Senior Engineering Project Manager / Product Owner

• Sep 2020 - Present

Working with an amazing team to launch and grow an AI system for the US financial institutions. I perform the roles of Project Manager and Product Owner, which include analyzing the product, maintaining the backlog, communicating with stakeholders, prioritizing tasks, and more. The product, team processes and full documentation were built by me from the ground up, including the implementation of the Scrum framework. Additionally, I provided training to my own team and other teams on Scrum foundations. Show less

Mentor for Project Managers and Business Analysts

• Jul 2023 - Present

Project Manager / Business Analyst

• Feb 2020 - Jul 2021

I set up Scrum processes, wrote from scratch and maintained full project documentation, initiated the process of writing and maintaining test documentation. As a result, I brought a 'red flag' project to stable and understandable processes, leading to a 20% boost in team productivity, as well as a 10% decrease in the number of bugs in production. In addition, I simultaneously managed several projects and teams, including full backlog management, task prioritization, requirements analysis and work distribution. As Project Manager: - Managed execution of the plan in collaboration with stakeholders - Managed major projects schedule - Provided regular reporting against KPIs on delivery targets - Developed processes to ensure measurability, continuous improvement, and repeatability at every stage of delivery - Controlled project objectives - statement of work, task coordination, risk assessment, quality control, milestones, priority planning - Set up regular team-building activities for employees' motivation and growth - Collected data on key performance indicators of implemented features and reports expected vs. actual - Worked with data governance, data privacy, and data architecture As Business Analyst: - Collected, analyzed, and documented the development of new & existing software products - Clarified business requirements - Documented business and technical requirements - Validated development results - compliance with the requirements - Managed requirements changes - Developed and maintained technical and user documentation - Negotiated and constantly communicated with stakeholders - Built graphs and diagrams of the workflow, studied the capabilities of the system, wrote specifications - Developed UI/UX prototypes Show less

Business Analyst

• Feb 2019 - May 2020

I prepared a full business analysis of three projects simultaneously, which involved intricate integrations between various banking and external systems via APIs. This included full analysis, documentation, participation in the development and clarification of requirements, testing. The tasks required significant technical expertise, including designing and developing the entire architecture and documentation from scratch, analyzing logs, identifying and resolving errors. As Business Analyst: - Collected, analyzed, and documented the development of new & existing software products - Validated development results - compliance with the requirements - Managed requirements changes - Developed and maintained technical and user documentation - Negotiated and constantly communicated with the customer - Built graphs and diagrams of the workflow, studied the capabilities of the system, wrote specifications - Coordinated requirements with the customer - Interacted with the development team during the project implementation As Project Manager: - Managed major projects schedule - Worked with data governance, data privacy, and data architecture - Controlled project objectives - statement of work, task coordination, risk assessment, quality control, milestones, priority planning - Set up regular team-building activities for employees' motivation and growth - Implemented and conducted retrospective activities As Quality Assurance: - Identified, recorded, carefully documented and tracked errors and bugs - Performed regression testing Show less

Retail Business Manager in the Retail Products Department (Product Owner)

• Mar 2016 - Apr 2019

I conducted a full analysis of the bank's card portfolio, assessed the problem areas, and also proposed measures to improve the card portfolio. Also, I concluded two profitable interbank contracts and two mutually beneficial agreements with payment systems. This work led to an increase in the bank's profits by about 30%. - Developed and tested banking applications and website - Developed retail banking products - Organized work with international payment systems (Visa, Mastercard) - Organized work with bank payment cards - Calculated product profitability - Collected and systematized data on the bank performance indicators - Calculated key performance indicators - Monitored compliance with service standards by employees of structural divisions of the regional network - Developed training courses for bank specialists - Trained bank specialists and tested the knowledge of bank specialists - Translated bank documents - Organized various marketing and motivational events Show less