Alexander Lockshyn

Current

Project and product manager at Railsware
CTO at Python Geeks

Past

Project manager / Software department manager at Totem company
Web projects manager at Frontex
Freelance java developer, consultant (Self-employed)

Senior web developer at laboratory 8
Team leader, project manager (later) at KCK software
Senior PHP developer at Viva Solutions
Co-Owner, project managerat Pragmatica web development (Self-employed)
Graphics designer, IT manager (later) at International investment forum: World Europe Ukraine
Freelance journalist and web developer (Self-employed)

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Alexander Lockshyn’s Experience

Project and product manager

Railsware

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

July 2008 — Present (6 months)
CTO

Python Geeks

(Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Project manager / Software department manager

Totem company

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

May 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 3 months)

- Building infrastructure for software outsourcing and turnkey development department. Managing up to 5 development teams (25 people total)
- Organizing the development process
- Interacting with HR, interviewing job candidates (handled over 100 interviews, filled over 20 positions)
- Applied new technologies for company's own projects to reduce project costs. Coordinated dev. learning process
- Managing cross-team interaction, developer transfers. Onsite-offsite teams interaction (outsourcing projects)
- Overseeing the projects and delivery
- Clients communication
- Scheduling and managing the resources and risks
- Initiated new project and acted as a product manager for statistics tracking and reporting tools automation project. Applied those tools for outsourcing projects
- Started company's knowledgebase and library. Managing books purchases
- Adopted agile methodologies (including scrum) for complex projects
- Product management and copywriting for company's products
Web projects manager

Frontex

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

- Managing development and support of small and medium size web projects using WebDNA and PHP technologies: leading developers, web designers and test engineers team, interaction with technical writers/analysts team, setting project priorities, project estimations and scheduling
- Managed 2-4 parallel projects in development and up to 9 parallel projects in support mode
- Control over company’s guidelines implementation on projects
- Standartized studying process for WebDNA intern developers
- Internal knowledgebase management
Freelance java developer, consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)

Development of enterprise java projects using J2EE-5 software stack and Spring/Hibernate

Domain and technoloy research for youtube-like media projects.
Senior web developer

laboratory 8

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2005 — March 2006 (5 months)

Contract web developer work for Julia Tymoshenko's online projects:

http://kraina.org.ua (currently http://kraina2.org.ua/)
http://democracy.net.ua
Team leader, project manager (later)

KCK software

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

June 2005 — November 2005 (6 months)

Leading development of Fotolia stock photo store (http://fotolia.com) from early beta till version 1.0.

- Coordination of international developers and graphic designers team
- Time and scope planning
- Setting project priorities
- Technologies analysis
- Research and development of project’s web framework
- Database design
- Project specifications composing
- Customer - development team interaction management
- Marketing team - development team interaction management
Senior PHP developer

Viva Solutions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Design and implementation of web-oriented software for medium to large ukrainian customers.

- Website statistics tracking and analysis software, catalogue software, time management software, news management software, e-mail subscriptions software, etc.
- Revision of existing company’s CMS, development of its modules
- Design and development of distributed content management framework based on PHP5 scripting language, PostgreSQL RDBMS and XML technologies.
- Company’s knowledge base management
- Developers team coordination
- User’s manual and specification composing
- Usability and quality control of web systems
Co-Owner, project manager
Pragmatica web development (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — May 2004 (9 months)
Graphics designer, IT manager (later)

International investment forum: World Europe Ukraine

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

February 2003 — October 2003 (9 months)
Freelance journalist and web developer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Games industry)

August 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Writing articles and news for gaming, cybersport and computer hardware online portals.

Designed, developed, supported and co-owned some information portals:
- modlabs.net (started as PC pervertz)
- cybersport.org.ua
- hardcore.kiev.ua