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Anton Kapitanenko

Jacksonville,FL

Summary

  • 10+ years in leadership/management and 15+ years of experience in the software development industry
  • Highly productive agile project/program manager, leading up to 50 team members on the peak
  • Hands-on experience in building fit-to-purpose engineering management systems, mostly by Scrum, Kanban/LeSS/Nexus
  • Successful delivery at various domains: e-commerce, ERP/CRM, SCADA, gaming, healthcare, etc.
  • Change agent, continuously bring good/best practices to increase business agility and build high-performance teams

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior Delivery Manager

Proxet
Boston, MA
10.2020 - 09.2023

Built amazing innovative products with exceptional people. As a full-cycle delivery manager, I was involved from scratch with the idea of the founders to finish launching products to the market and further support. Details:

  • Several projects to analyze and operate financial data for the biggest Amazon e-commerce seller in 2021, and 2022 - https://www.thrasio.com/. Daily MAU >500 for internal users and >3000 for external
  • Multiple mobile and web applications for management and navigation for thebiggest world concrete producer - https://www.holcim.com/. Delivery of up to 3000 CY concrete / day.
  • Creation of applications for famous Boston healthcare clinics and their Research and Development department - https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/. Launched EPIC-integrated HL7-compliant applications for hundreds of medical staff and numerous patients

Senior PM

Blackwood Games
04.2020 - 02.2021

Led engineering department of up to 40 people to develop and maintain a Warface - popular online shooter with up to 300000 of DAU, #2 shooter in CIS at the moment

  • Implemented in-game battle pass and in-game shop, which dramatically improved income in P&L
  • Implemented a list of improvements that led to a spike in users' interest (up to x7 and reached >100000 DAU) and smoother UX.
  • Created roadmaps and plans for 2020-2021 years to make over a million gamers happy
  • Built new high-performance cross-functional feature teams (backend/frontend/metagame/game design/UX)
  • Coordinated teams across the company to launch releases - Delivered a list of features to support game development

Built major features that seriously improved the game experience and monetization:

  • In-game Battle Pass with instant in-client rewards, which led to a significant financial score
  • New UI - Home, Inventory, Shop screens (video about that - https://youtu.be/QJ7kJWESN2E) which refreshed UX and had positive players' feedback according to UX research
  • Redesign of Achievement system - faster and with better performance
  • Added numerous anti-cheat and anti-bots protections - significantly cut their amount Improved match-making system
  • Made new HUD (heads-up display) and whole options menu Implemented a new onboarding experience for players
  • Added new missions and game modes

Agile PM

Transporeon Freight Audit
10.2016 - 03.2020

Take part in delivering new great products for ControlPay - leading Freight Audit Company for multinationals with complex logistics structures. Main achievements:

  • Launch new products and services (IR2.0, CM2.0) for faster contracting and reconsider communication with customers
  • Re-design several modules for an existing solution (FRED)
  • Hire and lead new people and teams to make stable delivery
  • Set Scrum and Kanban for current and new teams
  • Transform software development approach from strictly functional to product-oriented and cross-functional

Agile Coach / Consultant

WeAreBrain
04.2018 - 04.2019

Digital transformation of the great world-class e-commerce platform for Maxeda DIY Group B.V. (Netherlands, Belgium)

  • Establish Large Scale Scrum for several distributed dispersed in EU software teams
  • Set vanilla scrum process for several teams in Ukraine and serve as Scrum Master for them
  • Facilitation: a) Community of Practices (agile, dev, devops, qa) b) Overall and Multi-team events (overall refinements, retrospectives, reviews, etc.) c) All regular Scrum team-level events
  • Pre-production for new projects
  • Help to form teams for new products
  • Mentor and coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners

QA Manager

Wargaming
07.2014 - 03.2016

Participate in the creation of a creative product with multimillion MAU (monthly authorized users) in the online game domain with over 160 million players roaming its battlefields

Participate in the creation of an online presence for games, platforms and modules, APIs (application programming interfaces), and distribution systems for a prestige awards winner (e.g. WoT is the first game ever to collect one in four different years the Golden Joysticks award)

  • Functional management for QA Engineers in the Kyiv Web Department (up to 30 QAs)
  • Leading teams as QA Lead (up to 15 Engineers) for a Wargaming Distribution System program (which is a super high-load with petabytes of traffic) and several smaller projects
  • Active PMO support to craft and rollout fit-to-purpose software engineering processes
  • Full cycle of people management activities for QA: hiring, firing, rotation, education, performance evaluation, etc.
  • Establish and evolute of the QA process across the department approximately of 80 people
  • Consult and audit other offices and departments

QA Lead

Wargaming
09.2013 - 07.2014
  • Lead fast-growing teams for one program (WG Developers Partners Program) and several smaller projects for World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, World of Warships, and World of Generals. Established over 40 high-load API endpoints to process over 3000000 requests per day

Senior QA / Automation QA Engineer

Materialize Dental / Dentsply Sirona
08.2012 - 09.2013

Take part in several very successful healthcare projects in the dental domain as a software engineer who leads a quality assurance part - from initiation (and pre-sales activities) to project closure. I had been working in Belgium product company Materialize Dental when it was acquired by the global market leader - Dentsply Sirona. Main responsibilities:

  • Analysis of requirements from initiation of the product till late postproduction
  • Create Quality Plan / Test Strategy with a risk-based approach using the best ISTQB practices
  • Test design for manual and automated execution - Create automation for web and native applications using python, jython and .js
  • Run automation for several test-levels, from UI Selenium-based scripts for web-based solutions to performance suites for native applications
  • Execute manual testing, from TC-based to expert exploratory - Monitor and Control QA processes
  • Report to a development team and C-level management

QA Engineer / Test Designer

Luxoft
01.2011 - 08.2012

Execute QA engineer role in complex SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) for EMS (energy management system)

Work as part of multinational energy corporation Alstom's subcontractor.

  • Plan testing part of complex e-terraplatfrom and e-terrahabitat systems
  • Prepare of test-sets for a team of up to 7 people
  • Monitor and control the testing process
  • Execute test design and testing part
  • Communicate and report to customers (facilitation, daily reports, project status, reports, etc.)
  • Educate and motivate colleagues
  • Mentor newcomers, onboarding new Test Designers and QA Engineers
  • Back up a team lead, manage the testing team when it is necessary

Co-founder, CTO

Indigo Line
07.2008 - 01.2012

Found and run a company in the renovation/construction segment from zero to fifteen people.

  • Build a primary sales funnel for business from scratch
  • Create and maintain specialized sites (html, wp/php, joomla!) - Optimize sites (SEO) of sites during an organic search through search engines
  • Maintain all IT processes (mail, security, etc.)
  • Setup digital marketing advertisement companies
  • Analysis of business to constantly improve its efficiency

QA Engineer / Software Test Engineer

Celenia
09.2006 - 07.2008

Software Test Engineer / Sustain Engineering Team / Navision (NAV) department at Celenia A/S. Participate in building the Core of one of the most popular CRM in the segment, which later was bought by Microsoft and became the origin of Microsoft Dynamics 365.

  • Work over Navision builds according to the requests of hotfix and service pack fix (NAV 3.7, NAV 4.0 SP2, SP3; MS Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1)
  • Test business logic in all the areas of the core version
  • Write test documentation - Test Cases and Test Plans, etc.
  • Work with technical writers
  • Provide internal Test Cases reviews -
  • Test new projects: a) NAV 4.0 MS Outlook (2002 - 2007) integration; b) NAV 5.0 MS (2002 - 2007) Outlook Synchronization Add-in.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering Technology

NTUU KPI
Kyiv, Ukraine
12.2008

Skills

  • Project management
  • Product management
  • Scrum and it's scaling
  • Quality assurance
  • Facilitation
  • Software development

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) @ Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Agile Leadership I (CAL I) @ Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) @ ICAgile
  • Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) @ Scrum.org
  • Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) @ Scrum.org
  • Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I) @ Scrum.org

Languages

English
Full Professional
Ukrainian
Native or Bilingual
Russian
Native or Bilingual
Portuguese
Elementary

Timeline

Senior Delivery Manager

Proxet
10.2020 - 09.2023

Senior PM

Blackwood Games
04.2020 - 02.2021

Agile Coach / Consultant

WeAreBrain
04.2018 - 04.2019

Agile PM

Transporeon Freight Audit
10.2016 - 03.2020

QA Manager

Wargaming
07.2014 - 03.2016

QA Lead

Wargaming
09.2013 - 07.2014

Senior QA / Automation QA Engineer

Materialize Dental / Dentsply Sirona
08.2012 - 09.2013

QA Engineer / Test Designer

Luxoft
01.2011 - 08.2012

Co-founder, CTO

Indigo Line
07.2008 - 01.2012

QA Engineer / Software Test Engineer

Celenia
09.2006 - 07.2008

Master of Science - Computer Engineering Technology

NTUU KPI
Anton Kapitanenko