Oleksandr Zagvazdin
Chief Product Officer at FORM- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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FORM
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Chief Product Officer
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May 2023 - Present
Boston, Denver, Chicago, London, Krakow, Kyiv
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Global VP, Product Management
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Jun 2022 - May 2023
Boston, Denver, Chicago, London, Krakow, Kyiv
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VP of Product and Engineering
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Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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VP of Product
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Jan 2015 - Feb 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Leading an international team of 4 product managers, 4 product designers, 3 business analysts, 1 technical writer; hired, mentored, and coached the team • Through the PM team, working with 50+ software engineers distributed among 6 teams • Defined the vision for Form.com as a mobile audit and inspection software; launched it in 2015; after launch, the new product successfully pivoted the entire company • Continuously delivered product innovations for the new Form.com product, helping… Show more • Leading an international team of 4 product managers, 4 product designers, 3 business analysts, 1 technical writer; hired, mentored, and coached the team • Through the PM team, working with 50+ software engineers distributed among 6 teams • Defined the vision for Form.com as a mobile audit and inspection software; launched it in 2015; after launch, the new product successfully pivoted the entire company • Continuously delivered product innovations for the new Form.com product, helping generate an annual revenue growth rate of 38%; 106% retention rate and reached $9M in total revenue by the end of 2019 • Continuously provided updates to the company and the company’s board of directors on the status of the roadmap execution; kept the company excited about the new features and the future product plans • As a product leader delivered: o built-in analytics dashboards as an add-on SaaS product that started to generate significant additional licensing revenue within the first two months of MVP release o the re-engineered mobile apps for Android and iOS, redefining the end-user experience and boosting the customer satisfaction o re-designed online portal for the end users, redefining the end-user experience and increasing the customer satisfaction • Established the product management processes for the team, including setting measurable strategic goals, setting up OKRs, early design prototyping and validation, spec validation, acceptance reviews, and managing feature and product launches
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WorldAPP
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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CTO
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Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
Greater Boston / Kyiv, Ukraine • CTO/CPO role, responsible for everything technology related, but mostly focused on product • Led the team of 2 product owners, 30+ software engineers, QA engineers, DevOps and infrastructure engineers, business analysts, and designers • Led the transformation the product offering from off-the-shelf survey software to enterprise data collection platform by focusing the roadmap on features most specific to the enterprise: integrations, APIs, user management, and security • Helped… Show more • CTO/CPO role, responsible for everything technology related, but mostly focused on product • Led the team of 2 product owners, 30+ software engineers, QA engineers, DevOps and infrastructure engineers, business analysts, and designers • Led the transformation the product offering from off-the-shelf survey software to enterprise data collection platform by focusing the roadmap on features most specific to the enterprise: integrations, APIs, user management, and security • Helped establish the professional services offering, providing turn-key integrated data collection solutions for the enterprise • Developed the vision, drove the execution and launched the innovative mobile app with market-leading offline data collection capabilities in less than 12 months • As a technology leader: o Led the transformation of the development methodology from waterfall to agile o Increased release frequency from 2 releases per year to monthly releases o Doubled the size of the engineering team while consistently retaining the key talent (with average engineer’s tenure of 3+ years) • Assisted the sales team on the enterprise customer deals, including running the roadmap discussions, product presentations, integrations and security discussions, and architecting solutions
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Head of Product
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Jan 2009 - Jan 2011
Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine
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Key Survey
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Information Technology & Services
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Product Manager
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Dec 2006 - Jan 2009
Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine • Initiated the development of user management, customizable data tables, and user portal features, based on the feedback from customers and the strategic vision for the product; successfully launched the features • Initiated and completed the UI re-design of the admin side of the product, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and improved sales demos • Initiated and delivered the Salesforce integration feature, driving revenue in the enterprise segment
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2004 - Sep 2005
Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine • Set up the global decentralized VoIP network infrastructure from scratch • Proposed the idea of developing a software video phone that could operate seamlessly with hardware phones • Researched the available technology, libraries, and open source solutions and found a way to develop the first working version of the software in less than 3 months • Developed and launched the software to customers and prospects
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Education
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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Chief Product Officer Program -
Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics
PhD, Speech Signal Processing -
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
MSc, Applied Mathematics