Dmitry Podoliak

Experience

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  Digital Agencies, self-employment

  Aug 2007 - Jun 2010

  Graphic Designer

  Work on different digital and advertisment agencies as a Graphic Designer and UX / UI specialist:• creation of visual identity for famous brands;• production of visual advertisment materials;• design and development of small websites.Self-employment, individual enterpreneur.

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  AKB BELROSBANK JSC

  Jun 2010 - Dec 2012

  Key responsibilities:• development of new corporate bank website (collecting of business requirements, communication, project planning, budget management, control of development with vendor, launch and marketing activities);• marketing planning of bank advertisment campaings (media plans for banner, Google.Adwords, Yandex.Direct campaings);• management, monitoring and analysis of the effectiveness of campaigns;• brand support in internet and social media;• preparing and production of visual advertisment materials;• website administration and content management. Show less

  • Business Analyst

    Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Internet Marketer

    Jun 2010 - Jan 2012
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  StatusBank JSC

  Dec 2012 - Aug 2014

  Work on digital banking and IT-projects of the bank in PMO:• Organisation of work of bank project office and department:- creation and management of portfolio of bank IT projects;- building of project culture (metodology and processes);- communication with business customers, IT department and vendors.• Management of current IT-projects in the bank:- new corporate bank website (collecting and writing of business requirements, communication, project planning, budget management, control of development, communication with vendor, launch and related marketing activities);- online digital lending system (writing of business requirements, project & budget planning, control of vendor development, launch and support). Show less

  • Head of Innovation Projects Development Department

    Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Digital Marketer

    Dec 2012 - Jan 2014
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  ProfMarketSystem LLC

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

  Deputy Director

  "Motsnaya kartka" - the biggest loyalty program in Belarus, based on the salary bank cards.Key responsibilities:• operating activities and back-office management;• development and maintenance of loyalty system IT platform (writing requirements for back-end and front-end);• marketing activities (launch of new website, content management, preparing content materials);• communications between program participants.

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  Альфа-Банк (Беларусь)

  Jan 2016 - May 2019

  Development of InSync - the best mobile banking in Belarus - >30 releases from Dec. 2016 with huge functionality.• Project Coordinator of 4 remote teams on the project (bank core back-end, e-channel development, mobile front-end and product development).• Project / Delivery Manager in united e-channel development team: Alfa-Bank + IBA (21 people).• Solution Architect in e-channel infrastructure.• Head of Department: 8 BA/SA + 2 UX/UI specialists + 2 support specialists (12 people).Key responsibilities:• participating in eBusiness strategy planning (with product team and stakeholders) - roadmap, budgeting, backlog maintenance and task prioritizing;• release planning, scope definition, task estimation;• management of BA/SA team - task planning, architecture solutions, control of preparing system requirements (BPMN process modeling, FSD/SRS, API);• management of UX/UI team - preparing mockups, design;• management of support team - feedback collection and processing, solving problems, documentation;• people management - hiring, training and individual growth of team members;• control of development process - communications, meetings, reports, troubleshootings;• holding Agile activities - daily, sprint reviews and demo, retrospectives;• communication with related bank units - support, consulting.Tools: Jira+Confluence, Slack, MS Visio, Draw.io, IBM DB2 tools, SOAP UI.Methodology: Agile (Scrum).Role: Scrum Master.Technology stack: RPG, Java, Spring Integration, MySQL, DB2, REST API, SOA, Kotlin, Swift.Team: 21 people. Show less Development of Alfa-Bank e-Business and #digitalbanking products:• internet banking Alfa-Click;• mobile banking Alfa-Mobile, InSync.Key responsibilities:• market analysis of fintech products;• participating in eBusiness strategy planning (with product team and stakeholders) - roadmap, budgeting, backlog maintenance and task prioritizing;• product backlog maintenance and prioritizing, feature estimation;• project planning, project scope definition;• release planning, scope definition, task estimation;• collecting of business requirements;• writing business and system documentation (BPMN process modeling, BRD/FSD/SRS, creating UX/UI mockups);• coordination of remote development teams work (bank core back-end, front-end);• management and control of feature development;• training and mentoring of junior BA;• communication with contiguous bank units and departments.Tools: Jira+Confluence, Slack, MS Visio, Balsamic, Axure.Methodology: Agile (Scrum).Role: Product Owner (InSync).Team: 20 people. Show less

  • Head of Mobile Development & Support Department

    Oct 2017 - May 2019

  • Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager / Product Owner

    Jan 2016 - Oct 2017
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  Aventus IT

  May 2019 - Apr 2020

  Project Manager

  Development and support of web-based online lending IT-platform that provides online loans to European and Asian clients of Aventus Group companies.Development of new mobile Android application for Aventus Group clients in two countries (UA, PL) from scratch.Key responsibilities:• organization of team work and feature delivery process (collection of business requirements, task planning, workflow adjustment, control of development, holding Agile activities, project reporting);• communication with business customer (Poland, Czech, Latvia), group divisions and remote developers in English;• mobile dev: BA/discovery phase (vision & scope, product roadmap planning, estimation, work with UX/UI dev);• product backlog maitenance, task prioritizing;• people management.Tools: Jira+Confluence, Draw.io, Gitlab, Jenkins, Google Analytics, InVision, Avocode, Zeplin, Firebase, Google Developer console.Methodology: Agile (Kanban).Role: Project Manager.Technology stack: PHP (Symfony), Wordpress, MySQL, HTML+CSS+JS, React, Kotlin.Team: 4-5 people. Show less

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  Invento Labs LLC

  Apr 2020 - Apr 2021

  Project Manager

  Development of complex business automatization software, based on Odoo ERP system. Project included web + mobile development.Key responsibilities:• project management (release planning, coordination of development, organization of team work, holding Scrum activities, control and tracking deadlines, communication);• product backlog maintenance;• change requests and user feedback management;• risk management;• people management.Tools: Redmine, Confluence, GDocs.Methodology: Agile (Scrum).Technology stack: Odoo platform (Python + PostgreSQL).Role: Project ManagerTeam: 7 people. Show less

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  Spiral Scout - Custom software development and design

  May 2021 - May 2024

  Project Manager

  Management of high-tech projects and products in a Research & Development team.Projects:• an AI-driven writer assistant that clarifies and answers intricate RFPs and client briefs into highly tailored, winning response in generated document;• a CPQ tool (Configure-Price-Quote) to make sales cycle more efficient and productive and make customer journeys faster and more comfortable; • open-source internal products: Spiral Framework - high-performance PHP framework is based on the best enterprise-level components, RoadRunner - high-performance PHP server, open-source load balancer and PHP process manager and Cycle ORM - PHP DataMapper, ORM and Data-Modelling engine. Key responsibilities:• project management (release planning, coordination of development, organization of team work, holding Scrum activities, communication);• product management (product roadmap maintenance and feature prioritizing);• coordinating of internal portfolio of projects in the company (SS websites, internal tools, integrations and basic products).Tools: Jira+Confluence, GitHub.Methodology: Agile.Role: Project Manager.Technology stack: PHP, Golang, VueJS, HTML+CSS, JS.Team: 6-12 people.Key responsibilities:• project management (release planning, coordination of development, organization of team work, holding Scrum activities, communication);• coordinating of internal portfolio of projects in the company (SS websites, internal tools, integrations and basic products).Tools: Jira+Confluence, GitHub.Methodology: Agile.Role: Project Manager.Technology stack: PHP, Golang.Team: 6-12 people. Show less

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  ScienceSoft

  May 2024 - now

  Senior Project Manager

  Project management of complex software solutions in accordance with the chosen methodology (project planning, budgeting, monitoring the progress of development, team management, building a system of effective communication with stakeholders).Participation in the IT presale process: research and processing of client RFx, management of the presale team, preparation of proposals.