| Name |
Alex Petrov |
| Contact |
i@apetrov.net |
| Position |
Product owner in scrum team |
| Methodologies |
Scrum; Kanban; XP; PMI PMBOK; P2M; I adhere to an approach in which the choice of methodology depends on the specifics of the project and organization; I combine successful practices. |
| Specialization |
Aviation, mobile applications; loyalty systems; finance; investments; electronic payments; payment processing; online banking; loans; e-commerce; fiscalization, blockchain, retail electricity, IoT. |
| Work experience |
- 06.2023Freelance
- IT consulting.
- Designed and developed landing pages.
- Copywriting.
- Installed, configured, and administered web and email servers.
- Usability testing and audit.
- Learn to fly.
- 12.2021 — 04.2023Svyaz inzhiniring M Position: CPO.
Besides the CPO role worked also in the CTO role. Everything listed below was achieved jointly and thanks to the team.
As CTO:
- Assembled a team after the departure of the previous one (before me).
- Implemented Scrum and Kanban.
- Implemented DevOps practices.
- Implemented SLA.
- Stabilized the main software product of the company RoMonitoring and integrated it with big data.
As PO:
- Implemented UI/UX practices, usability testing and customer research.
- Finalized the product “Subscriber personal account”.
- Created from scratch the smart lighting management system Synergy of ASUNO class. Won the RZHD accelerator with this product and achieved implementation at two regional railway stations.
- Implemented product management through metrics.
- Made a transition to Chinese components for the flagship IoT device of the company, ensured the possibility of production in 2022 and made a significant part of the 2023 budget.
- 10.2019 — 11.2021Inzhenerniy centr Energoauditkontrol Position: CTO.
- Created a concept project of the Retail electricity market platform. Gathered 170 requirements, elaborated architecture, selected blockchain for data reliability, described 31 user stories, described 31 business processes, developed 31 prototypes of user interfaces, digitized 30 industry documents.
- Developed a working prototype for collecting readings of IoT electricity meters with KEP signature and recording to blockchain.
- Based on Camunda, developed and implemented a public procurement management system for the federal service for alcohol market regulation.
- Conducted load testing of EGAIS for Centrinform.
- 08.2017 — 10.2018Perviy OFD Position: technical director.
- Managed a team of 40 people (developers, DevOps, QA, UX and UI specialists, analysts, data scientists, technical writers) creating and supporting software for online fiscalization of approximately a quarter of a million cash registers across the country.
- Successfully implemented two internal startups related to mobile applications in the role of product owner.
- Implemented KPI based on results for the entire department.
- Raised SLA of main services from 99% to 99.9%, and for some services to 99.99%.
- 02.2014 — 08.2017CardParking Position: IT project manager.
Responsibilities
- Management of the development and testing team.
- Designing interfaces.
- Marketing.
- Management of outsourced employees (designers, copywriters, programmers, SMM, support).
- Support of subsidiaries in other countries (Lithuania, Poland, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, England and Ireland).
- Preparation and participation in exhibitions.
- Leading a parallel project FindNewClient.
Achievements
- Created an IT department from scratch.
- Implemented quality assurance and control processes, including automated testing, requirement-based testing and monitoring of production infrastructure.
- Created a support department.
- Together with the team created a product with an audience of 250,000 users for platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
- Created all artifacts related to design, interfaces and websites.
- Prepared successful completion of audit for the next investment round.
- Launched a pilot version of the virtual loyalty cards project for small business FindNewClient.
- 10.2013 — 01.2014Perviy OFD Position: head of software design and acceptance department.
- Created software design and acceptance department.
- Implemented design processes.
- Developed software acceptance processes from the contractor.
- 10.2011 — 08.2013OOO “MobiPlaS” Position: IT director.
- Implemented quality assurance and control processes.
- Created support department and call center.
- Initiated the creation of development and testing environment.
- Passed PCI DSS certification.
- Developed together with the team: back office, fraud monitoring and anti-fraud expert system.
- Added 3DS support.
- Completed projects together with the team: easy payment, connection of online stores, new payment website; connected acquiring of Bank of Moscow and Russian Standard Bank; MoneySend; developed mobile applications: Gotcha (Android and iPhone), Utility payment scanner (Android and iPhone), Balance+ widget (Android), new application Payphone (iPhone), Alphabet of taste (iPhone); successfully finished online microcredit project.
- Implemented a business process management system.
- Developed together with the team systems: underwriting, scoring and soft collection.
- 06.2009 — 07.2011ZAO “ChronoPay” Position: project manager.
- Successfully completed projects: Financial system, CRM, Payment terminal for MTS and Client system.
- Created testing department.
- Created a project committee for business prioritization of projects and tasks.
- 10.2008 — 04.2009KM-online Position: developer and designer of web interfaces.
- Designed and developed interface of statistics and analytics system for km.ru portal
- Participated in the development of XCMS.
- 09.2007 — 07.2008TV “Sport” Position: developer and designer of web interfaces.
- Designed and developed together with the team the second version of SportBox.ru portal.
- Engaged in web marketing.
- Independently developed chats during broadcasts of sporting events.
- 04.2006 — 11.2006OOO “Luxoft”, subdivision “Deutsche Bank”, program “Sparky” Position: lead developer.
- Developed a new GUI version for the Loud project.
- Conducted usability testing of the Cloud project.
- 11.2005 — 02.2006OOO “Severis” Position: web developer. Developed GUI for electronic currency exchange website and remote learning portal.
- 10.2004 — 10.2005Web studio OOO “Ametec” Position: lead web developer. Developed, supported, promoted websites and online stores. Engaged in web marketing.
- 09.2004 — 02.2006GSHU “Rodnik” Position: webmaster. Supported the website.
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| Education |
Aviation
- Private pilot aeroplane license: South Africa (ZA) 0275524164
- Part 1 FAA Private Pilot Ground School (Part 61)
2013 — 2015. National open university (started writing the thesis when the institution ceased operations)
Software engineering
2000 — 2004. Moscow state textile university named after A. N. Kosygin (incomplete)
Faculty of economics and management, specialty — economics and management of enterprises
Uncrn.me
- Making product and business decisions based on metrics
ScrumTrek
- Product owner. Short survival course
- TKP: Team Kanban Practitioner
PM Expert
- Business game “Portfolio value”
- Master class by A. N. Pavlov “Management of programs and project portfolios”
- Practical methods of effective risk management in projects
- Preparation for the PMP exam
- Management of projects and programs based on the P2M standard
- Management of personnel and communications in a project
- Management of company projects based on the PMI PMBOKĀ® 4th Edition standard
- Calendar planning in Microsoft Project
- Fundamentals of working in Microsoft Project
Coursera
- Fundamentals of programming in Python
- Fundamentals and practical application of blockchain
- Fundamentals of business planning and marketing
- Modern management
- Marketing of innovative products
- Agile and Scrum in working on projects and products
- Development of an innovative product
- Financial markets and institutions
- Capital markets and financial institutions or “About other people’s money”
- Securities: legal regulation
- Psychology of labor, engineering psychology and ergonomics
Internet university of information technology
- Introduction to HTML5
- Balanced scorecard for business
- Fundamentals of software project management
- Agile software development methodology
- Fundamentals of project management
- Introduction to DBMS MySQL
- Fundamentals of programming in PHP5
- Programming language PHP
- Introduction to JavaScript
- Introduction to CGI
- Information exchange languages
- Introduction to programming
- Fundamentals of WAP/WML and WMLScript
- Scalable vector graphics (SVG)
- Fundamentals of XML
- Fundamentals of working with XHTML and CSS
- Specification of CSS2
- Specification of HTML language
- Web-design
- Practice of developing Web-pages
- Fundamentals of working with HTML
- Fundamentals of working with CSS
- Fundamentals of web-technologies
Computer training center Specialist.RU at Bauman Moscow state technical university
- Agile-Scrum Foundation. Level 1
- Microsoft Excel 2016. Level 2
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. Level 1
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- MySQL 5 server
- PHP5
- PHP4
- Fundamentals of FreeBSD OS administration
- Modern XML technologies
- JavaScript and DHTML
- Fundamentals of web-mastering
- Web-marketing
- Web-design
- Fundamentals of design
- Macromedia Flash MX
- Working in CorelDRAW 11
- Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 for professionals
- Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 for beginners
- HTML and CSS
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| Conferences |
AgileDays 2022, RIT-2012, RIT-2011, RIW-2010, User Experience 2010, RIT-2008 |
| Seminars |
Designing user interfaces (Dmitry Satin) |
| Certificates |
PMI
PMP (No. 1598021)
PM Expert
PME (No. 000680)
Computer Training center at BMSTU
- Working in Microsoft Project 2010
- Project management based on the PMBOK 4 standard
- Fundamentals of project management based on the PMBOK standard
- Basic skills of managing an IT department in a company
- PHP Specialist
- JavaScript Specialist
- Fundamentals of HTML and CSS
- HTML Specialist
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 Specialist
- Adobe Photoshop CS Specialist
- Software Technician
Internet university of information technology
- JavaScript
- CSS
- HTML
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| Skills |
Technologies and standards
- BPMN;
- UML;
- UI and UX, usability;
- Python, PHP, MySQL, SQLite, Apache, Nginx, Docker;
- Java and Oracle.
- XHTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, XML, DOM; XSLT, DTD and XSD;
Software
- Figma;
- Camunda modeler;
- Axure;
- Bizagi;
- PhotoShop;
- InDesign;
- CorelDRAW;
- MS Project;
- MS Office;
- Autodesk Fusion 360;
- GIT.
OS: Mac OS, Linux, Windows.
Extensive experience in designing business processes, mobile application interfaces, web interfaces, and marketing.
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| Languages |
- English — advanced
- Spanish — elementary
- Russian — native
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