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Work experience

Project Manager

from 06.2007 to 10.2007 (4 months)
Cablevision, Inc., Bethpage, NY (TV, Internet, Digital Phone)

Project Manager involved in leading software and hardware projects for an Enterprise System for this large cable TV, Digital Phone and Internet Provider.
Responsibilities included:
•Create and review Project Plans with Senior Project Managers and IT Director
•Schedule and conduct meetings for requirements gathering and deployment planning
•Prepare deployment plan, testing plan, backup plan, production outage plan
•Present deployment plan to Production Review Board
•Analyze and review project milestones and project risks
•Collect deployment approvals from Senior Managers
•Participate in monthly budget and project status board review conducted by Senior Vice President
•Prepare weekly and monthly budget and status reports for upper management
•Manage project teams consisting of 5-10 developers, analysts, database administrators, systems analysts
•Create deployment process plans / checklist
•Deployment of large scale software and hardware projects
•Report directly to IT Director, VP and SVP
•Gather requirements in collaboration with users, developers, networking specialists and QA team
•Stage projects into logical steps for a hands on control over tasks
•Responsible for project delivery on time and within budget
•Propose multiple ways to complete projects for management

Managing Director / Project Manager

from 06.2004 to 12.2006 (2 years 6 months)
Vzaemozalik, LLC., Kiev, Ukraine (Web Based Promissory Notes Management System)

Managing Director and Project Manager, for a web based application to provide management and clearing of promissory notes. Responsibilities included:

•Explained idea and designed project from scratch
•Managed team of 5 web developers and 1 designer
•Selected technologies for the project: JSP, Java, Firebird, free DB
•Managed development and marketing of the project including publications, online advertisement and working with clients
•Designed completely self-managing site with full back-end control panel that includes:
1.User management
2.Promissory note control
3.Automatic and semiautomatic promissory note building
4.Communication tools between operator and promissory note advisor
5.Site management tools
6.News and articles updates from the back end
7.Multi-level permissions controls

Project Manager

from 09.2001 to 02.2007 (5 years 5 months)
Praedea Solutions, Inc., New York, NY / Kiev, Ukraine (Text Mining / Research and Development)

Project Manager involved in the leading startup’s Data Extraction Platform development. Built development department overseas (Kiev, Ukraine). Ensured timely, efficient and successful delivery of new versions, department restructuring and task prioritization to achieve maximum goals with limited resources. Expanded development department to 25 specialists. Data Extraction Platform is currently used by major Data Vendors.

•Coordinated the successful development of 2 versions and several sub-versions of Data Extraction Platform
•Supported development and customization of the project for several clients simultaneously
•Prepared project status reports for CEO, CTO, COO and Product Managers
•Reported directly to CTO, COO and Product Managers on weekly basis
•Worked with CTO and Product Managers on tasks prioritization to deliver stable versions to clients as soon as possible
•Participated in design and development of multisystem, multi-DB and multi-language system
•Provided senior management and clients with discussion points and follow-ups for clear communication
•Analyzed projects for feasibility, risks, milestones, interdependencies
•Interviewed and hired personnel and built up a strong, self-motivated team with ability to handle several simultaneous projects
•Trained personnel on different business aspects of enterprise development; trained QA team regarding tasks, tools and cooperation with development team
•Helped QA team and developers with transition from beta version to several product versions
•Gathered and documented requirements in collaboration with senior developers to create user-friendly and technology advanced solutions
•Mentored 100% of development department staff
•Deployed technologies including Java, JSP, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Web-Start
•Defined development stages and negotiated them with senior management to deliver product with minimal resources
•Designed hardware settings, including server customization and entire office network setup
•Organized and managed bug-fixing procedure for the whole company
•Reported on status of development tasks, QA tasks and issues resolution
•Performed work under limited timeframes and resources
•Prepared documentation using RUP (Rational Unified Process)
•Performed conflict management and human relationship tasks
•Kept schedules and progress reports
•Performed risk management tasks

Web Tester / QA

from 04.1999 to 06.1999 (2 months)
Cabrdige technology Partners, Inc., New York, NY (IT)

Web Tester involved in testing e-commerce web site.

•Covered about 35% of site: basket system, currency conversion
•Wrote and designed test plans
•Clarified UML system design and technical documentation
•Created test cases for web sites, back end and front end
•Documented test cases and test results
•Tested web applications for Y2K bug
•Tested security for web applications
•Prerecorded, modified and tested automated testing scripts
•Tested internet order forms and credit card verification systems
•Tested e-commerce web applications

Programmer Analyst

from 03.1998 to 09.1998 (6 months)
AIG, Inc., New York, NY (Finance, banking, and insurance)

Programmer Analyst developing data parsing applications.

•Developed data parsing applications
•Developed applets for CORBA connection testing and database access testing
•Developed GUI for applets and stand-alone applications
•Worked on creating user cases and project designs
•Worked on benchmarks testing
•Analyzed suitability of development tools for projects

Education

Polytechnic University of New York

Masters of Science in Management, Brooklyn, NY
Higher, from 1999 to 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Additional Specialization Diploma in Electronic Businesses Management
Final Project: Implementation of Modern Technologies

CUNY, Brooklyn College

Bachelors Degree in Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn, NY
Higher, from 1993 to 1998 (5 years 4 months)

Knowledge and skills

• MS Excel
• MS Office
• Internet User
• Windows
• MS Project
• MS Visio
• Management skills
• Administration
• Operating systems
• Java
• Database
• Documentation management
• Design
• SVN
• UML
• Mantisbt
• Testing
• Bugzilla
• RUP
• Hibernate
• Bug tracking tools
• CVS
• Drawing
• Elementool
• GUI
• Software testing tools

Language proficiencies

• English — advanced
• Russian — fluent

References

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