Senior Project / Delivery / Engineering Manager

Experience

Accomplished Senior Project/Delivery/Engineering Manager with over 10 years in IT, skilled in leading large-scale software projects from concept to production. Expert in Agile methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership. Proven track record in improving processes and driving technological innovation. Recognized with an EPAM CEO award for exceptional contributions.

— Project Manager
Responsibilities: End-to-end project management, including stakeholder engagement, team management, performance management, risk management, quality management, planning, and mentoring.
Results:
Set up the delivery process.
Improved delivery status from red to green zone.
Shipped 5 major releases.
Grew 3 cross-functional teams.

— Delivery Manager
Managed delivery of a SaaS platform that makes integrating multi-level software security into the development workflow easy.
Responsibilities: Manage project execution, estimation, planning, and coordination; quality control; team management; managing project risks; mentoring; communications management; stakeholder management; hiring and onboarding newcomers; building new expertise within the team.
Results:
Set up Agile Delivery Lifecycle
Established processes from idea to production, including requirements development, technical design, prioritization, manual and automated testing;
Facilitated cooperation between Product Managers, Architects, Product Owners, Team Leads, and Tech Leads
Created roadmaps, technical solutions, planning, and releases; implemented a system of gradual improvements.

— Transformation Project Manager
Responsibilities: Vision and strategy, organizational change management, business architecture management, process management.
Results:
Designed and implemented business architecture for the Talent Management area.
Designed and presented the EPAM transformation framework.
Conducted strategic workshop sessions for over 300 senior managers.
Designed a strategy map for bench management.
Designed performance scorecards for bench management.
Designed and implemented business processes and procedures for staffing.

— Product Manager
Responsibilities: End-to-end product management, stakeholder engagement, organizational change management, team management, vision and strategy.
Results:
Convinced EPAM executive managers to launch a new product.
Conducted 40+ interviews with country, region, vertical, practice, and people managers.
Designed and implemented a PoC, MVP.
Launched app into production.

Skills

Project Management Product Management Scrum team management Kanban Quality Assurance DevOps software architecture PMP / PMBOK management 3.0 Client and Stakeholder Engagement Node.js C#/.NET React AWS Azure Cloud Architecture Java

Highlights

As project/delivery/engineering manager:
1. Shipped over 10 major releases.
2. Delivered dozens of features and capabilities.
3. Implemented the Agile Delivery process in more than 5 projects.

As people manager:
4. Conducted 80+ technical interviews and hired over 15 software engineers.
5. Developed and grew four .NET resource units.

As product manager:
6. Secured executive approval for a new product
7. Launched a new AI product, managing the entire lifecycle from concept to production.

As transformation manager:
8. Established a comprehensive staffing process for a large business unit of over 3,000 personnel.
9. Designed and implemented Business Architecture for the Talent Management area.
10. Designed the EPAM transformation framework.
11. Led over 300 senior managers in strategic workshop sessions.

General:
12. Won the CoreTeka Automotive Hackathon.
13. Earned Product Owner Certification.
14. Earned Scrum Master Certification.
15. Joined the Business Architecture Guild.
16. Received an EPAM CEO award in recognition of qualification and contribution.