BenchSci

Project Manager

-Independent Consultant-

- Work with individuals, particularly in high-stress industries like IT and tech, helping them to create strategies to maintain a balance between their personal and professional lives, boosting overall well-being
- I help IT leaders (team leaders and middle management) to enhance their emotional intelligence, decision-making and leadership development through personal coaching based on ICF principles.

Coach ICF ACC

As an experienced Agile coach, I guide organizations through the process of adopting and refining Agile delivery to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. My work involves coaching teams, managers, and executives on how to apply Agile approaches such as Scrum framework and Kanban method to their specific contexts.

Agile Coach / Management Consultant

K&C (Krusche & Company)

While working in this position, I collaborated with numerous customers and assumed various roles. The clients included Nestle Switzerland, Informa Connect UK, Bosch Group, HSBC Germany. My responsibilities were diverse, as detailed below:

As a Portfolio Manager:
- Oversaw the company's entire project portfolio.
- Ensured the successful delivery of all portfolio components, involving 150+ people.
- Designed PMO processes and templates to support Delivery.
- Maintained the operational profit margin within the agreed target.
As a Program Manager:
- Managed two programs for the company’s key customers (team 50+ people).
- Implemented strategies that exceded to expected YoY accounts growth.
As a Project Manager:
- Managed predictive and adative projects with various types of customers, including startups, mid-size companies, global enterprises, and government organizations.
- Handled delivery with different contract types, including fixed-price, managed service, delivery team, and dedicated team arrangements.
As an Agile Coach:
- Guided teams in adopting the Agile culture and principles, while supporting several customers through their Agile transformations.
- Acted as Scrum Master for different customer and setups, including in SAFe.

Head of Delivery (customer-side roles: Project Manager / Program Manager)

I managed client-oriented software development projects, leading all stages of development process from pre-sale to completion. I ensured timely project delivery for customers such as Societe Generale, Informa, Burda, Puma, Avalgon, Solar-Log.

As the Head of the Business Unit, I was responsible for overseeing the project delivery excellence for the Business Unit Ukraine (BU UA). I served as the focal point for daily operational activities and organizational growth, maintained the agreed net profit for the BU.

Delivery Manager / Project Manager / Head of BU Ukraine

Bosch

As a Scrum Master I helped to establish a healthy Scrum cycle with predictable deliverables, reduced cycle time and lead time.

Scrum Master (via K&C)

SvitSoft

As a Project Manager, I managed client-oriented web development projects on schedule and achieved milestones for notable clients including Microsoft Ukraine, The American Chamber of Commerce, Ukrbud and Osvitoria.  Actively participated in planning, managing change requests, budgeting and stakeholder management.

As a Scrum Master, I oversaw the software development activities for the AdSaver product, a dynamic call-tracking software. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, improving the team's productiviry to deliver reliable software with a 99.8% uptime.

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Indus Valley

Head E-commerce / Product Manager

JCDecaux

System Administrator

I’m a Project Manager and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience helping distributed product teams deliver complex software development projects across a variety of environments - from startups and scaleups to Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations.

What sets me apart is the ability to blend structured project delivery (PMP, PfMP) and Agile expertise (CSP, KMP, ICP-ACC) with coaching mastery (ICF ACC). This combination enables not just timely results, but sustainable team growth and human-centered leadership.

Currently, I’m working in the GenAI space, contributing to the development of frontier product. It’s a space full of ambiguity, experimentation, and rapid shifts - where my coaching mindset and delivery discipline help teams stay focused and resilient.

Dmytro Salo

Handelsbanken

I was providing my Scrum Master services to Data Warehouse DevOps team (6 developers) and providing coaching services to nieghboring DevOps teams KYC (6 developers) and BI squad (2 developers)
I helped my team onboard the SAFe release train and optimized their way of working without interruptions in the development pace. We also significantly improved our major practices of managing the backlog, prioritization, risk management, and planning. As a result - all parties were happy and we kept the balance of all priorities. Cycle time has been shortened by 10%, time spent for regular meetings weekly has been shortened by 40%

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Team Coach

Backbase

Developed a set of actions and trainings for Leadership to turn company mindset closer to lean thinking, customer-centric, and data-driven decision making.
- Acting as a Scrum Master for two squads in the R&D tribe for the Business banking web application.
- Coaching Junior Scrum Masters.
- Providing coaching support for Business banking Value stream.
- Coaching teams on best practices of agile software development.

Senior Scrum Master

Raiffeisen Bank International AG

- Providing Scrum Master services to two Squads within a Rating Delivery Tribe. 
- Sharing knowledge with the Scrum Masters guild and Agile Coaching chapter. 
- Coaching the other Scrum Masters.

Scrum Master

Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine

As a part of the BCP I established the initiative for the reorganization of the way of working of several teams within six value streams during the outbreak of the war crisis.
- Providing coaching Scrum Master's service to two teams that were developing omnichannel Customer-facing solutions.
- Partly was coaching Scrum teams in Ukraine as a crisis management part of BCP
- Coaching Scrum Masters
- Had been taking part in the Agile transformation of the Ukrainian branch before and during Russia’s invasion.
- Providing facilitation service to different units from the overall organization upon request.

Scrum Master, Agile Coach

DXC Technology

In more than 50 trainings and workshops online and offline I convinced around 1000 engineers about agile values and principles.
- Carry out internal and external trainings for multinational teams. Including customized ones on Customers’ demand.
- Contributing to the Scrum Masters’ community
- Team/executive coaching.

Agile Coach, Agile Trainer

A strategically important product in a multi-billion offerings portfolio of the customer improved its score on the international competitive market because it exceeded the expectations of the end users through the growth of team collaboration maturity.
- The servant leadership of the Scrum team of Geoscientists
- Facilitating the delivery of the complex distributed Cloud-based solution within the multi-team and multi-stakeholder context.
- Scrum adoption, Kanban adaptation
- Coaching of the stakeholders from the Customer side

Luxoft

The MVP of a high-load distributed web+mobile solution went into production in half of the year.
- 35+ FTE team management
- Team Leads and Tech Leads coaching
- Multithread Project backlog management
- Customer relationship and expectations management

Agile Project Manager

Crytek

Three Game Development Teams delivered dozens of features, keeping the staff attrition rate at zero despite severe salary delays.
- Management of the development processes of three game development teams. (BDevelopers, Artists, Tech Writers, Sound Engineers, Game Designer)
- Cross-team collaboration facilitation within the release train and above (Other Game Development Teams, DevOps Team, Integration Services Team)
- Facilitation of the System Demo within the whole Studio.

Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach

NetEnt

Successfully released custom content video slot game for UK Casino for all markets
- Game development project planning and managing within several international distributed teams.
- Orchestrating the on-call support team.

Agile Team Coach

Playtech subcontractor - Skywindgroup

I helped my newly hired team to make the very first slot game released in two months.
- Management of mobile casino slot games development
- Project planning across several departments.
- Managing processes within the international team and other stakeholders

Govitall, b2c eCommerce

Management of customer support department
•	Increasing efficiency of process within 4 teams
•	Quality of service improvement
•	Product quality control
Project management
•	Online plagiarism-checking tool
•	Asterisk statistics analysis web pane

Head of Customer Support

🥇 The last few achievements:

•   I managed to deliver a 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 (20) 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 explanation to the 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 on the real value of Agile, effectively securing 𝐛𝐮𝐲-𝐢𝐧.
•   I shortened the average 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 for my Data Warehouse team 𝐛𝐲 ~113%, from 64 to 30 days.
•   I helped reduce 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 sessions to just 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 (15) 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 while maintaining quality and alignment.
•   I redesigned SDLC procedures for my team of teams, which 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 my organization the 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 1 𝐅𝐓𝐄 every month. Engineers were happy to spend less time in meetings.
•   In 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬, I created an enthusiastic team from scratch and delivered a secure and compliant 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐌𝐕𝐏 solution to help 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 (7,000) users efficiently communicate with bank personnel during emergencies.
•   After coaching one of my teams, they have been working without a Scrum Master 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 (>3) 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 in a completely self-organized way. (And they still do this).
•   I coached a team comprised of 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 (8) 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, building such high trust that they were capable of planning two iterations in a row without our Product Owner and delivering value in a compliant, multi-billion revenue technology solution.
•   Colleagues in an Agile Coaches Guild were happy to have me on their team to help out with driving the 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 within 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 of the Bank.

📕 My daily duties:

•	Facilitating regular Scrum events.
•	I am inspecting existing processes and relations to find gaps and ways of increasing transparency and shortening feedback loops.
•	I am in a relentless discovery of how to increase the predictability and performance of my teams and organization overall.
•	I am holistically focused on resolving dependencies and impediments even before they appear.
•	I encourage people to achieve more.

📌  I do this by:

•	Improving existing or establishing a new way of estimating, forecasting, planning, and reporting, negotiating goals, and the way how teams balance the development pace and the quality.
•	Helping to design more efficient processes of delivery. At a team level and at scale.
•	Coaching leadership and teammates.
•	Providing small pieces of context-based training upon request or by need.
•	Providing comprehensive training on Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or related topics.
•	Taking the initiative in resolving conflicts in a collaborative dialog toward an actionable decision.

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