Andrew Korobkin
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Kiev, Ukraine
Toptal member since February 17, 2021
Andrew is an experienced project manager who currently holds a director position, managing the P&L business unit focused on the TOLA region and driving client engagement throughout the almost whole value chain from the early pre-sales stage to the final delivery. He has strong management and business analysis experience in different roles, such as business analyst, lead business analyst, scrum master, and project, program, and portfolio manager.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Corporate Governance
- IT Project Management
- Portfolio Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Scope Management
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Work Experience
Associate Delivery Director
SoftServe
- Managed the P&L business unit with the focus on the TOLA region, accountable for driving client engagement throughout the almost whole value chain from early presales stage, in close cooperation with the sales team, to final delivery with my management team.
- Governed the project portfolio and grew the leadership team to ensure delivery excellence and customer success.
- Led and co-piloted several cross-company initiatives, including location strategy development, public RFx, and HR analytics.
Project Manager
SoftServe
- Managed the software development projects for both S&P 500 and SME customers, including fixed-price project duration of 2+ years, a matrix-structured team of 80+, and Scaled Agile Framework.
- Drove project execution through operational excellence and managed and mentored three managers.
- Defined and managed the scope baseline, acting as a lead BA holding the change control board.
- Conducted project profitability modeling, DCF, what-if scenarios, risk modeling, VAR, and Monte Carlo simulation.
- Established individual, product, and project quality metrics, implementing Power BI tool for automated quality tracking.
- Managed stakeholders, including post-M&A activities and project status reports (PSR) with automated performance control and reporting.
Lead Business Analyst
SoftServe
- Oversaw the business analysis team of up to five BAs working on an enterprise-level program.
- Managed fixed-price project scope and WBS of 5,000+ functional work packages and successfully overcame the scope creep.
- Established individual and project performance metrics for scope and BA teams.
Business Analyst | Proxy Product Owner
SoftServe
- Led Agile teams of 20+ individuals distributed among up to five locations worldwide in both fixed-price and T&M software development projects as a business analyst and proxy product owner.
- Developed the business case and solution verification and validation. Decided on the project, solution, and scope on the steering committee.
- Conducted requirements elicitation, analysis, management, communication, and sign-off, Jira administration, and financial and data modeling.
- Engaged in presales, internal consulting, and think tanks and conducted the enterprise analysis training course.
Business Analyst
Rozetka
- Managed several product development projects related to or as a part of Rozetka.ua retail platform, extensively cooperating with strategy and marketing departments.
- Drove software development projects from idea to implementation, including business case development, planning, monitoring, and control.
- Conducted requirements elicitation, analysis, management and communication, and SRS development.
Project History
Web-based Enterprise Deal Modeling Tool
Set up the SDLC and managed the development team under tight contract boundaries to deliver over 50,000 tickets in three years.
• Driving the project execution through operational excellence, managing three other managers, and growing the project.
• Defining and managing the scope baseline as a lead business analyst.
• Project profitability modeling, DCF, what-if scenarios, risk modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and value at risk.
• Establishing individual, product, and project quality metrics, using Power BI as a tool for automated quality tracking.
• Managing stakeholders with automatic performance control and reporting.
• Leading the business analysis team of up to five business analysts.
• Managing fixed-price project scope and establishing individual and project performance metrics for our scope and BA team.
Education
Master's Degree in Finance
Kyiv-Mohyla Business School - Kyiv, Ukraine
Certifications
Agile Project and Delivery Management (ICA-APM)
ICAgile
Certified Professional (ICA-ICP)
ICAgile
PMC Level II
Pragmatic Marketing
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Microsoft PowerPoint
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Requirements Analysis, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
Industry Expertise
Banking & Finance
Other
IT Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Project Management, Scope Management, Portfolio Management, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Risk Modeling, Process Flows, Process Design, Program Management, Strategy, Presales, Web Project Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Cost Management, Requirements, Requirements & Specifications, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Requirement Traceability Matrices, Technical Requirements, User Requirements, System Requirements, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), People Management, Notion, Microsoft Planner, Gantt Chart, Budgeting, Investments, Investment Analysis, Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Product-market Fit, Product Management, Product Delivery, Agile Product Delivery, Business Process Management (BPM), UML
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