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Ihor Zaika

Ihor Zaika

Rybnik

Summary

Passionate about leading teams, driving motivation, and delivering value on time and within budget. I bring extensive experience in delivery management, overseeing distributed teams, budget planning, and execution. Skilled in team motivation, problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and risk management. I enjoy creating processes that enhance efficiency and help teams achieve business goals on time. A strong advocate for data-driven decision-making, with a deep passion for numbers and analytics to guide successful outcomes.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

COO/Operations Manager

sitechecker.pro
01.2023 - Current
  • Budget planning ;
  • Budget control and execution ;
  • Collaborate with the finance department on budget management, forecasting, and financial planning
  • Design and implement processes and KPIs to track and enhance departmental efficiency
  • Participating with Heads of operational departments to implement new procedures,processes , metrics KPS's ;
  • Oversee the management of IT infrastructure and tools necessary for business operations;
  • RevOps function - aligning marketing,support and sales departments for achieving financial goals ;
  • Design and implement cost-optimization measures and processes to optimize expenses;
  • Monitor key financial metrics and KPIs related to operational efficiency;
  • Ensure operational expenses align with the company's financial goals;
  • Partner with the CEO and executive team to ensure alignment of teams with the company's vision and objectives;
  • Participating in product development and marketing strategy;


Achievements: since taking on this role, our team has seen steady ROI growth(+38% ), largely due to the cost optimization measures ; shifted team focus toward achieving strong financial results ;

Project / Delivery manager

sitechecker.pro (Boosta.co's StartUp)
10.2019 - 01.2023
  • Managing a team of 14 people
  • Release management;
  • Delivery management ;
  • Processes development ;
  • Metrics development to measure department efficiency;
  • Communication with stakeholders ;
  • Sprint Planning ;
  • Product budgeting;
  • Team management( hiring, firing, motivation, conflict facilitation etc..) ;
  • Syncing UP between those involved in project departments and other participants
  • Achievements: Department structure development; A custom management framework was developed based on customer needs for the fast delivery of features and at the same time with agile opportunities in planning.; Highly satisfied customers; Low employee turnover rate

Lecturer(part-time)

PowerCode Academy
02.2020 - 01.2020
  • Development of teaching materials for students;
  • Conducting lectures;
  • Checking homework;
  • Taking an exams

IT Project manager Digital department / Transformation consultant

Boosta.co
10.2018 - 10.2019
  • Managing team of 3 PM's;
  • Development of workflow from scratch ;
  • Optimization of a workflow;
  • Customer policies development;
  • Communication with customers;
  • Task flow management;
  • Interviews with potential candidates / Hiring (Developers, PMs);
  • Problem-solving management;
  • Team motivation;
  • Achievements: Development and successful implementation of department structure; The required staff has been recruited

IT Project manager R&D Department

Boosta.co
10.2017 - 10.2019
  • Managing a team of 11 people (2 agile teams ) (5 projects simultaneously)
  • Managing development according to business value as agile as possible(2-4 releases per week );
  • Optimization of teamwork (workflow configuration, Jira configuration, framework policies, );
  • Strategic product management based on users' needs;
  • Team motivation;(personal interviews, retrospectives )
  • Solving conflict situations;
  • Problem-solving management
  • Optimization of teamwork (workflow configuration, Jira configuration, framework policies, );
  • Development and approval of project documentation;
  • Prototyping ;
  • Support of Scrum framework:
  • Product backlog planning;
  • Meeting facilitation;
  • Product backlog grooming;
  • Product road map development; Holding of sprint planning meetings(decomposition, set tasks);
  • Holding retrospective meetings;
  • Holding daily stand-up meetings;
  • Holding demo sprint meeting;
  • Communication with Product stakeholders;
  • Achievements: Implementation of Scrum from scratch ; The team was created from scratch ; Time delivery of Product MVP in time ; All project goals were achieved in a hybrid environment ( scrum + support old products )

IT Project Manager

ITUA - Informational Technologies of Ukraine
06.2016 - 09.2017
  • Organizing meetings with the team;
  • Team motivation;
  • Solving conflict situations;
  • Optimization of teamwork;
  • Operational planning of the team;
  • Pre-sales meetings and presentations for potential customers;
  • Business analysis;
  • Writing a specification for the automation of the client's business based on the Bitrix24 CRM system);
  • Development of the concept and structure of the project based on the client's business needs;
  • Support of the client from the briefing stage to the delivery of the project;
  • Communication with the client at all stages of development;
  • Development and approval of project documentation;
  • Prototyping of websites (moqups, axure);
  • Project budgeting based on the received data from the client;
  • Control timeliness of the tasks;
  • Quality control of completed tasks;

Education

Econimist -

Donetsk National University
01.2011

Skills

  • Workforce planning
  • Information technology management
  • Operations management
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Organizational development
  • Planning and execution
  • Operations administration
  • Management
  • Executive leadership
  • Process improvement
  • Operations oversight
  • Risk management
  • Policy development

Languages

English

Hobbies and Interests

  • Football
  • Reading
  • Electronic music

Timeline

COO/Operations Manager

sitechecker.pro
01.2023 - Current

Lecturer(part-time)

PowerCode Academy
02.2020 - 01.2020

Project / Delivery manager

sitechecker.pro (Boosta.co's StartUp)
10.2019 - 01.2023

IT Project manager Digital department / Transformation consultant

Boosta.co
10.2018 - 10.2019

IT Project manager R&D Department

Boosta.co
10.2017 - 10.2019

IT Project Manager

ITUA - Informational Technologies of Ukraine
06.2016 - 09.2017

Econimist -

Donetsk National University
Ihor Zaika