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Business Analyst / Project Manager

Location:
Houston, TX
Posted:
December 11, 2013

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Ekaterina Grinevskaja

Houston, TX, *****

Contact phone number: 832-***-****

Email: ****.***********@*****.***

Summary

Overall 3 years of working experience. 1.5 years as Business Analyst / Project Manager in a large international IT

company (1,100+ employees). Managing 11,000+ man-hour project from initiation to release phases.

1 year as an analyst in #1 Belarusian investment banking company.

Proficiency in finance and trading domains.

Awarded the U.S. government prospective leaders fellowship. Based on this award studied Management and

Financial management in the American college for 1 year.

Goal-oriented, fast-learner, passionate about successful task accomplishment.

Reference available upon request.

Professional Background

Skills:

Analyzing and documenting requirements Project management

Wireframes development Quality assurance

Market research Product support

Communications with stakeholders

Languages and Practices: UML, BPMN, SQL.

Tools and Utilities: Axure, Sparx Enterprise Architect, CaseComplete, Balsamiq, MS Office, Microsoft SQL Server Management

Studio, Jira, Zendesk, InfusionSoft.

Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, RUP.

Languages: Russian (native-speaker), English (fluent), German (intermediate), Spanish (elementary).

Work Experience

June 2012 – November 2013 – Project Manager / Business Analyst, Itransition, Minsk / Austin

Publisher Portfolio Tracker. Web-based financial platform used by trading publishers. The system allows tracking performance

of investment portfolios and their customized visualization on external resources.

Performed business analysis during all stages of the project;

Created project documentation (BRD, SRS);

Carried out project management including operational management and financial management;

Led the Team of 3 developers + 1 QA.

Options calculator. Financial derivatives widget for calculating outcomes of various options strategies.

Conducted competitor market research;

Performed functionality and logics development;

Elicited and documented requirements;

Managed client communications.

Product support tool. Integration of external Customer support product with the client’s product (web-based financial tool).

Performed market research in order to find a suitable product;

Evaluated the product;

Guided corporate help desk agents in the process of integration and accounts settings;

Corporate portfolios and marketing reports. Internal project related to creation of department portfolio of all clients’ projects.

Represented the largest account of company’s Web Development division.

Conducted performance analysis of client’s projects;

Prepared reports based on the performance analysis;

Composed presentations showing the value of each project.

Nov 2011 – June 2012 – Analyst, Investment Company Uniter, Minsk

Performed industrial markets analysis and consumer goods market analysis;

Conducted financial researches and evaluated financial models;

Managed client communications;

Worked on Belarusian IT market analysis project in March-June 2012.

Jun, 2011 –Nov, 2011 – International Affairs Manager, Continentalinvestments, Minsk

Communicated with customers;

Prepared presentations;

Was responsible for correspondence and documentation.

Oct, 2010 –May, 2011 – intern, financial department of Bethany College, USA

Analyzed financial reports, assisted in payrolls preparation, helped with correspondence.

Education

2007-2012

Belarusian State University, Faculty of International relations

Master’s degree in International Economics

2010-2011

Bethany College, USA

Non-degree major in Financial Management/ Management/ Marketing sponsored by Global UGRAD fellowship.

Activities and hobbies

Foreign Languages (German C1 level at Goethe-Institute Minsk, Spanish and French basic communication skills)

Preparing for CFA

Participation in international student organizations (AEGEE student organization, summer economics camps (by Mises

center), language schools in Germany)

Photography

Sports activities: tennis, snowboarding, bike.



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