Pavel G.

About Me

Pavel is a highly skilled Product Owner with more than 15 years of experience in infrastructure, services, application, and integration of software development. He has a robust strategic vision and a multicultural collaboration experience, always taking full ownership of the solutions he oversees. His latest experience includes controlling development in an Agile framework, 3rd-tier support, deep dives, and hands-on troubleshooting.

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Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Product Owner
2022 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Monitoring processes and various meetings for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Partner closely with other cross-functional departments to work on process problems and challenges that affect customer satisfaction in the implementation of projects.

  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, identify and remove impediments to success, track progress, and recognize opportunities for continuous improvement.

Aurea (Crossover)
Aurea (Crossover)
Product Software Engineering Manager
2017 - Present (8 years)
Remote
  • Acted as a Single Point Of Contact for Product engineering management, having a 20+ products portfolio. Took ownership of SaaS/Hosted product services availability (monitoring, recovery, deployment, change requests management).

  • Closely collaborated with biz Product Owners / CEOs for strategy goals, also controlling development in an Agile framework, 3rd-tier support, deep dives, troubleshooting (hands-on).

  • Managed the team of directly reporting Chief Architects, developers, QAs with a written coaching culture. Collaborated with entire spectrum of development teams to ensure things are done properly and on time

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Account Delivery Manager
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
Remote
  • Handled pre-sales due diligence, solution architecture, deal governance. Designed and deployed infrastructure and supporting processes for six new clients in a four month period.

  • Developed and managed outsourcing delivery including core infrastructure, field support, service desk, and cloud services.

  • Achieved a consolidated service delivery reporting that was enhanced and standardized. Managed a successful upsale of the strategic service extension.

MMC Norilsk Nickel
MMC Norilsk Nickel
IT Manager
2007 - 2014 (7 years)
Russia
  • Developed, managed, and supported global sales for IT services (infrastructure & applications), covering six remote geographical areas.

  • Conducted SAP migration planning and implemented minor automation projects.

  • Mitigated the business automation system critical risk significantly. Developed security statements for the companies, as well as risk analysis.

JSC “Medochemie Art”
JSC “Medochemie Art”
Head of IT
2004 - 2007 (3 years)
Russia
  • Oversaw an unit of three specialists, developing and maintaining the company’s IT infrastructure (main office, two branch offices in Moscow, remote satellite servers in Greece).

  • Administered technical support for the Company’s Russian regional offices; maintained and improved the unified corporate reporting system based on 1C – MS Access platform.

  • Organized, implemented, and supervised data protection systems.

Showcase

Product Manager - GFI Kerio Connect
Product Manager - GFI Kerio Connect
  • Kerio Connect is a mail server and collaboration tool.

  • It is deployed by over 30,000 companies globally.

  • The Product Manager led improvements to the product, achieving significant quality enhancements through continuous work with the engineering team.

Engineering Product Manager - Onespot
Engineering Product Manager - Onespot
  • Onespot is a tool for driving engagement and conversions across various platforms.

  • The project was imported with a disassembled state and required significant transformation.

  • The Engineering Product Manager successfully led a 8-month transformation, resulting in a 70% cost reduction, transparent deployment, and control over production operations.

Engineering Manager - Mobilogy cloud
Engineering Manager - Mobilogy cloud
  • Clone of Mobilogy, a device diagnostic and data transfer platform.

  • Developed a comprehensive platform including analytics, iOS, Android SDK, reference apps, and a management portal.

  • Successfully completed the project within 6 months, overseeing engineering specification, architectural design, and implementation.

Product Software Engineering Manager - Aurea
Product Software Engineering Manager - Aurea
  • Managed product delivery for a complex portfolio encompassing Telecom, SupplyChain, BI, AdRecommendationManagement, Messaging/Faxing, Security, Media Asset Management, and Mobile Device Management for Telco.

  • Implemented problem analysis and preventive measures to eliminate 100% repetitive outages in production.

  • Supervised the development of 40M$ AR products (from 10M$ initially).

Education

MCSAS ; MCSE Security ; MCSE ; MCSA ; MCP
MCSAS ; MCSE Security ; MCSE ; MCSA ; MCP
Microsoft
Prince2 Foundation
Prince2 Foundation
EXIN
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS
CCA XenApp 5.0
CCA XenApp 5.0
Citrix
ITIL Service Design ; 
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
ITIL Service Design ; ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
EXIN