Andrii

Andrii Gruzdiev
Addlestone, Surrey, UK / Cherkasy, Ukraine
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Confident administrative manager with many years of experience in managing a team of over 200 people. While managing my own company, I’ve mastered the necessary skills in personnel management, team building, enterprise economics, planning the company's strategy and its current activities with a commitment to the best results. Received an MBA certificate after studying at the relevant courses in Japan and then continued to study another necessary business skills not only in management but in IT practice as well (for office and manufacturing departments). Substantial experience in analyzing problems and offering the solutions.
Desiring to get the position of Business Administrator role or IT role, such as IT-technician, QA engineer or Database engineer, where I can apply professional knowledge and skills with the possibility of professional and career growth.

Skills and Competence:
- Software and Hardware Maintenance (Operating Systems, Software and Hardware Auditing, Installation, Cloud/network installs, etc.).
- Practical work with Cloud Technologies (Virtualization and Virtual Machines, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Google Docs, SolarWinds Ticket Logging System/Helpdesk, etc.).
- Knowledge of Networking Principles, Test Principles, Types of Testing, Software Testing Theory.
- Practical work with API testing, HTML/CSS, SQL, Postman, JIRA, Test Rail, GIT.
- Confident user of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point applications.
- Effective Time Management. Planning and Focusing on Detail. Plans own tasks and uses time effectively to produce high quality work.
- Personal skills: Adapts to change, remains calm and reacts positively to challenges, works well with people by listening, understanding and helping others, convinces others and deals well with conflict. Expresses self clearly when speaking or writing. Easily learns new information and quickly learns how to use new technologies.
- Solving Problems. Spots problems and gathers information, making judgements based on facts.
Training and Qualifications:
• IT-Technician, JBC Skills Training On-line Course, Coventry, UK. April 2023 — May 2023
• Junior QA Engineer, Course IT Life “Software Testing”, Kyiv November 2022 — March 2023
• Database SQL Certificate, Online Sololearn Courses February 2023 — February 2023
• "Cash Flow Management" Training course, Kyiv June 2006
• "Team building, team management" Seminar (Cherkasy). May 2003
• Master of Business Administration at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Osaka, Tokyo, Japan
April 2001 — May 2001
• Course "Management of small and medium-sized enterprises" at the Japan Center in Ukraine, Kyiv October 2000 — November 2000
• Manager at Advertising agency “TCP&A”, Des Moines, USA October 1998 — November 1998
• Diploma of Engineer-radiophisicist (Higher Degree), St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, St. Petersburg. September 1978 — February 1984

Work History:
• Quality Assurance at IT Soft Development, Kyiv, Ukraine November 2022 — December 2022
• Manual functional testing of Web applications
• Mobile application testing (Charles)
• API testing (Postman)
• Create and maintain test documentation (checklists, test cases, test reports)
• Create and manage bug reports
• Collaborate with other team members to achieve best product quality ASAP
• Co-owner and General Director at Advert. Production Agency “Dolphin”, Cherkasy, Ukraine February 1996 — February 2022
• Creating business and marketing strategy for Enterprise
• Work with external contacts, key-clients and city authorities
• Technical and financial supervision
• Coordination of back-office and production division
• Made the company one of the best in its field of activity in country
• Increased the company's revenues and its capitalization.

Additional Information:
- Languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian.
- Hobbies: Traveling, Jazz music, Yoga gymnastics, Books reading
- Driving License – Category B, B1