Vitaliy Fursov

Current

Impresario at San Base Studio
Consultant at M.C. Dean, Inc.
CEO at The Norns Laboratories, Inc.

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Past

Manager, PMO at Redknee
Project Manager at Sequoia Retail Systems, Inc.
Software Development Consultant at Ameriquest Mortgage Company

Software Development Consultant at Argent Mortgage Company
Software Development Consultant at IndyMac Bank
Manager of Software Development Department at Club Essential, Inc.
Software Development Consultant at Lava Life
Software Development Consultant at BIO (Beef Improvement Ontario)
Systems Analyst at Kitimat Systems Inc.

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Education

Ukrainian State Military University
Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Stroitel'nyj Universitet

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Vitaliy Fursov’s Summary

Highly experienced business strategist with a record of major accomplishments directing the delivery of software development projects of a various sizes and complexity.

Proven Project Management, Team Building, People Management, and Financial Management skills with strong understanding of development/consulting capitalization utilized in the justification of P&L and R&D budgets as large as $10M.

Recognized and recruited to guide the projects, programs, and portfolio management activities for the organizations of as many as 400 software development professionals providing mission critical business leadership to companies challenged by growth or turn-around in Business Development and Operations. Adept in the identification, selection and development of geographically dispersed and culturally diverse staff, weaving talent into high performance teams through hands-on leadership, mentoring and in-house training.

A trusted partner to the organization’s C Level Management in matters driving continuous improvement in Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, R&D Processes Efficiency, and Product Quality. Acknowledged for providing strategic project management recommendations to the CEO and Senior Management.

Extensive experience developing effective project teams, introducing PMO to the R&D organizations, and reduced cost of development. Long term Agile methods practitioner, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMP designation holder.

Vitaliy Fursov’s Specialties:

· PM Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, XP, PMI PMBOK, RUP, RAD.
· PM Tools: MS EPM, MS Portfolio Planner, MS Project Professional, Compuware Changepoint, AtTask.
· Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Java, VB, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl, PHP, Python, TCL.
· Server OS: Windows 2000/2003/XP, SUN Solaris, AS400, HP-UX, Linux.
· Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, Interbase.
· Enterprise modeling: Sybase PowerDesigner, (CA) ERwin, ERStudio.

Vitaliy Fursov’s Experience

Impresario

San Base Studio

(Arts and Crafts industry)

January 2005 — Present (5 years )

Using the latest in computer technology, a still picture is transformed into a never-ending show that adds a whole new dimension to traditional Art. Images replacing each other hour by hour, day by day, month by month. None of the images repeat previous ones and will never repeat again. The picture living its own life with objects moving and transforming but still following the original artist's concept.

http://www.sanbasestudio.com
Consultant

M.C. Dean, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — Present (10 years )

Provided consulting services on several software development projects, covering project management, team building, software architecture, and implementation areas.
CEO

The Norns Laboratories, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

May 1998 — Present (11 years 8 months)

Project management
Consulting
Database design
Software development
Training
Mentoring
Manager, PMO

Redknee

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RKN; Telecommunications industry)

May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)

· Developed PM methodologies
· Mentor Project Managers and Leaders on projects and on the methodologies
· Enhanced the organizational tools used for project reporting and project delivery to help get these tools institutionalized
· Maintained and enhanced project gating and governance processes
· Oversaw the submission, selection, prioritization and progress of projects/programs
· Oversaw the project status and portfolio reporting process
· Participated in portfolio analysis and recommendations
· Facilitated lessons learned sessions as part of project closure
· Oversaw Project Management tool development and use
Project Manager

Sequoia Retail Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — May 2008 (3 years )

· Led the portfolio of R&D projects with the budget of $5M for university and college bookstore management industry leader.
· Orchestrated the delivery of complex integration projects working with the team of 20 professionals located in Canada, USA, and Europe.
· Dramatically cut consulting expenses while managed the start-up of a Canadian office which encompasses in excess of 75% of the company's R&D resources. Implemented software development, QA, documentation, requirements management, release management, and project management groups within R&D.
· Introduced large savings to the R&D cost through definition and
monitoring of R&D KPI's, and effective optimization of the company
SDLC.
· Guided the migration from legacy Unix-based store management system to Microsoft SQL Server and Windows-based solution while incurring product support savings of more than $600,000; reduced deployment time and dramatically improved customer satisfaction by introducing new features such as numerous mobile applications for hand-held devices, and browser-based drill-down BI reports.
Software Development Consultant

Ameriquest Mortgage Company

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

February 2003 — February 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Designed Loan Origination System based on Empower framework.
Software Development Consultant

Argent Mortgage Company

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

February 2003 — February 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Designed Loan Origination System based on Empower framework
Software Development Consultant

IndyMac Bank

(Public Company; IMB; Banking industry)

December 2001 — August 2002 (9 months)

· Designed and implemented various solutions for Loan Origination System.
· Implemented numbers of custom forms, based on designs suggested by Business Analysts.
· Suggested numbers of software systems based on company business needs; provided with systems architectures.
· Designed and implemented Fields Inventory Tool that allows client to perform inventory of usage database fields in multiple applications and services.
· Designed and implemented Fields Inventory Browser, the tool that allowed users to browse through Fields Inventory database, as well as to run numerous reports against this database.
· Designed and Implemented XML Engine, and Object Editor, that allows user to design structure of business object, generate DTD packages, generate and marshal XML documents based on custom definitions.
Manager of Software Development Department

Club Essential, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2001 — December 2001 (11 months)

· Played team leader and manager of software development department role at the well know software solution provider in the spa/golf clubs industry.
· Defined corporate software development standards.
· Organized change requests processing for two versions of software (designed for Delphi 4, Delphi 5, and Delphi 6).
· Designed a corporation document flow standards for software development process.
· Played active role in establishing quality assurance department, and organizing communication channels to it from software development and customer support departments.
· Established numerous improvements into existing development processes.
· Designed multi-tier architecture using latest technologies from Borland, Microsoft, Sybase.
· Implemented new internet technology based on TCP/IP and Borland MIDAS.
· Multi-threading processes design and implementation.
· Managed various projects from estimation to detailed design, development, code review, and quality assurance stages.
Software Development Consultant

Lava Life

(Computer Software industry)

July 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Software Development Consultant

BIO (Beef Improvement Ontario)

(Information Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Performed business analysis and systems analysis for the reverse engineering of multiple overlapping sources of operational data to form an integrated business model for BIO scientific information system.
Organized work on definition of systems requirements.
Performed data analysis, data warehousing, data modeling, architectural modeling, logical design, database design, and object oriented systems design.
Selected development tools, appropriate to the purpose and the budget.
Designed and implemented multi-tier database systems using MS SQL Server 7 and Borland Delphi 5. Used Microsoft ADO/OLE DB platform.
Transformed large amount of existing data from legacy storages to MS SQL Server database.
Adopted MS SQL Server solution in Oracle to meet government technological restrictions.
Performed personnel training.
Systems Analyst

Kitimat Systems Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Additional Information

Vitaliy Fursov’s Websites:

Vitaliy Fursov’s Interests:

Music: Jazz, Flamenco; Sports: Hiking, Mountain Climbing, Fishing; Writing: Fairy Tale Stories, Poems, Songs; Other activities: Aikido, Kiatsu, Silva Method, Hypnosis, Norbekov Method of self healing.

Vitaliy Fursov’s Groups:

PMI, Scrum Alliance, International Silva Method Association, Toronto Yoshinkai Aikido Club, Cincinnati Aikikai Aikido Club, Toastmasters International