Aleksandra Demidova
Technical Project Manager at Kafoodle Limited- Claim this Profile
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Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Professional working proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Credentials
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Telecom & OSI Overview
NetCrackerAug, 2012- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Kafoodle Limited
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United Kingdom
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Technical Project Manager
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Jul 2017 - Present
Responsible for overall technical project management, including hiring dev/QA team members, managing the development process and dev team, developing solution and technology architecture.Lead team of 7 across Development and Design, spanning UX design, user journey mapping, requirements gathering, development, delivery and analytics.Increased the number of products from 1 to 6 and evolve the full end‑to‑end solution.Key achievements:- Built the highly effective dev team from scratch- Ensured on time delivery for multiple product launches in 2017‑2021, including Kitchen Essentials, Person Centered Meal Ordering, Meal Planning, Interactive Digital Menus, Stock & Ordering, etc- Led implementation of more than 8 applications from concept to launch. Managed end‑to‑end development process and developed solution architecture.- In‑sourced development and led dev team of six in end‑to‑end development of applications, including gathering business requirements, converting business requirements into developer tasks, estimating, planning, resources assignment, managing tasks development, full testing, release engineering.- Integrated several SaaS platforms into products. Knowledgeable of REST APIs, tokenisation.- Provided continious improvements into live products, including full redesign of the Labelling module and changing AWS infrastructure to work on Kubernetes- Led product development and feedback workshops. Identified UI and feature enhancements, reviewed feedback and established future iterations of products.- Carried out all UX design for several products.- Temporarily worked as a product manager several times for 3‑4 months and support all the corresponding responsibilities.
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iCertainty
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Project Manager
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Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Brought in to manage development of web and mobile applications for food services quality control. Successfully delivered several projects including launch of the reporting platform, product localisation into Arabic, QA automation.Key achievements:- Led communication with customers (international chains of restaurants, hotels, hypermarkets) and product demonstrations.- Gathered business/customer requirements including formalising requirements as functional/design specifications and converting business requirements into developer requirements/tasks.- Led dev team of up to five in end-to-end development of products including estimating, planning, resources assignment, posting dev/qa tasks, managing tasks development, testing, delivery into production.- Led QA automation project.
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Owner/CEO
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Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Owner of the cossfit gym. Launched the project from scratch and made it to be profitableKey achievements:- Led the project from concept to launch - Managed budget and financial operations- Built and led the team of 6- Managed all the internal processes- Orchestrated promotion (internet promotion, advertising companies, marketing campaigns, events) Owner of the cossfit gym. Launched the project from scratch and made it to be profitableKey achievements:- Led the project from concept to launch - Managed budget and financial operations- Built and led the team of 6- Managed all the internal processes- Orchestrated promotion (internet promotion, advertising companies, marketing campaigns, events)
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I.Systems
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Telecommunications
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Technical Sales Engineer
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Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Brought in to develop the strategy for promoting the company into the foreign markets and represent the company at foreign exhibitions and business missions.Key achievements:- Led the product localization project- Developed eng version web site content and design- Developed eng version of tech documentation, product demo presentations, product promotion videos, tech and financial proposals, license agreements, marketing materials, price lists, etc.- Developed the concept of company internet promotion- Led all the communication withl foreign clients and partners- Successfully conducted a business mission to Hong Kong, leg negotiations with interested Hong Kong companies, handled the contacts
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Netcracker Technology
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United States
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Engineer/Training Project Manager
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Aug 2010 - Oct 2015
Successfully implemented more than 25 large training and documentation projects as a managerKey achievements: - Orchestrated training projects for clients - large telecom operators in North and Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe and Russia, including requirements gathering, preparing training proposal/SOW, estimating and planning, managing training development (teams of up to 6), organising training event on customer edge- Delivered more than 15 end user/admin/developer trainings on OSS/BSS systems as a product trainer- Led large documentation projects (teams of up to 5) as a lead technical writer including analysis, estimation, planning, tasks assignment, managing tasks development - Prepared 100+ user manuals (end user, administrator, developer, API) as a tech writer- Mentored and upskilled colleagues to become product trainers/technical writers, coaching them on basic documentation /trainings preparation principles
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Education
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2007 - 2010
Samara State Technical University
Bachelor's degree, Interpreter in the sphere of professional communications (English) -
2005 - 2010
Samara State Technical University
Master's degree, Applied mathematics and informatics
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