Project Manager

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

PMP, SCRUM Master offering 15+ years of IT experience, seeking assignments across the industry.

Career Profile

Accomplished IT professional, with an experience of more than 15 years in IT (Project Manager, SCRUM Master, developer). My current assignment is with Razzall, Toronto, Canada as Project Manager.

Work through all stages of SDLC, starting from planning and high level design to deployment and maintenance.

Hold expertise in basic SDLC methodologies -Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM/Kanban/XP). Hold PMP and SRCUM Master certificates. Help introducing Agile methodologies with teams who are resistant or are not familiar with them.

Demonstrate capabilities in gathering shareholder’s requirements, conceptualizing solutions and drawing resource estimates.

Expertise in team building/optimizing organizational processes to maximize efficiency for optimum productivity, while meeting business objectives and vision.

Equip with the practice of functional management along with the experience in project scoping, estimation, planning, risk management, finalization of technical/functional specifications, resource administration and quality management of the software products/services.

Core Competencies

Project Management Product Management Project management standards, tools, techniques and methodologies Project Estimates Software Design/Development Project Implementation Business Domain Expertise 3d Line Application Support Troubleshooting Team Building & Management SDLC, Agile, Waterfall Interpersonal Skills Conflict Resolution

Technical Skills

Windows, Linux, Android MS Office, Visio Google Collaboration Tools Project support software (JIRA/Confluence/Lucidchart, TFS, FogBugz) SQL, Object DB HTML, CSS, XML, JS Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS)

BUSINESS EXPOSURE

Razzall, Toronto, Canada Oct 2017– to date

Project Manager

Company design online trading platform (e-commerce marketplace) for users to sell/buy off their products in short period of time. We are building product on Microsoft technologies (Azure/PAAS, C#, TFS)

Our target audience are small and medium businesses as well as individuals.

Conduct brainstorming discovery sessions to identify customer needs and pain points.

Directly work with stockholders to create Scope Matrix.

Introduce and implement Scrumban-based processes to maintain fast prototyping.

Facilitate walkthrough sessions with business stakeholder to validate requirements.

Help create and continuously manage the product roadmap with short / long term vision that meet business goals and product offering.

Participate in producing detailed business requirement document and mock-ups data modelling for new product.

Provide feedback on product wireframe.

Review Statement of Work (SOW) to move project to development stage.

Oversee company infrastructure development (TFS configuration, mail, VPN, conference lines).

Stericycle Communication Solution, Toronto, Canada Sep 2016 – Oct 2017

IT Project Manager/SCRUM Master

Boost engagement and strengthen healthcare provider - patient relationships by delivering automated and customized email, voice, and text communication.

Leaded up to four simultaneous projects associated with different products.

Managed teams of different sizes in a geographically distributed and culturally diverse setup.

Helped develop Scrum-based process to maintain fixed sprints structure for all department projects.

Coordinated business process analysis and understanding technical & functional specifications.

Communicated with all levels of management and staff relating to project status, issues, and risks.

Collaborated with the team members and senior management to maintain a continuous stream of information regarding the projects status and progress.

Supported management with weekly reports and bi-weekly progress demos.

Functioned as an escalation point to keep all parties aware of overall project impact, facilitating management decisions at the earliest possible time.

Adherence to standard project execution practices.

Experienced with projects in multiple technologies and functions.

Key Projects:

Design and implement new generation of product portal. This cloud-based (Azure/PAAS) application supports all client-facing functionality.

Design and implement automated process to convert CallXML voice scripts to vxml/ccxml scripts (we use AWS as repository). Develop QA automation to support conversion.

Bring legacy accounts to standardized account structure.

Dazzit Corp, Toronto, Canada Apr 2007 – Sep 2106

Software Project Manager/SCRUM Master

We developed website that makes choosing all kind of things work the same way. Product can run under different operating systems and support all major browsers including mobile versions.

Involved in managing end-to-end service design, implementation and delivery for various projects within distributed teams.

Collaborated with the team members and senior management to maintain a continuous stream of information regarding the projects status and progress.

Maintained all documentation supporting Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) claims. Participate in discussions and decisions about SR&ED claims.

Participated in developing system to maintain 2-week release cadence over the years.

Maintained database with product defects, user reviews, survey information and functional improvements.

Frogware Inc., Toronto, Canada May 2000-Apr 2007

Project Manager (Jan 2005-Apr 2007), Assistant Project Manager (October 2000-Jan 2005)

Senior Developer (May 2000-October 2000)

Instrumental in finalization of project requirements and resource planning and played a key role in strategic planning to assure achievement of agreed to functional and business objectives.

Monitored the team members’ activity with regular reporting system; provided assistance to team members, updated them on new process and technologies.

Maintained in depth interaction with the client across various functional areas to comprehend and resolve apprehensions/issues relating to projects delivery.

Grew team from 5 to 35 members by organizing, developing and training sub-teams.

Transas, St. Petersburg, Russia Aug 1992- Feb 2000

Team Leader (Aug 1996-Feb 2000), Lead Programmer (Aug1992 – Aug 1996)

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science, with honour. Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Certificate, PMP, Project Management Institute, PMP Number 1671197

Certificate, CSM (SCRUM Master), International SCRUM Institute, License 792***********

OTHER

LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/Alex-Golod-PMP

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