PMP, PSM

Rovshan Safarov

Passionate and seasoned professional and servant leader with 10 years of Project Management and leadership experience who takes on challenging and fast paced environments, with a proven record of successful projects, running and transforming innovative business ideas and concepts, needs and business requirements into customer valued products, services and success stories. I build strong and productive relationship with all levels stakeholders, vendors and multi-disciplinary teams, delivering expected results the business needs, both timely and cost effective.

Areas of expertise:

Agile and predictive project management, Scrum master, communication with all levels of business, enterprise level web ecommerce B2B SaaS projects, real estate programs, fintech (online payments), SalesForce integrations.

Projects

  1. https://deluxemarketingsuite.com ....................... [Email Marketing platform]
  2. https://webhosting.att.com ....................................................... [Cloud-hosting sign-up server]
  3. https://easily.uk ............................................................................................................... [E-commerce cloud solutions]

Courses and certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) pmi.org

Professional Scrum Master I Scrum.org

Scrum Fundamentals Certified ScrumStudy

April 2018| ID: 622349

Odessa Project Management Day Lemberg Tech Business School

Held in June 2018 | Odessa, Ukraine

Work experience

Scrum Master/Senior Project Manager Homes For Heroes

March 2021 - present | Minnetonka, MN
  • Working with the Salesforce team as well as full stack developers building, supporting and improving the current systems for better UX, performance, scalability.
  • Developing detailed project plans, roadmaps, schedules, and allocating resources effectively to ensure successful project outcomes.
  • Proactively monitoring the projects overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective and preventive actions as appropriate.
  • Managing internal and external customers requirements and project scope to achieve project objectives.
  • Facilitating collaboration and constant communication across departments, ensuring successful project completion and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Working with product management to understand the business ideas, opportunities including scope, strategies, issues that need to be solved, business requirements and the costs/benefits.
  • Performing project risk management including planning, identification, analysis, response planning and controlling.
  • Communicating project status to all stakeholders and executive leaders, ensuring transparency and timely updates.
  • Serving as a Scrum Master for an Agile team, facilitating Scrum events, removing impediments and supporting collaborative and productive environments.
  • Implementation and standardization of Agile (Scrum, Kanban depending on a project) techniques which work best for the team and for the business as a whole.
  • Building relationships with stakeholders to ensure project alignment and support.
  • Following best practices from predictive & hybrid software development life cycle depending on a project.
  • Enacting and supporting project change management processes, including documentation of project and internal policies changes, scope changes.
  • Assistance in creating test documentation, testing and reporting.
  • Leading external vendors communication and collaboration in implementing their solutions and services into the corporate environment.
  • Jira and Confluence administration.

Scrum Master / Senior Project Manager Geeksforless Inc.

April 2020 - Dec 2020 | Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Successfully delivered over 15 projects worth from $250,000 to $3,000,000 each in such domains as web development, ecommerce B2B SaaS, financial technology (payment solutions), Salesforce and marketplace projects.
  • Drive pre-sales to onboard new customers and help them implement their business strategies and goals.
  • Draft work plans, determine resources, estimate timelines and draft initial budgets as a part of project SOWs and POCs.
  • Manage offsite and onsite teams, assignments and agile processes, resulting in maximized and flexible team resources and management.
  • Project plans and roadmap updates to account for fast paced environmental, staffing changes and operational needs and requirements.
  • Support and execute concurrent execution and delivery of multiple projects.
  • Cooperate with business stakeholders, customers and vendors of all levels and multi-disciplinary teams to analyze, collect, and validate requirements, remove impediments, suggest best practices and convey clear messages to all parties during kickoff meetings, cooperative architectural designing and planning meetings.

Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master Deluxe Corporation

July 2013 - April 2020 | Shoreview, MN, US
  • As a Technical Project Manager, I initiated bulk e-commerce platforms revision to rebuild, redesign and provide simple yet rich user experience which led to increased visitors and revenue by 30%.
  • On-boarded additional vendors for our Salesforce integrated e-commerce solution.
  • Applied agile methodologies to shorten cycle time and achieve more business needs.
  • Coached my teams to follow and adhere to Scrum guide principles during the transition from Kanban methodology.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Estimated scrum team member's responsibilities and assigned tasks to balance each employee's workload.
  • Worked closely with scrum team members to develop, identify and achieve assigned goals and initiatives, breaking down requirements, providing suggestions, best approaches and technical expertise.
  • Supervised up to 15-20 team members (both onsite and offshore) throughout project life cycles.
  • Utilized multiple project management tools, including Atlassian Jira/Confluence, Gantt charts, MS Project/Azure and Smartsheet.
  • Designed and documented processes, procedures and how-to articles, including systems technical specifications.

Software QA Lead Geeksforless Inc.

March 2013 - July 2013 | Toronto, CA
  • Enacted new and improved existing QA processes by developing test plans, test cases and assigning and executing tests.
  • Successfully completed migration of one of the largest vendors from legacy servers to new data center.
  • Followed and improved requirements for milestones and monitored completion of tasks for QA team.
  • Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and new employees training to familiarize ones with procedures, rules and policies.
  • Utilized simple SQL queries to validate test results and communicate with development teams.
  • Led and updated the department's wiki base to help resolve common issues.
  • Coached and motivated up to 10 QA agents to adhere and follow industry best practices.

QA Specialist Geeksforless Inc.

January 2013 - March 2013 | Toronto, CA
  • Performed manual and automated testing (using Selenium IDE) of web and mobile applications of different types (feature, full, ad-hoc testing)
  • Documenting and updating test plans and test cases
  • Processed customer feedback and tickets
  • Worked with tech leads to configure and alpha test a few internal systems for storing and executing tests like SpiraTest, JIra and Telerik

Education

University Master's Degree

Master's degree in International Affairs Management / Business management

2007-2013

Languages proficiency

  • English - Fluent
  • Ukrainian - Native