Ivan Karpan

Hello, my name is Ivan Karpan, I am the Delivery Director at Mustard Labs and also an iOS and a web developer

Ivan Karpan is the Delivery Director at Mustard Labs and also an iOS and a web developer

Delivery Director at Mustard Labs

January 2013 - Present | Kyiv, Ukraine

Senior Program Manager at frog

December 2011 - January 2013 | Kyiv, Ukraine

At frog I handled end-to-end program and projects delivery including account and business management as well as planning, risk, scope and process management in projects executed by distributed and multidisciplinary teams. In addition to that I was responsible for supporting integration of Ukraine with frog studios in Europe and the US, which included resource management and initial kick-off of cross-studio projects. Another role I had at frog was financial support of local design and web projects.

Senior Engineering Manager and Senior Solutions Architect at Cogniance

February 2011 - November 2011

My two main responsibilities were Engineering Management and Solutions Architecture. As Senior Engineering Manager I was directly managing Mobile Engineering Department (35+ Android, BlackBerry and iOS engineers), namely conducted performance and salary reviews, supervised and guided engineers’ professional growth, created and managed mobile academy for interns and junior engineers training, participated in recruitment by interviewing candidates, was responsible for hiring new engineers and resolved various conflicts. In order to carry out tasks related to this area of responsibility I had 5 subordinate Line Managers. As Senior Solutions Architecture I was responsible for all presales activities connected with mobile technologies, which included first meeting with prospects, requirements and scope definition, feasibility researches, proposals preparation, functionalities breakdown, preliminary project planning, efforts and cost estimation, team structure, technology and architecture recommendation and hand-over into delivery. I have processed 80+ opportunities while working on this position. Additionally I participated in various projects as consultant and architect. In order to carry out tasks related to this area of responsibility I had 1 subordinate Solution Architect under me. Both positions involved communications with subordinates and clients (mostly English speaking).

Technical Project Manager and Engineering Manager at Cogniance

July 2010 - February 2011

iOS Developer at Freelance

March 2009 - August 2010

Senior iOS Engineer at Cogniance

May 2010 - July 2010

- development of iOS (iPhone and iPad) applications - discharging of Project Manager’s duty (work with clients, projects’ targets setting, consulting) - communication with clients (USA, France) on daily basis to resolve any project development issues (planning, discussions, presentations of results) via e-mail, phone, Skype and in person - pre-sales (efforts and cost estimation) - recruitment

iOS Engineer at Ciklum

December 2009 - May 2010

- development of iPhone applications - discharging of Project Manager’s duty (work with clients, projects’ targets setting, consulting) using Agile methodology - communication with clients (Denmark, Australia) on daily basis to resolve any project development issues (planning, discussions, presentations of results) via e-mail, Skype, Acrobat.com and in person - recruitment

iOS Engineer at Releaze A/S

December 2009 - May 2010

- development of iPhone applications - discharging of Project Manager’s duty (work with clients, projects’ targets setting, consulting) using Agile methodology - communication with clients (Denmark, Australia) on daily basis to resolve any project development issues (planning, discussions, presentations of results) via e-mail, Skype, Acrobat.com and in person - recruitment

Project Manager / Owner at keyD

May 2009 - December 2009

- management of projects simultaneously using Agile methodology - management of team of developers using Scrum methodology - communication with foreign clients on daily basis to resolve any project development issues (planning, discussions, presentations of results) via e-mail, TargetProcess, Skype, Yugma, Acrobat.com and in person - project plans development, budget planning, implementation of short and long term goals - running company - recruitment

Web Developer at Freelance

June 2005 - December 2009

Project Manager at CodePeople LLC

November 2008 - May 2009

- management of 2-3 projects simultaneously using Agile methodology - management of team of 2-4 developers using Scrum methodology - communication with foreign clients (Sweden, Denmark, Cyprus, United Kingdom) on daily basis to resolve any project development issues (planning, discussions, presentations of results) via e-mail, TargetProcess , Skype, Yugma and Acrobat.com - project plans development, budget planning, implementation of short and long term goals - running company in all organizational and technical spheres - recruitment

PHP developer / Project Manager at Running Code Services Limited

May 2007 - November 2008

- development of web-applications from scratch, on the base of self-made frameworks, Zend Framework, design of applications' and DBs' architectures - support and development of new functionality for already existing projects - deployment and update of applications on the clients' servers (Unix), installation and setup of required software - discharging of Team Leader's duty on several projects in a team of 3-6 developers (time for implementation estimation, task management) - discharging of Project Manager's duty (work with the clients, projects' targets setting, consultation of clients concerning technical questions) using Agile and Scrum methodology - communication with foreign clients (United Kingdom, Australia, etc) about present and future projects' development (via e-mail, phone, Skype and in person) - consultation of foreign team of developers (India) about questions concerning project transfer and future re-implementation using .NET technology - interviewing of employees

Web Developer at Tuse

May 2007 - June 2007

- implementation of new functionality - integration of the portal with different online payment systems, negotiations with the payment systemsʼ representatives about the conditions of cooperation

Web Developer / Junior Java Developer at DDGlobal East

March 2007 - May 2007

- implementation of cross-browser interface of an existing project (JavaScript) - support and upgrade of existing project (Java)

Web Developer at Grani Realnosti

December 2006 - March 2007

- development of new in-game functionality - integration of game application with different online payment systems, negotiations with the payment systems' representatives about the conditions of cooperation - architecture, development and support of separate online-store with further integration with the game application

Web Developer at BrokenWorlds

February 2006 - August 2006

- development of new in-game functionality - development of dueling and group combats mechanism between players - integration of game application with different online payment systems, negotiations with the payment systems' representatives about the conditions of cooperation - architecture, development and support of separate online-store with further integration with the game application

Instructor at IT Step Academy

July 2005 - January 2006

Subjects: - PHP - C++ - JavaScript - HTML/XHTML/CSS - Photoshop

Computer Academy "Step"

2003 – 2005

Software development

International Relations Lyceum 51

2002 – 2005

Gymnasium 117

1999 – 2001

Family, Apple