Rinat Maksutov

Leading the local (Moscow) group responsible for exploring new trends and technologies: - Providing expertise for internal clients on emerging topics (AI/ML, Low code platforms, Quantum computing, Reinforcement learning, conversational interfaces, etc.); - Building experience and capabilities in new technologies; - Setting up and running pilots at clients; - Developing educational and sales materials on emerging topics.

Data Science and Machine Learning project manager: - Optimization tool for optimal shelf space allocation for a large retailer - A natural language processing solution for data deduplication - An architect at oil well drilling visualization project. - Store clustering based on sales profiles of different item categories for assortment planning and optimization - Anomaly detection model in time series data for predictive maintenance ... and many others

[Fixed-term contract] Leading the Debts and Payment stream within the implementation of the internal logistics information system designed to support the processes of coal transportation by rail: - Identifying the business requirements, validating them and translating into technical specifications; - Setting the tasks for developers, who implement the front-end and back-end of the module; - Testing the developed functionality; - Validating the developed functionality with the client.

- Technology market analysis and looking for ways to apply promising technologies in the company's business. - Controlling the completeness and consistency of business requirements; - Validating the suggested solution architecture options; - Interaction with vendors for selecting the most appropriate systems and platforms, designing the implementation options suitable for the client's business needs.

Developing technical solutions and products for clients, acting as a technology architect, prototyping and piloting innovative solutions and technologies. Key projects: - Mobile bank and internet bank implementation for a Russian top-3 bank; - Analytics for an international card processing company; - Implementing an e-commerce solution for a large international retailer; - Architecting the mobile financial dashboard iOS app for a large international oil company's top management.

Managing several IT projects in various areas: defining and managing project scope, stakeholder and execution team management, defending and securing the budget, controlling deadlines Key Projects: Pilot implementation of Analytical and Operational CRM solutions.

Implementing IT transformation projects for the largest Russian companies: - Designing target organizational and operational models of IT organizations; - Suggesting headcount reduction initiatives and compiling them into optimization plans; - Gathering business requirements and integrating them into IT transformation plans; - Creating a business plan for a large IT outsourcing company: general business strategy, business case, operational model, IT services, and financial model.

Summary: post-merger analysis of collaboration solutions of the two organizations: - Investigating the opportunity of implementing single collaboration software across the two banks. - Identifying the business requirements, potential benefits and risks of the implementation. - Presenting the implementation recommendations and roadmap to senior management.

- Managing project’s technical support team; - Keeping the project documentation up to date; - Interaction with project stakeholders: coordinating actions with the client’s managers, solving conflicts between end users and technical staff on the middle management level, raising critical technical problems to the upper management level.