Vitalii Trofymenko
Product Director
About me
An IT specialist with extensive experience in product development from inception to post-release support. Experienced in developing product vision and turning it into an executable strategy. Fully proficient in processes and techniques in Agile and Waterfall environments. Hands-on functional analysis experience including FSD design and managing customer expectations. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills with proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and motivate the team.
My Experience
Roles & Responsibilities
Media Product Director, Code Worldwide
April 2019 - Present
Key Responsibilities:
Working with client side Global Strategy and Product Directors to identify product strategies and roadmaps.
Defining the vision for the product and collaborating with other stakeholders to ensure that the financial and consumer satisfaction goals are met.
Ensuring that project scope, goals, and deliverables are consistent with company strategy and commitments.
Creating and managing annual budget plans and revenue forecasts, ensuring that financial business targets are met.
Achievements:
Improved the budget forecasting and reporting process for my department.
Successful roll-out of two new enterprise systems widely used by the OMG agencies network.
Managing $2M+ annual budget.
Product Manager, Code Worldwide
January 2017 - March 2019
Key Responsibilities:
Working with client stakeholders to identify projects and product roadmaps.
Creating Design and Requirements documents to capture detailed user stories for upcoming product iterations.
Review of project timelines and resourcing plans created by Project Managers.
Creating wireframes and providing UX direction for the design team.
Achievements:
Introduction of a new Requirements Engineering process that has resulted in 80% reduction in reworks and UAT feedback.
Introduction of new UAT process that has resulted in reduction of deployment lead time on average by 3 times.
Successful delivery of 10+ projects within budget, quality and time parameters.
Quality Assurance Test Manager, Credit Suisse
July 2015 - December 2016
Key Responsibilities:
Providing testing services to one of the largest Risk and Finance projects in Credit Suisse Group.
Planning, monitoring and controlling testing activities.
Collecting and analyzing requirements.
Analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases.
Prioritizing team activities and allocating resources.
Product risk management.
Achievements:
Successfully led a QA team in a newly established location in Poland.
Acquired project expertise in a new domain in the short term, demonstrated high performance from the start of work so that team was able to meet deadlines and deliver the good quality product.
Project Manager, Ciklum
March 2013Â - June 2015
Key Responsibilities:
Managing 2 projects running in parallel (14 people).
Performing business analysis, prioritizing user stories and performing user stories breakdown.
Conducting development and testing estimation sessions.
Direct communication with stakeholders on the client side.
1st and 2nd line of the Client support planning and control.
People management: team motivation and coordination, conflict management.
Collecting client feedback and transforming it into new features or enhancements.
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Achievements:
Implemented the customised Agile project process using elements of Kanban and Scrum. Ensured transparency of the scope and development activities for the product management through JIRA setup and monitoring. Reduced the post-release critical issues to minimum through improving quality and reliability of the product.
Defined, documented and implemented effective change management process for the customer-originated issues. Improved collaboration with the Operations team, optimised time of the response and transparency of development investigation.
Education and certifications
2005Â - 2010
Dnipro National University
Physics, electronics and computer systems department
Computer Systems Engineer
Master's degree
2016
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional (PMP)®, 1913333
2018
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Certified SAFe® 4 Product Owner/Product Manager
2017
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Requirements Engineering, 00398764
2016
Global Association for Software Quality
ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, 5148-1
My Skills
Product Management
Requirements Engineering
