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

-	Utilizing modern tools and technologies to identify and attract potential clients.
-	Developing and optimizing processes for finding and attracting clients to increase the quantity of high-quality leads.
-	Writing personalized and effective message chains for interacting with potential clients.
-	Collaborating with other specialists such as product managers and marketers to determine the optimal client search strategy.

360 Consultant

- Implement the overall recruiting strategy - i.e. get the best people for the customers
- Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications
- Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives
- Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to appropriate job boards/newspapers/colleges etc
- Source and recruit candidates by using databases, social media etc
- Screen candidates' resumes and job applications
- Conduct interviews using various reliable recruiting and selection tools/methods to filter candidates within schedule
- Assess applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitudes
- Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated
- Monitor and apply HR recruiting best practices
- Maintain the recruiting database with high data quality 
     - to have a database with pre-qualified high potential candidates
     - to provide meaningful insights in our recruiting process
- Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process
- Promote the company’s reputation
- Get right candidates as quickly as possible to close a vacancy

Candidate Relation Manager/Senior IT Recruiter

- full-circle recruitment process from sourcing to accepted offers (the technical positions in different locations and different projects) 
- onboarding of newcomers 
- administrative of HR flow 
- taking part in other HR and recruitment activities (design of corporate data skills, HR brand, etc)

Technical Recruiter

The Scale Up

- performing the full-cycle of recruitment (search, selection, interviewing, scheduling internal technical interviews and interviews with clients, preparing job offers);
- monitoring job market

Open School

-	Organizing and maintaining personnel records
-	Updating internal HR databases
-	Preparing HR documents 
-	Interviewing candidates

HR and Admin Assistant

Senior IT Recruiter facilitating the lifecycle of a candidate, from job descriptions to sourcing and interacting with candidates, administering practical assessments, coordinating with clients and closing the candidates. 

Feel free to contact me in case you are looking for new opportunities:
Email: Elvina.Abbasova@KruscheCompany.com

Brief information about K&C: Krusche & Company GmbH (K&C) is an international IT outsourcing provider. Thanks to our growing team of 175 employees, we have a track record of over 24 years in successfully supporting innovative blue-chip enterprises to fast-growing start-ups that are our clients.
Whether flexible team extension or full-service delivery management - our collaboration models are as flexible as your needs.

Secure your competitive advantage with cloud-based web applications individually implemented by us using React, Angular, Node, Java, test automation, DevOps Kubernetes and more.

Between our HQ in Munich, Germany, and offices in Sofia - Bulgaria, Baku - Azerbaijan, Sulimaniyah - Kurdistan/Iraq, Kyiv - Ukraine and Krakow Poland, we have the IT specialists you need, the way you need them.

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