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Oksana Miilo

Oksana Miilo

Product Owner
Tallinn

Summary

I am a highly motivated and progress-focused Product Owner with a background in Forex Trading industry looking for new challenges.

I have experience in building an in-house software (internal user facing system) and automating workflows.


I am keen in making data driven decisions and plan improvements based on the internal user & end client behavior.


I am able to keep good communication with stakeholders with an ability to say "no" and offer them what they need rather than what they want.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Product Owner

Tickmill Services OÜ
Tallinn
07.2020 - Current

Client facing system development (web and mobile) for CFD traders;

Internal user facing system development (in-house software):

  • Experienced in solutioning internal user facing system from scratch for the following domains: KYC, Client Onboarding, Identity verification, Compliance implementations, Campaigns logic, Client transactions (deposit, withdrawal), Bonus operations
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
  • Road Map creation
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
  • Business cases preparation backed with data-driven analysis
  • Close cooperation with stakeholders & requirements elicitation
  • Close work with UI/UX designer


Strong in analyzing customer behavior, and making an improvement plan for the product development. Gathered data from Google Analytics and Power BI reports. Having analyzed clients ‘ drop offs during Sign Up, I worked out a new Sign up flow with Compliance and UI/UX designer.

While working on the development of the end user facing system, I have taken an approach to collect customers´ feedback from Customer Support, to validate those by compliance and to engaged with a UI/UX designer in order to come up with the new design.

The biggest improvement focus was made for client´s onboarding, smooth documents upload and fast & smooth verification process.




Business Analyst

Tickmill Services OÜ
Tallinn
09.2019 - 07.2020

Took part in a software solutioning project (internal user facing system in a Forex trading industry) by analyzing key domains functionalities and introducing automated workflows in client identity verification, compliance implementations, client transactions (deposit/ withdrawals), marketing campaigns, client commissions and bonuses.


Among that


  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
  • Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions.
  • Researched competitors to build report of rising trends in CFD markets.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Met with stakeholders to establish favorable business relationships and support mutually beneficial interests.

Business Analyst

Hurtigruten Estonia OÜ
Tallinn
10.2016 - 09.2019

Main responsibility was to act as an SME and a Business Analyst in Cart & Booking Domain within a cruise reservations Software Project:


  • Translate business requirements into functional requirements
  • Participate and drive dream scenarios, business requirements, and change management
  • Software set up analysis and its change as per business requirement
  • Reviewed acceptance test cases for specific functional areas
  • Perform UAT


Main achievement was an ability to notice a poor integration with the 3rd party provider for travel documents distribution. I suggested to descope the system integration and to introduce a built-in functionality in the existing software.

Project Coordinator

Hurtigruten Estonia OÜ
Tallinn
05.2015 - 10.2016
  • Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.
  • Coordinated presentations for project members to detail project scope, progress and results.
  • Carried out certain tasks within multiple projects among which is implementation of a Zipwire Email System for a Backoffice Department and facilitation of travel documents automation project: high level requirements specification, logic automation.
  • Provided input and feedback on departmental initiatives, directives and strategies to contribute to project success.

My main achievement was an ability to notice the weakness of a software (Zipwire Email System) and alert managers on the risks in the right time. I was able to collect all issues and raise those to the software supplier for further system improvement.


Backoffice Team Leader

Hurtigruten Estonia OÜ
Tallinn
01.2010 - 04.2015
  • Daily running of Backoffice team (10-20 people)
  • Established smooth and effective workflows & KPIs
  • Staff training, coaching and its development
  • Workflow forecasting and high season resource planning

Main achievements:

  • Effectively carried over the functions from different countries to the Tallinn office.
  • Aligned all processes and made sure team members could be cross utilized for different tasks.
  • Introduced day in a life program for sales department agents to visit Backoffice and learn key information which helped them to be confident while answering clients´ questions about travel documents and invoices.
  • Identified issues in clients invoices processing, alerted Accounting on the issues & offered an improvement plan which resulted in a big project

Marketing Assistant

Addinol Lube Oil GmbH
Tallinn
01.2007 - 01.2009


  • Worked closely with product development teams to create and maintain marketing materials for sales presentations and client meetings.
  • Proofread marketing collateral ahead of printing to eliminate errors.
  • Company website management in order to reflect proactive strategies and engage customers

Education

Bachelor of Arts - German Philology

Tallinn University
Tallinn, Estonia
09.2003 - 06.2006

Master of Arts - German Language Teacher

Tallinn University
Tallinn, Estonia
09.2007 - 07.2009

Skills

    Scrum

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Certification

Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC) Issued Credential ID 001192169

Timeline

Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC) Issued Credential ID 001192169

04-2021

Product Owner

Tickmill Services OÜ
07.2020 - Current

Prince 2 Agile Foundation Credential ID GR659006754OM

12-2019

Business Analyst

Tickmill Services OÜ
09.2019 - 07.2020

Business Analyst

Hurtigruten Estonia OÜ
10.2016 - 09.2019

PRINCE2® Practitioner Certificate in Project Management Credential ID GR634023475OM

05-2016

Project Coordinator

Hurtigruten Estonia OÜ
05.2015 - 10.2016

Backoffice Team Leader

Hurtigruten Estonia OÜ
01.2010 - 04.2015

Master of Arts - German Language Teacher

Tallinn University
09.2007 - 07.2009

Marketing Assistant

Addinol Lube Oil GmbH
01.2007 - 01.2009

Bachelor of Arts - German Philology

Tallinn University
09.2003 - 06.2006
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