Experience

Cayosoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and CTO

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Westerville, Ohio Cayosoft is a global software company delivering products to manage, monitor, & recover AD, Azure AD, Office 365 & beyond. We help IT departments at companies of any size to protect user identities, maintain service availability and deal with everyday tasks. We support companies in their journey from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft's cloud services. We are a group of talented and dedicated engineers, with decades of experience in the field.



Acronis

• Switzerland
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Product Manager

  • Aug 2014 - Feb 2018

  Moscow, Russian Federation Acronis is a global technology company delivering products and services to protect the data, applications, systems, and productivity of every organization - safeguarding them against cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and human errors. While in Acronis, I have managed the Acronis Backup Advanced product family and led a group of talented product/program managers for the product delivering data protection, backup, and disaster recovery in heterogeneous environments to… Show more Acronis is a global technology company delivering products and services to protect the data, applications, systems, and productivity of every organization - safeguarding them against cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and human errors. While in Acronis, I have managed the Acronis Backup Advanced product family and led a group of talented product/program managers for the product delivering data protection, backup, and disaster recovery in heterogeneous environments to small and medium businesses and enterprises. Achievements: - Rebuilt the B2B product management group. - Managed the core business product line through 4 years of growth and success - Navigated the global and highly competitive market. - Spoke for the company on trade shows, user groups, and industry events. - Guided a team of 200 developers through the software lifecycle process. Show less



Armada, ОАО

• Lead Project Manager

  • Apr 2014 - Aug 2014

  Moscow, Russian Federation



Jelastic PaaS

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Operations

  • Apr 2012 - Apr 2014

  Moscow, Russian Federation Jelastic is an innovative technology company based in Palo Alto, California that brings to the market a PaaS solution for hosting providers to better address the requirements of a wide range of users. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic is a Full-Control Platform-as-a-Service that can run and scale any application with no code changes required, and is available from a large number of… Show more Jelastic is an innovative technology company based in Palo Alto, California that brings to the market a PaaS solution for hosting providers to better address the requirements of a wide range of users. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic is a Full-Control Platform-as-a-Service that can run and scale any application with no code changes required, and is available from a large number of hosted service providers across the globe. Achievements: - Applied 12 years of expertise in software development and delivery to help startup vendor of cloud services to grow into mature global company with sustainable business - Established company-wide policies and procedures to ensure product delivery in time and with appropriate quality - Drove product version definitions and feature scopes within the area of expertise - Managed product deployments for our partners all over the world, successfully completed and launched them into public commercial usage - Designed operations structure, roles, policies, procedures and KPI for PSO/Operations and Support organizations - Grown the PSO/Operations team into solid and mature department - Built PSO and Support organizations from the ground-up Show less



Quest Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group Program Manager

  • 2005 - Apr 2012

  Moscow Region, Russian Federation Moved to the Lead Program Manager (Product Analyst) to build and maintain program management activities for the primary product. Later, as a Group Program Manager, expanded these activities to all products being developed in the Moscow lab. Achievements: - Focused on such activities as requirements and scenarios elaboration, release scope definition, implementation review, inbound and outbound communication, market, competitive and technology research - Built a team of 5 Program… Show more Moved to the Lead Program Manager (Product Analyst) to build and maintain program management activities for the primary product. Later, as a Group Program Manager, expanded these activities to all products being developed in the Moscow lab. Achievements: - Focused on such activities as requirements and scenarios elaboration, release scope definition, implementation review, inbound and outbound communication, market, competitive and technology research - Built a team of 5 Program Managers, expanding activities to all products developed in Moscow lab - With the team, drove the product to leadership in the Active Directory market space and to the 2nd best selling product at Quest - Transformed the product into an expandable framework with a suite of various extensions, to balance product and codebase maturity with agility and time-to-market - Regularly visited customers in NA and EU regions, spoke for the company on user groups, conferences and other events - Launched, solidified and expanded on-line product community - Led cross-product integration with R&D teams in Russia, US and Germany - Supervised the Custom Development group - Delivered technology and product due dilligence on potential M&A targets in the Active Directory and Identity Management spaces - Took Pragmatic Marketing course, learned and applied best practices in product/program management practices to software product development

• Project Manager

  • 2001 - 2005

  Moscow, Russian Federation Was promoted to a Project Manager position with a team of 7 engineers, developing Microsoft Active Directory administration and automation product - ActiveRoles Server. Achievements: - Over the next 4 years, scaled up the team and processes and expanded the product functionality to support the growth of customer base and market needs - Expanded the team to 20+ engineers - Successfully released 6 major versions to the market - Supervised core architecture decisions -… Show more Was promoted to a Project Manager position with a team of 7 engineers, developing Microsoft Active Directory administration and automation product - ActiveRoles Server. Achievements: - Over the next 4 years, scaled up the team and processes and expanded the product functionality to support the growth of customer base and market needs - Expanded the team to 20+ engineers - Successfully released 6 major versions to the market - Supervised core architecture decisions - Managed outsourced development of selected components - Learned world-class software development and management practices, like Rational Unified Process (RUP), CMM/CMMI, Microsoft Solution Franework, PMBOK; applied selected practices to increase team effectiveness, reduce friction and grow maturity of the development process and the product - Deployed performance review and appraisal process for the team

• Software Developer

  • 1998 - 2001

  Moscow, Russian Federation Joined a newly organized development lab to build administration and automation products for Microsoft Windows NT, and later for Active Directory. Achievements: - Started as a setup developer, developed multiple setup packages for various components - Continued as a Windows GUI developer, developed rich console UI for the product - Continued as a core Service architect/developer, redesigned a multi-threaded Service core application towards new requirements and technologies… Show more Joined a newly organized development lab to build administration and automation products for Microsoft Windows NT, and later for Active Directory. Achievements: - Started as a setup developer, developed multiple setup packages for various components - Continued as a Windows GUI developer, developed rich console UI for the product - Continued as a core Service architect/developer, redesigned a multi-threaded Service core application towards new requirements and technologies - Learned and used multiple software development technologies, including but not limited to OOP, C++, COM/DCOM, C#, .NET, DHTML, SQL, ASP/ASP.NET.