Position: Business Analyst / Product owner / Consultant
Category: Business Analyst
Experience: 8 years | English: fluent

Achievements in projects (sorted by recency):
1. [Travel] Building an online diving tours fleet management and reservation system that enables boat managers to manage cabins availability, prices, booking and cancellation policies, launch promotions, send invoices, provide guest forms etc; and enables potential guests as well as sales agents to find suitable trip by providing easy to use search and all needed information to facilitate trip reservation.

2. [Travel] Building an online hotel management and reservation system that enables hotel managers/owners to manage rooms availability, prices, booking and cancellation policies, launch promotions etc; and enables potential guests to find suitable hotel by providing easy to use search and all needed information to facilitate hotel reservation.

3. [Health care] Building an EHR (Electronic Health Records) platform that is used by inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation health care facilities in the U.S. The platform is web-based SaaS and it is used by therapists, nurses, etc for storing information about the patient, diagnosis, prescriptions, different analysis, medical history, etc.

4. [eLearning] Building a platform for learning languages (which millions of users are using) through native content where you can learn various foreign languages, such as French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese etc. Successfully inventing learning algorithms and introducing gamification tricks.

5. [Social networks / Pharmaceutical] Building and launching a new B2B digital matchmaking platform-social network that enables life science business development professionals to find, connect and meet one other in order to more effectively source multi-million dollar pharmaceutical licensing deals. 

6. [Social networks] Building an Intranet solution: a flexible modular software that consists of different components with various functions and tools that can be combined with each other and intuitive and easy to use.
Experienced Business Analyst / Product Owner professional with about 8 years of experience in global organisations in Information Technology and Tourism & Hospitality industries. Multilingual (English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Spanish) with a Master's degree in Business Analysis.

Consultancy services:
- Evaluation of your Business Analysts' skills
- Independent review of your Business Analysts' work and providing recommendations
- Recommendations/Assistance in BAs recruitment processes (with interviewing potential candidates upon request)
- Assistance with organising BA department in your company
- Domain based consultancy
and much more services available

Domain expertise areas:
- Travel, Tourism & Hospitality
- eLearning
 -Social Networks
 - Healthcare (Electronic Health Record)

PO/BA activities:
- Working with stakeholders to define business needs and goals
- Gaining a deep understanding of customer experience, identifying and filling product gaps and generating new ideas that grow market share, improving customer experience and driving growth
- Analysing competitors' products
- Organising, planning, documenting, managing and communicating requirements
- Managing backlog
- Preparing UI wireframes and/or prototypes and assisting UX/UI specialists
- Assisting the team by clarifying requirements and presenting them to the team
- Collaborating with system architects and developers in order to establish the technical vision and agree on tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Managing solution scope, detecting and tracking changes
- Participating in user acceptance testing
- Evaluating business requirements processes and making suggestions for improvements, establishing and following requirements life-cycle processes
- Reviewing other analysts' work to make sure that processes, standards and quality are maintained
- Mentoring new project members
+ Performing some of the project manager and/or QA duties
Don'ts:
No loans, no gambling/betting, no dating.