Ivan

Ivan Balyko
Date of birth: 25.08.1990
Origin: Zaporizhia city, Ukraine
Temporary residence: Warsaw, Poland

Education
Zaporizhia National University 2007 - 2012
Specialist Degree in Foreign Philology
Occupation: English & Spanish interpreter

Stack of tools I use:
- Atlassian Suite (Jira, Trello, Confluence)
- Adobe Photoshop / InDesign
- Frontend tools: HTML / CSS (and alternatives e.g. Tailwind) / React + libs
- Bundlers: Webpack / Vite
- Git
- Helpdesk / DeskPro and others

Project management methodologies I use:
- Agile
- Scrum, Kanban
- Waterfall
- BPMN
Professional experience
2017 - present
ENCLAVE
Business development agency (IT, Marketing)
Job role: Project manager

Duties:
• Communication with clients
• Create project backlog and participate in some tasks if needed
• Design graphic materials
• Writing / reviewing / fixing the code (web)
• Participation in development of new / reviewing old UX/UI features & QA

2014 - present
4frag.ru
Esports articles and peripherals shop
Job role: article writer, translator, designer, marketologist

Duties:
• English-Russian translation of articles & rewrite
• Designing banners & other pics
• Marketing research
• running giveaways and other events
• advertising
• competitive market analysis
• running social media pages
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
WINRATE
Esports project
Job role: SMM-specialist, analyst

Duties:
• running social media pages
• creation & spreading unique content in the web
• advertising
• participation in website development
• designing roadshows
• competitive market analysis
• esports market analysis

Achievements:
Starting brand image from scratch. Work with half-million audience.

Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Fantastic Five
Esports organization
Job role: SMM-specialist, analyst, business development manager

Duties:
• running social media pages
• running giveaways and other events
• participation in web-site development
• writing news articles on the project's website
• on-the-spot news reporting
• designing graphic images for social media pages
• communication with potential investors and/or partners
• roadmap planning
• competitive market analysis
• esports market analysis

Achievements:
Starting brand image from scratch. On-the-spot news reporting at global events.
Work with half-million audience.
Mar 2013 - Jan 2016
Aventador (GameNet) LLC.
Game Publisher
Job role: Support service specialist, Game Master, Team Lead

Duties:
• user communication and troubleshooting their issues
• troubleshooting technical issues
• running internal & external FAQs and Knowledge Bases
• staff: recruiting, training (+developing training material), quality control
• solving billing issues
• market analysis
• working tools management
• participation in localization of the company's projects
• other duties of the head of department.

Achievements:
Professional and carreer growth in big international company. Work with AAA-
projects. Experience running department over 15 people.

Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
Canada Immigration Agency
Immigration office
Job role: translator (English, Spanish, Italian, others in specific scenarios)

Duties:
• document translation (multiple languages)
• searching the job abroad for the clients

Achievements:
Experience working with documents (incl. legal papers).
General skills
• business lettering skills
• solving conflicts
• organization of working processes
• critical thinking
• time-management
• implementing motivation programms
• thinking outside the box
• soft skills
• attention to details
• ability to analyze issues and search the ways to effectively solve them
• flexibility
• accurate prioritizing

Languages
Russian — native
English — fluent
Spanish — upper intermediate
Italian — upper intermediate
Ukrainian — fluent
French — pre-intermediate

Hobbies
Quiz games, playing guitar and piano, studying foreign languages, football.

About me
Open-minded person. Jack-of-all-trades. Have a strong will to bring max benefits
to the project and interested in its flourishing.