Position: Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 1.5

I have got my master’s degree in cell and molecular biology from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, USA). In total I spent 3 years in the USA, part of which I worked in the biomedical engineering lab on influenza vaccine development project. 

Following my return to Ukraine, I got offer from L’Oreal Ukraine, as Scientific Advisor – a person who worked side by side with marketing and logistics teams on the new products’ marketing strategy and launch on the local market. In addition, I was responsible for all the validation of all the marketing materials in term of consumer safety and consistency with laboratory results. I have gained deep insight of FMCG company, its business processes and structure, however at some point I felt lack of research component. 

Thus, I took a step forward and joined an interesting governmental project: Biological threat reduction program funded by US Department of Defense. Within its activities I have started developing my coordinating and organization skills, since we delivered numerous training and educational activities on biosafety to state bodies and agencies; organized Research Symposium, and completed several research projects involving the whole territory of Ukraine. By the completion of the project, I was the main coordinator of one of them. 

After this project was over, I took a time to analyze where to move next. Fusing my experience in research, business, and governmental sectors, I decided that business is the most attractive to me, however I would still like to develop myself in the area related to my scientific background. Simultaneously, I would have liked diving deeper into project management, so I accepted offer from Mindy Support company, challenging myself with a position of Project Manager of the medical data annotation projects. This past year was one of the most difficult and inspiring at the same time, since this was not only the very new position for me but also a new type of business model – BPO and outsource, which affects the workflow. Worth to mention, that the significant part of the team distributed among different locations, all mostly worked from home due to COVID-19, and on top of this several projects were performed by doctors, working as free lancers, and thus were super hard to control. 

Through my work history you see that I am not afraid of challenges. I am confident in my ability to learn things quickly and get in the shortest term the necessary knowledge I may lack now.
I have been working as Project Manager with data annotation projects (AI): 70% focused on medical data (MRI, CT images), and 30% other data (text, video, images). I am responsible for the regular communication with clients (100% English as clients are from Europe, Asia, America), analyzing client needs and providing project status updates. I have an experience with fte/headcount planning (20 fte+) and maintaining the remote team productivity. I have been coordinating of the team of annotators both in-house and freelancers.
I am cooperating with Business Development and HR on the implementation of the pilot projects from potential clients, including search of available tools.

Currently I am seeking the opportunities to gain more experince in full cycle product development