Timur

Timur Kukharets
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine;
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Project Manager, Scrum Master
Summary:
I have 8 years of commercial experience in Project Management. The projects I’ve been working on
are related to web app development and various SaaS solutions for such business sectors as Digital
Advertising, Media, FinTech, Healthcare, EdTech, E-Commerce, Creative industries, and others. I
have been working as a full-time Project manager or Scrum master for various IT companies,
managing up to 3 projects simultaneously, and collaborating with clients and teams from North
America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Professional expertise:
PM methodologies & frameworks: PMBOK, Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, XP, Nexus,
Management 3.0 – strong theoretical and practical knowledge;
PM Tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Mural, Basecamp, Trello, ClickUp, Slack, Asana, InVision,
Avocode, Figma, Microsoft Office, Google tools;
Marketing: Good understanding of Marketing analysis & strategy, Online marketing, Social media
marketing, Digital media, Google Ads/Analytics;
Web development: Good understanding of SDLC & PDLC, Product quality metrics, Monolithic &
Microservices client-server architecture, CI/CD process, Web development technologies & tools;
Quality Assurance: Black-box manual QA testing, Test-case design, QA technology management;
Foreign languages: English – advanced (C1); French – upper-intermediate (B2);
Native languages: Russian, Ukrainian.

Relevant work experience:
December 2024 – Present: Vidzone Ukraine, Project manager, Scrum master:
- Working as a PM/SM in the product IT company transforming the TV advertising market by
combining the advantages of traditional TV with digital targeting and automation capabilities for
SMART TVs, PCs, tablets, and mobile devices;
- Defining project scope, timelines, deliverables, and milestones, ensuring alignment between
product, tech, and business goals;
- Managing a Scrum team, facilitating collaboration between developers, designers, QA, devops,
and stakeholders, and removing impediments for the team’s work;
- Regularly updating stakeholders on progress, risks, and changes, translating technical progress
into business impact;
- Taking part in estimating, prioritizing and planning epics, stories and tasks, ensuring timely
completion of sprint goals;
- Creating and analysing reports based on KPIs, product metrics and achieved results, using this
data to optimize processes and forecast delivery timelines;

June 2022 – July 2024: GlobalLogic Ukraine, Scrum master:
- Working on the project related to development of the fintech analytical platform;
- Managing a Scrum team and removing impediments for the team’s work;
- Conducting and facilitating various Scrum meetings including client-faced meetings;
- Taking part in estimating and planning epics, stories and tasks for future sprints;
- Creating and analysing reports based on KPIs, product metrics and achieved results;
- Taking part in developing new approaches, workflows and procedures aimed to improve the
project work process.

February 2021 – May 2022: GlobalLogic Ukraine, Technology manager:
- Working as a Technology manager in the Quality Assurance department;
- Performing various activities related to the company's work processes optimization and new
policies implementation within my technology stack.

April 2019 – 2024: Metaphysical Cinema, Founder & Curator:
- Founding and curating an experimental cinema club focusing on the exploration of independent,
experimental and amateur cinema;
- Organizing film screenings and discussions of independent cinema with the participation of local
film directors;
- Managing accounts and creating content in various social media channels.

June 2018 – January 2021: Smart Gamma, Project manager, Scrum master:
- Managing projects related to various CRM/ERP systems, e-learning, healthcare and e-commerce
web applications;
- Arranging team’s work, estimating projects timelines and required efforts;
- Effectuating acceptance testing of the developed apps;
- Ensuring timely delivery of the developed increments;
- Negotiating with clients, translating client’s specifications from French;
- Investigating and clarifying project requirements, creating basic technical project documentation.

July 2017 – May 2021: Sound Travel Radio, Founder & Curator:
- Founding and managing an independent online media and radio station focusing on experimental
music and underground culture from all over the world;
- Setting up broadcasting, creating mixtapes and other content;
- Developing music archives, communicating with musicians and labels;
- Managing accounts on various social media and music streaming platforms.

December 2015 – June 2018: Fresh4web, Project manager:
- Managing projects related to the web development process (Front-end work for various websites,
web and mobile apps);
- Arranging team’s work, estimating projects timelines and required efforts;
- Ensuring timely delivery of the developed projects;
- Negotiating with clients various project-related topics or issues;
- Investigating and clarifying project requirements.
January 2014 - May 2016: Plasma Company, LLC, Marketing manager:
- Managing the Marketing department of the company supplying industrial equipment;
- Conducting marketing research and strategy;
- Control of the creation of online and offline marketing materials,
- Launching advertising campaigns and monitoring advertising effectiveness.

May 2013 - November 2013: W3 Ukraine, Project manager:
- Managing projects related to the web development process;
- Arranging team’s work, estimating projects timelines, budgets and required efforts, preparing
invoices;
- Ensuring timely delivery of the developed projects;
- Negotiating with clients various project-related topics or issues;
- Investigating and clarifying project requirements;
- Effectuating pre-sale activities.

February 2012 - April 2013: Bridge Enterprises Ltd, Project manager, QA engineer:
- Creating business proposals;
- Effectuating marketing research;
- Managing projects related to online marketing and software development (QA projects);
- Creating test-cases, test-suites for the iPad application and web-based back-office;
- Managing a team of QA testers,

January 2011 - November 2011: QArea, QA engineer:
- Functional, E2E, Compatibility, Localization, Accessibility, Usability, Exploratory, Integration,
Performance, Regression, Smoke and other types of Manual QA testing of the desktop, mobile and
web applications;

Education:
2022-2024. Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics:
- Faculty of Computer Science – Department of Information Control System – IT Project
Management (Master’s degree).

2012-2015. Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics:
- Department of Philosophy – Post-graduate student.

2003-2008. Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics:
- Faculty of Telecommunications and Instrumentation – Department of Telecommunication
Systems and Networks – Communication engineer (Specialist's degree).

Specialized training courses, workshops, hackathons:
2024: Professional Scrum Master – Advanced (PSM-A) Training (Meirik)
2024: Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) Training (GlobalLogic)
2023: Supporting the Creative Economy: an online learning programme – British Council;
2022: Scrum Master School – GlobalLogic Ukraine;
2018: Practicum: school of cultural managers – YermilovCenter (Kharkiv);
2018: Сreative Enterprise – British Council (Kharkiv);
2018: Creative Management Camp (Kiev);
2017: Integrated Online Marketing (Kharkiv);
2017: Nasnaga Media Hackathon (Kharkiv).
Personal information:
Date of birth: January 11, 1986;
Hobbies: my pet projects: Metaphysical Cinema club, Sound Travel Radio;
Personal qualities: curious, persistent, responsible, communicative, friendly, willing to learn new
things, appreciating creativity;
Ready for business trips.