Position: Product manager
Category: Product Manager
Experience: 10 years | English: fluent

-> Defined and explored a market "gap" by matching it with a company's existing unique expertise, technologies, and assets, developing and managing a product that turned profitable on the MVP stage after 3 months of the launch.
-> Designed and implemented solution enabling 25K+ state enterprises to define professional technical and quality requirements to goods procured via open tenders: managed progress of development from concept to product launch and integration with e-procurement ecosystem.
-> Managed update and launch of IT systems dedicated to equipping state agencies to control the safety of products on the market, along with the development and launch of a website for rapid alert of consumers on detected dangers. Developed concept and managed product design for mobile application enabling consumers to check goods on the shelves of stores regarding safety and to notify responsible authorities about found problems, convenient registration of complaints about violation of consumer rights, and control over their processing.
-> Supervised process of rebuilding and reforming of the state body responsible for standardization: managed various measures from enterprise financial recovery, prioritization on core functions, optimization, up to development and launch of a modern web-shop of standards.
-> Consulted 17 scientists on the development of a vision for the commercialization of 33 technologies and products. Organized participation of 17 scientists and exposition of their developments in the largest international profile exhibition. Supported those scientists in establishing and conducting business communication + protecting IPR and other interests in negotiation with interested companies and investors.
-> Co-founded a tactical medicine training initiative for Ukrainian military forces and volunteers. Founded and led own initiative aimed to raise funds among university graduates to purchase and ship to the front essential supplies, from medicines to thermal vision devices and drones.
Diverse experience in product development from the product management perspective. Grew to the PM role from a “one-man experimental project" to a product manager with a team of 8 people under supervision. Further tuned PM skills within a small product & service firm, and then advanced in a product management unit of top tier IT consulting company during challenging product discovery and solution projects.
Experience in consulting in various fields, from the commercialization of applied technologies to reforms of complex state control systems, from development and filling of the project site, to design and implement solutions supporting award-winning e-Procurement system with country-level impact. People management experience from coordinating a group of volunteers, to managing reform teams and advising a minister of economic development and trade.
Currently, I am looking for product development projects with global game-changing perspectives within which I could develop further while managing the fulfillment of brave ideas into the best products.
I prefer developing products aimed to improve business processes, increase efficiency, help people to become more productive, as opposed to products which bring questionable "value" by pushing people waste their time and money (gambling, betting etc ...)