IRINA FIMOV
Chicago
Summary
My objective is to utilize my strong leadership, prioritization skills, and analytical ability to achieve the goals of the company.
Enthusiastic Scrum Master with extensive experience in leading Agile teams and delivering strategic MVPs. Expert in Scrum methodologies and project management, with a proven track record of increasing team productivity by 25%. Skilled in managing complex IT projects from conception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals. Possess deep understanding of project lifecycle, risk management, and stakeholder communication strategies. Strengths include leadership, problem-solving abilities, and adaptability to changing technology landscapes. Have successfully led teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, improving operational efficiency and client satisfaction.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SCRUM MASTER
Aspen Dental
08.2021 - 02.2025
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies, improving team communication and productivity by 20%
- Managed project risks and developed contingency plans, enhancing project success rates by 15%
- Coached teams on Scrum practices, resulting in a 25% improvement in sprint velocity
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives, increasing overall efficiency by 10%
- Activated product commercialization activities, successfully launching multiple MVPs
- Partnered with Product Owners to deliver MVPs, contributing to a 10% increase in NSV
- Managed/supported release cycle, coordinated with application and infractructure team
- Backlog tracking and status reporting to steakholders using Azure DevOps (with Jira integration)
SCRUM MASTER
MMD Services Inc.
06.2020 - 08.2021
- Maintained a prioritized list of tasks and user stories to help teams focus on delivering high-value features
- Facilitated daily stand-ups and sprint planning meetings to ensure team alignment
- Developed an agile mindset in the workplace to create, deliver, and sustain complex products and services
- Identified and manage risks that could impact project delivery, mitigating them proactively
- Creating prototypes and technical design for new features and improvements for the existing one to be presented to the clients for the approval
- Working with partners and Systems Integrators to propose differentiated solutions to help migrate old system into the new one
- Perform problem characterization, reproduction, diagnosis, and root cause analysis
- Utilizing different source control systems: Azure, Git and TFS
- Work with other Services and Product Support personnel to replicate, troubleshoot and workaround or resolve product issues, escalating as necessary
SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Maestro Health Inc.
02.2016 - 03.2020
- Facilitates cross-functional decisions regarding solution improvements or the introduction of new technologies to be presented to the client for approval by working with internal and external parties
- Worked cross functionally with business teams to formulate, define and document software implementations to support and improve application performance
- Recommended improvements to customers and demonstrated potential process improvements
- Managing team of 1 to 5 developers
- Hands-on building web application utilizing various technology Node.js/React/REST Web API/MongoDB, Python/Django/REST Web API, .NET/Entity Framework/MVC/WCF/C#/MS SQL
- Migrated existing APIs on to the AWS(Lambda), .NET to .Net Core
- Worked with 3d party API integration
- Working on multiple projects on as-needed basis
- Extensively working with SQL database: designing tables, writing new stored process and tuning existing
TEAM LEAD/VICE PRESIDENT
CME Group
01.2008 - 02.2016
- Managing a team of 7-10 developers
- Designed and coordinated implementation of web and windows applications and ad-hoc tools as for pre and post client approval for the particular client’s environment
- Developed several internal tools to automate mundane tasks that were quickly adopted by other teams
- Created scripts for monitoring systems and critical applications
- Worked directly with the client gathering business requirement and writing the architectural proposal following with function requirements to use for technical design and further development
- Developed components utilizing various technology (C#, ASP.NET and SQL, MVC, WPF, WCF, ADO.NET, jQuery, XML, LINQ, etc.)
- Extensively worked with SQL database design and development
- Performed SQL Server performance tuning and Project migration Framework 2.0 to 3.5
- Mentored junior members of the team and work directly with the client and through BAs to create technical specifications for the projects
- Administered TFS System (branching, users, rights, designing and leading merge processes)
- Worked primarily on the Version Control object
- Activities included design, specification, and implementation of API and client functionality, including creation of unit and behavior tests
- Authored team C# coding guidelines for use by all Team Foundation Server developers
SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Arroweyesolutions Inc.
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Responsible for architecting and presenting the solution to the team and product owner technical analysis and documentation based on business requirements and designed architecture and performed the final code review
- Overseen the solution implementation by local and offshore teams of developers in India
- Responsible for the development, debugging, and implementation of the whole project from the beginning to the end and led Client interaction on the technical level
CONSULTANT
Prescient Developemtn
08.2005 - 01.2006
- Solely responsible for gathering requirements, designing, coding, implementing and testing an ASP.NET/VB.NET/SQL web application, and Web Services
- Designed and implement VB.NET Windows’s service application as an extension to the existing third-party software and responsible for full documentation support
- Responsible for multiple SQL servers/databases administration and maintenance (user maintenance, backup strategy and implementation, analyzing performance for tuning purposes, etc.)
Education
B.A. - Computer Information System
DeVry Institute of Technology
B.A. - Electronic Engineering
Kharkov State University
Kharkov, UkraineM.S. - Information Technology Management
Kharkov State University
Kharkov, UkraineSkills
- Effective Sprint Coordination
- Functional testing
- Effective Meeting Facilitation
- Mediation and Conflict Management
- Negotiation
- Business Analysis
- Communication skills
- C#
- Core
- ASPNET
- VBNET
- Angular
- Typescript
- Nodejs
- ASP
- C
- XML
- XSLT
- HTML/DHTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- React
- WCF
- MVC
- LINQ
- JQuery
- Django
- ETL
- Github
- AWS
- Google cloud
- Azure
- MS SQL
- NET Framework
- ADONET
- Entity Framework
- Win Forms
- Web API
- Crystal Reports
- Telerik
- Jira
- Confluence
- Kanban
- Visual StudioNET
- Visual SourceSafe
- Microsoft Visio
- TFS
- Git
- Postman
- Windows
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Scrum framework expertise
- Scrum processes
- Risk identification
- Adaptive leadership
- Backlog grooming
- Meeting participation
- Backlog management
- Agile metrics tracking
- Workflow Analysis
- User story creation
- Project management
- Meeting facilitation
- Customer requirements analysis
- Customer interaction
- Requirements gathering
Certification
Certified CSM, 01/01/25
Other Skills
C#, Core, ASP.NET, VB.NET, VB, Angular(including SPA), Typescript, Node.js, ASP, C, XML, XSLT, HTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Typescript, Bootstrap, VBScript, Unix C/C++, Korn, PHP, Drools (java), Spring 1.2/1.3, Microsoft Enterprise Library, WPF, WCF, MVC, MVT, MVVM, LINQ, JQuery, Django, Django(ORM), ETL, .AWS(Docker), Azure, NoSQL, MS SQL, NET Framework, .Net Compact Framework, IIS, ASP, ASP.NET, ADO, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Win Forms, WPF, Web API (REST), WCF, DOM, Win 32 APICOM, COM+, DCOM, ActiveX, Crystal Reports, Infragistics, Telerik, Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Visual Studio.NET 2002/2003/2005/2008/2010/2012(team and Database), Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Visio, Visual Studio 6.0, TFS, Git, TeamCity, MS, Pycharm Project, Bamboo, Highcharts, Infragistics, Postman, Heroku, Git(GitHub), Microsoft PowerPoint, Windows 2000/2003/7/8, XP/NT 3.x/4.0, Windows 95/98, Windows 7, Windows 10, SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005/2008/2012 (T-SQL, DTS, SSIS), Sybase ASE 12, PostgreSQL
Languages
English
Professional
Russian
Professional
Ukrainian
Professional
Timeline
SCRUM MASTER
Aspen Dental
08.2021 - 02.2025
SCRUM MASTER
MMD Services Inc.
06.2020 - 08.2021
SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Maestro Health Inc.
02.2016 - 03.2020
TEAM LEAD/VICE PRESIDENT
CME Group
01.2008 - 02.2016
SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Arroweyesolutions Inc.
01.2006 - 01.2008
CONSULTANT
Prescient Developemtn
08.2005 - 01.2006
B.A. - Computer Information System
DeVry Institute of Technology
B.A. - Electronic Engineering
Kharkov State University
M.S. - Information Technology Management
Kharkov State University
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