Position: Product Manager / Project Manager
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Years of experience: 5

Some of my personal achievements:
• The vastly expanded product line of a company: 6 new demanded products have been created from scratch.
• 4 new successfully implemented mobile apps have been developed.
• 10+ projects for B2G/B2B markets have been done.
• Achieved rapid growth in demand for a product due to its consistent development: total sales growth – 10 times over in B2B/B2C markets within 3 years.
• Awarded an inventor certificate for a software package from government authorities.
• Created an educational course “Up-to-date Information Technologies” for university students that has been taught to 200+ people.
• Wrote and published several textbooks and manuals on IT subjects, as well as 10+ technical articles.
• Completed total migration of an operational department to new software.
• Developed a website of an organization by myself from scratch.
• Established several cross-functional teams to solve technical issues in different IT domains.
• 20+ partnerships with contractors and vendors have been established.
• Spoke at conferences in the largest cities of diverse regions.
Experience:
• Product Owner – 4 years (Automotive: Vehicle Monitoring and Security);
• Product Management – 5 years (Hardware and Software Development);
• Project Management – 7 years (Waterfall and Agile: Scrum/Kanban);
• Engineering & Research – 8 years (Electronics, IT);
• Team Management – 10+ years (up to 20 people);
• Soft Skills – 12+ years (including teaching/mentoring).

Languages:
• Russian – Mother Tongue;
• Ukrainian – Native;
• English – Upper Intermediate (B2).

Professional skills:
• management of short-term and long-term projects (including work on several ones simultaneously);
• creation of new products and solutions from scratch, as well as development of existing ones;
• applying Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies, Jira and Trello tracking systems;
• joint work with hardware and software engineers, UX/UI designers, QA and other IT specialists;
• applying tools: Confluence, Google Docs, Miro, Figma;
• tightly collaboration with Marketing, Sales, Operational Department, Service Desk, Technicians, Manufacturing and so on;
• monitoring product metrics using Google Analytics;
• negotiation with stakeholders, customers, influencers, end users, etc.;
• writing of business requirements, technical specifications, etc., decomposing them into epics, user stories, tasks (with prioritization);
• technical writing & translation, including manuals, datasheets, localizations, reports, articles, reviews and so on;
• manual software testing (with hardware together);
• strong technical background in electronics, hardware, work with embedded & external electronic systems;
• experience in HTML coding, console & object-oriented programming (in the past);
• good knowledge of economics and enterprise management;
• team management up to 20 people;
• direct reporting to the top management & founders.

Domain knowledge:
• Electronics, Automation, IoT, M2M, Automotive, Fleet Management, Satellite Security, Vehicle Insurance, EdTech, Esports.

Business models:
• B2C, B2B, B2B2C, B2G.

General product structure:
• Hardware (External/Embedded);
• Server Backend;
• Web Frontend;
• Native Mobile Apps.

Basic software technical stacks of products:
• Mobile apps: iOS – Swift; Android – Java/Kotlin;
• Frontend: JavaScript, React/Angular;
• Backend: Java/Python/PHP/C#; DBMS – MySQL, PostgreSQL;
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes;
• Hardware: C/Assembler.
Nice to have:
• challenging and exciting long-term projects;
• really useful for society or business products;
• interesting and innovating domain;
• a friendly team of motivated professionals;
• an international company with an office in Kyiv.