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Senior
Registration: 28.07.2022

Maksim Halinouski

Specialization: Project Manager
SUMMARY Key skills: • more than 6 years of Java development experience • more than 8 years of Project Management experience • proficiency in general software architecture concepts • experience in performance testing and analysis of web applications • leadership, development team coordination • ability to build processes, project planning, task estimation • product delivery and customer support • system thinking, fast learning, good presentation/narrator skills • good communication skills, ability to manage people in a positive way, self-discipline, high level of responsibility for the outcome • understanding, experience and desire to work in Agile methodologies • English proficiency level upper-intermediate Key domains are: • advertisement and marketing • data management platforms • e-commerce • travel Key responsibilities are: • organization of coordinated, highly-productive team • people management: hiring/interview, retention, performance appraisals, training/coaching • development of clear and transparent plans • negotiations with customers, building partnership, account management of customers • continuous monitoring of the latest trends and innovations aimed at improving the competitiveness of the project, in terms of technology Key interests are: • interesting and challenging international project on latest technologies • good opportunities for professional growth and self-realization due to working with best people in industry
SUMMARY Key skills: • more than 6 years of Java development experience • more than 8 years of Project Management experience • proficiency in general software architecture concepts • experience in performance testing and analysis of web applications • leadership, development team coordination • ability to build processes, project planning, task estimation • product delivery and customer support • system thinking, fast learning, good presentation/narrator skills • good communication skills, ability to manage people in a positive way, self-discipline, high level of responsibility for the outcome • understanding, experience and desire to work in Agile methodologies • English proficiency level upper-intermediate Key domains are: • advertisement and marketing • data management platforms • e-commerce • travel Key responsibilities are: • organization of coordinated, highly-productive team • people management: hiring/interview, retention, performance appraisals, training/coaching • development of clear and transparent plans • negotiations with customers, building partnership, account management of customers • continuous monitoring of the latest trends and innovations aimed at improving the competitiveness of the project, in terms of technology Key interests are: • interesting and challenging international project on latest technologies • good opportunities for professional growth and self-realization due to working with best people in industry

Portfolio

BlockBank

Chief Operational Officer

Mobicon Media

Chief Business Officer

Stanum LLC

Chief Executive Officer

Skills

Java
Project Management
Agile
e-commerce
team lead

Work experience

Chief Operational Officer
2020 - 2021 |BlockBank
Setup Organized work of different departments which was not build or in critical position. Tasks performed: • Nearshore staffing, on-boarding and support of new people and teams • Ensure effective and timely communication with client Project Managers • Monitor progress against baselined project plans and increment plans • Manage risk and any issues as they arise, or are escalated from the Teams, collaborating with client and/or support groups as required to ensure resolution • Motivate and ensuring empowerment of the Team(s) to meet their objectives • Identify opportunities for continuous improvements and work with client and teams to deliver improvements • Implemented Financial & Legal structure of the company (HTP plan, financial and managerial accounting) • Organized Sales pipe-lines, integrated CRM in business process of the company • Implement best practices to improve overall productivity and quality across client and teams
Chief Business Officer
2018 - 2021 |Mobicon Media
• Setup Organized work of different departments which was not build or in critical position. Tasks performed: • Reorganized Software Development Methodology to Kanban (with Scrum elements) • Created hiring, staffing, on-boarding processed and integrated them in company business process along with evaluation. • Integrated regulations between business owners of features and project • Monitor progress against baselined project features, and forecast the deadlines with risks • Optimized support and QA departments by integration of SLA L2 • Optimized Motivate and ensuring empowerment of the team to meet their objectives
Chief Executive Officer
2018 - 2020 |Stanum LLC
• Setup Organized work of different departments which was not build or in critical position. Tasks performed: • Nearshore staffing, on-boarding and support of new people and teams • Ensure effective and timely communication with client Project Managers • Monitor progress against baselined project plans and increment plans • Manage risk and any issues as they arise, or are escalated from the Teams, collaborating with client and/or support groups as required to ensure resolution • Motivate and ensuring empowerment of the Team(s) to meet their objectives • Identify opportunities for continuous improvements and work with client and teams to deliver improvements • Implemented Financial & Legal structure of the company (HTP plan, financial and managerial accounting) • Organized Sales pipelines, integrated CRM in business process of the company • Implement best practices to improve overall productivity and quality across client and teams
Chief Operations Officer
2017 - 2018 |TOPit Group & Socium Trade
• Setup Organized work of different departments which was build from scratch Tasks performed: • Negotiations with investor, organization of money income and reporting • Nearshore staffing, on-boarding and support of new people and teams • Ensure effective and timely communication with client Project Managers • Monitor progress against baselined project plans and increment plans • Manage risk and any issues as they arise, or are escalated from the Teams, collaborating with client and/or support groups as required to ensure resolution • Motivate and ensuring empowerment of the Team(s) to meet their objectives • Identify opportunities for continuous improvements and work with client and teams to deliver improvements • Implemented Financial & Legal structure of the company (HTP plan, financial and managerial accounting) • Organized Sales pipe-lines, integrated CRM in business process of the company
Program Manager / Senior Project Manager
2016 - 2017 |Besk
• Organized work of different technical departments with KPIs through integration Project Management Office. Reached goal of 37 % as average profitability across whole company per external project. Tasks performed: • Nearshore staffing, on-boarding and support of new people and teams • Ensure effective and timely communication with client Project Managers • Monitor progress against baselined project plans and increment plans • Manage risk and any issues as they arise, or are escalated from the Teams, collaborating with client and/or support groups as required to ensure resolution • Motivate and ensuring empowerment of the Team(s) to meet their objectives • Identify opportunities for continuous improvements and work with client and teams to deliver improvements • Implemented Financial & Legal structure of the company (HTP plan, financial and managerial accounting) • Organized Sales pipe-lines, integrated CRM in business process of the company • Implement best practices to improve overall productivity and quality across client and teams
Program Manager / Key Account Manager
2015 - 2016 |Ulmart being e-Commerce #1 in Russia according to their plans started more than 25 products in parallel with subversions. They started “High Season” and other marketing campaigns with rapid technological updates of internal company technical structure and
• Implemented a program of different projects: opening office in Saint Petersburg, build strong teams for handling customer with all his inquiries. 8 months were in business trips. Most amount of work was done on negotiations with product owner of time / price and coaching / adaptation newly created teams. Tasks performed: • hiring and staffing, on-boarding and support of new people and teams (6 teams) • organization of new office in Saint Petersburg, organization of business trips to Russia, accommodation, adaptation on the client’s side • pre/sale activities, preparing proposals for new opportunities of account • control of clients’ receivables, signing appendixes for additional projects, price and timeline negotiations • communication with different client’s subcontractors in order to remove dependencies for internal teams • control of efficient and in-time communication between team project managers and client’s product owners • monitor financial / technical progress against baselined project plans and increment plans over all account • monitor progress against baselined project plans and increment plans over one account • constant coaching / supporting /improvement of teams and project managers to meet company objectives • managing risks, issues and finding out efficient solution with team project managers • identify ways for continuous improvements in communication and work with client and teams to deliver improvements Environment: • Software Development Methodology: LESS, Scrum • Databases: MySQL, Oracle • Languages & Tech Stack: FE (JS / Coffee Script / jQuery, HTML5, CSS/CSS3/SASS) BE (Java, Spring, ElasticSearch) • OS: Windows, Mac • Bug tracking: Jira, Confluence • Software: SVN, Git, MS Office, New Relic, • CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker
Managing Director & Key Account Manager
2013 - 2015 |Started own company ROOTin Ltd (it grew from 1 person to 33 people in 2 years.) which specialized in custom mobile development based on native and cross-platform app development
• Founded company and organized all processes from scratch. I delegated all processes by adding people and delegating roles to them. I personally took role of Account Manager with management of clients’ expectation. Tasks performed: • organized Sales pipe-lines, integrated CRM in business process of the company • pre/sale activities, preparing proposals for new potential clients, negotiations, signing contracts • negotiations, work with client’s receivables • organized recruitment / hiring / adaptation processes • implemented financial & legal structure of the company (financial and managerial accounting) • achieved to manage company based on budgets / digits • monitor progress against baselined projects plans and increment plans • negotiations with clients regarding project risks, milestones, contracts • motivate and ensuring empowerment of the team(s) to meet their objectives • identify opportunities for continuous improvements and work with client and teams to deliver improvements • staffing, on-boarding and support of new people and teams Environment: • Software Development Methodology: Kanban, Scrumban • Databases: SQLite • Languages: Objective C, Java for Android SDK, C#, Java for BlackBerry, Xamarin • OS: Windows, Mac, Linux (Ubuntu) • Bug tracking: Asana, Basecamp, Trello, TargetProcess • Software: SVN, Git, MS Office
Project Manager / Delivery Manager
2010 - 2013 |Elinext Group is a custom development and consulting company focusing on web, mobile, desktop and imbedded software development. During procedure of decreasing big accounts business heads decided to diversify outsourcing direction and open several Mobile
• I started with a team of developers from Vietnam and then added a team from Belarus. I achieved results of work as a separate department when I was looking for clients, signed contacts with them, organized delivery of the projects, controlling client’s receivables. People hiring and management was also my job. Mainly I used client’s infrastructure to implement their products. We used Agile methodology (mix of Scrum and Kanban). Tasks performed: • initiation of new project development • project management, planning and defining scope • product backlog grooming, release planning, estimations • interaction with customer for all questions (technical and business) • development of efficient processes for coordinating distributed team • risk analysis / management, retrospective • people / resource management, performance appraisals • team leadership • demo to customer, weekly reporting • production support • billing • looking for new opportunities and new projects within account • close collaboration with client heads • pre/sale activities, preparing proposals for new potential clients, negotiations, signing contracts • work with client’s receivables Environment: • Software Development Methodology: Kanban, Scrumban • Databases: SQLite • Languages: Objective C, Java for Android SDK, C#, Java for BlackBerry • OS: Windows, Mac • Bug tracking: Jira / Confluence • Software: SVN
Software Developer
2009 - 2010 |CompuTool / Millhouse 1889 was a start-up from USA which raised funding and to build simple software solutions of complex problems from people who manage constructions businesses. Their products were CompuTool and Roof-IS. First it was WEB-based an all-in
• I joined the team which grow extremely fast. Team Leader was creating team of new developers while I challenged to maintain current product which consist of mix technologies and different on Front-End (VB & C#) and different approaches using DB (store procedure, etc.). The main performance obstacle I faced was distributed teams in USA, India and growing Belarussian team. After good support of the product management team decided to put all development in Belarus and grow office in Minsk up to 100 people. Tasks performed: • product backlog grooming • iteration planning, release planning, cards / tasks estimation • interaction with customer for all questions (technical and business) • helping in development of efficient processes for coordinating distributed team • demo to product owner, weekly reporting • production / staging support Environment: • Software Development Methodology: Kanban • Databases: MSSQL • Languages: C#, VB.NET • OS: Windows • Bug tracking: TFS • Framework: ASP.NET Web Forms 2.0 • Software: SourceTree, SVN
Software Developer
2007 - 2010 |CA Technologies was the partner of Elinext Group located in Minsk, Belarus. One of the projects was CA eHealth on which there were working up to 80 Engineers from Belarus. CA eHealth collects and analyzes key performance information (KPI) across your IT i
• I have joined team of highly professional C/C++ developers who were working on CA eHealth network management system (NMS). After a few years of working in the company I was challenged by supporting Remote Polling Application and creating User Interfaces for different eHealth Modules. I was working in a team of 9 developers and was responsible for the product (Remote Poller), communication with the remote clients located mostly in USA. Tasks performed: • technical negotiations/meetings with support teams • daily and weekly reporting, weekly status meeting, demo to stakeholders • implement of UI enhancements required to ensure eHealth modules improve user interface/experience • Writing/updating documentation for UI modules and updates for merged increments • do performance issues analysis and code refactoring on different OS for main product • implement UI f to manage caching framework (Java Servlets, JavaScript, XSLT/XML) Environment: • Software Development Methodology: Waterfall • Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL • Languages: C/C++, Python, Bash, Perl, Shell, Korn Shell, SQL, HTML, XML/XSLT • OS: Windows, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux CVS, IBM ClearCase, CVS, SVN • Bug tracking: IBM ClearQuest • Libraries: Rogue Wave Source Pro C++, Xerces C++ • Misc.: UML, Microsoft Project

Educational background

Software Engineer (Bachelor’s Degree)
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR)

Languages

GermanUpper IntermediateEnglishProficientFrenchIntermediate