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QIAGEN, Wroclaw, Poland

SW Development Lead / Program Manager

Credit Suisse, Wroclaw, Poland

Sr. Project Manager / Agile Coach

DataArt, Wroclaw, Poland

Sr Project Manager / Scrum Master

Skills

Agile Leadership
Agile Methodologies
Agile Project Management
Business Analysis
Business Requirements
Change Management
Coaching
Communication
Continuous Improvement
Cooperation
Customer Negotiations
DevOps
End-to-End Project Management
ITIL
IT Project Management
IT Service Management
Jira
JIRA
Kanban
Leadership
Microsoft PowerPoint
Multitasking
Negotiation
Oral Communication
People Management
Performance Metrics
Problem Solving
Program Management
Project Control
Project Delivery
Project Governance
Project Implementation
Project Leadership
Project Management
Requirements Gathering
Risk Management
Scrum
Service Delivery
SharePoint 2007/2010 administration
Software Development
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Management
Team Performance
UML
Waterfall Project Management

Work experience

Senior Technical Project Manager / Agile Coach
07.2020 - 12.2022 |QIAGEN, Wroclaw, Poland
Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, UX/UI
Leading a SW development stream for the company's flagship product; Scope/schedule definition and management; Budget management and forecasting for a 40+ FTE team (approx. $3mln/year) Stakeholder management (status reporting, RAID management, product strategy definition, escalations); Delivery process optimization (adopting Scrum practices/tools, CI/CD pipeline improvements); People management (hiring, performance evaluation, 1-on-1, development plans, motivation) Onboarding and coaching the Scrum Masters for 5 Scrum Teams, tailoring Scrum / SAFe framework to environmental / project factors
Sr. Project Manager / Agile Coach
06.2018 - 06.2020 |Credit Suisse, Wroclaw, Poland
Scrum, Agile
Managing various projects (regulatory-driven, data/calculations consolidation) with a total size of 35 FTE for Risk & Finance department; Managing project budget, scope and schedule; Being a Scrum Master for 4 Scrum Teams (conducting Scrum ceremonies, teaching the teams about tools & techniques, helping the teams to focus on sprint goals, etc.) Eliminating blockers for the project, managing risks and dependencies; Managing Change Requests (estimation, prioritization); Delivery process optimization (implementing Scrum practices/tools); Developing and optimizing reporting tools (reports automation based on Jira toolset + Python)
Sr IT Project Manager / Scrum Master
08.2017 - 06.2018 |DataArt, Wroclaw, Poland
SCRUM
Delivery management of 5 SCRUM teams (40+ people in total); Release/Sprint scope definition, progress tracking; People management (hiring, project on/off-boarding, 1-on-1, vacations planning, workload management, performance reviews, development plans, motivation); Status reporting to the Customer; Budget management and forecasting (approx. $1.2mln/year); Project risks identification and management; Conducting Scrum ceremonies, preparing materials for sprint review sessions, removing impediments; Processes improvement (requirements management, development/deployment process, progress visibility, bugs prioritization, continuous adoption of Scrum principles)
Sr. Business System Analyst
10.2015 - 07.2017 |UBS (via Luxoft), Wroclaw, Poland
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Product requirements elicitation and management; Product and project requirements elicitation and management (business, functional, non-functional. dev tasks); User stories + acceptance criteria and use cases preparation; Driving product related initiatives and side projects; UAT stage maintenance (scope definition, scripts and UAT data preparation, business users facilitation during scripts execution); Project-to-Service transition (core activities identification and documentation, knowledge transfer, processes definition and enhancement) Conducting technical interviews for Business Analysts (40+ interviews).
Sr. Business Analyst
02.2014 - 09.2015 |Synopsys Inc, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Requirements elicitation and gathering. Prioritization and agreement between parties involved; Collect change/feature requests, track requirements origin and dependencies; Create and update Internal and External documentation (BRS, FRS, SoWs, Vision&Mission): Adopting and implementing the best practices for requirements management (requirements indexing, centralized storage, requirements re-use, creating requirements from templates, etc.): Managing customer’s expectations (internal/external)
Project Manager / Product Owner
06.2012 - 01.2014 |Reksoft, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Managing the full scope of project deliverables (scope, risks, quality, budget management); Requirements elicitation and agreeing with the stakeholders (sign-offs, prioritization, validation); Documents preparation (SoW, Project Proposals, BRS, FRS, Vision&Mission); Project teams management (up to 15 people). Setting-up KPIs and motivation schemes; Stakeholders’ expectations management (reports, status meetings, presentations, on-site activities).
Project Manager / SharePoint Consultant
02.2009 - 05.2012 |GGA, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Defining business goals and objectives by assisting stakeholders identifying their perceived needs; Elaborating user- and functional requirements; Leading and motivating the teams of 10 people in total (across several projects simultaneously); Budget, scope and schedule management; Documents creation (Vision&Scope, BRS, FRS, SoW, PO); Creating and demonstrating solution prototypes; Participating in UAT: test scenarios preparation, conducting demo sessions, helping customers to evaluate deliverables.

Educational background

MA in management
Till 2009
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
MA in IT security
Till 2009
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Languages

GermanElementaryPolishAdvancedEnglishAdvancedRussianNative