RichBrains

Working on a web-based  Student Management System for a global learning provider (stakeholders from the UK/ EU/ CA/ USA). The solution allows to automate daily processes and synchronise work for different teams: Admissions, Finance, Registrar's Office, Sales,Academics, Recruiters and Agents of 40+ brands. 2500+ employees worldwide use the system on a daily basis.

My duties include, but are not limited to:

- Managing brands and their expectations (15+ stakeholders);
- Delivery of the projects;
- Backlog management;
- Planning resources;
- Creating product release Roadmaps and timelines (MS Project);
- Scheduling calls;
- Keeping the documentation up-to-date in Confluence;
- Knowledge sharing;
- Clarification of business requirements;
- Demo of the developments;
- Team management (daily catch-ups, plannings, retro, post-mortem);
- Review of the mockups in Invision / Figma;
- Quarterly planning activities;
- One on one with the developers;
- Account management;
- Onboarding new team members;
- Sales activities (proposals);
- Interviewing QA engineers.

B2B Product Manager

Project Manager

Itransition Group

As a Project Manager/Scrum Master I was working with a team of 16 people and helped with:

- running Scrum Ceremonies, including Sprint Planning and ongoing Backlog refinement;
- removing impediments for the team, bridging the gaps in communication between team and Product Owner, team and organization;
- reporting on project status, achievements and risks to the stakeholders as well as organization;
- ensuring good quality of increments and product itself;
- maintaining risk log with mitigation steps;
- ensuring Retrospectives are safe and productive for team members;
- revisiting DoR and DoD as needed;
- relative estimation of Backlog items;
- identifying borders for team's self-management, authorizing team according to its maturity level, delegating tasks;
- organizing one-on-ones for the team members;
- knowledge transfer to the team, PO, organization (Scrum wise in particular);
- conflict management  (by creating conflict cards and finding appropriate solution  for both conflicting parties);
- coaching PO on backlog prioritization and optimization;
- conducting team surveys (health check);
- ongoing communication and stakeholders' requests, including change requests;
- clarifying requirements together with BA;
- running discovery phase with BA for the client;
- manual testing, User acceptance testing, validating bugs/requirements;
- participation in Lean Coffee sessions in the company.

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

ETNA Software

Me and my team were working on a long term project of Authority CRM. 
I helped my Scrum team with communication with the numerous clients (USA) by attending meetings and leading conversations for our developers. 
I've taken part in feature estimating and in writing reports for stakeholders.
I was also completely responsible for the quality of the products and had expertise in the following kinds of software testing: manual, smoke, regression, user acceptance, ad-hoc, load, border testing.

QA Specialist

Fenomen Games

As a Quality Assurance engineer I was responsible for the quality of a match-3 free to play game "Fancy Blast".   
My duties included creation of test cases for new features, submitting bug reports in Redmine, validating bugs and running the following types of testing: GUI, manual, functional, ad-hoc, alpha/beta, acceptance, regression, smoke. I was also mentoring new QA engineers joining the team.

QA Engineer

Awem Games

I was working in a team of QA engineers and was responsible for certain modules of the free to play match-3 game of "Cradle of Empires". 
My main duties included writing reports, creating scenarios, submitting bug reports in Redmine and running the following types of manual testing on iOS devices: functional, regression, smoke, GUI, ad-hoc, scenario based, alpha/beta.

Costa Coffee

Barista

TAX RETURNS DIRECT LTD

Sales And Marketing Specialist

Royal Oak

Bartender

Selfridges

Was working in "RAW" department.

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Supervisor

White Horse Farm

Assistant Manager

I started my career in IT in 2016 as a QA engineer, advancing to the role of Project Manager/Scrum Master in 2021. Since 2023 I’m serving as a Product Manager, collaborating with stakeholders to bring their ideas to life.

My main goal is to minimize the number of unsuccessful projects in IT building successful happy teams. By saying successful I mean valuable, because being on time, budget and scope doesn't necessarily deliver value to the client/end users and the product may still become a failure. 

I believe in Scrum Values, that is of openness, courage, focus, commitment and respect.

I'm good at facilitating meetings and making them valuable.

I have a knack for identifying project risks and implementing successful mitigation strategies, consistently meeting project deadlines.

I help form teams by facilitating team buildings, Retrospectives and meetings where we define the borders of teams' self-management and what they are authorized to do.

I have a record of helping teams work on a technical debt by keeping a separate log while addressing it every sprint (refactoring).

My experience working in the UK with multicultural teams has taught me that everyone is unique and well-intentioned. This belief guides me in resolving any issues that arise while working towards delivering value.

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