Mariia Salamaska

This is a position of technical project manager, who serves as a liaison for engineering team, company leadership and client's stakeholders.

Main responsibilities:

• Drive all Agile ceremonies, act as a Scrum-master
• Adjusted and changed methodology (Kanban to Scrum)
• Take participation in quarter planning, scope estimation and schedule management on project and program level
• As technical manager, make sure that team is not blocked or to help team timely deal with blockers
• Escalate issues to cross dependant teams and work with wide range of dependencies
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Managing priorities and work with collecting/ clarifying requirements
• Update and maintain project/product backlog
• Performed regular people management activities, such as growing leadership of team, conducting regular one to one meetings, build career/ salary maps, identify risks and perform risk management, succession planning, perform all types of staffing activities.

• Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
• Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
• Promoted increased focus on internal talent mobility and emerging talent across organization.
• Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses.
• Partnered with departmental managers to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently provide candidate recommendations.
• Completed human resource operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees.
• Conducted performance reviews and provided feedback to managers on employee performance.
• Generated and analyzed reports to monitor employee engagement and attrition trends.

• Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity, and within company to reach business goals.
• Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across board.
• Advised executives on best practices for employee growth and productivity goals, consistently helping companies improve retention.
• Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitated team-building activities and initiatives, improving collaboration and engagement.
• Collaborated closely with internal teams to develop and implement successful human resources systems and processes.
• Promoted and enabled necessary changes to align operations with strategic plans.
• Worked with managers to achieve compliance with organizational policies, providing clarifying information and recommending necessary changes.
• Developed comprehensive process for new hires and reviewed new hire productivity, optimizing onboarding effectiveness.
• Distributed employee engagement surveys to identify areas of improvement.
• Coordinated technical training and personal development classes for staff members.

• Engaged in daily communications with internal partners and identified document-related issues that required interdepartmental cooperation.
• Contacted document requestors and obtained additional information required to process document requests.`
• Scanned paper documents into computer and assigned identification numbers to simplify tracking process.
• Maintained department document tracking database to follow documents' migration through processing sequence.
• Forwarded documents requiring legal review to department to obtain instructions for subsequent document resolution.
• Worked with internal staff to process documents and sent for closing.
• Reviewed document management protocols and user activities against internal records policies and document management standards.
• Provided assistance with inbound and outbound document processes, document sorting, logging and work order creation.
• Maintained organized and efficient document flows by using excellent planning and multitasking skills.
• Compared incoming data against quality, integrity and accuracy expectations, identified faults and affected timely remedies.