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.