Mikhail Prasolov

(Product owner for a sector-specific web solution, project manager for a 10-person Scrum team) Product Management responsibilities: - Defined and prioritized product roadmap based on business goals and stakeholder needs. - Analyzed and documented core business processes to prepare them for automation. - Designed logic for workflow automation and coordinated approvals with business leaders, finance, and security teams. - Created UX flows, wireframes, and reviewed UI layouts. - Developed documentation: processes, feature descriptions, resources, procedures. - Performed user testing, gathered feedback, and prepared training materials. - Coordinated integrations with other internal products. - Conducted demos and prepared regular product reports. Project Management responsibilities: - Created project charter, roadmap, and delivery plan. - Decomposed key features into actionable sprint tasks. - Planned team capacity and resource requirements. - Managed workload, task assignment, and day-to-day team coordination (Scrum). - Monitored deadlines, optimized processes, and ran team meetings (incl. 1-on-1s). - Maintained up-to-date documentation. Key results: - Fully mapped and documented all business processes. - Delivered MVP release. - Trained internal teams and improved cross-department workflows.

Led a large production unit: 4 PMs + 80+ executors delivering art assets and tasks for multiple game projects. Responsibilities: - Oversaw deadlines, quality, and delivery of all active projects. - Adjusted production plans based on incoming results and risks. - Analyzed performance metrics, optimized workloads, identified bottlenecks. - Gathered client feedback and ensured alignment between customers and teams. - Held monthly 1-on-1s focusing on performance, motivation, and career paths. - Improved internal processes and structured documentation. - Selected and implemented a task-tracking system, created guidelines, trained the team. - Participated in hiring and onboarding new specialists. Results: - Optimized studio processes and documentation structure. - Eliminated delays and moved production ahead of schedule. - Successfully introduced and rolled out a new task-tracking tool across the studio.

Managed product development for 7 company websites and internal automation tools. Product Management: - Defined long-term product vision with CEO/COO. - Researched market and competitors to identify opportunities. - Planned product evolution and integration with other IT systems. - Created UX flows, mockups, and UI references for designers. - Wrote product documentation and feature logic. - Prioritized backlogs and formed sprint plans. - QA’d tasks and prepared progress reports. Project Management: - Ensured continuous operation and improvement of all 7 websites. - Maintained backlog clarity and task relevance. - Assigned tasks, monitored estimates, ensured understanding across developers. - Performed daily progress tracking and made plan adjustments. - Managed external specialists and service providers. - Oversaw budgets and service payments. Results: - Updated and expanded project documentation. - Delivered several large feature updates. - Reduced number of critical errors and UX/UI issues. - Increased sprint throughput from 6–10 → 15–20 tasks. - Improved team processes and removed causes of missed deadlines.

Puzzle Mobile Game (Unity) - Designed, built, and configured 60 game levels with physics, teleporters, and interactive objects. Hero Wars–style Game Clone - Structured and expanded documentation for mechanics and systems. - Created full UX flow and reviewed UI screens. - Designed a unique game mode, created UI layouts. - Developed mathematical progression models for character classes. - Built reward tables, progression curves, and balance tables for early game levels.

- Participated in client negotiations and requirement discussions. - Created project plans, set deadlines, and tracked execution. - Assigned tasks, managed priorities, maintained documentation. - Ensured delivery quality and resolved operational issues. - Managed contracts, content, and payments. - Coordinated external specialists and services.

- Definition of new items pool in the current update, determination of its features and properties writing design documents - Creation of preliminary balance - Creating tasks for the concept artist, 3D artist, sound team, writers, localization team, etc. - Control of the terms of production - Getting approval from the legal team - Adding models to the resources of the game and subsequent configuration - Verification in the game, final adjustment and balancing - Rebalance and reconfiguration of already created content

- Managed documentation and feature releases. - Specified tasks for 2D/3D teams and developers. - Oversaw quality of models and assets. - Designed and balanced new units and gameplay systems.