Project Manager Management
Resume:
Alexander Kovalev
Toronto, Ontario
*******.*******@*****.***
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Achievement-oriented certified Project Management Professional (PMP) / Scrum Master with 10+ years of
diversified experience in managing IT projects, business support, system development and performance
reporting.
• Expert understanding of Project Management Life Cycle and System Development Life Cycle.
• Expertise in project management: customer care, scope definition/system requirements, timeline/budget
estimation, change management, risk management, resource planning, proposal preparation, satisfaction
surveying, project closure, managing stakeholder expectations, staff management, performance evaluation.
Excellent knowledge of resource and time management tools, including MS Project and MS Project Server.
• Managed apps on a wide array of technical platforms: Windows, Unix, Client-Server, Mobile, Cloud.
• Strong leadership skills. Excellent multi-tasking and organizational aptitudes and proven ability to influence
project partners in cross-functional teams. Effective communicator and problem solver.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PMLC / SDLC - Project Management & Software development life-cycles and methodologies:
PMBoK, RUP, CMM, ITIL, Six Sigma, Agile, Scrum, TDD.
Industries experience:
Finance, marketing/sales, telecommunications, logistic/transportation, insurance, internet, e-commerce.
Development and configuration management software:
JIRA, Rational ClearCase, MS Team System; Selenium, HP QC, LoadRunner; SVN, CVS, VSS.
Office software:
MS office Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Power Point; Google Docs Documents, Spreadsheets.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Project Manager MediResource, Toronto February 2014 – January 2015
Planned, managed and directed the execution of all project activities. Led cross-functional teams in a matrix
environment and at offsite/offshore locations.
• Developed implementation methodology and strategy, set realistic expectations.
• Communicated internally with senior management and externally with service providers to meet the
objectives of the project.
• Provided regular status updates to project sponsor, management and client account teams.
• Managed and monitored budget at a project level.
• Performed impact analysis of change requests and once approved managed their execution.
• Established and delivered resource-based project plans. Managed the impacts of resource constraints
through re-planning and dealing with competing resource requirements.
• Managed project staff, including contractors and consultants. Evaluated the performance of the project team
throughout the project life cycle, acknowledged individual and team achievements.
• Analyzed and improved software development processes. Created documentation templates, tailored project
methodology.
Technologies & Tools: Java, .Net, AngularJS, MS SQL, Oracle, Jira; MS office, MS Project.
Industries: health care, digital, internet.
Project Manager Research Now, Toronto February 2012 – October 2013
Managed software development and infrastructure projects for Marketing research company.
• Prepared detailed project plans, schedule & budget and work breakdown structures.
• Gathered requirements, managed scope, schedule and resources to ensure project success and customer
satisfaction.
• Monitored progress and communicated the project status to all stake holders. Conducted post
implementation reviews and gathered lessons learned.
– Senior Project Manager Page 2
• Performed impact analysis of change requests and once approved managed their execution.
• Set realistic expectations, developed implementation methodology and strategy.
• Successfully completed a project delivering technically complex distributed system being capable to handle
up to 4 bln online transactions per month.
Technologies & Tools: Hadoop, NoSQL, Ruby, AJAX, MS SQL, Oracle, Jira, Confluence; MS office, MS Project.
Industries: marketing, digital, web.
QA Manager Affinity, Toronto April 2011 – December 2011
Managed testing software applications in Agile environment.
• Managed testing activities in software development and maintenance projects: analysed requirements,
planned test rounds, created schedules, monitored test execution progress, gathered metrics, created
reports. Coordinated testing progress with other groups including project managers, business analysts and
developers.
• Managed the development of test plans and test cases for SIT, UAT and regression testing.
• Implemented Test Automation suite, which greatly reduced time required to run daily regression testing.
• Developed a method of tracing defects from associated test cases through to use cases by extending and
tailoring MS Team Server Foundation functionality.
• Educated, motivated and mentored the QA team to ensure quality standards are met.
Technologies & Tools: ASP.Net, AJAX, MS SQL; MS Visual Studio 2010, MS Test Manager; MS office.
Industries: internet, digital.
QA Manager Avetti, Toronto January 2010 – March 2011
Managed the team of QA Analysts and testing activities in software development project.
• Managed the development of test plans and test cases, assisted customers in performing UAT.
• Established policies, processes and procedures for test case maintenance to simplify impact analysis,
upgrade and retirement of test cases due to any change in product scope or functionality.
• Introduced and implemented testing execution and verification procedures. Reduced fixed defects’s
verification time by 60%.
• Implemented automatic smoke testing by using Selenium.
• Mentored and trained testers in various aspects of quality assurance and testing.
Technologies & Tools: Java, AJAX; UNIX; Oracle, mySQL; SEO; SVN; Selenium; Google Docs Documents.
Industries: web, digital, e-commerce, marketing/sales.
Senior Project Manager Qbix 2007 – 2009
Provided consulting advice to project teams. Defined ground rules, processes, and policies within the company
to create a consistent and productive work environment.
• Analysed and improved software development processes. Composed procedures and created documentation
templates. Tailored/scaled methodology. Trained staff in using defined CMM level 3 development process.
• Introduced strict change management policies, allowing generating revenue through change requests still
achieving high customer satisfaction.
• Participated in vendor selection and management, coordinated work of internal team and third-party vendors.
• Evaluated deliverables; collected the repository of PMO Best Practices.
• Composed services catalogue and successfully deployed SLAs in customer operations, increasing revenues
by up to 50% for several accounts.
• Improved the quality of PMP examination questions by participating in translation validation session in
Budapest, Hungary, held by Project Management Institute (PMI).
Technologies & Tools: MS Office, Powerpoint; Sharepoint; Jira, Java/J2EE, HP QC, LoadRunner.
Industries: finance, banking, telecommunications, wireless, insurance.
Project Manager Dell GDC 2004 – 2007
Managed software development projects for manufacturing company.
– Senior Project Manager Page 3
• Managed projects of up to 20 staff and $1+M budget in accordance with the CMM level 5 process.
• Gathered requirements, prepared detailed project plans, schedule & budget, and WBS.
• Managed project’s scope & change requests, documented project deliverables.
• Provided detailed project status reports for all stakeholders, clients, team members and management .
• Assessed risks and created contingency/mitigation action plans.
• As a Process Champion contributed to the ongoing development of Project Management methodology,
process and documentation. Participated in process workshop in corporate Headquarter in London, UK;
evaluated process templates and procedures, raised process change requests, trained staff.
• Successfully completed a project with zero defects found during user acceptance testing phase.
Technologies & Tools: Oracle, MS SQL; .Net; Web Services, Active Directory; Java, XML; HP/Mercury Test
Director/Quality Center; MS office, Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Power Point.
Industries: online, manufacturing.
Project Manager Kenjitsu 2003 – 2004
Managed software development projects for customers in Europe and USA.
• Gathered requirements, estimated budget and prepared RFP responses.
• Tracked project budget allocation and reported project status on cost/schedule variance to project control
board as well as forecast cost to project completion.
• Introduced change control boards in projects. Analysed change requests, ensuring interdependencies and
cross impacts are identified and managed when developing deliverables and/or implementing changes.
• Established the development workflow according to the Rational Unified Process.
• Motivated, encouraged, mentored and inspired the technical team and led by example.
Technologies & Tools: .Net, C++, C#, Sharepoint; Java/J2EE; CVS, MS office Project, Visio, Power Point.
Industries: telecommunications, insurance, wireless, mobile, digital.
Project Manager Astrosoft 2000 – 2002
Managed software development projects for customers in Europe. Monitored progress of the offshore teams and
communicated the project status to all stake holders.
• Managed project teams as required to execute project work and meet customer's expectations.
• Analyzed requirements, estimated budget and prepared RFP responses.
• Prepared detailed project plans, schedule & budget, and WBS.
• Managed scope, schedule and resources to ensure project success and customer’s satisfaction.
• Monitored progress and communicated the project status to all stake holders.
• Developed the company's standards in web development, composed support procedure for web applications.
• Supervised work of trainees, taught Internet technologies.
Technologies & Tools: Active Directory, IIS; Javascript/DHTML, XML; MS Project, Office, Visio, Power Point.
Industries: finance, banking, insurance, internet, e-commerce.
Web Developer Artificial Life 1998 – 2000
Developed web-shop with content management system.
• Analyzed business processes, developed e-shop, application architecture, back-end functionality and UI.
• Composed technical specification, tested application in cross-browser/platform environment.
• Optimised application’s code and content and reduced pages’s downloading time on 50%.
Technologies & Tools: MS SQL Server; Apache; Java, Javascript/DHTML, CSS; VSS, StarTeam; MS office.
Industries: internet, e-commerce, online trades.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Bachelor of Mathematics Major in Computer Science 1997
State Saint-Petersburg University, Russia
– Senior Project Manager Page 4
Courses & Trainings
• Scrum Allience. Agile techniques in project management
• PMP, Project Management Institute
• Business negotiations. Cross culture distinctions
• Nordpraktik - New Managers, Catwalk Interactive AB, Sweden
• Special American Business Internship Training, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Professional certifications and membership
• Project Management Professional, PMI
• Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
• Member of Project Management Institute, South Ontario Chapter
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Contact this candidate