Alec Kanechny

About Alec Kanechny

Product Manager with 8+ years of experience as leader and strategist, and almost 20 years of progressive experience in software product roles. Helps businesses build product visions, roadmaps, and requirements, and makes sure that their products succeed by solving real customer needs. Focused on enterprise businesses in B2C and B2B worlds. Coached product teams working for global and local brands, including Fortune 200 companies. Applies correct Agile methodologies: Scrum, Scaled Agile, Design Sprints. Certified Scaled Agile Product Manager.Huge proponent of communicating transparently. Solves issues by teaming up with business, users, and technology, utilizing and balancing their unique perspectives. Natural problem solver and explainer. Background in mathematics, software engineering, and user experience.Finds joy in making people\'s lives simpler with technology.

Experience

1. Director of Product Services (Internal Leadership Role)

   Itransition Group

   Mar 2020 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Responsible for capturing and evolving corporate expertise in product management and business analysis, acting as Director for Product (Business Analysis) services. Serving as coach for product teams, and acting as individual contributor on strategic projects: with high complexity and/or requiring expertise in finance or e-commerce- Migrated an e-commerce B2B marketplace with over monthly orders between tax engines- Moved a group of insurance companies to a new financial system, executing a transition roadmap with an uninterrupted cutover. Recreated and evolved data integrations with other enterprise systems, cutting down data processing times by up to 75%- Founded, coached, and grew a 14-people product manager services team for a Fortune 200 company’s B2C e-commerce platform- Achieved 6x growth in amount of services sold by the team by focusing on quality execution, building trust, automating work, and mining statistics to identify improvements- Developed corporate standards on capturing systems integration and data migration requirements. Invented a Canvas framework for new project discovery, wrote a standard for User Acceptance Testing- Initiated, gained executive buy-in, and launched a multi-year initiative to capture and evolve corporate expertise in product management- Defined a continuous improvement roadmap and oversaw its execution to drive careers, educate new hires, and accelerate professional growth of 120+ analysts- Re-imagined, designed, and structured business workflows and data streams to transition a multi-factory, multi-state repair business to a new ERP system.

Education

• European Humanities University

  Swedish Language and Literature

  2002 — 2003

• Belarusian State University

  Master, Applied Mathematics

  1999 — 2004

• Belarusian State University

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

  2003 — 2005

• Linnaeus University

  Software Development

  2004 — 2004

• Lycee of Belarusian State University

  Mathematics

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Business Process Design
• Use Case Analysis
• Customer Service
• Requirements Gathering
• Customer Relations
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Systems Analysis
• Uml
• Requirements Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Rup
• Analysis
• User Acceptance Testing
• Enterprise Content Management
• Pre-Sales
• Jira
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Functional Specifications
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Analysis
• User Experience
• Software Quality Assurance
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Agile Project Management
• User Interface Design
• Web Applications