Resume

I work in IT project management. Having good background in this area (proper education in Computer Science, 10-years work experience on a wide range of IT-positions from C++/web programmer to game-producer, participating as project manager in some big projects like PC- and mobile games, blogging platform and online dating services) lets me cope with my job and moreover enjoy it.

Experience

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  Internet Project Manager, Badoo Development (global social network, 100 million users; HQ: Moscow - London) May 2008 – present time

  Project management as it is:

  • Creating a project plan, task producing and controlling;
  • Managing a PHP-team of professionals, including HTML- and JS- divisions;
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  Internet Project Manager / Lead Analyst, SUP Fabrik (internet & media company, LiveJournal's owner; HQ: Moscow - San Francisco) December 2006 – May 2008

  LiveJournal.RU product management:

  • Project management from inception to launch: creating a project plan, task producing and controlling;
  • Writing technical documentation and functional specification, discussing product features with customers (customer focus-groups, company management) and project software team;
  • As a result, project has been launched in time. Daily audience of the site is about 40 000 hosts (about 150 000 page views) at the present and is constantly growing.

  LiveJournal.COM integration project:

  • Project management from inception to launch and organizing after-launch support;
  • As a result of this project, commenting service of LiveJournal.COM was integrated into partner sites, such as Kommersant, RIAN, Izvestia and others. The audience of these sites increased by 30% at least. Every month a new partner site integrates into the service.
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  Chief of Internet Department, Alliance Executive (HQ: Moscow) July 2006 – December 2006

  • Creating and managing 2 internet projects: site about mortgage loans in Russia (IpoSelect.RU) and job-seeking portal. Budget planning, searching and hiring new employees, working with outsourcing companies (SEO, site-content editors) and company partners (banks, head-hunting agencies) were key points of my responsibility.
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  Software Dept. Lead / Project Manager, Mamba (online dating service, #1 in Russia; HQ: Moscow) November 2005 – July 2006

  As Software Department Lead:

  • Searching and hiring new web-programmers for software dept. As a result, 9 new programmers were hired (web- and DB-programmers);

  As Project Manager:

  • Working with SMS-aggregators in regions (Ukraine, Georgia, Israel)
  • Managing of developing new dating services (such as dating horoscopes, advanced search and profile customization). All these services were launched. In total, outcome of these services was profit increasing by 7%;
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  Release Producer / Account Manager, Reaxion (developer and publisher of mobile games; HQ: Moscow - Seattle) February 2003 – October 2005

  As Account Manager (May 2004 – October 2005):

  • Working with company partners from the US, Europe and South America, such as Verizon, US Cellular, VIVO, BellSouth and others; managing company portfolio onto carriers' phone ranges;

  As Release Producer (February 2003 – May 2004):

  • Managing of developing BREW- and Java-games for mobile phones (outsourcing and in-house). There were 10 games launched on numerous platforms under my supervision.
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  Game Producer, Buka (PC-games publisher; HQ: Moscow) October 2002 – February 2003

  • Project management of 3 PC-games as a publisher's producer. One game was launched under my supervision, other two ones were launched after I left the company.
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  C++ Programmer, Nikita (game development & publishing; HQ: Moscow) September 1999 – October 2002

  • Participating in developing of an engine for 3D-game. Created physics library, collision detection library, and game resource management library.
  • 2 games which are based on this engine were successfully launched: "Parkan. Iron Strategy" and "Safari Biathlon".

Education

• MS Computer Science (Master degr., Telecommunication technologies), Moscow State University, 1999 – 2001
• BS Computer Science (Diploma, Applied Mathematics & Cybernetics), Moscow State University, 1994 – 1999

Selected Publications

• Ideal game development: who is who (in Russian), 2003, link
• Personal effectiveness: optimize your tasks / series of articles (in Russian), 2007 – 2009, link

Extra

• Fluent English (IELTS tested: 7/9)
• Some French