Serhiy Tkachenko

• Delivery to the market of TomTom personal navigation products: VIA LIVE 1535 (first product supporting social media connectivity), Start 20/25/45/55, VIA 15XX/14XX, VIA 120/125, XXL. • Managing programs with budgets up to 2.5 million USD consisting in average from 7 projects and more than 50 people in 5 different locations in USA, Europe and Asia. Scope of programs includes all stages of new product development: marketing strategy and research, business model and requirements definition, mass production

• Managing 5-12 persons projects in the area of personal navigation device platforms delivery • Managing distributed hardware and software teams in UK and Netherlands. • Searched, evaluated and introduced new software component vendors, including the contract negotiations. • Introduced industry-standard methodology of tuning and measuring audio and acoustic echo cancellation quality for in-car hands-free devices in hardware and software development.

• As lead of team defined and developed the authoring software toolset for BluRay disks. • Author or co-author of 14 filed patent applications. Top inventor of PDSL in 2004. • Introduced statistical analysis for determining software quality, improved development process, acquired and introduced to the whole project statistical analysis tool. • ‘Best practical work’ prize award in 4-months full-time course of Software Engineering. • Participation in BluRay standardization committee and in multi-com

• Leading 3-4-persons client/server software and network infrastructure development teams. • Developed the regional payments collection system for the services of Ukrainian telecom in Lviv region, consisting over 50 workstations and software support at client and server side. • Developed system for the generation of invoices for the services of Ukrainian telecom in Lviv region.

Marketing communication

Programming