Position: Junior Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 0

After passing the Google Project Management course and IT Project Management course by Laba school with flying colors I have gained an immersive understanding of the practices and skills needed to succeed in an entry-level project management role; learned how to create effective project documentation and artifacts throughout the various phases of a project; learned the foundations of Agile project management, with a focus on implementing Scrum events, building Scrum artifacts, and understanding Scrum roles, and practiced strategic communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management through real-world scenarios.
I have been working as an intellectual property lawyer for 5 years and recently I have decided to switch my career path by enrolling in the project management world. I have completed the Google Project Management Career Certificate - a rigorous, hands-on program that covers traditional and Agile project management approaches throughout the life cycle of a project and gained the competency needed by developing a certain portfolio of PM documents/artifacts. Also, I have successfully passed another solid IT Project Management course by Laba school within the IT Generation project sponsored by the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Binance Charity, USAID, and UNDP.

	Furthermore, I am experienced with matters that could be correlated with the project manager role. By now I have been to 30+ countries and every single time I have organized the trip from scratch, including scheduling, budgeting, and in light of the Covid-19 era, risk assessments - some of the essential attributes of project management. The most recent and personally valuable "project" that I have completed is my 81 years old grandmother's evacuation from the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region to Kyiv through russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. I have exploited every single opportunity to use my strong research, analytic, and communication skills to organise the evacuation, in light of personal safety and convenience of the route after all. Looking back to my previous and current work experience as a lawyer, I can state with confidence that I've developed strong negotiation skills, inevitable companions of a good project manager. The organisation of colleagues' ideas in the form of contracts and data collection is a daily routine of my current position that correlates with the project manager's responsibilities. The mentioned experience is actually among the crucial parts that matter for project managers, because it is about people, and working with other people is what makes a project manager successful in their role by creating order out of chaos.