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OLEKSANDR MANUKOV
Junior Business Analyst
Slovakia • [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) • [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) • [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Career-switching Business Analyst combining formal training (Hillel IT School, Business Analysis with AI — 99/100, Excellent) with
over five years of hands-on experience founding and running a business and independent trading. Skilled in requirements
elicitation, stakeholder communication, and translating business needs into structured artifacts (BPMN, UML, User Stories, Use
Cases). Brings a founder's practical understanding of business processes and data-driven decision-making to every analysis — plus
the discipline and focus developed while managing a business and trading in parallel with military service.

CORE SKILLS
Business Analysis: Requirements Elicitation, Functional & Non-functional Requirements, UML, BPMN, User Stories, Use Cases,
Acceptance Criteria, Stakeholder Analysis, SDLC, Agile (Scrum)
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Figma, Draw.io, Miro, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, ChatGPT
Technical Literacy: Basic SQL for data querying, working understanding of APIs & JSON for technical requirements
documentation, relational database fundamentals

EDUCATION

Business Analysis with AI — Excellent, 99/100 — Hillel IT School July 2026
Bachelor's Degree, Energy and Electrical Systems in Agro-Industrial Complex — National University of Life and
Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Trading Analytics Platform — Business Analysis Pet Project
• Elicited business requirements through stakeholder-style analysis to define the scope and goals of a trading analytics
platform
• Authored a Vision & Scope document, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria to align solution scope with business objectives
• Modeled business processes with BPMN and system behavior with UML to support development handoff
• Built low-fidelity wireframes in Figma to validate requirements with stakeholders before development
• Maintained a full Requirements Traceability Matrix and end-to-end project documentation in Jira & Confluence across the
SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Trader 2021 – Present
• Conduct systematic market and data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and risk factors that inform decisions
• Apply structured risk-assessment frameworks to evaluate trade-offs before committing to a course of action
• Track and review performance data on a regular cadence to identify what's working and adjust the approach — a habit of
evidence-based iteration directly transferable to requirements refinement and solution validation
Military Service End of 2018 – 2023
• Served while concurrently founding and running a business and trading independently, demonstrating strong time
management, discipline, and the ability to operate under pressure across parallel responsibilities

Founder — Aress 2019 – 2021
• Acted as the primary point of contact for clients — gathering their needs, clarifying requirements, and translating them into
actionable business decisions (core stakeholder-management and requirements-elicitation skills)
• Analyzed sales, customer, and operational data on an ongoing basis to identify process bottlenecks and guide improvements
across the business
• Designed and refined internal business processes as the company grew, balancing competing priorities across a 3-person
team while personally covering operations, sales, and customer communication
• Made day-to-day business decisions under uncertainty, using available data rather than guesswork — while concurrently
serving in the military and trading independently

LANGUAGES
Ukrainian (Native) • English (Intermediate) • Slovak (Basic)