About me

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Hi, I'm Victor, a Project Management Professional. I'm passionate about technology 💻 and enjoy sharing my knowledge to help people.

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Summary

I'm a Technical Program Manager with 11 years of experience delivering over 30 projects and programs with budgets of $10K to $10M, over 1 month to 3 years, leading teams from 2 to 50 members in the IT, cloud, fintech, biotech, cryptocurrency, data management, medical, online services, retail, and education industries.

Career highlights

Led a 50-person program with 7 parallel projects to deliver a smart dog collar, enabling dog parents to create a virtual fence and train their dogs to stay within it ($50M in sales to date).

Led a software development program to create a market dominant product and the most popular home services app in Georgia in 18 months (80% of market share to date).

Led a project to deliver an MVP of a platform to centrally manage cryptocurrency assets in 3 months, thus enabling the company to secure $1.3M in seed investment.

Built end-to-end presales process for the IT development company within 6 months by aligning sales teams, delivery organizations, and executives during project proposals to achieve 120% of annual presales KPI.

Taught a Big Data course at Masters level within a Computer Science program as a PhD student at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in 2018–2019 academic year.

My strengths

I continuously improve myself and the people around me by learning new things and being a catalyst for change. Through my natural anticipation of obstacles and careful thought process, I reduce risks and prevent problems from arising. I enjoy building relationships with others and find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal. I enable projects to stay on track with my powerful ability to prioritize, set goals, and work efficiently by avoiding time-consuming distractions. I love to be involved in big projects or initiatives in the early stages, before the action begins, because I can lead the way and my insights enable projects to move forward intelligently and without backtracking.

One more thing

I coach Agile teams to unlock their potential to the fullest and enable value delivery to end clients.

My engineering background allows me to dive deep into the technical details of a project.

I mentor and supervise fellow project managers in sharpening their management skills.

I regularly speak at professional events; my Top-3 speaking engagements are “My PMP exam experience” for the PMI Belarus Chapter, “Predictive vs Adaptive: the battle of approaches” for Agile FUN-da-MENTALS community, “Is professional certification worth it?” for the Agile Grodno community.

Professional experience

2012-2024

Certifications

PMI Project Management Professional Badge
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Badge
Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner – Advanced Badge
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Badge
ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity Badge

Education

2010 - Ongoing


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