Project Manager Engineer

Ivetta Starikova

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Mobile #: 510-***-****

EDUCATION:

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA

August, 2009

M.S. in Software Management

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

December, 1999

B.A. in Applied Mathematics with Application in Computer Science

SUMMARY:

. Eight years of experience in high tech industry.

. Extensive experience building cross functional teams and managing year

long projects.

. Experience managing different types of projects: product development,

website deployment and IT.

. Demonstrated adaptability in both startup and corporate environments.

. High-energy leadership skills, providing motivation, applying diplomacy

and driving the team to project success.

. Proven ability in identifying, analyzing and solving problems to increase

customer satisfaction.

. Project management skills: planning, tracking progress, conducting status

meetings, reporting status, ensuring project success.

. Proven technical skills and knowledge to improve overall quality of the

product by working with members of engineering and QA teams.

. Wide range of progressive experience in providing product specifications,

requirements assessment, design, analysis, development, documentation,

coding enhancement, implementation and deployment of solutions.

. Experience gathering budget specifications, acquiring equipment, planning

and implementing the project at all stages of the project cycle.

. Proficiency with Microsoft Project and Excel and PowerPoint.

Relevant Coursework:

. Metrics: Define, collect, and analyze software management measurements at

the project level and at an aggregate level, such as portfolio or program

level.

. Process & Project Management: Choose and customize methodologies, Scrum

(agile) versus RUP (traditional), based on project characteristics and

environment, business value and risk minimization.

. Open Source: Understanding the impact of open source software on the

software industry, including licensing and commercialization issues,

corporate software evaluation techniques, and business models.

. Human-Computer Interaction: Apply a user-centered approach to the design

of human-computer interactions which includes continuously involving the

targeted users in the design process, regularly testing design decisions,

and working iteratively to optimize the design.

. Requirements Analysis: Analyze and document functional and nonfunctional

requirements for a software system, define processes for managing

requirements, develop a product roadmap.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages : C, C++, Java, Shell Scripting, SQL.

Tools : Rational Quantify and Purify, Insure++, Win

Runner.

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux.

Packages : Microsoft Project, Perforce, CVS, Microsoft Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Symantec Inc., Mountain View, CA

Oct'07 - Sep'08

IT Project Manager (contract through MatchPoint Solutions):

. Project managed deployment of security products within the IT.

. Coordinated company-wide Payment Card Industry (PCI) Audit.

. Acted as central point of contact for the auditor and for over 50

individuals within the company involved in the audit.

. Facilitated audit field work and coordinated execution of actions

required to close the findings.

. Reported status to the Head of Treasury, Director of Information Security

and Program Manager.

. Followed company's Project Management framework to run the project.

QuinStreet, Foster City, CA

Oct'06 - Sep'07

Project Manager:

. Responsible for timely deployment of lead-generating websites.

. Managed cross functional team of marketing, engineering and QA

professionals.

. Ensured clear communication of marketing requirements to engineering and

quality assurance team members.

. Ensured timely delivery of simultaneous fast-track web development

projects involving developers in US and India.

. Responsible for tracking projects and resources utilizing MS Project,

Excel and Outlook Task Management.

. Responsible to setting up data in Oracle database using internal tools

and troubleshooting data directly in the database.

. Member of a project team that developed company-wide site strategy

processes.

Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA

Feb'04 - Nov'05

Integration Team Leader:

. Built a cross-functional team of 5 engineers.

. Used technical expertise to build a laboratory for integration testing,

maintain source control with complex branch structure, build automation

tests, and ensure quality of the builds handed off to the QA team.

. Led and tracked progress of a 6-month performance testing effort to

improve the scalability of Juniper's Network Security Manager's (NSM)

server. Worked with the QA team to find the bottlenecks in the

software's performance, built test-specific test beds, tracked progress

of the performed tests, analyzed the results, and made constructive

suggestions for code improvements.

. Improved communication and collaboration with QA, Marketing and Technical

Support teams by closely following up technical issues that these teams

needed resolved.

. Handled all incoming NSM customer issues: worked closely with customers

to understand and resolve the issues by utilizing hands-on knowledge of

NSM code and interacting with engineers from development and TAC.

NetScreen Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA

Sep'02 - Feb'04

Software Engineer:

. Contributed to large scale integration efforts after NetScreen's

acquisition of OneSecure. Played an active role in the design,

implementation and bug fixing of the conversion of the IDP (Intrusion

Detection and Prevention) Management Server software to NSM (NetScreen

Security Manager) software. Worked with Marketing, QA and Technical

Support team to ensure smooth integration.

. Extensively involved in creating functional specifications and technical

requirements documentation. Worked with technical writers to provide

them with technical details of NSM and IDP features for user

documentation.

. Was the sole engineer responsible for maintaining the IDP server code and

supporting existing customers. Investigated customer issues and worked

independently or with cross-functional teams to resolve them.

. Extensively involved in developing value added code for instant customer

fixes.

. Optimized and enhanced the proprietary communications protocol used the

by NetScreen Firewall Agent to communicate with NSM (NetScreen Security

Manager) server.

. Implemented encryption libraries for the proprietary TCP-based

communication protocol.

. Implemented multi-threaded log analyzing application to alert customer of

events via e-mail, syslog, SNMP traps, scripts, etc.

OneSecure Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Feb'00 -Sept'02

Software Engineer:

Responsibilities:

. Implemented, unit-tested and optimized libraries and applications of the

management server part in the three-tier architecture of IDP (Intrusion

Detection and Prevention) systems.

. Collaborated with engineers of a partner company, NetScreen, to implement

an agent for NetScreen systems that would communicate with OneSecure

server over a proprietary UDP-based protocol.

. Implemented libraries and applications in C and C++ for three-tier

architecture software that managed various firewalls (CheckPoint,

NetScreen, Sonicwall, etc.).

. Implemented platform independent libraries for data structures,

algorithms, databases, thread pools, and wrapper libraries for system

functions.

ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK:

Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence, Italy

April, 2010

B.A. in Studio Arts

College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA

Spring, 2006

Course in Project Management and PMI Methodologies

STATUS: US Citizen

LANGUAGES: English, Russian, Italian

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