alexei amelenko

What I really enjoy doing and what is fun for me:

• Working with clients on how to improve their processes and eliminate their problems. 
• Create meaningful connections with clients, my team, stakeholders and help them improve performance
• Solving problems, looking at them from different angels, getting to the truth behind the problem and fixing it.
• Automating process, taking a job/process and figuring out how to automate it and make it more efficient.
• Hiring right person for the position and guiding them to increase their performance in that position.
• Using negotiation tactics, tactical empathy to guide my counterparty to solve their issues.

>  Senior Cybersecurity Consultant Bell Canada  | February 2022 – September 2022

Risk management. Run multiple projects related to Cyber Security. Stakeholder management.

• Manage tactical business while investing in larger, longer term strategic opportunities.
• Implemented data driven decision making processes, by building live dashboards. 
• Develop stakeholder relationships across different teams and kept them accountable. Presented to C- Level executives.
• Generate clear on-boarding material for new staff, and cross training to ensure no single point failures
• Manage resources allocation based on the actual book of work, ensuring integration with project/customers teams
• Directly manage team members (combination of FTEs and contract). Translated complicated security and technical practices to bridge the gap and presented to executive team.

> Senior Cybersecurity Consultant /Project Manager Bank Of Montreal  | Sept 2021 – January 2022

Managed sales team. Lead negotiations with clients.. 

• Communicated, negotiated, and partnered with vendors in product development phase, requirements, and costs.
• Define and monitor project team resources; identifies and allocates resources to ensure project/program deliverables are met
• Quickly learning new technology to translate and present it to stakeholders, suggesting development strategies.
• Managed Junior and Mid-Level PMs, Business Analysts and Interns.
• Made recommendations and/or implement security controls and countermeasures to prevent or mitigate various security risks

> Cyber Security Analyst / Project Manager CYBER INFO-SEC  | Jan 2020 - Sept 2021

Managed sales team. Lead negotiations with clients 

• Rapidly understand products, its direct markets, channels, resources and assess quickly where additional support and emphasis is required
• Construct deals and sell large multi-product, integrated solutions and services utilizing strategic partnerships which drive business outcomes
• Maintain operational excellence in the day-to-day running of the business including, accurate forecasting, robust pipeline development in line with targets, training, certifications, hiring, performance management, collaboration, teamwork, and best practice sharing.
• Build, lead, motivate and expand security sales team, by recruiting, training and developing best people for the job.
• Ability to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously mixing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands
• The ability to operate effectively in a rapidly scaling, dynamic environment, be able to manage multiple stakeholders and groups simultaneously and have strong communications skills.

> Senior Manager, DATA GOVERNANCE SCOTIABANK  | Sept 2019 - Feb 2020

Responsible for establishing and managing relationships at the risk management group level and leading data governance.

• Worked with Enterprise Architecture, the Program Management Office, IT application support, and Human Resources.
• Collaborated with leadership across the organization to identify business needs and implement Data Governance.
• Identification of root cause of identified issues, identification of policy and long-term actions to address processing issues that affect manual and automated data.
• Implementation of JIRA and Confluence to monitor processes and progress. Development of training materials for future staff. Collaborated with other teams to implement automated code into their daily tasks.