Evgeniya Kolesnikova

Senior IT Business Analyst / Project Manager / Product Owner

I have a master’s degree in Management and Information Technologies in Technical Systems and master’s degree in Finance and over 13 years working experience in IT, including experience in software support, project management, business analysis and management of IT department at a startup. I am also a certified Scrum Master (PSMI). I have worked on different sides of the development process – on a customer side and as a member of the development team. This gives me the ability to understand both clients and developers and allows to keep a reasonable balance in my work. The projects that I have been involved in cover a wide range of industries and domains. This experience taught me to quickly immerse myself in new subject areas. I am able to efficiently interact with both IT and business stakeholders, identify customer and business needs and translate them into solution specification documents, build positive and professional working relationships with clients, work well in an international team environment (both distributed and co-located) and manage mid-size teams.

Domains: Life Science, E-Commerce, Finance, Retail, Customs, Banking, Nuclear Power, Import Purchasing, Call centers, Logistics.

Languages: Russian: native English: Writing C1, Speaking B2+

Saint-Petersburg, RU
[email protected]

Objective

I'm looking for an opportunity to apply my extensive experience in both IT-project management and business analysis in single challenging position in creation of the world class, well-crafted software products. I have lots of energy, pro-activeness, and I'm not afraid to start my life in another country from the beginning.

Skills

Business & System analysis

Business processes analysis and requirements elicitation
Requirements management
Modelling with UML, BPMN etc
Requirements specification
Use cases, user stories, software specifications
Story mapping
Choosing Business Analysis approach
Business Analysis work planning
Identifying gaps and suggesting improvements

Scrum

Certified Scrum Master (PSM I)
Scrum ceremonies facilitation
Scrum promotion within the Teams

Project management

Producing project plan and project roadmap
Defining scope
Breaking down projects into actions
Planning, tracking, managing project activities and deliverables
Release coordination
Identifying and Managing project risks
Project staffing
Managing project budget
Client expectation management

Product owner

Vision and scope creation
Building Development Roadmap
Backlog management
Collaboration with development team during development cycle for clarifying needs

Work Experience

EPAM Systems (Saint-Petersburg office, Russia), Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager, Jun 2016 ~ Present

Customers:

Various American and Global Life Science companies (Venture company funding Life Sciences & Healthcare projects, Pharmaceutical company, Genetic research company, Genetic testing company .

Projects:

mainly the projects in Life Science domain (research data management system, genetic computation system, medical reporting system, drug discovery data visualizing system, Telegram bot constructor).

Roles:

IT Business Analyst, Business Analyst Team Lead, Project Manager, Product Owner.

Tasks performed as a Business Analyst:

Software requirements analysis and specification,
Gap analysis for optimization and automation,
Product envisioning and scoping, building project roadmap,
Conducting requirements workshops with the stakeholders and subject matter experts,
Business analysis work organizing and coordinating,
Coordinating prioritization of the tasks, planning and managing scope of the sprints/releases,
Facilitating scrum ceremonies, providing guidance for the team in following Scrum.

Tasks performed as a Project Manager:

Planning and tracking project activities and deliverables,
Managing project risks,
Communicating project status with a client, made written reporting to a client,
Facilitating internal communication and collaboration,
Negotiating and signing contracts for project prolongation,
Organizing usability testing,
Project staffing,
Managing project budget.

Center of Innovative Educational Technologies (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), Business Analyst, Feb 2017 ~ Apr 2017

Project:

Modernization of the platform for innovative projects in electric power industry. Short-term participation at the stage of reverse engineering.

Tasks:

specified requirements using reverse engineering approach.

Project Framework:

Behavior Driven Development, Gherkin's Feature structure, Given When Then scenarios.

AuPontRouge (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Business Analyst / Project Manager / IT Dept Head, Dec 2013 ~ Jan 2016

Project (internal):

Retail department store and eCommerce Retail system launch startup

Project Roles:

IT Business Analyst, Project Manager, Acting Head of IT department

Domains:

imported purchasing, customs clearance, delivery, commissioning, retail sale, e-commerce

Software stack:

1C: Sales management, 1C: Accounting, IBM MDM, SugarCRM, Magento (E-commerce), Cisco Unified Contact Center Express

Tasks:

Described and designed business processes for the startup,
Gathered business needs, clarified, analyzed, designed and managed requirements for large IT project for Retail and E-commerce,
Configured the software,
Wrote User Guides,
Supported User Acceptance Testing,
Managed Startup Project,
Managed IT department (including contracting, budgeting, managing expenses).

Acceleration (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Business Process Analyst, Nov 2015 ~ Nov 2015

Project:

Housing stock management system development for the Saint-Petersburg Government (Russia). Short-term participation at the stage of analyzing business processes and specifying documentation.

Customer:

Institute of Rational Technologies, Russia

Tasks:

Analyzed procedures and government standards related to the urban housing stock management,
Documented "as is" and "to be" business processes.

Russian Research Institute for Nuclear Power Plants Operations (Moscow / Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Lead Engineer, Jun 2010 ~ Dec 2013

Projects:

implementation of Engineering Safety Systems for Nuclear Power Plants,
implementation of Engineering Data Acquisition and Visualizing Systems for Nuclear Power Plant Operators.

Tasks:

Analyzed data from external data suppliers for the integration,
Specified technical documents,
Performed gap analysis,
Clarified business requirements,
Facilitated acceptance testing;
Provided consultancy to the users.

Nuclear Power Plant (Russia), Software Maintenance Engineer, Sep 2005 ~ Jun 2010

Project (internal):

SCADA type real-time process monitoring system implementation and support.

Tasks:

Supported software system,
Gathered, updated, and documented technical requirements,
Participated in User Acceptance Testing,
Consulted users.

Education

Saratov State Socio-Economic University, Master’s Degree, Finance and Credit, 2007 ~ 2011

Saratov State Technical University, Master’s Degree, Management and Information Technology in technical systems, 2000 ~ 2005

Licenses, Certifications, Training

Certifications

PSM I - Scrum Master (https://www.scrum.org), 2019
Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations (Lynda), 2018

Training

Molecular Biology Basics. 2018
Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations Issuing authority (Lynda.com), 2018
Practical analysis and visual modeling in UML (System Analysis School), 2017
Business Process Modeling with BPMN notation (System Analysis School), 2017
Use Case development (System Analysis School), 2016
Fundamentals of Responsive design and development of websites (Netology), 2016
Fundamentals of Web-technology: Web Sites and Web Applications (Netology), 2016
Development of a new Product by Lean startup approach (Netology), 2016
Responsive design and development of websites. Fundamentals (Netology), 2016
Multiple internal training courses in EPAM: Working with the Customer, Concept Design for a New Product etc
Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management (Coursera), 2015