Senior Program and Project Manager

• Aug 2018 - Present

Founder

• Jun 2017 - Present

utarel.com is a new outstanding solution for busy people, that solves problem of never ending todo lists. It takes just few steps towards organizing tasks your own way. So you have room for unexpected or unplanned tasks and can easily put those under control. utarel.com is a new outstanding solution for busy people, that solves problem of never ending todo lists. It takes just few steps towards organizing tasks your own way. So you have room for unexpected or unplanned tasks and can easily put those under control.

Account Management

• Jan 2021 - Present

Our mission is to help our clients staffing their teams rapidly by leveraging a huge bench and access to top IT talents in Western Europe and worldwide (10k+ resources, 200+ suppliers). We provide BE, FE, Mobile developers, QA, BA, PM, designers and many-many more at acceptable and competitive cost. Having a network built over 10+ years, we can cover 90% of IT needs and provide resources within 24-48 hours. Our mission is to help our clients staffing their teams rapidly by leveraging a huge bench and access to top IT talents in Western Europe and worldwide (10k+ resources, 200+ suppliers). We provide BE, FE, Mobile developers, QA, BA, PM, designers and many-many more at acceptable and competitive cost. Having a network built over 10+ years, we can cover 90% of IT needs and provide resources within 24-48 hours.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

• Mar 2020 - Nov 2020

Sales and Operations Management

• May 2017 - Nov 2020

Service Delivery Manager

• Jun 2015 - Aug 2018

• Conduct pre-sales activities• Building a personal relationship with clients• Client operations management within Ciklum• Client satisfaction management• Reputation management• Escalation management• Supporting clients in business strategy and growth• Assisting and supervising teams to achieve business development goals• Enhancing and evolving business development via offering the right solutions out of the full spectrum of services• Service delivery management, ensuring high level service delivery processes• Providing complex solution delivery and solution oversight on active engagements• Identifying new revenue opportunities, driving revenue recognition, managing efficiencies, driving productivity, and managing projects successfully while meeting revenue and cost budgets Show less

Senior Project Manager / Project Management Consultant

• Nov 2013 - Aug 2018

My responsibilities usually include:• Quick and effective team start and continuous management.• Injecting Agile approaches into development process.• Manage team composition and initiate and support human resources and recruitment activities.• Grow mature and self-organized teams from 3 to 30+• Get the team up to speed, define the best approach in working with the team.• Manage all communication on the project between the Client, development team, Ciklum and third parties.• Coordinate the work of all the participants of the project.• Ensure teamwork: maintain motivation, resolve conflicts.• Define, establish, monitor and enhance software development process supported by proper tools in accordance with Client's requirements.• Define project plan together with Client and ensure that it is up to date and meets Client's needs and project goals.• Facilitate and participate in definition of project and product requirements.• Ensure the team has enough details on requirements, and requirements are prioritized.• Ensure that project dependencies are being discussed, taken into consideration and kept in mind/on paper.• Periodically check that project requirements are met, control the progress.• Ensure the team cares about their deliverables, and they deliver high quality results. Help the team to set up robust QA/QC process.• Make decisions on disputable change requests or other questions that cannot be solved by the team.• Ensure good estimation and transparency so Client can rely on plan and progress reporting - the result is predictable delivery on time.• Eliminate impediments and work with risks proactively, thereby ensuring project success.• Constantly collect information about Client's business needs and project goals.• Constantly collect Client's feedback and ensure that Client provides their feedback to the team and the team can share their feedback with the Client.• Service clarification with Clients, negotiation and contract preparation. Show less

Head of Software/Web Development

• Feb 2012 - Nov 2013

My responsibilities included:• overseeing daily activities and providing directions and guidance to project managers, development and QA teams as needed;• recruiting people and keeping them;• growing teams from scratch to 50+;• cost control;• resource allocation and workload assignments;• strategic planning;• analyzing customer orders, business needs and goals;• setting delivery priorities and make schedule adjustments to meet projects goals;• building positive and productive working relationships with customers for business growth;• dependencies, consequences, performance, change management and integration of multiple projects;• team management to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries;• ensuring that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence;• evaluating the performance of team members and determining training needs;• developing process improvements to achieve cost effectiveness and time saving;• making critical business decisions to meet customer expectations;• developing delivery capabilities.Technologies: MS Office, MS Project, Mantis, JIRA, AgileZen, SEM, SEO, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Microsoft AdCenter, Kenshoo, Omniture, SalesForce, Marchex, UBL, YellowBot, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, PayPal, FourSquare, Selenium, Telerik.Projects:• advertising platform that includes SEM, SEO, online business directories, social networks, business reputation management, phone calls analytics• sign-up servers for eCommerce• CMS customization• CRM customization• control panels for small businesses• eCommerce websites that incorporate sign-up servers, control panels, CRMI worked for and with the following customers:• Deluxe Corp• MerchEngines• Hostopia• Aplus• LogoMojo• PsPrint• OrangeSoda Show less

Senior Project Manager

• Sep 2011 - Feb 2012

My responsibilities included:• analyzing business needs/requirements in measurable goals;• identifying scope of work and features;• assistance in software and hardware architecture;• project planning, initiation, and organization;• effective project negotiation;• accurate time estimating;• resource planning;• quality planning;• managing risk and making decisions;• effective problem solving;• project execution, monitoring and control and integration;• performance management;• deliveries and deliverables planning;• dependencies and consequences planning;• developing powerful project presentations and reports;• personal and project leadership;• people management.Technologies: MS Office, MS Project, Mantis, JIRA, SEM, SEO, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Microsoft AdCenter, Kenshoo, Omniture, SalesForce, Marchex, UBL, YellowBot.Projects:• advertising platform that includes SEM, SEO, online business directories, social networks, business reputation management, phone calls analytics• API development for the above advertising platform• business applications/product development using the above API• sophisticated control panels with different advertising products and customization ability for small businessesI worked for and with the following customers:• Deluxe Corp• MerchEngines• Hostopia Show less

Project Manager

• Aug 2010 - Sep 2011

My responsibilities included:• analyzing business needs/requirements in measurable goals;• writing technical specifications;• identifying scope of work and features;• assistance in software and hardware architecture;• project planning, initiation, and organization;• effective project negotiation;• accurate time estimating;• resource planning;• quality planning;• managing risk and making decisions;• effective problem solving;• project execution, monitoring and control and integration;• performance management.Technologies: MS Office, MS Project, Bugzilla, Mantis, SEM, SEO, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Microsoft AdCenter, Kenshoo, Omniture, SalesForce, Marchex, UBL, YellowBot.Project: http://brm.merchengines.comMerchEngines is an advertising platform for small businesses that includes SEM, SEO, online business directories, social networks, business reputation management, phone calls analytics, etc.I worked for and with the following customers:• Deluxe Corp• MerchEngines• Hostopia Show less

Software/Web Developer

• Apr 2007 - Aug 2010

My responsibilities included:• Mobile apps development/optimization/porting for various mobile platforms• Web development using Ruby on Rails• Refactoring Delphi samples• Hardware reliability tests using Python and 3rd-party backup appsTechnologies: J2ME, Ruby on Rails (1.x, 2.x), Delphi, MySQL (5), OS Windows, OS Linux, Apache (2.x), AJAX, HTML, MS Access, InterBase, FireBird, Oracle, Python, Jython, STAF/STAX, XML, OS Windows Server 2003, Unix-like OS.Customers who I worked for:• Tira Wireless• Data Domain• Embarcadero Show less