Program Manager Technical

Dennis Parakhnevich

San Jose, Ca • www.linkedin.com/in/dparakhnevich • ******************@*****.*** • 484-***-**** Senior Technical Program Manager

Professional Summary

Senior Technical Program Manager with 12+ years of experience leading multi-million-dollar AI, automation, and enterprise software projects. Proven ability to drive cross-functional teams (50+ engineers), optimize workflows, and deliver solutions for Apple, Google, and Vanguard. Secured $2M+ in funding, improved efficiency by 30%, and successfully led projects from concept to execution on time and within budget. Focused on driving innovation and transforming complex ideas into real-world impact. Expertise in AI development, program management, project management, and stakeholder management, data analytics, business operations, agile delivery, cloud infrastructure (AWS, APIs), and IoT solutions involving hardware and software integration.

Experience

AIHunters, Senior Technical Program Manager Mountain View CA May 2023 – Present

● Led the end-to-end development of AI-powered solutions, including highlights generation and automatic ad insertion, increasing media automation efficiency by 30% and successfully integrating the platform into 7+ enterprise environments.

● Managed cross-functional teams of 15+ AI researchers, developers, and data scientists, optimizing Agile workflows to improve sprint velocity by 20% and delivering 10+ successful POCs, with a 40% conversion rate to full implementations.

● Spearheaded customer engagement and system integrations, reducing onboarding time by 25% while ensuring seamless deployment and compatibility with third-party systems.

● Optimized project execution and operational workflows, implementing process improvements that increased team productivity by 15% and reduced inefficiencies by 20%, ensuring high-quality deliverables. Apple, Technical Program Manager (contract via EPAM)Cupertino CA Nov 2022 – Apr 2023

● Led an effort to automate (Java, Hibernate) the collection of daily App recommendation rankings from across 175 App Stores, each with up to 4 languages and 3 device-specific variants, resulting in accurate data for marketing campaigns and elimination of contractor (20) expenses.

● Communicated progress to stakeholders weekly using the dashboard to show app store coverage and defect rate reductions (-35%) as regression tests came online. Google, Technical Program Manager (contract via EPAM)San Jose CA Jun 2022 – Oct 2022

● Expanded a contract to deliver a detailed analysis for frequent outages and instability of an internal legacy meeting room reservation tool by gaining buy-in for an application rewrite that improved uptime from 70% to 95% and enabled the global employee base to book seamlessly.

● Prioritized documentation for the API to ensure extensibility and scalability considerations were available for any future generations of development this tool would undergo.

● Drove the approval process and secured a budget of $2M+ for 10 engineers to execute a 6-month roadmap that proved accurate for time and budget, improving the EPAM reputation. GoogleX, Technical Program Manager (contract via EPAM)Mountain View CA Oct 2021 – Jun 2022

● Joined a four-person TPM team to launch Project Tapestry, a moonshot energy-optimization project partnering with international power companies, to establish metrics and processes for the GM and VP to have clear visibility and success-measuring capabilities.

● Consolidated KPIs across 15 team leaders spanning Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Compliance, external vendors, and partners into a dynamic dashboard to provide stakeholders with relevant and timely signals on progress and performance.

● Presented KPI progression weekly for the first partner - Chile’s National Electric System, and collected feedback from stakeholders on what aspects of the data to abstract or expose in the next iteration. Vanguard, Engineering Manager (contract via EPAM)Malvern PA Dec 2018 – Oct 2021

● Deployed to the Digital Advisor team at month 8 to salvage the 15-month deadline for engineering an AI investment advisor by switching to Agile for accelerated iteration cycles, eventually shipping an MVP to internal employees on time and deploying to tens of millions of Vanguard customers by 20 months.

● Adopted Scrum Master role across 5 teams (3 Eng, QA, UX) at the onset of establishing Agile methodology in order to drive consistency and later deliver a training course for new Scrum masters.

● Accelerated product iteration by 30% and observed a measured increase in cross-team communications, boosting morale, confidence, and visibility for the team members. EPAM Systems, Engineering Manager Apr 2015 – Dec 2018

● Identified ML as a way to strengthen Anti-Money Laundering systems at financial institutions (CitiBank, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, China Merchant Bank) and took the initiative to develop a replicable solution across 10 institutions, creating a multi-million dollar impact in operational cost-savings and loss-prevention for clients.

● Established Data Analytics (DA) and Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) expertise from the ground up within EPAM’s Intelligent Automation Competency Center. Held global responsibility for MLE and DA initiatives, driving strategy and innovation across the organization.

● Hired, trained, deployed, and directly managed 30+ ML engineers and DA over 3 years to ensure each client’s WorkFusion Intelligent Automation integration was customized for the most relevant signals.

● Achieved global staffing success, effectively aligning resources across EPAM and supporting strategic partnerships, including WorkFusion integration projects.

● Trained and applied machine-learning models (data classification and data extraction) to automate document workflow processes, reducing the time required to review a single case of Sanctions Screening from 7 minutes to 1 minute.

Fitbit (acquired by Google), Quality Assurance Team Lead Remote May 2012 – Mar 2015

● Managed a 6+ person QA team, tightly integrated with development teams to ensure system-level functionality through automated Selenium testing and extensive manual test plans for less mature features.

● Analyzed critical defects reported in Production to learn that synchronization issues between the web client, server, and tracker were the highest priority area for establishing more excellent test coverage, later realizing a 25% reduction in critical defects.

● Reduced report creation time by 20% by creating a template for reports and predefined dashboards in JIRA. Education

M.S. in Computer Science, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics B.S. in Finance and Credit, Belarusian State University Currently pursuing PMP (Project Management Professional) certification, expected completion 2025 Technical skills

Project Management: Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall, SDLC, MVP, OKR, KPI Project Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Asana, Monday, Notion, Miro, Smartsheet, MS Project Communication Platforms: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, G Suite Business Analytics: Tableau, SQL, Power BI, KPI Dashboards, Metrics Tracking, Google Analytics, Excel

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