Position: Product manager
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

Key competencies:

-Project/Program Management
-Product Management
-Cross-functional and cross-cultural team management
-Led complex engineering projects
-Product lifecycle management
-Process design and monitoring
-Solution design and implementation
-Stakeholder relationship management

During my previous experience in a telecommunication company, I was able to successfully close several offerings, including new products initiated by the marketing team. Was leading 3 migration projects, where the main goal was in a smooth migration from one vendor to the new HW/SW vendor. Was leading a team of more than 10 engineers and sw developers. 
As a project manager at NI I was able to deliver several projects and custom products to our customers. Projects were in different marketing segments, including semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, and portfolio. By providing inputs from the customers, was able to initiate and pitch new products/offerings for our automotive segment business. Leading a team of ten engineers and software developers locally and remotely. 
During the last several years I have passed through project management training and got a PMP certificate.  Was participating in the start-up building, where was responsible for the product life cycle management and lead the product from idea, marketing research, founding, building prototype, and sales. 
During 2022 I passed through several types of training, including customer engagement processes, situational leadership, agile team building, and Agile leadership, which was divided into several modules, listed below:
- Applied Scrum for Agile Project Management 
- Sprint Planning for Faster Agile Team Delivery 
- Agile Innovation and Problem-Solving Skills
- Agile Leadership Principles and Practices 
- Agile Process, Project, and Program Controls
Experienced Team Lead/Project Manager/Product Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Engineering and Telecommunication Industry.  
Dynamic and motivated professional with a proven record of managing large-scale technology projects from concept to completion, building relationships, and motivating and coaching individuals to success.
Skilled in leading geographically distributed teams, establishing, monitoring, and improving cross-functional processes, enabling performance through design thinking, and making critical decisions during challenges.

NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS (NI)
 - Applications Engineering Group Manager 	2017-Current
 - Project Manager 	 2015-2017

Responsibilities:
-	Leads geographically distributed cross-functional teams of 10 Engineers with a focus on the Automotive Industry with a focus on autonomous driving and electrification technologies in EMEA and AMER region
-	Identifies opportunities for process improvements and proactively leads cross-functional and cross-industry teams to execute goals and achieve main objectives
-	Removes obstacles to positive cross-functional and cross-cultural collaboration
-	Provides inputs for resource investment decisions, including budget to drive business growth 
-	Builds and leverages trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders
-	Maintains team focus on projects and business goals aligned with functional strategy
-	Creates functional-level talent management and talent acquisition strategy 
-	Drives improvements and innovations in recruiting, onboarding, and developing employees   
-	Leads organizational level initiative on technical leadership knowledge development within engineers and software developers
-	Leads regional level initiative on forming Automotive Labs in the EMEA region to enable and accelerate system-level business through strengthening application-level knowledge and providing system-level proof of concepts to key customers
-	Manages and monitors the successful execution of complex cross-functional customer-facing and forward investment projects
-	Obtains multi-level signoffs on projects prior to production releases.  
-	Boosts performance through coaching the team on adapting Agile Mindset

VIVACELL-MTS Telecommunication company

  - Switching Unit Supervisor 2011 - 2015
  - Senior Switching Engineer 2008-2011
  - Switching Engineer  2006-2008

Fiber Optics Communication Lab
 - Research Assistant 2003-2008

Laser Technologies LT-Pyrkal
  - Engineer 2002-2005
Interested in challenging projects and product development activities from idea and up to production and sales. Would like to leverage my experience in different domains, which might be quite different from my previous domains, like engineering and telecommunication. Looking for new career opportunities in growing fields.