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Anton Medvedev

Verified Expert in Product Management

Product Manager

Location

Rincón de la Victoria, Spain

Toptal Member Since

August 26, 2019

Anton's outstanding qualities are thoughtful leadership and a systematic approach to problem-solving. His hands-on experience includes a DivX products portfolio with over one billion downloads and over ten million MAU. His core industry expertise includes mobile, gaming, multimedia, mVoIP, and IT security. Anton's approach is to deliver prime product artifacts and enhancements to the production processes, making outcome times worthwhile.

Stakeholder Management Product Owner Mobile Mobile App Development Digital Marketing Websites Apps Mobile Applications Product Management Software Project Management Documentation Digital Project Management B2B Product Management Project Management Head of Product

Project Highlights

Marketplace for Fitness/Bodywork Professionals

Performed industry analysis, market research, produced business specification, and created a product requirements document.

DivX Software Bundle

Designed the next generation of the product portfolio (DivX 11) and improved production processes to zero-miss releases.

Voxtrot (mVoIP Service)

Addressed product flaws and found new industry-proven strategies for technical and product evolution.

Expertise

Monetization Models Product Management Product Marketing Product Owner Product Strategy Requirements & Specifications Software Project Management Stakeholder Management

Work Experience

Project Manager

2020 - 2020

Advascale

Supervised projects portfolio (around seven DevOps projects simultaneously).
Compiled operational guidelines and a project management framework for a distributed team of engineers.
Conducted technical recruiting and resource distribution over projects.
Assisted with technical issues research and possible workarounds.
Troubleshot and fixed non-technical problems in relations with the partners.

Product Manager

2018 - 2019

Endeavor

Singled out consideration points and provided ways to improve the talent agency services portfolio.
Conducted market study, rivals analysis, and user research to ameliorate market-fit.
Assisted with business analysis and built business processes for the talent agency.
Reassessed the UI/UX for a B2C mobile application.
Introduced a formalized approach to the design of the features based on UML specifications.
Conducted strategy research and new market evaluations for future expansion.
Initiated a company-wide product management framework compilation.

Division Product Manager

2016 - 2018

Neulion

Supervised product portfolio development including user research, feature research, features scope, road mapping, release planning, analytics, and reporting.
Planned and executed the product evolution approach.
Devised and elaborated on next-generation product strategy, market positioning and strategy, monetization, unit economy, and feature scopes.
Designed an adaptive UI/UX for a cross-platform product line (10-foot, 2-foot UI).
Supervised product portfolio marketing and marketing communications.
Managed an eCommerce platform for the product portfolio.
Conducted business analysis for the DivX product family.
Performed R&D and technical analytics for B2B and B2C multimedia solutions.
Evangelized continuous integration and lean product development.

Product Manager | Division Product Manager

2014 - 2016

DivX

Led B2C/B2B product portfolio development and evolution.
Dispatched product development across the distributed team (US, Russia, Germany).
Reassessed business and technology solutions for the dated product line.
Defined and coordinated business and technology strategies with the group product manager.
Conducted technology and business analysis for product spin-off.
Improved product development processes to include stale issues and features.
Revised and improved communication between the engineering and SME Teams.
Engaged with technology partners, monetization providers, and business customers.

Division Product Manager | Game Producer

2012 - 2014

KarmicApps

Supervised product development of more than ten game titles (P&L, marketing, prototyping, features development and scopes, concept validation, and execution control).
Mastered game design and in-game UI/UX to assist with product development.
Developed the product platform (unit economy, monetization, and distribution) for the HOG genre.
Supervised and promoted “Brandmania” for iOS and Android. Reached the top 50 iPad games list in the US market.
Supervised and promoted “Mechs Warfare” for iOS and Android. Organically reached the top 100 in a number of countries.
Carried out multi-store release management routines (naming, marketing, graphics, icons testing, and ASO).
Led publishing activities (negotiations, products evaluation, advisory, release management, and P&L).
Designed and implemented a company-wide project management framework.
Initiated and led educational activities for fellow game producers.

Division Product Manager | Senior Project Manager

2005 - 2012

Verysoft

Supervised the mobile software product portfolio development from ideation, concept validation, PRD, road mapping, project management, marketing, release management, and post-release support for over ten titles.
Supervised the video streaming software product portfolio development for three titles.
Implemented a product development process (incremental stage-gated).
Contributed to the engineering culture by formalizing the development process (code style guide, tech. doc, changelogs, feature-driven development, CI, knowledgebase).
Managed company-wide PM tools including Sysop tasks; Redmine, Wiki, and product archive.
Researched and implemented a marketing strategy for mobile products, video streaming, and system software products.
Removed vendor lock by implementing a company-wide online store (eCommerce back end, automated licensing and activation, statistics, and a customer self-service portal).
Led B2B activities - negotiations, licensing, accounting, and white-label solutions.
Acted as an outsourced project manager (mVoIP, secure-communications, IT security, penetration testing tools development, and R&D projects).

Outsourced Technical Product Manager | Outsourced Project Manager

2009 - 2011

IMV AG

Led the back end and mobile apps development (planning, execution control, risk assessment and mitigation, QA, release preparation, and delivery).
Represented the client’s voice inside the outsource team and vice versa.
Contributed to the product with technical product research (SIP stack, load balancing and failover, distributed architecture, and network tricks).
Analyzed the industry, and compiled a product technical development plan including piggy-back and peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, with technical solutions for HCI, and UX prototyping.
Embraced the best development practices (DCVS, code styles, pair programming, CI/CD, and routine management rituals).

Outsourced Project Manager

2007 - 2011

Adeya

Supervised the back-end and client-side development for a secure communications solution (voice, calendar, and email).
Conducted technical research and development activities and product analysis.
Led project management activities (road mapping, execution control, risk mitigation, reporting, and release management).
Assisted with features design and User Experience (UX).
Compiled a set of documentation (user’s guide, administrators guide, installation guide, and technology guide).

Outsourced Project Manager

2005 - 2007

Ilion SA

Executed project management duties and procedures.
Performed technical and product research in a number of security areas (penetration testing, covert channels, platform vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and software and hardware POC).
Led sourcing and Human Resources (HR) activities and procedures.
Supervised quality assurance procedures and standards.
Created and maintained technical documentation and manuals.
Led HR activities for the outsourced team (screening, interviews, negotiations, and onboarding).

Project History

Marketplace for Fitness/Bodywork Professionals

Performed industry analysis, market research, produced business specification, and created a product requirements document.

The product represents a B2C/C2C marketplace for fitness and bodywork professionals. It has a number of distinctive features, such as location-based user matching, advanced session negotiation, and scheduling opportunities, and marketing opportunities.
As an early-stage expert, I:
• Performed marketing research to confirm market-fit
• Found out industry business mechanics to reuse proven ones
• Gathered and cleared out stakeholder’s expectations
• Created a product requirement document for the SaaS marketplace
• Guided a team to bootstrap design and development

DivX Software Bundle

Designed the next generation of the product portfolio (DivX 11) and improved production processes to zero-miss releases.

This is a set of cross-platform apps for multimedia playback, transcoding, and streaming. The product portfolio included five titles and a number of marketing packages for the B2C and B2B market segments. I designed and documented a complete framework for the next generation of the product bundle (DivX 11), including ecosystem research and market positioning, product concept, bundling, core features description, technology basis, UX and UI concepts, and wireframes.

Monthly bundle downloads: Over ten million.
Total downloads: Over one billion.
Sold for $41 million to the Fortress Group.

Voxtrot (mVoIP Service)

http://mashable.com/2011/02/22/voxtrot/

Addressed product flaws and found new industry-proven strategies for technical and product evolution.

“Voxtrot — the free mobile network.” This is a VoIP 2.0 era solution (iOS, Android, Symbian). It is a rival to Viber, Tango, and similar platforms. The startup environment required leadership and hard work; I wore several hats: technical project manager, technical analyst, and business analyst, as well as contributed to the product development. The mVoIP domain analysis showed that the project was started with an inappropriate architectural solution. After case reassessment with stakeholders, I researched and found a more effective technical solution and draft a migration plan to another architecture. I led the product through a successful MVP and the first public release.

Mechs Warfare (Mobile Game)

Mastered the game design, revamped the product to fit the market, increased +15% metrics-driven monthly growth, and hit the top 100 free category.

This was a multi-platform mobile game for Android and iOS. I was the product, project, and publishing manager. I drove the project from scratch to release—including ideation, pre-MVP validation, game design supervision, monetization, in-game economy, development control, analytics, publishing, and post-release support.

With no previous experience in free to play (F2P) mobile player vs. player (PvP), the team was able to hit the top 100 list organically in several markets and was later promoted to the top 50 free US category.

Education

2005 - 2007

Master's Degree in Project Management

Tomsk State University - Tomsk, Russia

2000 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree in Economics

Tomsk State University - Tomsk, Russia

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