Анастасія

ANASTASIIA USATENKO
Project Manager | Management & Opera ons Background, Now Building an IT Delivery Career
Kyiv, Ukraine | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | LinkedIn
SUMMARY
Project Manager with 4+ years of management experience — including full opera onal and P&L responsibility as Director across mul ple
business loca ons — combined with hands-on IT Project Management experience delivering SaaS and AI-powered products. Skilled in
Agile delivery, cross-func onal team building, hiring and onboarding process design, and stakeholder management across internal and
interna onal teams. Moved into IT as a deliberate career step, and now applies a strong opera onal management founda on to modern
product delivery prac ces.
WORK EXPERIENCE
IT Project Manager Sep 2025 – Present
Ivory So — Remote
● Own end-to-end delivery of SaaS and AI-powered products, managing up to 3 concurrent projects with di erent scope and level
of involvement.
● Run Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily syncs, reviews, retrospec ves) with development, design, and QA; serve as the
primary point of contact for internal and interna onal stakeholders.
● Own backlog management, work ow op miza on, and risk mi ga on in Jira and Trello.
● Coordinate Shopify App Store submission requirements, including Google OAuth veri ca on and lis ng prepara on.
DirectorSep 2021 – Present
Rock School (music school) — Kyiv
● Hold full opera onal and P&L responsibility as Director; from mid-2022 to 2025 was directly responsible for 3 of the company's 5
loca ons — hiring, sta ng, budge ng, and repor ng directly to company owners.
● Built the hiring and onboarding process from scratch: recruited and onboarded 50+ employees across mul ple roles, owning the
pipeline end-to-end, and designed a self-service onboarding guide for administrators that cut ramp-up me.
● Automated and streamlined core opera onal processes to the point they no longer require full- me involvement; currently
con nue as Director for 2 loca ons part- me, in parallel with a full- me IT Project Management role.
● Ini ated and scaled the company's Instagram marke ng channel from the ground up, contribu ng to brand visibility and client
acquisi on.
SELECTED PROJECTS
AI-Powered Shopify Customer-Support Applica on (con den al client) | Project Manager
● Gathered requirements from scratch and authored user stories that the development team used to scope and es mate the
project.
● Managed delivery end-to-end with one developer throughout, coordina ng a mid-project addi on of a UI/UX designer followed
by a frontend developer to implement the resul ng design.
● Owned all client and team communica on throughout delivery.
Screen-free Gaming Pla orm (con den al client, Switzerland) | Project Manager
● Joined with scope and es mates already de ned; translated them into user stories and Trello work ows for a 3-developer team
(backend/cloud, pla orm/frontend, rmware) with varying involvement across the meline, including a mid-project handover
on the rmware workstream.
● Owned all client communica on — status updates, scope changes, and meline nego a ons — and coordinated the addi on of
a UI/UX designer mid-project in response to a client request to improve UI/UX quality.
EDUCATION & COURSES
Master's Degree, Innova on Management — Kyiv Na onal University of Technologies and Design, 2019
Bachelor's Degree, Management — Kyiv Na onal University of Technologies and Design, 2018
IT Project Manager — Project.me (2025) & Projector Ins tute (2024–2025); Web Design — Projector Ins tute (2020)
SKILLS & TOOLS
Delivery: SDLC, Agile & Waterfall Methodologies, Sprint Planning, Requirement Gathering, Backlog Management, Risk Management
Management & People: P&L / Opera onal Ownership, Cross-Func onal Team Leadership, Recruitment & Onboarding (process design,
end-to-end hiring), Budget Management, Leadership & Decision-Making, Con ict Resolu on
Product: User Stories, Feature Priori za on, Roadmap Thinking, Product Discovery (developing)
Technical Collabora on: Shopify ecosystem, App Store submission & compliance, Google OAuth veri ca on, API fundamentals, cloud/
backend architecture discussions with engineering (AWS, Supabase), QA/QC basics
Tools: Jira, Trello, No on, Miro, Google Workspace
Languages: Ukrainian — Na ve (C2) | Russian — Na ve (C2) | English — B1 (Good working knowledge)
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