Position: Release Manager | Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

Full cycle Release management in regulated iLottery industry from planning till delivery across environments to productions, communication and full coordination across teams, regulatory approvals processes, emergency releases planning, IT servers maintenance scheduling. 
Full cycle IT projects management using hybrid approach (types of projects: automation of excise duty & VAT reporting for e-com; Webshop with CMS, iLottery industry internal projects);
Helped customer gain clarity on scope of work requested, by laying out all gathered requirements in a visual diagram;
Led a project under strict deadline on revising and actualising a financial model for a new venture of the World’s leading hospitality management school to be presented at the Board meeting;
Led projects on operations improvement: 
 - introduced Contract Lifecycle Management solution, which centralised creating, signing, managing and organising contracts of the company;
 - Introduced software purchase & payment platform that resulted in efficient tracking and management of all software spendings in one place.
Developed a tool to track and analyse projects costs and profitability.
Supervised teams of 5 people and drove teams’ success through shared vision and transparent communication.
Billing management: 
 - improved process of communicating billing schedules and timesheets submissions resulting in timely billing cycles (within first 3 days of every month); 
 - reduced time in the accounts receivable cycle via effective control of payment schedules and timely communication with account managers;
Successfully led business projects: 
 - corporate internal website redesign, migration to SharePoint, launch and support; 
 - Launch of a platform for Innovative Ideas submission and selection (at Johnson & Johnson Ukraine).
While working in China, led supply chain management for new products development projects achieving on-time components delivery to assembly and out for shipping.
Solutions-driven individual with almost twenty years of international experience (China, Hong Kong, Italy, The Netherlands and Ukraine), working in multinational environments and cross-functional teams. Proficient in project management (operations and procurement management, people coordination, accounting management & control), as well as learning new solutions and technologies. 
My experience ranges from OEM manufacturing & procurement in China, international trade, business operations management in Hong Kong and Italy, to banking, FMCG and IT industry (past 3+ years) in Ukraine, mostly working with expats. 
I speak fluently English and Italian, hold Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA). Also I have recently completed Google Project Management Professional Certificate (Google at Coursera), and PM Hard Skills 1 & 2 at IAMPM.