Voldemars Fedosejevs Email & Phone Number

• 20 years of work experience in the Information Technology industry.• 10 years of experience as IT project manager or product owner.• Rich experience in leading remote/cross border IT developer teams or project groups consisting from 4 and ~30 employees/developers.• Proficient in business/system/functional analysis and requirements management as well as in project management, implementation, and support of proper project lifecycle and required processes and workflows.• Experience working within complex, geographically distributed enterprise-level projects, including managing multiple parallel projects.• Extensive experience is in working with Agile methodology – mainly, Scrum and Kanban, as well as SAFe. • Experience in leading all necessary Agile ceremonies.• Experience with planning the required resources, hiring staff, motivating employees.• Experience in establishing the process of knowledge and responsibilities transfer.• Good communication skills. Can explain difficult IT things to none-IT stakeholders and vice versa – relay business needs and concerns to IT.• Experience in working with regulators and auditors.• Main qualities: high sense of responsibility, good at planning and risk mitigation, value honesty and friendly relationships. Prefer to be a facilitator rather than boss.• IT education. During carrier have also picked up practical knowledge in other areas, like, economics, accounting, legal, marketing. • Expert in managing communication between different parties, workstreams and/or departments involved in project success: different IT teams, business stakeholders, legal, communication, marketing, InfoSec, release and change management team, etc.• Can provide “hands on” help – I can help solve issues, I can do small changes, I can do some code review, I can investigate issues or generate reports, etc. In general, my technical background allows me to better understand developers and sometimes plug some short-term resource gaps in projects.• Part of my experience is also dealing with none standard situations. Be it a production incident, customer complaint, auditor or regulator request.• Experience in dealing with support questions, legal agreements, budgeting, changes in regulations, roadmaps, business continuity plans, risk management, securities issues, service level agreements, performance issues, etc.• Experience in overseeing both internal and external development processes.• My favorite quote is from Dwight D. Eisenhower: "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable".