Olga Arifulina

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About Olga Arifulina

Hello! Let's connect! I'm experienced project manager with a strong background in project management, process optimization, and team leadership. Proven ability to drive success, achieve business goals, and deliver measurable results. Skilled in consulting startups, providing strategic guidance to overcome challenges and support sustainable growth. Adept at fostering collaboration and contributing to team success. Let me summarize my experience in a few points: • 6+ years of professional experience in the Information Technology industry; • Strong managerial experience (direct/indirect management, teams or project groups from 3 up to ~30 employees); • Experienced in the events industry and managing projects across diverse domains, with recent focus in travel; • Experience in setting up and leading Project Management Office (PMO): сhange management and organizational alignment, stakeholder management and reporting, implementation of project management methodologies, development of PMO processes and governance; • Experience working within complex, geographically distributed projects; • Strong ability to engage and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring their needs are met; • Proficient in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating project risks to ensure successful delivery; • Procient in business/system/functional analysis and requirements management as well as in project management, implementation, and support of proper project lifecycle and required processes and workows; • Rich experience in Agile/Scrum process setup, support, and improvements; • Experience with planning the required resources, creating project-specific vacancy descriptions, interviewing candidates, hiring sta for the whole project team; facilitation of newcomers' adaptation, people development within the project as well as rotation to/from other projects; • Experience in establishing the process of knowledge and responsibility transfer; • Process establishment skills for the following types of projects: effort-based billing model (client team extension; time and materials) and project-based model (xed price for the unit of work/for the project team); I am seeking new opportunities to leverage my expertise and bring value to dynamic projects and organizations.