Position: Product manager
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

- Created and successfully implemented two business strategies
- Created a lot of business processes
- Designed and managed development of the banking system worth $100k+
- Designed and managed development of cards functionality in bank's mobile application
Currently I'm in a product manager role (head of card business in a bank) but not that “managing only” kind, I rather do a lot of work directly by myself because of the small organization size.

For the past 14y I’ve successfully managed a lot of programs and projects with budgets from a couple of hundreds to hundreds of thousands US dollars.

Variety of project types includes banking products and services development, API integrations, business processes development and improvements, software features implementation (including mobile application), marketing campaigns, processes outsourcing and in-housing, systems adoption and many more.

During these projects I’ve managed cross-functional teams either housed or outsourced and, besides project management, often had hands-on roles like product owner, business analyst, tester, etc.

In my management work, I prefer a data-driven approach for decision making and things to be well-organized but with reasonable effort at the same time. I’m trying to be a supportive leader to my team with a high level of emotional connection and mediate possible conflicting situations if they arise.
Due to the high level of conservatism in banking sector, projects were managed mostly using the Waterfall model but I’m eager to work with Agile frameworks in favor of what I’m putting a lot of effort into learning the theory.

As for my personal qualities I’m a self-organized and naturally curious person, never stopping to improve my skills and learn new things.

I’m quite passionate about creating things that never existed before, building and improving processes, investigating and developing solutions for issues, therefore currently my focus of interest lies more in the software development field.

In my free time I'm improving my project management knowledge base by reading and attending courses and also trying to develop my pet-project - front-desk application for bank staff, based on a MERN stack.