Position: Principal Delivery Lead / Project Manager
Category: SEO
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 5


- Managing cross-functional teams and sub-teams of up to 20 members;  
- Having solid experience in managing Fixed Price / Time and Materials  / Dedicated team contrasts; 
- Over 13,000 cumulative hours of managing a commercial software development team; 
- Experience in the international organization, working with EU and North American clients;
- Taking PMP prep. courses and becoming a PMP candidate. 

I single out three main areas on which my effective work as a project manager is based on: 

1) Stakeholder management and communication
- managing customer's expectations, reporting, and assurance;
- working with the Customer and the Core Team to eliminate blockers;
- communication and stakeholder management: regular (weekly) reporting on project and program level;
- making decisions with proven experience in communicating and influencing key participants;
- conflict management;
- work with Product Owners, provide them with support in backlog management and priority. 

2) Team and workflow management
- acting as a team lead and orchestrate stuff that comes under the roadmap, taking up the execution challenge;
- managing sprints delivery, risks, teams workload, progress, timely completion of work, and motivation;
- track, inspect, and analyze team dynamics;
- monitoring and solving obstacles that arise during the project;
- improving the reporting process throughout all project streams
- staffing, retention, empowering leadership and ownership, processes’ transparency and support;
- facilitation of sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives. 

3) Possession of the necessary tools and techniques to achieve results
- regular Scrum activities facilitation: backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives;
- maintaining Agile best practices: story points, DoR, DoD, acceptance criteria, regular ceremonies, and facilitation;
- PM & Design tools: Jira, Confluence, Slack, Asana, ClickUp, Figma.


Responsibility areas: project phases, risk management, status reporting, live reporting, roadmap maintenance, dependency management, and program board reporting, budget control. 

Key domains: FinTech, DeFi, Blockchain, Logistics, Retail, CRM.