Position: Product manager
Category: Product Manager
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 0

What was my first job after the outbreak of war in Ukraine?

Through the Ukrainian Association of Chefs, I began to actively participate in helping people who were affected by the war and were severely limited in food and nutrition.
I contacted several foundations from Forbes as president of the Association and received support and grants from them, through which over 500,000 people received assistance in the form of food and daily hot meals. In addition, we collected clothes, personal hygiene products, food and hygiene products for children.
Hey guys!

I have no experience in IT at the moment.
But I do have quite extensive experience in product sourcing, business creation, team building and development, hypothesis testing, working with marketers, and product promotion.

All of these skills I acquired in the culinary field, so if your product is about food/cooking - maybe that would be the best application of my knowledge and skills. But that's not the only vector of my interests. For example, in the summer of 2022, I took a course on cryptocurrency and continue to improve my knowledge in this area daily.

After the beginning of the war in Ukraine, I was trained as a Product Manager at LABA online school. I am actively improving my knowledge of English and, at the moment, I'm passing the B2 (upper intermediate) level. 

What did I do before the war in Ukraine?

I have a higher economic education as a manager of organizations. 
In 2012, I founded the first culinary school in Ukraine, which became the largest in the country.
In 2014, I created a restaurant project, which I then sold as a franchise. 
In 2015 I created another restaurant project with partners from which I left later, selling my 33% to my own partners.
In 2017 I founded the first Ukrainian Association of Chefs and the first Ukrainian Association of Bartenders and Baristas.
As early as 2017, I founded the Culinary Cup of Ukraine "Eastern Region", which annually gathered participants chefs from all over Ukraine and nearby countries, and the judges of the competition were the top chefs of Ukraine and from other countries.

Throughout these years, we have consulted various restaurant projects and cooperated with various international companies, both as partners and as consultants:
Metro Cash&Carry.
Uniliver Food Solution
Ferrero Rocher
Bonduelle
Philips
Kenwood
etc.

During this time I was a judge of the International Restaurant Awards for 3 years, a judge of numerous culinary championships across Ukraine and a speaker at national restaurant forums with an audience of up to 2000 people.