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Volodymyr Bazhan
Delivery & Operations Consultant | Mentor
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Summary
Top Skills
Product Management Senior level manager with 25+ years’ experience in IT industry,
Start-up Support Ecommerce and Startups. Building and leading global cross-
Mentoring functional teams that facilitate and empower client business through
digital transformation. Focusing on innovation, consulting and
Languages end-to-end solutions. Passionate about Open Source Software,
Ukrainian (Native or Bilingual) Agile Methodologies, Software Engineering Process &
German (Elementary) Architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), SaaS/
Polish (Full Professional) Cloud, BI/BigData, AI/ML, AR and IoT solutions. Strong experience
English (Full Professional) in Retail/Manufacturing, Energy/Oil&Gas business domain.
Ph.D. in Physics. Career Highlights• Managed team of 900+ people
distributed across 5 countries and 10+ development centers. •
Managed portfolio of 40+ USA based Accounts with total 55M annual
revenue• Increased portfolio revenue in several times• Developed,
managed and co-marketed products and solutions with Google,
Atlassian, Microsoft, Adobe, Citrix, IBM, HP• Established Retail/
Manufacturing, Energy/Oil&Gas domains expertise, engaged
and leaded 20+ of mentioned domain Accounts • Developed vertical
offerings and intellectual properties• Built go-to-market strategy
for the business units and verticals• Established best practices for
running distributed teams (5 countries, 6 time zones)• Initiated and
facilitated SaaS/Cloud technology center of excellence• Facilitated
several company technology competences (like DevOps, SDET)•
Facilitated to open Austin, TX, Technology Center of Excellence

Experience
Self Employed
Delivery & Operations Consultant | Mentor
September 2019 - Present (7 years 1 month)
Ukraine

Senior level manager with 25+ years’ experience in IT industry, Ecommerce
and Startups.
- Delivery Management consulting

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- Operations Management consulting
- Account Management consulting
- Business Transformation consulting
- Helping IT Companies to provide Delivery Org transformation
- Helping Organisations to coach Delivery Managers
- Helping Organisations to coach Client Success Leaders
- Mentoring teams and leaders
- Mentoring startups on early stages
- Ecommerce Business consulting
Areas of interest - Software Engineering, Delivery Management, Account
Management, Digital Transformation, EdTech, eCommerce.

Брунька
Consultant | Mentor
February 2024 - Present (2 years 8 months)
Ukraine

Roslynky.Market
Consultant | Mentor
March 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)
Ukraine

Ideas Center UCU
Startup Mentor
September 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)
Ukraine

Boffin математично-дослідницький простір
Consultant | Mentor
September 2019 - Present (7 years 1 month)
Ukraine

P2H
Delivery & Operations Consultant
January 2024 - January 2026 (2 years 1 month)
Ukraine

DICEUS
Delivery & Operations Consultant
October 2021 - December 2023 (2 years 3 months)
Ukraine

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Elin.ai – ai-driven insights into remote teams communication
Co-Founder
November 2018 - October 2020 (2 years)
San Francisco Bay Area

Elin.ai helps to build mission-driven companies by measuring culture and
coaching leaders on how to boost engagement, performance and team
collaboration.
Elin.ai was part of Berkeley SkyDeck Fall 2019 Cohort.

SoftServe
13 years 6 months

SVP, Client Success
March 2016 - August 2019 (3 years 6 months)
Ukraine

Responsible to manage team of 900+ people distributed across 5 countries
and 10+ development centers. Manage portfolio of 40+ USA based Accounts
with total 55M annual revenue. Increased portfolio revenue in 2 times for
3 years. Developed, managed and co-marketed products and solutions
with Google, Atlassian, Microsoft, Adobe, Citrix, IBM. Established Energy/
Oil&Gas Vertical, engaged and managed 10+ of mentioned domain Accounts.
Developed Energy/Oil&Gas vertical go-to-market strategy and offerings.
Defined and propagated company IN LOOP (INvest into Long-term Onsite
Ownership Partnership) concept for effective Client service and relationship.
Established best practices for running distributed teams (5 countries, 6 time
zones). Facilitated company SDET technology competence. Facilitated to open
San-Francisco, CA company office.

VP Delivery, Retail
October 2013 - February 2016 (2 years 5 months)
Ukraine

Was responsible to manage 400+ people Vertical with 20+ accounts portfolio
and 20M annual revenue. Built go-to-market strategy for Retail/Manufacturing
Vertical. Developed Vertical offerings and intellectual properties, established
Vertical business and technology competence team. Increased portfolio
revenue in ~2 times for 3 years. Established best practices for running
distributed teams - 4 countries, 5 time zones. Facilitated to open Austin, TX,
Technology Center of Excellence.

Delivery Director
February 2008 - September 2013 (5 years 8 months)
Ukraine

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Was responsible to manage 100+ people Business Unit with 5M annual
revenue. Built go-to-market strategy for the business unit. Increased portfolio
revenue in 3 times for 5 years. Established best practices for running
distributed teams - 2 countries, 4 time zones. Initiated and facilitated SaaS/
Cloud technology center of excellence. Initiated and facilitated DevOps
company technology competence. Developed and managed products and
solutions for such companies as HP, SAP SuccessFactors

Project Manager
July 2007 - January 2008 (7 months)
Ukraine

Managed team of 40+ people helping to build Rating and Reviews eCommerce
platform for Austin, TX based IT company. Was responsible to establish
and managing highly effective distributed Engineering teams, keeping daily
communication with USA based Management

Java Tech Lead
March 2006 - June 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Ukraine

Developed and supported software solutions for Austin, TX based, ISV
companies. Leaded Engineering teams of 5+ people. Responsible to
keep technical communication with USA based Product and Tech Product
Managers. Primary technologies: wide set of Java related frameworks (Spring,
Hibernate, Velocity, Tapestry and so on), MySQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL,
SVN, BASH, Perl, Python, JavaScript, XML, HTML/CSS

EO Networks
Senior Java Developer
March 2005 - March 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Poland

Developed and supported e-commerce solutions for Media industry.
Technology used: Java (Spring, Hibernate, Velocity), MySQL, PostreSQL,
JavaScript, HTML/CSS. Responsible for architecture design and deployment
of payment solutions for e-commerce platforms

ING Poland
Software Engineer
January 2001 - March 2005 (4 years 3 months)
Poland

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Developed and supported software solutions to serve Insurance Agents daily
work across Poland. Technology used: Delphi, Java, MS SQL Server, DB2,
JavaScript, HTML/CSS

Education
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Ph. D., Physics · (1999 - 2004)

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Master of Science - MS, Optoelectronics · (1994 - 1999)

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