Position: Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 2

1) Managing of the specific project:
- pre-sail process/discovery phase of the project;
- contract negotiations with successful ending and mutual agreement;
- development of the project from scratch - 9 months with the following 1 month of post-MVP features development;
- QA process, often taking part in positive/negative testing;
- account management.

2) Managing the ongoing (i.e. 'inherited' from another manager) live project with 200k+ users on several EU markets. Releasing new features on weekly/biweekly/monthly basis. Always bringing BA, design and product management values to the project. 

3) Being in charge of 11 tasks simultaneously when the company was in need of PMs:
- 2 projects, where I was officially presented as the PM and where the detailed dive was needed;
- 4 support projects, where I wasn't officially presented as the PM/where I supported the developer(s);
- 4 projects, for which I came up with a safe delegating scheme;
- active interviewing of PMs.

4) Launching a development of the project with initial doc containing several sentences. Product management expertise to help the product owner with idea refinement.
IT project management expert.

Responsibilities 

1) Management:
- management of the following projects: ongoing (i.e. 'inherited' from another manager), new ones, support ones (i.e. where the PM is not officially introduced) and projects where the PM is officially introduced/deeply involved;
- project separation into functional blocks for frontend estimation; estimations verification;
- holding discovery phase process to fill blank spaces in product owner's ideas/documentation;
- organisation of transparent workflow using management tools and best management practices;
- support and mentoring of juniors; people management;
- delegation/micromanagement;
- external client's team management;
- processes improvement.

2) Technical:
- browser DevTool usage;
- basic interaction with MongoDB: search for the specific user/other user-related info via Robo 3T and Atlas;
- detailed/smoke testing; usage of Diawi, Test Flight, Google Play Beta for pre-production mobile testing;
- built apps deployment to App Store/Google Play; 
- bringing BA, design and product management values in case there is a need in fresh ideas.

3) Other:
- legal - contract negotiations;
- lead - interviewing of PMs;
- content - articles writing (IT project management topics).

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Additional info

1) Niches of projects worked on:
- legal;
- EdTech;
- sustainability;
- healthcare;
- fitness;
- NFT (on a surface).

2) Maximum team capacity: 4 members on a single project.

3) Creating ideas on sales/overall workflow processes improvement. 

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Background (before IT project management):
- work/studying in the U.S. (Global UGRAD program);
- work in journalism sphere (regional and all-Ukrainian media).
Preferences:
- deeply dive into the project, being more than a spokesman/mere organiser; create transparent self-sufficient workflows and make the development as predictable as possible;
- have a possibility to boost technical knowledge, developing technical management skills;
- have a strong Lead IT PM or report directly to company's top management;
- company to have a roadmap, causing personal professional growth;
- if needed, have a flexible working hours;
- cooperate in a professional workspace with the rules of mutual respect and ethics.

Job to do with less enthusiasm: 
- presale process;
- contract negotiations;
- content creation;
- management of several support projects (i.e. where the PM is not officially introduced).