Marina Alimansky

Summary

Senior Project and Program Manager

Highly successful professional with experience in Adtech and Real Estate Tech industries specializing in new product development, systems mergers and infrastructure migrations. Extensive background in both leading teams and personally managing tasks. Strong ability to teach team members about ways to becoming better engineering leads and project managers. Well-versed in growing SDLC and process flow in engineering and operations settings.

Areas of Expertise

•Portfolio Management

•Budget Development/Oversight

•Risk & Change Management

•Products & Systems Mergers

•Enterprise Data Analysis/Data Visualization

•Integrated Business Platforms

•IT Infrastructure Migrations & Management

•Financial Systems/Reporting Systems Architecture

•Team Building and Leadership

•Staff Training and Development

•Process Improvements

•Change and Risk Management

•Vendor Management

Career Experience

Director Program Management, Verve Group Inc./Media and Games Invest, Berlin, Germany/Carlsbad, CA

2020-2023

Responsible for the overall company program delivery. Designed and implemented standards and procedures across all Verve engineering teams in the way to support the company culture and help to raise productivity. Built the company PMO with five project managers to manage scrum processes of 100-person engineering group and coordinated progress of upwards 50 simultaneous project efforts to deliver for quarterly OKRs.

Managed entire Verve Group program including multiple workstreams across all functional areas.

Developed, coordinated, and maintained integrated project planning, budgets, timelines, schedules, and communication plans for all assigned projects.

●Was instrumental in the process to form cross functional PODs based on product lines and revenues; incorporated agile practices standards into overall engineering flow.

●Partnered with product management representing the office of CTO to devise and implement project planning process to meet the needs and structure focused on aiding quarterly OKRs.

●Established executive reporting for senior leadership teams on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.

●Managed migration program from AWS to GCP across Verve Group, completed in eight months resulting in single Google contract and slashing overall cloud cost by 50%.

●Collaborated with product management to design, plan and execute migration and integration program to capture and streamline best future platform from despaired systems and products following 9 business acquisitions.

Senior Program Manager, Verve Group Inc., Carlsbad, CA 2016-2019

Directed project work of data management, data infrastructure, and data science teams with up to 20 combined personnel. Introduced programs focused on research and development. Recommended and launched overall technology team structure roadmap based on programs and short-term agile projects. Changed team dynamics from reactive and silo to proactive and collaborative allowing for complete system planning and implementation. Designed engineering intra-team management assessment and priority roadmap.

●Delivered projects to construct multi-tier system to continuously build, enhance, and oversee device/user profile for 300M+ unique devices.

●Managed live system processing of more than 20 terabytes of advertisement logs from internally led applications, SDK, and Ad exchanges in US, UK, and Germany.

●Convinced leadership to allocate time to invest in requirements and architecture reducing critical issues by 80%.

●Created program around data analytics, and data science initiatives creating 100+ behavioral audiences, home association, and hyperlocal communities’ models.

●Let all phases of technology overhaul program in collaboration with Salesforce, building a service platform for Verve large partners providing the advertising workflow and near real time performance management for thousands of small users of the platform.

●Led multi-phase activities producing post campaign performance measurement and attribution product based on internally created machine-learning algorithms.

●Project-managed GDPR and CCPA compliance efforts.

Senior Systems/Process Analyst, CoreLogic/Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, Irvine, CA 2015-2016

Analyzed and transformed enterprise data function organization, procedures, and systems. Created business process management framework featuring CaseWise process and systems mapping tools. Prepared process documentation standards. Studied existing business processes delivering complete set of documentation for enterprise data group operations and development procedures.

Program Manager, CoreLogic, San Diego, CA 2014-2015

Arranged and completed technology overhaul capital project strategy for CoreLogic and Marshall & Swift/Boeckh. Served on enterprise data management innovation team. Led 10 personnel.

●Investigated and recorded existing systems and automation tools plus systems performance, privacy, and security levels related to FCRA regulated data, risks, and limitations.

●Studied and chose technology partner Pivotal Labs and Qlik producing POC for data distribution store recommendation for data visualization and analytics. Developed the implementation plan for innovation program..

Director of PMO and Product Development, DataQuick Information Systems/MacDonnald Dettwiler, San Diego, CA 2007-2014

Managed product portfolio lifecycle, product roadmaps and development budget assisted by 34 staff.

●Guided test-driven development method concentrating on automating white box tests.

●Oversaw creation of five product lines including three innovative risk analytics products for lender, title companies and escrows.

●Led implementation and coordination efforts of data and analytics delivery to a Zillow.

●Initiated Oracle Financials as accounting and billing system.

Prior experience as Program Manager/Project Manager for DataQuick/MacDonnald Dettwiler; Senior Software Developer for Acxiom Corporation; Software Developer for DataQuick, all in San Diego, CA

Education

Master Level Coursework in Mathematics

Kiev State University, Ukraine

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Affiliations

National Association of Professional Women

Member of National and San Diego PMI chapter

Trainings/Certifications

UCLA Project Management Certificate Scrum Master Certificate (pending) UCSD Predictive Analytics

UCSD Systems Engineering UCSD Effective Management

Technical Skills

Iterative Scrum Kanban Waterfall Jira Jira Advanced Roadmaps AHA Confluence MS Project MS office SharePoint Visio Excel Lucid chart Access Salesforce AWS GCP Hadoop Red Shift Snow Flake Scala Java Spark Elastic Search Amazon Athena Talend Json/Parquet/XML MS SQL Server T-SQL C# MISMO Business Objects MS Reporting Services (SSRS) Oracle BRM

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