Сергій

Location: Dnipro, Ukraine
Serhii Larionov Birthday: 20 June, 1991
Phone: [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
Project Manager & Scrum Master
| 6+ years of experience
E-mail: [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
LinkedIn: larionov.serhii

I have been working on projects of various scales, effectively using an Agile approach, facilitating, and
managing from one to multiple teams of up to 40 FTE

Skills:

Delivery & Project Management
● Multi Teams Management: Ability to successfully manage multiple teams simultaneously with a focus on
high quality and urgency.
● Delivery Governance: High attention to detail in establishing delivery governance, tracking KPIs, and ensuring
transparent reporting.
● Risk & Change Management: Identifying, assessing, and mitigating project risks while managing scope
changes effectively.
● Crisis Management & Recovery: Stepping into active delivery situations to stabilize environments, improve
processes, and boost team performance.
● SDLC & Project Delivery: Leading software development lifecycle, optimizing team workflows, enforcing high
quality standards, and ensuring successful product releases on time.

Agile & Frameworks Expertise
● Agile Frameworks: Knowledge of Scrum and Kanban, applied to project environments with a focus on
maintaining a stable workflow and delivering value.
● Scaling Agile: Experience managing multiple squads within enterprise or multi-entity organizations using the
SAFe framework.
● Facilitation & Coaching: Strong skills in facilitating ceremonies, coaching teams toward self-organization, and
mentoring emerging leaders.
● Continuous Improvement: Driving a feedback culture and implementing Agile principles to optimize team
velocity and quality.
● Metrics & Value Delivery: Establishing Agile metrics to measure team predictability, cycle time, and ensure
consistent value delivery.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management
● Resource & Talent Management: Managing onboarding/offboarding, and retention risks while coaching
team members to foster a high-performance culture.
● Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to lead and work effectively in collaborative, result-oriented
environments across different business units.
● Conflict Resolution: Experience in conflict management, building trust-based relationships, and fostering a
psychologically safe team environment.
● Distributed Team Leadership: Proven track record of managing distributed, remote teams across multiple
time zones and multi-cultural environments.
● Stakeholder Engagement: Strong capabilities in managing expectations of diverse stakeholders, from
technical teams to C-level executives.

Analytical & Business Skills
● Requirements Management: Experience in requirements gathering, analysis, and transform it into the clear
scope of work for the development team.
● Problem-Solving Mindset: Strong analytical skills to navigate complex, ambiguous environments and develop
tailored solutions that meet specific client needs.
● Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging project data and business metrics to guide strategic decisions,
mitigate risks, and maximize delivery value.
Experience:
● Scalable Agile Leadership: Effectively applied the Agile approach to manage multiple distributed teams of up
to 40 FTE within a SAFe framework. Led and facilitated Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups,
Reviews, Retrospectives and other) and cross-team synchronization events, ensuring strict time-boxing and
productive outcomes aligned with the release plan.
● Organizational Transformation: Taking a part in large-scale Agile transformation. Established and improved
transparent workflows, Agile routines, and team operating practices, driving org-wide change initiatives and
transforming teams toward high autonomy and maturity.
● Coaching & Mentorship: Acted as a coach and mentor for multiple Agile teams, ensuring adherence to Scrum
principles and Lean-Agile best practices. Promoted distributed facilitation and mentored internal leaders,
fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and high performance across the organization.
● Product Owner Collaboration: Collaborated closely with Product Owners to ensure well-groomed backlogs,
clear sprint goals, and alignment across cross-team dependencies, focusing on product value and customer
centricity.
● Operational Efficiency: Drove operational excellence by identifying and eliminating process waste,
streamlining cross-team workflows, and resolving complex dependencies. Focused on shortening cycle times
and improving predictability across the delivery pipeline to ensure high-quality, on-time releases.
● Impediment & Agile Culture: Proactively identified and removed complex impediments, addressing risks and
bottlenecks quickly to maximize value delivery. Guiding teams toward self-organization to resolve blockers
independently and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and open feedback.
● Metrics-Driven Improvement: Collected and analyzed delivery and process metrics (Velocity, Capacity, Cycle
Time, Burndown and other) and conducted root cause analysis. Drove continuous improvement initiatives to
eliminate waste, increase performance, and ensure consistent value delivery across multiple workstreams.
● Strategic Alignment & Stakeholders: Acted as a communication bridge across all levels, including teams,
stakeholders, and top management. Maintained delivery governance by keeping processes, risks, and KPIs
controlled and visible, ensuring aligned expectations and a truly collaborative environment.
● Stability & Flow: Stepped into active projects when needed to stabilize delivery, improve processes, and
resolve operational or team issues. Maintained effective flow under pressure on projects of various scales,
ensuring stable cross-unit interaction and strong partner relations.
● People-Centric Leadership: Reduced turnover risks via servant leadership, addressing morale and workload.
Acted as a people manager, conducting coaching and development discussions, supporting healthy team
rotations, and fostering shared responsibility for results.
● Governance & Risk Management: Ensured effective change management while keeping delivery aligned with
high-level strategy. Facilitated conflict resolution and consensus-building, enabling smoother decision-making
and promoting a trust-based environment in multi-cultural, distributed teams.
Career:

Real Jam, March. 2025 – present: Project Manager & Scrum Master

COMPARUS, Dec. 2024 – March. 2025: Project Manager & Scrum Master

EPAM, Jan. 2022 – Aug. 2024: Project Manager & Scrum Master

Ruby Garage, May. 2020 – Dec. 2021: Delivery Manager & Scrum Master

Privat Bank, March. 2019 – May. 2020: Project Manager
Education:
National Mining University, September 2009 –June 2014
Specialist degree
Faculty of Information Technology: Specialty «System Analysis and Management»

Languages: Ukrainian – Native. English – Upper Intermediate

Courses: Oxygen IT School, 2019: Project Management
ESL, 2019: English as Second Language