Vladimir Fofana

Experience

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  Work in various companies / freelancer

  Sept 2001 - Sept 2005

  Senior programmer / flash-animator

  I developed sites and different information systems in-house and as freelancer by using following programming languages, technologies and software:— C/C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, ActionScript, CSS, HTML, UML;— MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache, nginx, sphinx, Subversion, Git, MS Sharepoint.

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  Demis Group – digital & performance marketing

  Oct 2005 - Aug 2007

  Lead Programmer, Project Manager

  Duties / functions:— Identification, analysis and negotiation of the business requirements;— Information systems' architecture design and development;— Website technical design and development.Achievements:— Successfully completed a project regarding the automatic monitoring of the positions of websites in search systems;— Developed a flexible management system for the websites.

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  ForEXpert

  Sept 2007 - Aug 2008

  Head of Information Technologies Department / Project Manager

  Duties / functions: — Formulation of the policy and the direction of the IT department; — Management of the department and of the IT projects of the company; — Technical design components of the trading platform. Achievements: — The department has successfully completed several projects to adapt the trading platform to the needs of the company; — Trading platform was introduced to commercial exploitation.

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  Storm International

  Sept 2008 - Apr 2009

  Manager of products and projects in the IT department

  Duties / functions: — Management of gaming and distributed foreign projects, products of IT department; — Coordination of the work of managers of subprojects; — Contract signing with external contractors, monitoring of supplies. Achievements: — Completed project of IT infrastructure deployment and integration of gaming systems at the opening of casino in Monterrey; — In close cooperation with the cellular operator, reduced the cost of corporate mobile more than 2-times— Carried out a project of relocation of the IT unit (about 90 people) into a new office. Show less

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  Artektiv

  Jul 2009 - Feb 2012

  Chief technical officer

  Duties / functions:— Management of web-development department, about 10 employees;— Development and alignment of technical requirements, projects' budgets, company strategy;— Plan and control the activity on projects and operation activity of the department; — As an expert participate in the design of application's architecture. Achievements: — Set up cost-effective development department from the grass roots by recruiting and training a professional team; — Developed and introduced the work procedures of the projects and documents' templates; — Several web-oriented CRM-, ERP-systems and internet-shops were developed. Show less

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  2RealLife

  Mar 2012 - Feb 2013

  Gaming projects development manager

  Duties / functions:— Management of 3 groups (up to 25 people) providing development and support of 3 online high-load games;— Planning, assigning and control of tasks execution according to producer plan;— Interaction with other company departments and outsource employees;— Reporting projects' progress and status to company administration.Achievements: — Released game "The Heavens" on game portal Kongregate;— Launched beta-version of game God send Game in VK social network;— Released game PrePuzzle in social networks VK, OK and MM. Show less

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  Active Learning

  Feb 2013 - Apr 2014

  Project Manager

  Duties / functions:— Management of projects on developing e-learning products for company's customers;— Planning and controlling of all projects' aspects: scope, cost, terms, etc;— Negotiating with customers' responsible representatives.Achievements:— Developed and released several e-learning products;— Developed and released methodology of effective e-learning products developing.

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  MosTaxi

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Manager of corporate information systems implementation projects

  Duties / functions:— Business requirements development;— Management projects of corporate information systems developmentAchievements:— Completed project of deployment new company's work automation software and transfer business processes into it.

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  IPONWEB (acquired by Criteo)

  Sept 2014 - Jun 2023

  Team Lead

  Functions / duties:— Management team of IT-engineers;— Projects, programs, and products management.Achievements:— Established department's support service;— Made significant architectural changes in company's market noticeable analytic tool;— Completed program of company's wide ML initiatives;— Developed department's SLA;— Made a lot of different improvements in processes, architectures, etc;

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  Reshape Analytics

  Jun 2023 - now

  Chief Technology Officer

  — Management of products’ technical life cycle, development teams management;— Technical architecture design of own and being integrated systems;— IT-infrastructure and IT-assets management;— Increasing digital and technological maturity level of the company.