Dariia Sakharova

Goal-oriented Program Manager with a technical background. 11 years of IT experience, 8 years of experience managing projects in various domains (education, e-commerce, finance, media, mobile, advertisement, retail), coordinating a workforce team of subcontractors and cross-functional teams, and performing budget allocation and analysis. Proven ability to leverage technology to develop and implement project plans with a keen focus on risk management.

EXPERIENCE

Epam Systems (client– Wolters Kluwer), London, UK 05/2022 – Current time 

Global provider of Software Engineering and IT consulting services

Program Manager

• Managing 2 cross-functional teams (total ~25 people)
• Weekly reporting (highlighting issues, managing team dependencies)
• Building Product Roadmap, features prioritization
• Participate in creating a project budget, making a PNL, and controlling resources.
• Riskmanagement, building mitigation strategy and plans for identified Risks.
• Conducting Engineering Excellence assessments and controlling improvements after

 Achievements:

• Was assigned when the project had a “crisis period” and the customer had thought to leave the project. Within 3 months Project's health status changed from Red to Green. Process and client communications were improved. The team structure was updated to better fit the needs.

Epam Systems (client– BT (British Telecom), Santander), 08/2021– 05/2022

Project manager

• Managing a team 2 distinct workstreams 
• Setting up processes and communication lines with partner teams
• Managing Project Schedule, defining Sprint Goals, and breaking down into stories/tasks. SWS
• Staffing project, interviewing newcomers 
• Managing third-party dependencies, schedules, and delivery dates to ensure timely delivery for the projects.
• Riskmanagement, building mitigation strategy and plans for identified Risks.
• Scope management - balancing feature requests, and necessary, prioritization 
• Managing team performance
• Partner certification requirements with a fixed planned launch date.
• Weekly/quarterly reports for CTO

Achievements:

• Established processes for newly created teams, build relationships with distributed partner teams(Madrid, London)

Turnitin, Kyiv, Ukraine 03/2018 – 08/2021

Senior Project Manager

• Managing 2 cross-functional teams (total ~40people)
• Manage scope/schedule/risk/communications for multiple Projects Run all Team Scrum ceremonies (DailyStand Up, Planning, Grooming, Demo, Retro)
• Integrate and transform the team and process into the company after the acquisition. 
• OKRsplanning 
• Assist the Architect in integrating the technical part. 
• Played a key role in streamlining processes and contributing to integrating product parts.

Achievements:

• I joined the project during a phase without established processes, focusing on the local market. In just three months, I orchestrated the implementation of processes, set KPIs, and collaborated effectively with the product team. Within six months, our efforts led to a successful acquisition and integration with teams from the US and UK. 
  • Researched market leaders implemented found functionality and created a roadmap for strategic project development.

Epom Ad Server, Kyiv, Ukraine 11/2015 – 08/2017

Leading Ad Serving Software for Publishers and Advertisers

 Project Manager/Product Manager

• Conducted analysis of feature usefulness 
• Scrum/Waterfall methodology (participating in Scrum of Scrums), (applying PMBOK standards)

Achievements:

•  Defined and implemented world-first functionality (affiliate + ad serving functionality)
• Introduced Scrum and Acceptance criteria.

Areon, Kyiv, Ukraine 03/2014 – 10/2015

IT Services provider (outsourcing, CRM, Web/Mobile development)

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Different types of testing for mobile and web
• Automation testing using SoapUI for mobile applications.

Epam Systems (client– Darwin), 09/2012– 02/2014   

Global provider of Software Engineering and IT consulting services

Quality Assurance Engineer     

• Different types of testing 
• Communication with onside team and customers (UK)
• Conducting knowledge-sharing sessions for students

National Technical University of Ukraine“KPI” Kyiv, Ukraine

Master of Degree in Computer Science

University of Oxford                                                                              2012

Leading Strategic Projects Program                                                                                              2024 

Certified: Google Program Manager, SAFe® 5, PSM, Engineering Excellence Expert, Leading Strategic Projects Program (Oxford), Six Sigma (Epam certification), Cloud (Epam internal)