Viktor Kuzmenko

Experience

Project Manager — HotelFriend (SaaS, Hospitality and Travel)

January 2023 – July 2024

• Management of internal and external projects (web and mobile)
• Tracking development hours and effectiveness (work with Jira). Brought a new tracking tool that increased company productivity dramatically.
• Regular increment/demo presentations
• Scrum activities conducting
• Jira configurations from scratch for several projects
• Release management
• Resources planning
• People management (1-2-1 meetings conducting, etc)

Project Manager / Regional Operations Manager — Zesty (Product company, zesty.co)

July 2021 – January 2023

• Successful development office creation in Kyiv from scratch
• Full-cycle project development
• Management of 10+ developers in the office
• Full developers hiring process conducting and management
• Stakeholders management
• Budget planning and reporting
• People management in all aspects
• Risk management

Project Manager — JatApp (Outsourcing company, jatapp.com)

April 2020 – July 2021

• Project requirement profiling
• Estimating projects with developers
• Managing native and cross-platform mobile app development
• Resources planning
• Regular tight communication with the customers. Thanks to the relationships I built with them they brought us several new projects.
• Establishment and management of Scrum processes
• Documentation creation
• Optimization and promotion of the website (blog, portfolio, etc.)

Project Manager / Presales Manager — ESKA (Outsourcing company, eska.global)

September 2018 – April 2020

• Presale pipeline management
• Determining the level of project prospects
• Gathering requirements
• Guiding customers through the development process
• Backlog preparation for the dev team
• Project development from scratch till the support phase
• Organized several trips to Europe with more than 30 meetings and events within several days and attended them
• Personal negotiations with owners of big enterprises like IBM. As a result of each trip, we always had at least 1 new project

Project Manager / Product Manager — GoGmat (SaaS, Education, gogmat.com)

July 2016 – September 2018

• Management of the web product and its further development
• Work with Kanban using Trello
• Creation and organization of the support department’s work from scratch
• Managing developers and setting tasks for them
• Negotiations, conclusion of long-term cooperation, and support of the partners at all stages of work

Skills & Tools

Tools & Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Trello, Draw.io, Miro, Postman, Databases (SQL), Invision, Google Ads, MS Office, HTML, CSS, Hubspot, Brevo, Lemlist, PMBOK basics

• Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
• Jira Configuration from scratch
• Reports management (via Jira plugins/tools)
• Strong SDLC and Gitflow understanding
• Requirements definition
• Project and resource planning
• Management of multiple teams (up to 10 people each)
• Project documentation creation and maintenance
• Releases and Sprints management
• Budget planning
• Risk management
• People management (hiring and firing included)
• Product/increment/demo presentations
• Web and mobile project management
• Long-term project lifecycle handling

Languages

• English — Advanced
• Ukrainian — Native
• Russian — Native

Education & Certifications

• Master’s Degree in Management — Kyiv International University
• Google Project Management: Professional Certificate (Coursera)
• Scrum Master Certification Specialization (Coursera)
• Technical Skills for Project Managers (Redcamp.pro)
• Software Project/Product Management Specialization — University of Alberta (Coursera)
• JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (freeCodeCamp)
• Back End Development and APIs (freeCodeCamp)
• Responsive Web Design (freeCodeCamp)
• AIESEC — Organization and management of international projects