Music (guitar, drums)
Bohdan Talantsev
Business Analyst
Calgary,AB
Summary
Proactive Business Analyst with 5 + years of product management and business process analysis experience in both well-established product and small start-up business environments.
Effective driver of product development lifecycle from concept to delivery. Open-minded, well communicative and collaborative with proven history of improving business operations to support business growth and revenue.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Business Analyst
Fulcrum
Kyiv, Ukraine
10.2020 - Current
- Defined product vision, target audience, and potential short- and long-term goals via conducting 1-1 interviews or workshops with the stakeholders
- Performed competitor bench-marking and current trends analysis to identify potential TA, feature scope, risks and opportunities
- Created low-fidelity mockups in order to speed up the product scoping process
- Elicited & documented functional and non-functional requirements in Confluence
- Created a project backlog, in cooperation with Project Manager, and defined the Release Strategy
- Communicated with internal team when required (QA, Developers, Tech Lead, PM, Account)
- Conduct external 1-1 interviews with target audience in order to understand potential user behavior, needs and product direction, which then was translated into product requirements and project scope.
- Worked using the Product Hypotheses approach, in order to aim for an outcome, and not the output
- Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
- Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement.
- Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions.
Audit Analyst / Business Analyst
ControlPay by Transporeon
Kyiv, Ukraine
11.2017 - 09.2020
- Gathered and analyzed the requirements of our customers' freight processes
- Communicated with internal (QA, development, account) and external stakeholders (suppliers, carriers)
- Audited current business processes in order to find potential gaps or places for improvement
- Worked with our internal system, which involved thorough analysis, data update and switching between various components of the system
- Created various recurring reports based on the business' needs
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management
National Technical University of Ukraine - KPI
Kyiv, Ukraine 09.2011 - 06.2015
Skills
Business process mapping
Data analysis
Strategic planning
Project Management
Release planning
Customer targeting
Web-based reporting tools
Data Mapping
Product development
Technical Writing
Gap analysis
Pivot tables
Workflow Analysis
Competitive analysis
Marketing research
SQL and databases
Accomplishments
- Found multiples gaps (appr. 15-20) in current business process, fixing of which resulted in removing potential future team time spent, in case those gaps arose and created any audit discrepancies.
- Onboarded multiple team members, based on previous lessons learned & other best practices, revealed while working there, and which resulted in their better performance (less errors and more tasks being closed).
- Built multiple products from scratch - from product vision, its target audience and business goals, finishing with UX/UI and product hypotheses to be validated, as well the PMF (product market fit).
Certification
Product Finance and Metrics Course
Interests
Sports (tennis, ping pong, basketball, running)
Mountain hiking
Timeline
Product Finance and Metrics Course
09-2022
Google Tag Manager (GTM) Course
03-2022
Google Analytics Certification
01-2022
The Practical BPMN 2.0 Master Class
11-2021
Product Analytics Certification (Mixpanel))
09-2021
Business Analyst
Fulcrum
10.2020 - Current
Audit Analyst / Business Analyst
ControlPay by Transporeon
11.2017 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Science - Management
National Technical University of Ukraine - KPI
09.2011 - 06.2015