YURII SHEVCHENKO

• Creating advertising, entertaining and commercial videos for companies and private entities;
• In 2019 / 2020s I started the launch of my own video and marketing studio “PineApple Production”.

• Development of backend applications using FastAPI, Django;
• Structuring and analysis of high volume of data using SQL;
• Using frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

DINS develops and supports UCaaS platoform of American company “RingCentral”.

Functional set of the platform: IP-telephony, video conferences, fax, contact center, corporate chat and more.

My duties:

• Managing and delegating resources of cross functional team of 19 specialists including remote employees;
• Conducting interviews with candidates for various job positions and shortlisting them for further interviews with specialists and technical exams. I have done more than 50 interviews throughout my career.
• Analysis and correction of KPI management software. My implementations have drastically decreased the number of errors and have speeded up project’s completion up to 25%;
• Interacting with interested parties in the US (RIngCentral), providing clear understanding of requirements.

Stack: GitHub, Zoom, Excel, Dropbox, JIRA, Notion, Figma etc.

After sanctions implementation against Russia the company had to clse majority of their projects.

PineApple Production is a content creating, video editing and marketing studio. Our team was involved in outsourcing and outstaffing for USA and Canada.

CEO job description:

Managing projects:

• Profound planning and managing of the company;
• Creating attractive job environment for international specialists;
• Development of adaptive web design on Figma;
• Cross platform development of website;
• Conveying company’s global idea for further development and growth;
• Generating SEO optimised texts and articles for websites;
• Launching, analysis, test and management of advertisements on Google and Facebook;
• Creating effective standarts of customer service communications and work with clients for sales growth.
• Analysis, calculations and optimisation of unit economics.

Managing legal concerns:

• Being in charge for paperwork as a legal entity;
• Drafting labour contracts, contractor agreements, service agreements, delivery / acceptance certificates and NDA.

Managing finances:

• Creating income and expenses statements;
• Financial planning;
• Payments control;
• Paying wages calculation;
• Optimisation of costs and taxes.

HR:

• Posting vacancies upon request;
• Shortlisting candidates;
• Analysing and implementing test tasks for candidates;
• Conducting interviews.

Project Manager:

• Communication with clients and contract reviewing;
• Receiving and delegating each project;
• Drafting scope of work based on communication with client
  and terms of reference;
• Segregating scope of work into tasks (Backlog / Sprints);
• Delegating tasks to specialists according to sprint;
• Controlling the quality of submitted projects;
• Tackling issues and full support in the whole process of project;
• Quality control of each finished project.

Realistically, my duties have covered much more.

At the start of the launch of my studio I was a boss as well as a cleaner :)

• Learning German in “Berlitz Language School” for further employment and legalisation in Germany;
• Volunteering in “FC-Lebensmittelausgabe an St. Karl” as a translator and providing assistance with various requests;
• Developing and managing my own project - “PineApple Production” studio, researching new market and exploring marketing ideas for conveying new development strategies;
• Completing refresher courses and developing skills independently.