Bekhzod Sabirov

Running and supervising IT, cybersecurity and projects. Managing programmer, network and server administrator and cybersecurity teams. Started as a project manager to smoothly transition Basel Insurance from the former parent Kaspi bank IT environment to own fully self-sufficient IT and cybersecurity infrastructure. A year later I had been promoted to the managing director role.

• Initiate, manage and control customer projects in banking domains such as Lending, Accounts and General Ledger, CRM, Payments, Cash operations • Act as the Scrum Master in the project team, lead daily stand-ups/retrospective meetings, backlog planning/prioritization, communicate/deal with business owners • Perform customer requirements elicitation and analysis, offer work package and overall solution designs • Organize, manage and participate in full-dimension testing • Analyze and design integration schemes to external systems • Perform presale activities: respond to RFI/RFP’s, do system’s presentations.

Run full cycle IT projects at the bank. The main functions as the project manager are: - Project initiation (project case analysis, initial interviews, prepare presentation for project initiation) - Preparation and updates to the project documentation such as the project charter, project plans and schedule, SoW, timesheets, billing documents etc. - Stakeholders/project team management - Project budget/costs management - Project risks identification and management - Project plan and schedule creation/control - Project scope management - Human resource allocation & management. Identify project team members, their roles and responsibilities, guide and assist them in their project activities - Managing the overall process from business requirements gathering to actual build - Test (SIT/UAT) management - Change management - Seeking for and obtaining timely client/product owner sign-offs - Go-live control/management - Post-live support management - Reporting to sponsor/steering committee - Managing organizational issues (trainings, accommodation, travels) - Third party communications, support to contractual activities Managing Agile projects: - Manage, prioritize, and finalize the development scope - Define sprints quantity and duration - Manage and control sprints progress and performance - Hold regular stand-up meetings - Authorize the handover of sprints deliverables to product owners for tests - Manage change requests - Authorize the handover of final deliverables to product owners for tests Also, the projects portfolio management, improvements to PMO methodology. See my projects in the Projects section below.

Delivering successful projects on development of mobile apps and websites. - Interact with a potential client - Gather & document client requirements - Identify development costs - Negotiate with client on agreement terms & conditions - Create project plans and schedules - Manage the project team as the scrum master - Ensure projects are delivered in time and with high quality

- Pre-sales activities on selling cloud-based solutions for businesses. These activities included preparation of product and services presentations for potential clients, presenting the products to counterparties, assisting the salesmen on functional aspects and other activities required for successful sales. - Managing projects on implementation of cloud-systems allowing to automate and optimize business processes at various companies. - Consulting services as a business/system analyst to analyse/audit business processes, perform system selection.

Business & technical consultant on implementation of core banking solutions. Functions and responsibilities are: - Initial interviews with product owners to identify the scope of the development - Gather & document user requirements - Analyze gaps in existing functionality and requirements and propose most suitable solutions - Design and set up modules/functionalities of the software using visual tools and UI designers - Write code in the core solution’s native language whenever necessary - Perform internal tests and present to product owners - Perform and assist in internal, integration and user acceptance tests - Process change requests from product owners and negotiate on the necessity - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on integrations between different systems - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on data migrations - Post-live client support - Rollout support

Business & technical consultant on implementation of core banking solutions. Functions and responsibilities are: - Initial interviews with product owners to identify the scope of the development - Gather & document user requirements - Analyze gaps in existing functionality and requirements and propose most suitable solutions - Design and set up modules/functionalities of the software using visual tools and UI designers - Write code in the core solution’s native language whenever necessary - Perform internal tests and present to product owners - Perform and assist in internal, integration and user acceptance tests - Process change requests from product owners and negotiate on the necessity - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on integrations between different systems - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on data migrations - Post-live client support - Rollout support

Business & technical consultant on implementation of core banking solutions. Functions and responsibilities are: - Initial interviews with product owners to identify the scope of the development - Gather & document user requirements - Analyze gaps in existing functionality and requirements and propose most suitable solutions - Design and set up modules/functionalities of the software using visual tools and UI designers - Write code in the core solution’s native language whenever necessary - Perform internal tests and present to product owners - Perform and assist in internal, integration and user acceptance tests - Process change requests from product owners and negotiate on the necessity - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on integrations between different systems - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on data migrations - Post-live client support - Rollout support

Business & technical consultant on implementation of core banking solutions. Functions and responsibilities are: - Initial interviews with product owners to identify the scope of the development - Gather & document user requirements - Analyze gaps in existing functionality and requirements and propose most suitable solutions - Design and set up modules/functionalities of the software using visual tools and UI designers - Write code in the core solution’s native language whenever necessary - Perform internal tests and present to product owners - Perform and assist in internal, integration and user acceptance tests - Process change requests from product owners and negotiate on the necessity - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on integrations between different systems - Analyze the case and prepare functional specifications on data migrations - Post-live client support - Rollout support

Studied banking