Summary:
I've been over 8 years in computer software industry. I have been working in agile projects for more than 4 years in different roles including developer, team lead and scrum master. I really believe that Agile is one of the most appropriate approaches to software development. I'm not only using agile way of doing and thinking for my job but try apply it to my life as well. But I really believe that great teamwork is much more essential and people are more important than any processes. I like to work with people and be a member of a team, not only leader. I also have expertise in software design and development; agile project management and coaching; teamwork and team management; working in distributed teams; requirement and system analysis; software projects estimations; customer collaboration and other.
Specialties (strongest skills)
- Scrum process knowledge and application (certified Scrum Master).
- Teamwork and team management (including work in distributed team).
- Customer collaboration.
Other Skills
- Requirements gathering and analysis.
- Software design and development (esp. Java applications).
- Software estimation process.
- Databases design, implementation and usages.
- Decision support and data analysis systems (OLAP).
- Configuration management.
- Software testing.
Languages
- Russian (native).
- English (fluent).
- German (basic).
Other Interests
- Playing ice hockey as a goalie(amateur level).
- Reading books and writing reviews.
- Traveling.
- Snowboarding.
- Cycling.
- Cross-country skiing.
- Car driving.
Recommendation:
- Anton Viktorov, Delivery Director; Exigen Services anton.viktorov@exigenservices.com
- David Halpin, Vice President, Engineering; Quickoffice, Inc david@halpin.com
- Stanislav Davydov, Freelance consultant stas.moti@vate.me
Do you want to see how people I've worked with recommend me? See this at linkedin .
Experience:
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August 2008—March 2009, Quickoffice
Scrum Master, Agile Coach
Key Achievements:
- successfully introduced Scrum and other Agile techniques (such as agile estimating and planning, retrospectives, Sprint planning and review) to group of about 20 people and continued to help to improve people knowledge and experience in that area.
- established Scrum framework for 2 new projects to transit these projects from Waterfall and continuously have been improving existing process.
- as a Scrum Master together with 2 teams of about 15 people successfully delivered brand new application to its 1st release.
- configured Green Hopper plug-in for Jira from scratch to adopt it to Scrum and administer Jira to track project issues
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April 2007—July 2008, Exigen Services Starsoft
Project Manager, Scrum Master
Key Achievements:
- played as a Scrum master for 5 projects and together with different teams from 3 to 7 people successfully delivered these projects to several product releases.
- played as a Scrum Master for 2 projects simultaneously.
- for some projects successfully played as configuration manager, configuring databases and project/bug tracking system.
- for some projects played as analyst and helped customer to produce better requirements and helped to establish “communication bridge” between customer and engineering team.
- together with development team successfully conducted estimation (release planning) for 3 brand new projects.
- for all time taught about 10 engineers who were new with Scrum how to use it and other Agile practices like continuous integration, pair programming, agile estimation techniques, etc.
- successfully helped the most of the customers to transit their way of managing products to more agile. Taught them how to write user stories, manage product backlog, set priorities based on estimation and ROI
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June 2006—April 2007, StarSoft Development Labs
Team Lead, SCRUM Master
Key Achievements:
- successfully combined Team lead and Scrum Master role for team of 7 in mid-size Scrum of Scrums project.
- tremendously decreased bug percentage for the module which had been one of the complicated and “buggiest” in the system.
- introduced some new techniques such as Test Driven Design to increase product quality.
- successfully built a team and create great team spirit despite it was first experience as team lead in my career.
- together with team and Product Owner successfully adjusted way of conducting Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Daily Scrum meetings to distributed team. This experience later was used in other teams and projects.
- as software engineer not only performed coding tasks but created test cases as well.
- embraced cross-functionality in the team: developers helped test engineers to create test cases and test implemented functionality.
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May 2006—February 2007, K2 (amateur hockey team)
Team manager, captain, player (volunteer)
Key Achievements:
- Found people who want to play hockey on amateur level.
- Organized team life (participations in tournaments, friendly games, training process).
- Found a coach for team.
- Made agreement with ice rink to provide time for training and playing.
- Made all financial jobs (organized people to pay for ice rent, T-shirt made, etc).
- Played hockey on defender position as well.
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November 2004—June 2006, StarSoft Development Labs
Software Engineer
Key Achievements:
- successfully learnt new technologies and development approach (Scrum) which were completely unknown for me.
- not only performed coding tasks but created and managed Unit test suite for the most complicated module of big system.
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2001—2004, Business Consulting, Saint-Petersburg
Software Engineer
Key Achievements:
- successfully designed and implemented data warehouse as well as data warehouse augmenting mechanism.
- trained customer how to use data warehouse and populate it with real data.
- helped to populate data warehouse with real data and provided necessary support after that.
- designed and implemented modules to print very big and complicated reports for a bank.
Education
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1998—2004, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University
BS in Computer Science
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March 2007, Certified Scrum Master Course
trained by Jeff Sutherland
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June 2008, Gold In The Net Goalies Summer Camp
Special Elite Program