Belgrade, Serbia / Remote
Manager with more than 10 years of overall experience. Has experience leading cross-functional teams on all stages of the product: from concept to MVP, from MVP to production release, and from release to further evolution of the product. Has great skills in managing resources, implementing agile routines into the development process, establishing communication with stakeholders and between dedicated teams, and delivering regular releases. Praised for a deep understanding of the technical details of the project and for sharing the whole vision between developers and stakeholders. Has powerful analytical and communication skills. Especially proud of the teams, which managed to gather and lead during the career.
Professional Experience
Akvelon
Senior Project Manager, June 2022 – October 2023
- Established team compositions to meet specific client needs, boosting client satisfaction leading the company to new opportunities
- Guided the project management, using scrum methodology, and maintained regular interactions for updates and feedback to provide the transparency of the development process
- Managed a diverse, multinational team, fostering individual career development by crafting personalized career tracks, achieved through comprehensive analysis and utilization of the company's historical business opportunities data to make data-driven decisions
- Implemented technology training initiatives, focusing on team readiness for new projects
8th Bridge, b2b software
Co-founder and Head of Product, January 2020 – June 2022
- Recruited the team, established the agile development process guided the process of the delivery of the product to meet the expectations of the stakeholders on the client side
- Due to the pandemic transformed the office to remote one, this transformation didn’t affect the planned MVP, delivered to client in the expected time frame
- As a leader of a team, handled the delivery and next support of two projects to our customers:
- Web React-based 3D-client for inspecting and interacting with BIM models - was integrated into customer’s information system
- Cloud-based React + Node.js editor dedicated for creating deeply interrelated schemes (BPMN-like)
- Collaborated with customers to figure out the business needs and compose the specification, participated in architecture decisions discussion with the team, lead scrum ceremonies, evaluated and planned the costs and managed the resources of the development process, worked with UI design specialist to settle UI/UX of the products, defined the goals and iterations, coordinated the integration with the development team on partner’s side, reviewed and approved the project documentation
Game Design Manager, March 2017 – December 2019
- Managed team of game designers from different cities and time zones, coordinate their work with developers, QA, content-managers, UI designers, artists and marketing
- Guided feature updates through all the steps of production: concept, prototype, documentation, designing UI, creating art, development, post-release operating and analytics
- Coordinated the creation of documentation and managed the feedback from developers