Position: Project Manager / Team Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6


Manager in IT and Gamedev with 4+ years of experience in managerial role and 6+ years in IT industry in general.  
I have worked on multiple in-house AAA projects as well as small to big projects outsourced by third party companies. My work involved constant and ongoing collaboration with various specialists within different departments including development, art, QA, business, HR and recruitment. Teams I have directly managed were mainly specialized in Art and QA.
I have a vast experience using project management and documentation creation tools (Jira, Confluence) and capable of maintaining effective communication with peers from multiple studios in different time zones.
I also have 5 years of practice in terms planning for the various deliverables on projects. assessing corresponding risks and building relevant strategies for their further mitigation. 
Additionally, I have both managed employees in the team acting as a direct manager and took care of project-related assignments including budget+resource planning, project stuffing and handling the ongoing project. 

Responsibilities I've performed as a manager:

#Estimating the projects in terms of budget, resources and workload;
#Stuffing the projects with specialists of corresponding skillset;
#Project kick-off and retrospective conduction;
#Gathering and providing feedback to the team members;
#Assessment and mitigation of project-related risks;
#Project planning and milestone evaluation (involving agile methodologies);
#Establishing and maintaining communication with peers from multiple studios in order to provide team deliverables on the assigned mandates and align in terms of current status and further goals;
#Ensuring the collaboration between embedded team members and external stakeholders;
#Acting as a direct manager for teams of different size (from 5 to 25 people)
#Employee development and evaluation;
#Conflict management;
#Establishing and leading QA Automation department in Ubisoft Kyiv;