Curriculum Vitae
Mariya works for EPAM Systems as Lead Business Analyst. Her expertise in IT is over 16 years, with over 10 years as a business analyst. She is an author of several IT Business Analyst courses, an active member and spokesperson for the business analysts’ community in Ukraine, a certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (4.5) and SAFE Agilist (5.0). She strongly believes that nothing is impossible for a highly intellectual person, with the prerequisite that such a person is strongly motivated, she will be capable of working miracles without harming the world we all live in.
Skills
- Enterprise analysis
- Stakeholder’s management and engagement
- Requirements management
- Discovery phase management
- Elicitation and Facilitation
- Business needs and expectations
- Product ideation, validation, creation and support
- Project management
- People management
Project-related expertise (selection)
EPAM
Working as Lead Business Analyst at several Enterprise products. Key responsibilities:
- Defining project scope and objectives.
- Conducting management of business processes and business requirements of the customers, translating them to specific software requirements.
- Providing client support and technical issue resolution via email and phone.
- Conferring with the staff, users, and management to establish requirements and modifications for the new systems.
- Preparation user guides based on frequently asked questions about functionality of the developed solutions.
- Defining project scope, working with assumptions.
- Competitor analysis.
- Domain analysis.
- Preparation project plan and specifications.
- Support of the clients during the meetings with sponsors.
- Building project strategy and vision.
- Defining target audience.
- Demo and clarifications, workshops preparation.
Ciklum
Performed as Lead Product Owner at one of the biggest marketplaces in Europe. Key responsibilities:
- Leading Product Development process from the pre-sale till the active development phase including successful MVP delivery.
- Defining product scope, building a team of 10+ Product Owners.
- Building processes of Product Ownership; Product Ownership strategy.
- Identification and analysis “As Is” processes and building “To Be” processes.
- Building scope management and change management processes.
- Support client in building Product strategy and defining scope for Beta and Production versions.
Ciklum
Acted as Head of Requirements Excellence stream in BAO. Key responsibilities:
- Managing BA teams, participating and leading internal mentoring programs.
- Participating in pre-sales and sales activities as a Business Analyst and consultant.
- Establishing and monitoring business analysis processes in projects.
- Maintaining business analysis competency model, managing regular assessment process.
- Evaluating and ensuring professional growth of BA unit members.
DataArt
Worked as Business Analyst as part of the engagement team in scope of pre-sale activities. Key responsibilities:
- Leading pre-sales activities.
- Managing customer expectations.
- Preparation scopes, timelines, estimates, business process analysis.
- Support for sales and development teams during the whole sales cycle.
- Participating and leading wire-frames preparation process.
- Competitors analysis.
- Leading discovery phases.
- Close collaboration with architecture and design teams during scope clarification process.
- Defining project goals and market value.
- Managing stakeholders.
- Preparation and leading workshops for clarifications and scope definition.
- Documenting scope of the product based on development plans.
- Contributing in wire-frames preparation and technical discussions.
DataArt
As a part of the development team, worked as Business Analyst and Product owner. Key responsibilities:
- Preparation requirements for data migration process.
- Monitoring and coordinating the development process.
- Ongoing clarifications with customer and on-site BA team.
- Managing BA tasks for the off-site development team.
- Acceptance testing.
- Close cooperation with domain experts, participation in the knowledge transfer process.
- Preparation requirements for transition phase.
- Making acceptance testing.
- Support development team making ongoing clarifications.
- Preparation requirements for further phases.
- Making pre-planning and estimations.
- Demo preparation workshops.
- Contributing in project development.
- Building relationships with key stakeholders.
- Team management.
- Planning and managing development activities.
- Control and monitoring over project planning and budget execution.
- Building and supporting change management procedures.
- Supporting and mentoring BA team.
- Managing all activities related to the account.
ELEKS
Worked as Business Analyst, as part of the engagement team in scope of pre-sale activities. Key responsibilities:
- Leading pre-sales activities.
- Working as a part of the engagement team.
- Preparation proposal and technical documentation.
- Close collaboration with the Architecture and Design teams.
- Support sales team during pre-sales activities.
- Projects kick-off.
- Preparation scopes, timelines, estimates, business process analysis. Competitors analysis.
- Leading discovery phases.
ELEKS
Worked as Business Analyst at several projects from different domains and actively participated in development activities. Key responsibilities:
- Defining project scope and objectives.
- Conducting management of business processes and business requirements of the customers, translating them to specific software requirements.
- Providing client support and technical issue resolution via email and phone.
- Conferring with the staff, users, and management to establish requirements and modifications for the new systems.
- Preparation of user guides based on frequently asked questions about functionality of the developed solutions.
- Defining project scope, working with assumptions.
- Competitor analysis.
- Domain analysis.
- Preparation project plan and specifications.
- Supporting clients during the meetings with sponsors.
- Building project strategy and vision.
- Defining target audience.
- Demo and clarifications workshops preparation.
SoftServe Business Systems
Acted as Product Owner for my own product. Worked with clients on Business needs and Business Goals identification. Key responsibilities:
- Working with potential and current clients to define scope.
- Managing product development process.
- Coordinating development and sales teams.
- Preparing presentations and discovery phases.
- Leading market research process. Competitors analysis.