Position: IT Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
Experience: 2.5 years | English: upper

I have been working as IT Project Manager since 2018. I was and I still am passionate about PM because I really like to be surrounded by people. My first priority while working with a team is to motivate and coordinate them. I try to build a positive experience for the customer who works with me as well.

I start my journey from a small web dev agency and now I work with the biggest Ukrainian banking company. If we talk about my background:

- Solid understanding of product and project development life cycle principles and methodologies
- General management skills: Planning, Control, Coordination, Leadership
- Solid understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience in full project management of web, program, and mobile development
- Used tools and technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, Microsoft Project, KeyNote, MindNode

 If we talk about my achievements. For the last year, I have been working on 11 projects in total. The average duration of one project at that company is a year. 

- 6 projects were successfully finished, 4 of them finished 2-3 months before the deadline;
- 2 projects were transferred for testing to the customers;
- 3 projects were on the pre-sale stage.

Behind this statistic, thousands of tasks, testings, debugging, phone calls, emails, discussions, and team motivation actions.
01.07.2019 - 17.07.2020 — IT Project Manager at UNITY BARS 

As a Project Manager, I managed online banking software development. During a one-year period under my supervision, an online banking core, and a set of functional modules were created and successfully implemented in 6 online banking solutions. At the same time, I supported the other 5 projects on different project stages.

- Managed full-cycle development of multiple financial software projects
- Coordinated teams of 5 to 12 cross-functional, multidisciplinary professionals
- Organized and coordinated meetings with customers to collect requirements and made project estimation
- Supported project development, organized and maintained team meetings between multiple workgroups, including customers, technical and functional staff
- Resolved conflicts and removed misunderstandings to ensure a smooth process of product development

15.04.2018 - 01.06.2019 — IT Project Manager at Facility 

Within the product ERP System:
- Managed the team using Scrum methodology (Front, Back, Designer, DevOps, Android, iOS)
- Managed the remote team
- Created a prototype documentation
- Managed a product development proсess
- Managed a product testing process, communication with potential users, feedback processing
- Created technical documentation for the development team
- 3 point method estimation of project
- Risk estimation, risk management
- Managed product development (formation of project backlog, work with priorities, control over execution, scheduling of daily meeting, sprint, retro)
- Built a potential user base and engaging these users in closed testing
- Great possibilities for professional development and career growth
- Interesting and challenging tasks
- Neat workplace at the office and friendly team
- A full team of developers
- Medical insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Ideally, to be able to combine remote work & work from the office
- Paid over-hours or no over hours work (I try to achieve work-life balance)