZ), FPC (RZD), Vimpelcom, ER-Telecom, “Globus”, “Rublevo-Arkhangelskoe”, Moscow Department of Information Technology, Moscow Region GovernmentIt allowed: • For business to expand their activities to new domains, to get new B2B clients for making sales of both IoT and digital products as well as making cross-sales of traditional company’s products• For Engineering & R&D departments to build up their competencies related to IoT / digitalization during projects implementation• For Engineering & R&D departments to get seamless transfer of IoT / digitalization knowledge from vendors during joint project activities

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• For 3 months strengthened the team with hiring relevant people on key positions, rebuilt the teams of analysts, developers and QAs• For 3 months introduced the activities into the team’s work: project efforts estimating, the project management framework, plan-fact analysis, risk-management; reduced to 3% actual deviations of projects execution metrics from targeted ones• For 4 months introduced the QA practices, root-cause analysis; reduced on 50% the # of defected discovered while projects executing and minimized the # of defects discovered in the delivered software; provided defects fixing in the software delivered according SLA • For 6 months introduced the practice of projects pipeline review; minimized the risk of resource shortage for contracted projects• For 12 months introduced the HR practices: career paths, employees’ individual development plans, half-year performance reviews – increased staff retention on 90%• Successfully delivered 25+ projects: contact centers, interactive TV, virtual PBX etc, including:◦ Contact center for Russian railways – implemented software for the national rail carrier’s contact center with 650 operators working simultaneously and processing 1М+ requests per month ◦ MTS TV – building a hybrid platform for the leading Russian telecom operator’s interactive TV service (covering satellite TV, cable TV and IPTV/OTT services), with 3M+ subscribers in total◦ MTS Virtual PBX – building a virtual cloud PBX service for the corporate clients of the leading Russian telecom operator; the solution won the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award in 2017 • Initiated, implemented and delivered the CTI Omni product for processing omnichannel service for client audiences of large companies; rolled-out the product in a Top-20 Russian bank• Participated in negotiations with Cisco, Bosch, Huawei, Transneft, Rosseti, ERG, Samruk-Energo, RZD, Vimpelcom, ER-Telecom, Moscow Department of Information Technology, Moscow Region Government

Moscow -Munich

• For 1.5 months built up the team of 20+ people from employees and outsourcers• For 2 months implemented the custdev based process of product backlog filling up and the Agile framework of backlog items delivery• For 5 months delivered MVP versions of software products & services: the client web and iOS apps, the API-covered core backend, the back-office web app and the integration modules with 3rd party partner services• For 2 months rolled-out the cloud IT infrastructure for providing effective work of IT services 24x7, see the technology stack here: https://stackshare.io/excursiopedia/excursiopedia

Moscow, Russian Federation

Key results and achievements: • For 2 months rolled-out the Agile-based software delivery framework and rescued the largest “My Beeline” project (the budget of 35M rubles) by introducing anti-crisis management• For 3 months rebooted the department with hiring relevant people on key positions of PMs, Dev team leads, QA manager, thereby resulted in engineering culture improvement and raising the quality of projects execution• For 3 months introduced the project management framework with controlling the projects’ targets: deadlines, planned/actual # of efforts, quality of deliverables, risks; introduced regular project execution reporting• For 6 months built up the team of 70+ people in 2 locations: Moscow, Togliatti• For 8 months rolled out the Centers of competencies in the areas: project management, architecture design, QA, business analysis, UI/UX design, application security• After 6 months from the beginning initiated corporate training activities on professional competencies thereby transformed the company into a learning organization in the end• For 6 months introduced the HR practices: career paths, employees’ individual development plans, regular performance reviews – got rid of staff turnover, strengthened the team’s morale and the employer brand • For 12 months successfully delivered 20+ projects with total budget of 100M+ rubles; some of the products delivered became highly popular (up to 15M+ clients per a product). Product examples: “My Beeline” (self-service app for mobile operator clients), Otkritie & Life mobile bank apps, Safe-Trip app for clients of Renaissance Insurance etcIt allowed for the company to: • Increase the revenue in 2014 in 3.5 times more than in the previous year• Transform the company from a post-design studio to the solid engineering company leading in the market • Become the top-player in the Tagline rating of outsourcing mobile apps developers in Russia and then hold the top-position for years

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Established and rolled out PMO in the large cross-industry Luxoft division: 1400+ people in 8 locations, 120+ reporting project/program managers; the portfolio of 150+ projects with total budget of $100M+• For the first 4 months elaborated and rolled-out the single project management framework agnostic to the project execution methods: Waterfall, Agile, Kanban; with regular fixing projects’ status and progress, controlling deadlines, quality of deliverables, # of planned/spent efforts, budgets, risks, state of customer satisfaction; providing project portfolio reporting • For the first 6 months elaborated and rolled-out the risk-management practice in the projects, programs and accounts across the division• For the first 8 months rolled-out the PMO’s practices for providing the effective 150+ projects portfolio management: the consulting service for PMs and project teams, built up rescue teams for helping projects in crisis, allocated talent pool for quick PM replacement if necessary• For 6 months automated project portfolio management business processes: shortened from 1.5 days to 10 secs the time of generating a project portfolio status report with automatic highlighting projects with problems • Participated in cross-division project audits of IT processes & practices maturing according to CMMI, Scrum, Kanban• For 3.5 years rescued 12 projects including the largest one executed in Luxoft: the project team of 110 people and the budget of $6M/year

Moscow

• Implemented the full-fledged Agile based software delivery cycle along with required IT processes: business analysis, QA and engineering practices: TDD, code review, CI; made it measurable and controllable• Organized the 2-months release delivery cycle for delivering algo trading products in the area of high-frequency trading (HFT) and natural language processing (NLP) for making fast algo deals with the 8 ms latency

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Implemented Agile software delivery framework with the 5 weeks lead time of required functionality delivery for the core online IT-service (24x7x365) in the financial organization that managed the account receivables portfolio of $1.5 bn• The internal customer began to get stable software releases every 2 weeks with 0% of critical defects on production• Organized tenders for selecting ESB and DWH/BI solutions from the products of IBM, Microsoft, SAS, Informatica as well as for selecting integrator teams from Croc, Microsoft, GlowByte Consulting• Delivered pilot projects together with vendor/integrator teams and demoed their results to the company’s top-management; prepared info for selecting vendor products and integrator teams for further work

Moscow

• Leading the 6-people international team (Russia, Poland, India) introduced Agile software delivery framework into the development process of large-scale software CAD products with 6-12 months release cycles; reduced the release cycle to 3 months• Re-engineered the core functionality of mature EDA software product line along with the team. It allowed to extend the lifecycle of mature product line by more than 5 years with the annual product line revenue of $20-25M

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Rolled-out the Agile project delivery framework for custom software development projects for Russian and international customers: Kaspersky Lab, Yandex, customers from USA, Kazakhstan• Successfully delivered 20+ custom software development projects with project budgets up to $35K

Ma, Usa

Participated in creation and delivery of CAD/CAM EDA software products for 62 000 clients at globe with annual sales revenue of $25-30M/year

Postgraduate Student, Postgraduate Study

Master’S Degree In Physics, Eda Software Design

Activities and Societies: Swimming team