Тарас

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CryptoLions (2021 - Present)
Product manager / product owner
Product: 10 different blockchain products, including fintech
Responsibilities:
-Managing several products within several teams and countries, 10-100
people were working on those products under my Product
management
Achievements:
-Made #1 product in its niche.
-Initiated infra cost cuts, and despite nobody believing in it, reached

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50% cost reduction, which improved profitability by double-digit %

PRODUCT MANAGER IntellectEU (2017 - 2021)
Product manager / product owner
Product: 1. Fin-tech product for big banks. 2. Innovative product
development
Responsibilities:
PERSONAL PROFILE -Managing a few products, teams, and a whole department (4
countries, 50 people)
Over 15 years in IT, including 10 years at
-Took part in pre-sales, PMO, processes
Luxoft for Mercedes-Benz and Deutsche
Bank projects. Started my career as a QA
Achievements:
and Developer. More than 10 years of -Introduced vision and team values concept at department and
Product management experience, and I company level, measuring values quarterly
plan to continue developing myself in this -Empowerment concept, empowered team members, this leads to
area. Good experience with distributed higher pro-activity, engagement, and ability to innovate
teams (10 countries).

Luxoft (2005 - 2017)
ACHIEVEMENTS
PM, Product Owner, Business Analyst
Product: Deutsche Bank treasury and reporting tool
1. Product line growth 95% during 6 Responsibilities:
months, to $400k monthly revenue, and -Full cycle work with Requirements, from ideas through signed Reqs. -
became the biggest part of the company to acceptance tests by customers at Production
(60% of the revenue) -Direct negotiations with cross-cultural customers
2. Product reached #1 place in its category -Strategic planning and generating ideas for business customers
worldwide Achievements:
3. Set up Scrum from scratch, which led to -Worked within 7 different Scrum teams
improved delivery and team health, and -Negotiated complex decisions with 20+ customer representatives from
higher consolidation of Product 5+ countries while working within a complex hybrid infrastructure
decisions in the hands of the Product composed of 300 different applications
Owner -Got positive feedback from customers, who rely on my opinion in their
decisions
QA/Manager
Project: Mercedes S-class in-car entertainment system
SKILLS & ABILITIES Responsibilities:
-Full cycle QA (including test planning, strategy), had personal KPI x10
- SQL power user
higher than average in a team of 25 persons
- Love to share knowledge
-Test automation within a complex proprietary environment,
- Servant leadership
- Conflicts negotiator combining the usage of 10 specific automotive tools
- Idea generator -Hiring, resource-planning, direct reporting to C-level
- Trouble-shooter Achievements:
-Proposed and developed a few process optimizations and tools, which
were used by the whole team and saving 5%-40% of time in applicable
areas
CONTACT INFORMATION
-Proposed new approach to work breakdown and team structure, led to
Cell: [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) (+Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber) 50% growth of the team's KPI
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
Kyiv, Ukraine
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 LANGUAGES Interobject (2002 - 2004)
Developer
Project: data calculations and real-time visualization for the Oil and
-English - advanced (C1/C2)
Gas industry. Delphi.
-Ukrainian/Russian - native
-Italian - intermediate
Responsibilities:
-French - pre-intermediate -Development of all main features
-Germany - basic -Work in cooperation with domain experts
Achievements:
-Note: if you need me to know any other language, -1st in the region for modern real-time systems in the Ukrainian Oil
I can learn it in 3 months with my personal method industry.
(done with Italian already) -Modern 3d visualization of an oil structure developed by me.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Lviv Polytechnic University
-Computer Science, Master Degree, 1999-2005

Courses and trainings
// 1000+ training, conferences, events,
including:

-MBA (2019)
-PMI PMP (Project Management Institute, 2018)
-Professional Scrum Master Advanced
(scrum.org, PSM 2)
-Professional Scrum Product Owner
(scrum.org, PSPO)
-Management 3.0 and IC-Agile Business Agility
"ShiftUp" (by famous author Jurgen Appelo)
-Risk management (24 hours, by Ciklum head of
PMO)
-CEO school (4 months)
-IT company in 60 hours (4 months, with 15
expert mentors, e.g. Ciklum CEO)
-People management (24 hours, by top KMBS
MBA mentor)
-Cross-cultural communication (16 hours)
-Public Speaker Master (40 hours, top
Ukrainian trainer)
-Public Speaker School (3 months, 8 trainers)

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

-Sport (swimming, football - organized a team)
-Traveling (20 countries, 5 continents)
-Languages (8 language basics)
-Music (organized a band, played 3 instruments)
-Social games (e.g. Mafia)
-Books (speed-reading, 50+ books per year)
-Initiated and volunteered at social organisations
-Public speaking (Toastmasters)