Project Manager at SoftServe

About me

A project manager at the Azure Cluster CoE Critical Services team.
I have a background of 3+ years in HR and Recruiting, 1.5 years in HR Marketing. Currently, my career is devoted to Azure Cloud Experts, where I’ve been the project manager for 2 years. My experience embraces resource, team, cost, marketing, stakeholder, and pre-sales management.

Main Expertise

Project Management
DevOps & Cloud

Publications

«Були моменти, коли я переживала справжнє професійне пекло»: як стати проджект-менеджером і по дорозі не здатися
The Path to Great Relationships Part #3. Architect and Project Manager
Як PM з SoftServe виїхала на Мальту і чому повернулася
PM Decoding #1: Azure Cluster Critical Services CoE
«Я хочу вивчити українську мову». Project manager до SoftServe приїхала з Латвії до України у 2014-му і тепер вважає себе не лише латишкою, а й українкою

Experience

SoftServe
Project Manager
September 2019 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Cluster Manager of 23 Azure DevOps Experts:
Resource management:
identify and allocate Cluster resources including working collaboratively with
other Project Managers to assign internal resources;
running all recruitment stages;
People management - overseeing the training, development, motivation, and
day-to-day management of my team;
Cost management – estimating, allocating, and controlling cluster costs;
Cluster marketing activities – marketing plan creation & realization together
with the team (articles, workshops, webinars, etc.) & developing partnerships
with Microsoft;
Stakeholder management - manage positive relationships with stakeholders
(Recruiters, PMs, DMs, CSLs, Sales, Clients, etc.)
Pre-sales - work closely with Sales, Architects organizing the pre-sales process,
ensuring proposed deals include technical solutions that address customer
needs.

Employer Branding Manager
December 2017 - September 2019 (1 year 10 months)
Kiev Region, Ukraine
Develop, implement and drive Kyiv DC Employer Branding strategy;
HRM budget planning, tracking and reporting;
Organize all kinds of external events: meetups, workshops, hiring events,
educational events and conferences (IT Weekend Ukraine 2018 project – full
round support);
Collaborate with external core IT-communities;
Plan, organize, and implement marketing campaigns;
Organize all kinds of internal events: small company events (employees
appreciation day, sports tournaments, health matters events, culture days,
company’s celebration etc.), big company events (winter and summer party),
CSR events etc.;
Develop of promotional materials and corporate souvenirs;
Drive Kyiv DC internal communications.

Sushiya
HR People Partner
July 2017 - December 2017 (6 months)
• Arrange and drive all educational and social activities for 20 restaurants of
Sushiya restaurant chain (Kyiv and regions):
• Control of the restaurants staffing (mass recruitment, recruitment on
Management positions in restaurants, retention of staff);
• Organize and drive trainings on all recruitment processes;
• Implement centralized projects and initiatives for the search and selection of
personnel to the central office and restaurants: cooperation with educational
institutions; job-portals; social networks; professional communities, etc.;
• Responsible for selection and recruitment processes of central office
personnel;
• Participate in Company’s HR brand formation.

ФИГАРО–Кейтеринг
HR Manager
January 2016 - June 2017 (1 year 6 months)
Kiev
• Responsible for selection, recruitment and hiring processes;
• Drive the on-boarding process of new employees, control of their probation
period passing;
• Implement hiring procedures and guidelines on maintaining HR regulatory
documentation;
• Drive company’s internal communications;
• Participation in various HR projects.
Press Secretary
July 2015 - January 2016 (7 months)
Kiev
• Participate in the company's chief executive’s projects – business, social
projects etc.;
• Organize and support chief executive’s performances at different events: PRevents, conferences, workshops, social and culturally significant events etc.;
• Draft speeches and comments for chief executive: arrange interviews and
other forms of contact for him;
• Cooperate with the media;
• Chief executive time management.

DB Schenker
Marketing Specialist
March 2012 - September 2014 (2 years 7 months)
• Organize all kinds of internal events: small company events company’s
celebrations, big company events (winter and summer party), CSR events;
• Plan of Marketing budget;
• Develop promo materials and souvenirs;
• Drive Internal and external communication;
• Organize marketing/sales campaigns;
• Organize external events: press conferences, business meetings etc.;
• Prepare all necessary marketing/sales reports for Board Management;
• Attend trade shows and support other product development activities;
• Make draft of speeches and comments for company executives;
• Translate marketing materials from/to Russian/Latvian to/from English;
• Control processes of documentation preparations for EU Structural Funds.