Нuriy

Personal Information

First Name Yuriy Last Name Yatsyna
Gender Male Date of Birth 12th Sep 1971
Citizenship Ukraine E-mail [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація»)
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Summary
Experienced professional in IT management, projects co-ordination, and communication with customers. I have been
organizing, managing, and co-ordinating engineering and QA teams on a number of technically sophisticated projects
dealing with advanced technologies like digital media, telecommunication, DVD, networking, etc. and customers like
Sonic Solutions, Macrovision, DLNA, Skype, etc.
Apart from the above, I have an experience in:
• project management;
• project co-ordination;
• business analysis;
• delivery and reporting to western (both American and European) customers;
• customer satisfaction level rated as 100 % by an independent evaluation by DLNA Corporation;
• experience in both outsourcing and own development management;
• managing both local, remote, and distributed teams;
• more than 1 years long experience in communication with western (European and American) customers;
• promoting and advertising company’s products;
• experience in pre-sales activities and engagement. Presenting company’s services to both potential and
current customers. Working out business proposals. Contracts successfully signed with customers such as
Sonic Solutions, Inc. (currently acquired by Rovi), Rovi Corporation (former Macrovision), Intalio, Inc., DLNA
Corporation;
• experience as a QA Director and a lead of QA Process and Best Practices Laboratory;
• business processes design, refinement, and improvement;
• internal audits;
• experience in documenting (both technical and organizational documentation; samples can be presented at
the request);
• more than 10 year long experience in interviewing;
• experience as a research mathematician;
• system administration;
• database administration; familiar with RDBMS and SQL;
• C programming.
Preferred Positions
• Project Manager
• Project Coordinator
Preferred Location — Lviv or remotely
Education
1994: Lviv State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, specialty “Mathematics”,
specialization “Mathematical Modelling” (with honours)
2011: courses in management held at Lohika Systems, Inc. by a western lecturer
Degree — M. Sc. of Mathematics

Awards
Winner of the all-ukrainian students’ Olympiads for mathematics
References
• Stanislav Volzhankin, Chief Delivery Officer — Oxagile LLC
• Kjell-Vidar Åhman Teig, Chairman of the Board — Pingbull AB
• Vitaliy Yermolenko, Executive Director, European Operations — Duvon Corporation, Inc.
• Andrey Hankevych, CTO — Elex, former CTO & EVP of Engineering — Lohika Systems, Inc.
Experience
Aug 2021 — to date: Senior Project Manager, Oxagile LLC

Responsibilities:
• Co-ordinating activities on a set of projects;
• Managing deliveries;
• Acting as a scrum master;
• Negotiating with customers and gathering project requirements;
• Business analysis;
• Estimating project resources;
• Planning project tasks and activities;
• Monitoring state of projects and reporting it to the customer;
• Monitoring and tracking tasks execution state and daily reporting by the team members;
• Composing and maintaining project-related documentation;
• Identifying projects risks, reporting them to customers, performing risks analysis, and elaborating risks
mitigation strategy;
• Working out and delivering weekly status reports to customers;
• Holding status calls with customers;
• Conducting demos and presentations;
• Co-ordinating and monitoring software updates on production servers;
• Managing deliveries;
• Acting as an escalation point for the teams;
• Maintaining customers’ satisfaction.
Feb 2018 — Jul 2021: Senior Project Manager, WebCodium
Responsibilities:
• Co-ordinating activities on 2 group of projects;
• Pre-sales activities and engagement, including, but not limited by:
✓ Presenting company’s services;
✓ Evaluating customers’ business needs;
✓ Elaborating project requirements in close co-operation with customers;
✓ Evaluating projects’ scope and resources required;
✓ Preparing business proposals. Sample documents can be presented at the request;
✓ Holding presentations;
✓ Negotiating with both existing and potential customers;
✓ Communicating with projects’ stakeholders;
✓ Identifying workflow bottlenecks, improving process improvements, and reporting them to
customers;
• Negotiating with customers and gathering project requirements;
• Business analysis;
• Acting as a scrum master;
• Estimating project resources;
• Planning project tasks and activities;
• Monitoring state of projects and reporting it to the customer;
• Monitoring and tracking tasks execution state and daily reporting by the team members;
• Composing and maintaining project-related documentation;
• Identifying projects risks, reporting them to customers, performing risks analysis, and elaborating risks
mitigation strategy;
• Working out and delivering weekly status reports to customers;
• Holding status calls with customers;
• Conducting demos and presentations;
• Co-ordinating and monitoring software updates on production servers;
• Managing deliveries;
• Acting as an escalation point for the teams;
• Maintaining customers’ satisfaction.
Apr 2017 — Mar 2016: Independent IT consultant
Mar 2012 — Feb 2016: QA Director, Duvon Corporation, Inc.
Team under management — up to 25 Engineers
Responsibilities:
• Identifying and implementing company testing policy;
• Identifying and implementing of staffing policy;
• Planning of QA structure, positions, and roles;
• Worked out QA department development strategy;
• Identifying QA skills mapped onto positions set;
• Interviewing, selecting, and hiring QA engineers;
• Elaboration education programme for QA employées;
• Training and examining QA staff;
• Identifying testing methodology and strategy;

• Working out QA processes workflow and their co-ordination with PMs and higher management;
• Organizing and monitoring of the work of QA department;
• Co-ordinating QA projects within the company;
• Participation in pre-sales activities.
Nov 2002 — Feb 2012: Senior QA Team Lead (since 2006), Lohika Systems, Inc. (Lviv office). Carried
out the role of Project Manager (2 years)
Team under management — up to 15 Engineers
Responsibilities (as of Project Manager):
• Elaborating business proposal;
• Estimated project’s scope and required resources;
• Identifying development scope;
• Identifying testing scope;
• Working out projects’ schedule;
• Set up development and testing tasks for the team;
• Identifying technical risks and elaborating mitigation plan;
• Identifying managerial risks and elaborating mitigation plan;
• Tracking and monitoring the development and testing process;
• Review of technical documentation;
• Co-ordination of development and QA teams, including conflict resolution;
• Issue management;
• Reporting to higher management;
• Communication with customers;
• Reporting to customers;
• Participating in pre-sales activities;
• Handling customers’ visits.
Responsibilities (as of Senior QA Team Lead):
• Conduction interviews and selection QA Engineers to hire;
• Identifying the need for trainings;
• Working out QA training centre education programme;
• Monitoring QA training centre;
• Controlling the results of training;
• Managing and QA team and co-ordination its work;
• Guidance to subordinated engineers;
• Identifying testing scope;
• Identifying testing strategy;
• Identifying testing methodology;
• Identifying the need for automation;
• Identifying the need for test harness;
• Identifying software and hardware needs;
• Identifying human and time resources;
• Working out the testing schedule;
• Performing requirements analysis;
• Performing risks analysis:
✓ Identifying technical risks, evaluating them, and elaborating mitigation plan;
✓ Identifying managerial risks, evaluating them, and elaborating mitigation plan;
• Reviewing the test documentation;
• Tracking and monitoring the testing process;
• Selective verification of the most critical and error-prone areas of the application;
• Evaluation of team and process effectiveness using test metrics;
• Staff performance evaluation;
• Communication with customer;
• Communication with other participants of development cycle, including conflict resolution;
• Monitoring feedback from development team;
• Co-ordinating QA projects within the department;
• Reporting to higher management;
• Reporting to customer.
Feb 2001 — Nov 2002: chief specialist (system administrator), Pension Fund of Ukraine, Frankivsky
district department (Lviv). Hardware and software support, LAN / WAN administration, database
administration (Informix)
Jul 1999 — Feb 2001: 1st category specialist, Lviv State Administration, Department of Labour and Social
Protection. Hardware and software support, system administration, database administration

Aug 1994 — Jul 1997: mathematician, Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics of
UAS (Lviv, Ukraine), controlled systems synthesis and optimization department. Controlled systems
modelling and optimization. Programming in Ansi C language
Projects Overview
• Managing projects and deliveries of both fixed-price and time-and-material models;
• Managed projects and deliveries following both waterfall and agile (including scrum, kanban, and lean)
workflow type;
• Experience in both development and QA teams management;
• Managed both full-scope (i.e. covering both development and QA) and specific QA projects;
• Managed both local, remote, and distributed teams;
• Managed projects in both outsourcing and own development.
Skills in Management
• Team management;
• Familiar with PMBoK processes and methodologies;
• Familiar with development process types, workflows, and life cycles, including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum,
Kanban, and Lean methodologies;
• Experience in forming teams from scratch;
• Experience in managing both local and remote teams;
• Experience in managing distributed teams;
• Experience in both outsourcing and own development management;
• Familiar with the specifics offshore software development;
• Project scope management and control;
• Effort and schedule estimation;
• Time management and planning. Performance management;
• Cost and budget management and control
• Risks management;
• Root-cause analysis
• Customer's expectations management;
• Familiar with management styles;
• Experience in coaching team members;
• Team members motivation. Familiar with motivation principles, methodologies and techniques;
• Conflicts resolution. Familiar with conflicts resolution techniques;
• Requirements analysis and management;
• Process monitoring;
• Status reporting;
• Evaluating business processes efficiency with metrics.
Skills in Business Processes Management
• Business processes design, refinement, improvement;
• Business processes implementation;
• Evaluating business processes efficiency;
• Internal audits in QA;
• Experience in leading QA Process and Best Practices Laboratory;
• Familiar with the basics and principles of ISO 9001 standard;
• Familiar with business process management environment by Intalio;
• Familiarity with BPML language;
• Business processes documenting.
Skills in Communication
• More than 10 years long experience in communication with western (European and American) customers;
• Handling conference calls;
• Handling telephone calls;
• Holding presentations;
• Handling customers’ visits;
• Visits to customers;
• Familiarity with convincing techniques;
• Familiarity with cultural-related issues.
Skills in Documenting
• Professional usage of MS Office applications;
• Experience in elaborating a wide range of both technical and organizational documentation (samples can be
presented at the request).

Skills in Mathematics and Statistics
• Mathematical background;
• Worked as a research mathematician in a scientific research institute of the UAS;
• Background in statistical analysis.
Personal Skills
• High analytical skills;
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving;
• High learning capability;
• Goal-oriented;
• Conscientious;
• Dependable;
• Reliable;
• Team player;
• Combine team player skills with high objectiveness;
• Experience in team building;
• Influencing skills;
• Experience in coaching;
• Good listener;
• Good communication skills;
• Presentation skills;
• Negotiating skills;
• More than 10 years long experience with western (European and American) customers;
• 80 % level time management;
• Capable of effective multitasking;
• Capable of effective tasks prioritization;
• Planning and organizational skills;
• Emotionally intelligent;
• Assertive conflict resolution experience;
• Attentive to details;
• Stress-resistant.
Language Skills
English — fluent (written and spoken)
Russian — native
Ukrainian — native
German — average
French — basic
Polish — fluent
Sanskrit — with dictionary