Alla Goussiatnitchenko

** ****** ********

Markham, Ontario

L3P 5X2

Tel.: 416-***-**** (cell)

Tel.: 905-***-**** (home)

e-mail: acvw7d@r.postjobfree.com

S U M M A R Y

I hold a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Moscow Aviation Institute, I have extensive experience in various fields of SW development and also in leading and managing SW and HW projects of various scales.

As an experienced leader of product development I am:

-capable of delivering turn-key solutions: starting from business requirements and architecture definition and up to product deployment and support;

-highly experienced in organising development infrastructure – teams, tools, processes, cost effective functioning;

-an excellent motivator and team builder, able of mentoring less experienced engineers;

-highly enthusiastic and goal-oriented, can take initiative, accustomed to long hours in pursuit of company goals;

-capable of supervising and managing both: small and large (70+ engineers) engineering teams;

-innovative and creative, with excellent communication and instruction capabilities, calm and patient, able to handle complex situations and projects with ease.

Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S

Leadership and technical competence developed as:

Technical Project Manager;

Director of Software Development;

QA Project manager;

Software Development Manager;

Software Quality Assurance group Team Leader;

Software developer with long list of projects completed in C, C++, C#, Java for system SW, embedded SW, Enterprise projects.

Experienced in managing internal and client-driven projects – client’s requirements, deliverables schedule, managing expectations, – proven by delivering large (2.5MM) and small scale projects.

Experienced in managing change request, risk assessment, resource and budget management;

Highly qualified in all stages of SW and HW development process: business requirements, architecture definition, design specification, development infrastructure, validation and testing, benchmarking and optimization, quality assurance, documentation, product deployment, customer support;

Highly experienced in managing projects of various scales – from Enterprise SW Applications to low level system SW.

Very familiar with different certification processes.

P R O F E S S I O N A L B A C K G R O U N D

Consultant November 2015 - current

Short term contract work on Project Management, Quality Assurance, SR&ED.

Technologies - Java, C#, C++, Windows, Android, Agile.

Tools – DOORS, Bugzilla, MS Project.

Project/Product Manager, senior system architect 2010 (October) – 2015 (October)

Novero Canada Inc. (Toronto, Canada)

My main responsibility as a Project Manager was to organize and to control projects– coordinate work with the client to complete business and functional requirements, define scope and budget of the project, schedule final and intermediate deliverables, facilitate development activities, ensure resources’ availability and competence, work with all involved parties, including remote development and supply teams, to guarantee fulfilment of all project milestones. I was responsible projects for significant players in automotive industry – Volkswagen, BMW, Audi. My duties included organizing project activities with accordance to internal project process which covers all aspects of project deliverables – feature completion, problems resolution, product quality, project budget reports, product documentation and post mortem analysis with action list for improvements. I was responsible for regular reports to the company's executives on the project progress – status of development, evaluation of project risks with the plan to mitigate risks, project budget status. On several occasions I was presenting company on clients’ site leading the project discussions. Several projects under my control were completed within Agile methodology.

Used technologies – C++, C#, C, ASP.NET, Java, Windows, Android, Linux, GIT, SVN, Jenkins., Agile.

Used Tools – DOORS, Polarion, TeamRoom, LotusNotes, QualityCenter.

Product Development Manager 2010 (January – August)

Route1 Inc. (Toronto, Canada)

Managed the team of highly skilled programmers (16 engineers) developing and deploying the complete solution for secure access to remote Desktop. Responsible for complete Project cycle with tight schedule and strict budget. Organized and controlled product quality validation. Was responsible for functional requirements. Provided regular reports to upper management on the development status. Managed team’s research activities on new trends in SW development tools and new technologies in the field. Worked with partner teams on product quality improvement and organized activities on problem localization, analysis, and resolution. Was responsible for creation and of system deployment plan. Controlled Change Requests process for the deployment of new product version. Used technologies: C++, C, Java, Java.NET; Windows, Linux, Oracle, MySQL, SourceSafe, Bugzilla.

Director of Software Development 2005 - 2009

ALT Software Inc.

Responsible for all stages of the project development – initial meetings with clients, technical consultations with clients on product definition, estimation of required effort to fulfil client’s requirements, development resource assignment, created project schedule, conducted status meetings with the clients, analyzed and mitigated schedule risks, prepared and conducted regular program reviews with the clients. Was a key contributor to building strong business relationship with the clients.

Worked with team members keeping them focussed on scheduled tasks/milestones and quality of the development.

Organized and completed several projects involving offshore development team, all of these were implemented under Agile approach.

Projects involved managing both: low-level (driver-type) and application-level SW development with heavy UI feature. Have a list of successful projects for local and international clients.

Was responsible for establishing the development process for avionics industry - SW development standard DO-178B - development of safety-critical software.

Was responsible for preparation and the follow-up audits of documents for the SR&ED government program.

Used technologies: C++, C, C#; ASP.NET, Java, Windows, Linux, WindRiver, Integrity, proprietary OSs, CVS, Multimedia technologies, Perforce, SourceSafe, Bugzilla, Share Point,

Project Technical Leader – Quality Assurance Group 2002 – June, 2005

ATI Technologies Inc. (Hand-held Products Division)

Led handheld Software Quality Assurance group (12 engineers), and was involved in all SQA activities throughout the project development life cycle. Main product of the group was a complete testing solution (for both: HW and SW) for Graphics and Multi-Media functionality of the various handheld devices: PDAs, cell phones, game gadgets.

Responsible for defining and establishing adequate quality assurance processes within both: QA group as well as in SW development team, which helped to mitigate risk of faulty deliverables to the customers.

Assessed product requirements (internal and external), worked with the group on test plans to ensure sufficient test coverage of SW code and HW functionality, including stress, performance, and compliance. Participated in planning of tests’ development and reviews of the results - processed the results’ statistics and quality matrices, generated proposals on quality improvements, and ensured their actual implementation and execution.

Constantly reviewed and prioritised problems’ database and monitored problem resolution status. Actively communicated with customers for quality improvement actions. Planned S/W releases with coordination between SW groups on release schedule and release deliverables. Personally created procedure and documented it for SW development and qualification processes. Screened candidates’ resumes, conducted interviews and selected candidates for the group.

Used technologies: C++, C; Windows, Linux, BREW, proprietary OSs, PerForce, LotusNotes.

Executive Project Manager 1999 – 2002

Typhoon Technologies Inc. (Matrox Graphics Inc. R&D Centre - Toronto, Canada)

Project Manager for two ASIC projects – G550 and Sun Dog (Parhelia-family) with 70+ engineers involved. Major duties included: project scheduling, resources allocation, day-to-day status review of the project progress with team managers and leads, follow-up on development problems with corresponding corrections on priorities for all involved groups (ASIC, PHD, Validation, SW) and individuals as well. Worked with marketing and sales teams on project feature list details, demo system requirements. Regularly communicated with upper management on project status.

Personally was in charge of the Validation and SW groups. For the whole period of working at Matrox was responsible for preparation of the Typhoon Centre R&D reports for the Canada Grant Agency.

SW Manager: Driver Development and Validation 1996 – 1999

Typhoon Technologies Inc. (Matrox Graphics Inc. R&D Centre - Toronto, Canada)

In charge of Software development and HW validation groups (~30 engineers).

Was responsible for all aspects of computer graphics technology support: developing drivers for a 3D graphic accelerator; developing bit-accurate C-model for the next generation 3D accelerator chip, developing tools to facilitate HW validation process. Activities included: HW architecture spec definition with the follow-up reviews of HW design specs, developing spec for the driver (Display Driver, D3D Driver, and ICD), job assignments to designers with follow-up control of completion, design of spec for tools and test flow for HW validation. Responsible for the global schedule of the SW portion of the project (C-model, driver, Validation tools) and day-to-day tracking of the schedule to ensure meeting milestones. Was a major player in building the Matrox Centre in Markham from scratch and bringing it to successfully functioning engineering team.

Used technologies: C++, C; Windows, Linux, SVN, SourceSafe, Bugzilla,

Software Engineer 1993-1996

ATI Technologies Inc. (Toronto, Canada)

Activities included: development, debugging, and optimization of the drivers for ATI graphics accelerators using C, C++, and Assembler programming languages in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 environment; participation in QA bug reports status reviews, work with QA team to increase test coverage of the driver code, work on test plan for special driver functions.

Tools: WinICE, Windows Kernel Debugger, VTune, LotusNotes.

Used technologies: C++, C; Windows, Linux, MAC OS.

References available upon request.

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