Position: Lead Business Analyst
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 9

On the current position:
•	Closed 4 pre-sales and 2 discoveries on the account with their transition to implementation projects
•	Introduced knowledge base for the BAs on the account
•	Maintain and share detailed stakeholder analysis for all client stakeholders encountered so far
•	Set up on-boarding process for the BAs and reduced its required time in half
•	Set up framework for the client’s ESG/Sustainability strategic initiative
•	Staffed and raised 5 BAs into data focus on the account
•	Helped set up initial company-wide BA Data Focus competence model


Previous assignments:
•	Adapted solution for an upcoming extension to new target audience (company strategic goal) (Salesforce, Workday, API integrations)
•	Enabled x2 growth of the channel leads and subsequent x1,5 deals conversion growth
•	Implemented User analytics (Heap, later Amplitude: DAU, MAU, conversion funnel, retention and churn, drop-offs)
•	Raised internal operations team efficiency related to the solution use cases by 10%

•	Stabilized a project in crisis (IOT, BigQuery) with highly volatile data and functional requirements and missing decision making process
•	Removed traction, ensured development team uninterrupted performance, during rapid 10 to 25 people growth by establishing proper SDLC, incorporating regular activities with stakeholders, standardizing data and software requiremenets, introduced BA documentation

•	Rolled out MVP
•	Landed roadmap approval and budget allocation for the next development phase
•	Established basic end user engagement metrics gathering and analysis process

•	Coordinated decommissioning of the order-placement component in web-administration portal
•	reduced rollbacks by building unified change management process for Ukrainian and Indian teams
•	increased Ukrainian and Indian teams’ development velocity and flexibility by transiting them to Kanban framework
•	developed web portal decommissioning plan
7 years in Business analysis and last 2 years in leading business analysis teams. Projects/activities participated in: pre-sales, discoveries, new development, integration, implementation, maintenance and decommission projects. Customers from: mainly US, UK, South East Asia, India. Have relocation to US experience.
Tasks:
- strategic consulting and advisory;
- multiple streams and projects coordination;
- BA resources planning, interviews and staffing;
- client support in project initiation, preliminary analysis and discoveries;
- scope of work, timelines, required BA competencies estimation;
- stakeholder analysis and engagement based on it;
- BA approaches and methodology control on the account;
- mentorship and onboarding new BAs;
- processes set up and alignment (on the projects and for the entire BA team);
- full requirements lifecycle management: requirements elicitation,  documentation, analysis&verificaiotn, validation, management, prioritisation, change management;
- data exploration, profiling and classification
- data, data science and technical readiness assessments
- product roadmaps design and alignment;
- user research and analytics;
- market, competitor and benchmarking analysis;
- crisis management;
- change strategy design;
Company-wide activities:
- competence model development (company-wide);
- BA internal courses and trainings conduction;
- company-wide mentorship;
- technical interviews;
- project reviews.
I seek:
- opportunities to gradually grow into leadership roles
- I find data- and ML-related options most interesting. I have deep understadning of the technology, processes and stages, risks and governance. But I am not limited to these domains only
- to be a mentor and a mentee
- prefer systematic approach and systematic people
- open to uncertainty and love experimentation
I would avoid:
- working with unclear/undefined goals and expectations
- both, micromanagement and complete "free range" approach. Something in the middle would be most optimal
- routine projects where nothing changes for months. Novelty, challenge, something to do differently, learning something new are my major motivators.