Aleksander Maksimenkov, ISTQB™ CTFL

Senior Consultant, Information Systems at Know IT Estonia

Estonia

Current
  • Senior Consultant, Information Systems at Know IT Estonia OÜ
  • Owner at Oracul International Estonia
Past
  • IT Manager at Codan Forsikring A/S Estonian Branch (Royal & Sunalliance Group)
  • Managing Director at FutureTrade Estonia
  • Director of International Operations at FutureTrade Technologies, Inc.
  • Project Manager, IT at SEB Eesti Ühispank
  • Senior Engineer at Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
Education
  • Estonian Business School
  • Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
  • Secondary school No.26 in Tallinn
Connections
210 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Aleksander Maksimenkov, ISTQB™ CTFL’s Summary

IT Senior Manager, Consultant and Entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in Software Development and QA, General Management, HiTech startups, IT operations, Project Management, Banking, Securities, Insurance, HR, Management and IT consultancy, ISTQB™ Foundation Certificate in Software Testing

Aleksander Maksimenkov, ISTQB™ CTFL’s Specialties:

General management, Project Management, Software Development, SQA, IT operations, establishing and running start-ups, HR, legal issues in Estonia and Russia, marketing research in the field of IT, logistics, transit of oil products and HoReCa, Real Estate, due diligence reports; Business Intelligence: Business Objects


Aleksander Maksimenkov, ISTQB™ CTFL’s Experience

  • Senior Consultant, Information Systems

    Know IT Estonia OÜ

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2008Present (6 months)

    Know IT is primarily active in the Swedish market. By striving to work closely with its clients Know IT builds its business based on local deals and because of its size, Know IT can deliver the IT expertise of a big company with the soul of a small company and the commitment of the individual consultant.
    Know IT is currently one of the leading suppliers in testing and quality assurance with concepts for load tests and automated functional tests. Know IT has extensive experience in Compliance and Governance. Know IT meets market demand by continuing to invest in the Integration Factory, a concept that gathers Know IT’s knowledge about integration in “best practices,” complete components, check lists and templates. This approach gives our clients quality-assured and robust integration solutions that support their processes and needs.

  • Owner

    Oracul International Estonia

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    September 2003Present (4 years 11 months)

    Macroeconomical reports, study of Scandinavian and Baltic markets and economy, marketing surveys in the fields of logistics and HORECA, business plans, evaluation of investment opportunities, export startegy, IT consultancy and advising, oil products transshipment, Real Estate investments in Estonia

  • IT Manager

    Codan Forsikring A/S Estonian Branch (Royal & Sunalliance Group)

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CODAN; Insurance industry)

    December 2006March 2007 (4 months)

    Established and directed the strategic long term goals, policies and procedures for an information technology department. Determined an organization's long-term systems needs and hardware and software acquisitions to accomplish the organization's business objectives. Identified, negotiated and managed strategic relationships with content and technological partners. Managed dedicated teams to implement business development initiatives; Planed, directed, and managed the daily IT operations of the facility. Established facility policies and procedures. Developed Test Strategy and Test Plan for TIA solution implementation.

  • Managing Director

    FutureTrade Estonia

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2000August 2003 (3 years 4 months)

    Full iterative software development and QA cycle was established. The company grew from 5 to 26 employees. Salary Equity Analysis was provided as a basis for the whole HR process; Manpower reporting system was implemented; all the legal paperwork (labor contracts, software development contracts) was brought into accordance with the both Estonian and Russian legislation in the field of Intellectual Property.

  • Director of International Operations

    FutureTrade Technologies, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2002August 2003 (1 year 1 month)

    Managing both Estonian and Russian facilities from operational perspective. Working on operation issues at Estonian and Russian facilities, responsible for consistent definition and execution of operations across all off-shore facilities, doing ongoing salary equity analysis at all locations, ensuring that company has a consistent performance evaluation system in place, uncovering and making recommendation on legal issues relative to off-shore employment, including employment contract issues, IP issues, severance issues, options issues, etc., responsible for accurate budgeting and monitoring actual expenses against the budget across all facilities and for consistent facilities management issues across all sites, responsible for strategic corporate communications to the labs, IT management across off-shore labs.

  • Project Manager, IT

    SEB Eesti Ühispank

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

    October 1997August 2002 (4 years 11 months)

    Main assignments: Internet Banking Solution (QA Management), Bank's Asset Management IT operations, Private Investments & Finance IT operations: setting up and tuning Treasury Management System (TREMA), customer support both at Asset Management and Private Investment and Finance, deploying reporting system based on Business Objects.

  • Senior Engineer

    Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 1984October 1997 (13 years 2 months)

    High-level design of PLDs; lectures: Discrete Mathematics, Computer Networks, Programming


Aleksander Maksimenkov, ISTQB™ CTFL’s Education

  • Estonian Business School

    MBA, Consultancy, 20022008

  • Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

    M.S., Computer Engineering, 19791984

  • Secondary school No.26 in Tallinn

    profound study of English 19691979


Additional Information

Aleksander Maksimenkov, ISTQB™ CTFL’s Groups:

Alumni Association of Tallinn University of Technology

  •    UPSA member
  •    eOffice member
  •    Executive Suite member
  • Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
  • Forbes.com Personal Technology Forum member
  • Forbes.com Life member
  •    TechSoup NetSquared member
  •    LInked Business Strategists member
  •    Outsourced Product Development member
  •    Outsourcing Eastern Europe, Russia and former CIS countries member
  •    Testing Group member
  •    European Test Consultants member
  •    Software Testing & Quality Assurance member
  •    biz RUSSIA member
  •    biz ESTONIA member
  •    Quality Assurance Professional member
  •    QA/Testing member

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