Manager Scrum

Konstantin Karikov

Herndon, VA · 703-***-**** · **********.*******@*****.*** · www.linkedin.com/in/konstantin-karikov/ SCRUM MASTER

Strong software development leader with 12 years of experience in leading various sized development teams and delivering diverse products for enterprises and consumers using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban). Experienced in the optimization of software development processes and moving teams from Waterfall to Agile practices. Extensive mentoring experience leading more than 6 development teams and coaching them on how to be self-organized. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and bi-lingual

(English and Russian). Professional Scrum Master I certified. Immediately eligible to work in the USA via an active L2 visa.

SKILLS

§ Software Project Management

§ Software Development Management

§ People Management

§ Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

§ Software Development Life Cycle

§ Jira, Confluence, Microsoft TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kaspersky Lab (kaspersky.com), Moscow, Russia 2015 - 2019 Head of Mobile Services Development 2017 - 2019

§ Headed the delivery of eight mobile products for iOS and Android by coordinating the work of 6 development teams and collaborating with stakeholders and product owners to provide more than 200 releases with 99% on-time delivery.

§ Mentored two Scrum Masters on how to introduce Agile practices within development teams, resulting in six teams utilizing Scrum/Kanban to reduce the Time-to-Market metric from five months to two weeks.

§ Decreased the average feature design time by 50% through improving communications between development, UX/UI, technical writing, and other functional teams.

§ Upgraded development processes by optimizing cross-department communications and introducing new practices such as continuous delivery, automation testing, and Agile practices, therefore reducing the release cycle time from six months to two weeks.

§ Designed and implemented a product health monitoring system that decreased the average reaction time to address production problems from two days to two hours. Project Manager/Scrum Master 2015 - 2017

§ Coordinated the development and release of two mobile security applications for IOS and Android from scratch, both of which were released on time and had 500,000 users in the first six months.

§ Overhauled the development of a flagship product with more than ten million users by transforming processes and motivating team members to revitalize the project and release multiple updates on time.

§ Coached junior project managers on how to utilize and manage the flagship product, which resulted in quality on-time releases and ensured continuous business success.

§ Served two development teams as Scrum Master by collaborating with product owners to coach them on working in an Agile environment which, allowed for continuous feedback from stakeholders and satisfactory product delivery.

Acronis (acronis.com), Moscow, Russia 2008 - 2015

Director of Product Development 2012 - 2015

§ Lead the delivery of three enterprise products for backup servers for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Active Directory by managing 20 team members to provide 20 releases with 100% on-time delivery.

§ Planned and delivered three releases ahead of schedule to support new versions of Microsoft Exchange Servers, allowing the company to be the first on the market in this field.

§ Authored a patent to reduce the recovery time of data from journaling systems backups, which in some cases reduced the time ten-fold.

Project Manager 2008 - 2012

§ Coordinated the releases of over 100 maintenance updates for six company products (enterprise and consumer) which focused on improving product quality, and in-turn lowered the Incident per Unit metric from 12% to 10%.

§ Developed and implemented an error handling system, which saved $100k on quarterly support costs. EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Moscow University for Industry and Finance Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

LANGUAGES

English, Russian

VISA STATUS

Active L2 Visa. Do not need sponsorship.

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