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Senior
Registration: 26.12.2022

Boris Klimov

Specialization: Chief Process Officer
I am professional IT manager with experience of more than 15 years. I have strong project management skills, delivery of complex, large-scale projects on time and within budget. I am expert in the tools of software development. I am skilled in software development methodology, collection, processing and analysis of large amounts of information. I have more than 12 years of teaching experience undergraduate students and masters. I know a lot of strange, scary and frightening words and abbreviations: HP PPM, MS TFS, Jira, IDEF0, RUP and Agile, MSF, SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SVN, GIT etc. And all of that does not stop me do my hobbies: teaching at the university, motorcycling and skiing
I am professional IT manager with experience of more than 15 years. I have strong project management skills, delivery of complex, large-scale projects on time and within budget. I am expert in the tools of software development. I am skilled in software development methodology, collection, processing and analysis of large amounts of information. I have more than 12 years of teaching experience undergraduate students and masters. I know a lot of strange, scary and frightening words and abbreviations: HP PPM, MS TFS, Jira, IDEF0, RUP and Agile, MSF, SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SVN, GIT etc. And all of that does not stop me do my hobbies: teaching at the university, motorcycling and skiing

Portfolio

Mediascope

Chief Process Officer

Touch Bank

CTO

Mediascope

CPMO

Skills

Agile Methodologies
Scrum
Software Project Management
Software Development
Project Management
Project Portfolio Management
Business Process
Business Analysis
Analysis
Resource Management
Requirements Analysis
Program Management
HP PPM
MS TFS
Jira
IDEF0
RUP
MSF
XP
Kanban
SVN
Git

Work experience

Chief Process Officer
since 02.2021 - Till the present day |Mediascope
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CPMO
08.2018 - 02.2021 |Mediascope
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Mediascope is a technology research company, the leader of the Russian market for media research and monitoring of advertising and media. Companies are based on international standards for research. The company is a member of industry associations and associations EMRO, ESOMAR, OIROM. The clients of Mediascope are the majority of participants in the media and advertising market: advertising agencies and groups, publishing houses, television channels, radio stations, Internet sites and companies advertisers. Mediascope information bases provide them opportunities for making strategic decisions.
CTO
01.2016 - 06.2017 |Touch Bank
Java, Objective C, Python, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Jira, Confluence, TeamCity, Amazon AWS, MS Azure, gitlab-ci, gradle, maven, docker, docker-compose, ansible, Jenkins, graylog
Touch Bank is an international project of the European OTP Group, the leading financial group in Central and Eastern Europe. Touch Bank is a retail digital bank that provides financial products and services through a personal online office and mobile application. OTP Group currently operates in Bulgaria (DSK Bank), Croatia (OTP banka Hrvatska), Romania (OTP Bank Romania), Serbia (OTP banka Srbija), Slovakia (OTP Banka Slovensko), Ukraine (CJSC OTP Bank), Russia (OAO OTP Bank, Donskoy Narodny Bank) and Montenegro (Crnogorska komercijalna banka AD) via its subsidiaries. I was solving the tasks of continuously increasing the efficiency of all areas of the Touch Bank business, sustainable business growth, increasing information transparency and openness, developing and using new technologies. Key responsibilities: - Hire, manage and coach core Technical Specialists and Management. - Create, standardize and drive an ideation process producing market-defining, technology-fueled, products delivering measurable customer value. - Establish and monitor KPIs aligned to business priorities. - Ensure continuous improvement across KPIs - Set and maintain the quality bar for a product favoring simplicity and clarity and removing distractions, over-architecture, and bad design decisions. - Synthesize inputs, communicate strategic direction and validate assumptions with internal and external stakeholders. - Establish feasibility with Engineering teams early in the process to avoid delays and last-minute scope change. - Apply modern software design patterns (cloud, containerization, etc.) to product requirements.
Head of Application Development
05.2014 - 09.2015 |N-Inform (Rosneft)
.NET, Delphi, C++, Python, SQL, Oracle, MS TFS, SharePoint, MS Azure, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, VMWare
RN-Inform LLC is a corporate IT provider of the world leader in the power industry - Rosneft. In the competence portfolio of RN-Inform there is a wide range of services in the field of automation and information technology, communications and metrological support, business consulting and service integration, project activities and business applications. I was solving the tasks of continuously increasing the efficiency of all areas of the Rosneft's business, sustainable business growth, increasing information transparency and openness, creating a unified information space. Distributed teams (4 regions), 250+ employees, support 50+ core corporate information systems Key responsibilities: - Hire, manage and coach core Technical Specialists and Management. - Create, standardize and drive an ideation process producing market-defining, technology-fueled, products delivering measurable customer value. - Establish and monitor KPIs aligned to business priorities. - Ensure continuous improvement across KPIs - Set and maintain the quality bar for a product favouring simplicity and clarity and removing distractions, over-architecture, and bad design decisions. - Synthesize inputs, communicate strategic direction and validate assumptions with internal and external stakeholders. - Establish feasibility with Engineering teams early in the process to avoid delays and last-minute scope change.
Deputy Head of Directorates
05.2013 - 05.2014 |JSC SBT
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JSC SBT is a corporate IT provider of Sberbank. The portfolio of SBT's competencies presents a wide range of services in the field of banking automation and information technologies. Sberbank is the largest issuer of debit and credit cards in Russia. I was developing and implementing the SDLC and its’ automation. The internal audit of the projects. Implementation of a system for collecting and reporting the project reports to the customer (budgets, resources, planned and actual costs ...). Optimization of business processes in project development (~ 3000 employees.) Key responsibilities: - Hire, manage and coach Team. - Define data structures and object models. - Solve high-value problems using algorithms. - Map solutions to large “building blocks” of existing components and cloud services. - Make decisions that reduce scope in favor of simplicity. - Create technical design specs that define the core of software products. - Review and provide feedback to more junior product managers, turning decisions into detailed engineering plans.
Head of Internal Tools Development
12.2010 - 12.2013 |Kaspersky Lab
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Head of ALM Program. Improvement and management of Business process for R&D Dep. (~ 900 employees). - Project and Portfolio management. - Resource management. - Requirement management. - Quality management. - Risk management. Implementation of HP Project and Portfolio Management, SAP Business Objects and Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Key responsibilities: - Hire, manage and coach Team. - Define data structures and object models. - Solve high-value problems using algorithms. - Map solutions to large “building blocks” of existing components and cloud services. - Make decisions that reduce scope in favour of simplicity. - Create technical design specs that define the core of software products. - Review and provide feedback to more junior product managers, turning decisions into detailed engineering plans.
Head of PMO
01.2008 - 12.2009 |Smartus
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Practising in clarifying business requirements, performing a gap analysis between goals and existing procedures/skill sets, and designing process and system improvements to increase productivity and reduce costs. Formalization of business processes and requirements, making functional specifications, creating the architecture of projects, working up models of dates, monitoring and control status of projects. Key responsibilities: - Hire, manage and coach Team. - Define data structures and object models. - Solve high-value problems using algorithms. - Map solutions to large “building blocks” of existing components and cloud services. - Make decisions that reduce scope in favour of simplicity. - Lead and manage a team. - Create technical design specs that define the core of software products. - Review and provide feedback to more junior product managers, turning decisions into detailed engineering plans.
Head of Development | Founding Member
01.2008 - 12.2010 |SummerLightning
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Product 1 – Integrated System for automating the process of setting up and monitoring the advertising companies. The main feature of the product is to provide the user with the ability to create and plan the company strategy not only based on the standard parameters but also on those which are not functionally implemented by PPC providers (google, yandex, begun). The system provides a complete web-based (SaaS) and full-featured cross-platform client with the opportunity to work offline as well. Product 0 – Open-source Project; It's an Application Layer Firewall (ALF). It is a firewall, working at level 7 of model OSI (L7). Practically, this means that it is able to monitor the data, which are to be exchanged with any applications via network data. This Product is a modular platform, which task is to provide an abstract interface for constructing and processing the rules and network traffic as well. It supports both modes for proxy traffic (classic and transparent). The system is designed to provide comprehensive protection of corporate networks, although this does not preclude its use at home.
Visiting Scholar: Faculty of Computer Science / School of Software Engineering
since 01.2007 - Till the present day |National Research University — Higher School of Economics
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Consistently ranked as one of Russia’s top universities, the Higher School of Economics is a leader in Russian education and one of the preeminent economics and social sciences universities in eastern Europe and Eurasia. I am Lecturer and Author of courses: - Agile and Project Management. - Project Management in Software Development. - Requirements Management and Risk Mitigation. - Management development of complex software systems and applications.
Project manager
12.2006 - 12.2008 |Amphora Group
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Project Management. Planning, tracking, risk mitigation and follow up projects according to cost, quality and time objectives. Presale and sale activities. MIIS, HP OV SD.
Developer -> Senior expert
12.2004 - 12.2006 |CBOSS
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- Developing and implementation software developing technology based on agile methodologies. - Project Management. - Planning, tracking, risk mitigation and follow up projects according to cost, quality and time objectives. - Requirements management.

Educational background

The system analysis, management and processing of the information
2004 - 2007
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Diploma, Engineer-mathematician
1998 - 2004
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

Languages

EnglishProficient