Yuriy Tomaev
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Project Manager

I manage the development and implementation of digital systems: agreeing scope, planning schedules, budgets and resources, and coordinating teams and clients. I establish delivery processes in ongoing projects, manage change and guide work towards the agreed outcome. My technical and analytical background helps me estimate effort, account for dependencies and find solutions within resource constraints.

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Project Manager

What I can take on

Turn objectives into a workable plan

  • I agree objectives, scope and acceptance criteria. Together with the team, I estimate effort and define phases, dependencies and schedules, from the overall plan to the next sprint’s tasks.

Organise team delivery

  • I build teams around project needs, assign responsibilities and connect analysis, design, development, testing and implementation. I coordinate in-house specialists and external contractors.

Manage schedules, budgets and capacity

  • I align scope with available funding and resources. I track schedules and effort, identify overload, reallocate specialists and adjust plans when delivery deviates from expectations.

Keep scope changes under control

  • I assess how new requirements affect schedules and resources. With the client, I agree what to include, replace or defer while keeping release scope clearly defined.

Align clients and partners

  • I organise working meetings and make progress and required decisions visible. I help stakeholders with different interests agree requirements, priorities and commitments.

Reduce risks and remove blockers

  • I investigate technical uncertainty and external dependencies early. When issues arise, I coordinate their resolution, resequence work or propose an alternative route to the required outcome.

Coordinate acceptance and implementation

  • I organise validation against agreed criteria, resolution of findings and launch preparation. I coordinate implementation, user training and handover to support.

Experience and results

2024

Cezyo

Joined an ongoing project and established its development process: structured requirements, agreed the first release scope, and organised planning and team collaboration.

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Functions

  • Development process setup
  • Release scope management
  • Effort planning and control
  • Project team coordination

Results

  • The team brought the first release to launch readiness. Delivery gained a shared plan, clear responsibilities and transparent progress tracking.
2007

TIK Region

Led delivery through the team lead and heads of analysis, technical operations, implementation and support. Planned tasks, capacity, schedules and budgets with them, allocating shared development costs across regions and estimating rollout and training separately. Organised temporary working groups connecting the customer, analyst, developer, tester and implementation specialists.

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Functions

  • Forming the contractual framework
  • Schedule and resource management
  • Change agreement
  • Acceptance and implementation coordination

Results

  • Established an end-to-end process from task agreement to customer verification. Migration proceeded by benefit type, with the old and new systems running in parallel for approximately three to six months. Under a strict deadline and limited funding, reallocating resources and internal budgets enabled timely delivery of new regulatory requirements.
2017

Hobby Express

Invited by the executive director, I built an eight-person technical team covering frontend, backend and 1C development, DevOps and analysis. Led the work from server rental and deployment of the standard product through testing and acceptance. Defined and assigned tasks, coordinated developers, a designer and testers, and organised collaboration with future sellers and commercial staff. Documents for the owner and business stakeholders were prepared in Word and Notion; internal tasks, diagrams and specifications were managed in Jira.

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Functions

  • Project team formation
  • Development delivery management
  • Integration coordination
  • Coordination with operational teams

Results

  • An eight-person technical team prepared the first working release within one year. Four sellers were connected and their catalogues and products loaded. The system was tested, checked and accepted by the client's specialists for further use. My involvement ended with the fixed-term contract after the release handover.
  • Established connections with internal 1C and accounting, the selected bank and delivery services, primarily CDEK. Delivery included manual operations and coordination.
2014

Sweet Georgia

Coordinated a small team of two programmers and a designer. Combined task definition, modelling and implementation checks with business development. Organised the gradual automation of processes originally performed manually.

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Functions

  • Distributed team management
  • Project budgeting
  • Experiments and iterative releases
  • External dependency management

Results

  • The platform progressively gained a tour builder and calculator, accommodation, tour and excursion bookings, partner accounts, voucher and insurance processing, and payment options. Features were checked against practical scenarios before launch.
1997

Ivacon

Led a three-person team. Built the local network and Microsoft server infrastructure and arranged daily data exchange with remote branches over dial-up. Presented solutions for management approval; together with the team, trained employees and rolled out the system with user participation.

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Functions

  • Creating IT infrastructure from scratch
  • Project team coordination
  • Acceptance and implementation coordination

Results

  • The shared infrastructure covered the entire enterprise: three geographically separate branches, three production workshops, three warehouses and administrative departments. I estimate that it included more than 50 workstations.
2003

SPC Luch

Turned management requests into solution concepts and agreed them with department and workshop heads. Analysts detailed the requirements; I organised the team’s work, supervised implementation and presented results to management. Led the rollout of 1C and applications for accounting, production, quality management and support for ISO 9000 certification activities. The team connected systems through databases, ODBC and custom data exchange modules. Solutions were introduced in stages and refined through use.

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Functions

  • Project team coordination
  • Requirements decomposition and documentation
  • Integration coordination
  • Acceptance and implementation coordination

Results

  • Plant departments gradually moved from paper-based exchange to a shared information environment. Document preparation, processing and transfer became faster. Accounting, economic planning and management staff received up-to-date accounting data at their workstations, reducing the need to carry documents between workshops and departments.
2008

e-City

Monitored agreed schedules, results and implementation progress. Visited customers, supported launches and resolved issues requiring senior-level coordination or resource reallocation. My role focused on delivery oversight and removing bottlenecks.

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Functions

  • Schedule and resource management
  • Acceptance and implementation coordination
  • Change agreement

Results

  • By the end of my involvement, e-City was used in approximately 20 municipalities. All listed modules had been developed: some were operational and others were being rolled out. As capacity needs grew, hosting moved from the company’s own servers to a partner data centre.
2019

GuideInfo.ge

Organised collaboration between the guide community, business representatives, developers, DevOps and the designer. Used Sweet Georgia's existing functionality as the foundation and directed changes towards the specific needs of guides and agencies. Defined technical tasks and connected user feedback with the team's work. Travelled through almost all of Georgia and met guides personally. The first visits focused on needs and scenarios; later I presented the completed service, demonstrated its operation, answered questions and trained users.

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Functions

  • Project team coordination
  • Development delivery management
  • Stakeholder alignment

Results

  • Approximately 135 guides and 35 travel agencies from different countries used the service, with around 120 excursions published. Personal meetings, presentations and training helped participants learn the implemented workflows. GuideInfo remains available to users.

Competencies and tools

Launch and implementation: 12 · Planning and management: 7

Communication and teams

Launch and implementation

Planning and management

Ways to work together

Ongoing role within a company

I take responsibility for IT project delivery: planning, coordinating the team and client, and controlling schedules, resources and outcomes.

Project-based contract

I join a defined project or phase. We agree responsibilities, the expected outcome and the handover arrangements at completion.

Restore control of a project

I step in when tasks get lost, priorities keep changing and releases slip. I structure the work and establish clear responsibilities, planning and progress control.

Publications

Testimonials and recommendations

I worked closely with Yuriy Tomaev on the development and implementation of the Citizen Social Passport system — TIK Region — in the Novosibirsk Region. Yuriy established effective working relationships across the ministry’s departments and contributed to technical and contractual documentation, as well as materials for public procurement tenders. He worked personally with district offices, helping staff adopt the new system and manage the transition. His involvement helped us complete the implementation in a very short time. Yuriy brings people together around a shared goal, has excellent organisational skills and always keeps his word. I recommend him as a reliable leader who can take complex projects forward and turn commitments into results.
Раиса Ануфриева Deputy Minister of Social Development of the Novosibirsk Region 2005 - 2019
TIK RegionMy Home
I have known Yuri since the development of the E-city project. I know him to be a successful manager and organizer. When the need arose, I brought him on board to help bring the first release of our project to its production-ready version. I would like to highlight his accuracy in estimating timelines—the actual timeframes matched his projections exactly. I also want to note his ability to manage communication across the board—engaging effectively with the owner, senior management, business units, external partners, and the development team. Thanks to him, many tasks were completed almost seamlessly and within a very tight timeframe.
Павел Баканов Executive Director, Hobby-Express 2017-2018
e-CityHobby Express

Let’s discuss the task

None of these roles is an exact match? Write to me — we can discuss your task and choose a suitable way to work together.

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