Svitlana Sokolova - Резюме Project Manager

Project Manager - Game Art Outsource Retrostyle Games | Kyiv | July 2025 - April 2026 ● Project Planning: Gantt Chart making, selecting the team and making sure that the project may be delivered on time and on budget. ● Pipeline Oversight: Managed end-to-end art production pipelines focusing on 3D and VFX projects, also worked with 2D, UI and slots projects; coordinating with artists, technical artists, art leads, and clients to ensure on-time delivery to technical standards. ● Basic Asset Review & QA: Reviewed deliverables for basic technical compliance. ● Client & Team Communication: Communication with the team on a daily basis, syncs, keeping the clients updated on the progress. ● Tool Exposure: Daily use of project tracking and version control tools as well as client chats on different platforms in a production environment (GitHub, Miro, Float, Coda, Monday, MS Office, ClickUp, Slack, Discord). ● Risks Mitigation & Resolving: Close collaboration with the project leads, technical artists, business development managers and clients to ensure that the processes run smoothly and potential difficulties are resolved as soon and effectively as possible. ● Forming Project Team & new Artists Integration: Collaborated closely with the HR team to ensure that we have a stable workload for every artist; took part in new artists selection & integration depending on company’s needs and ongoing projects. ● Documentation & Reports: Maintained clear documentation, task breakdowns, and progress tracking across multiple concurrent projects, filled in project progress reports. ● AI: Regular use of AI tools for personal work process optimization, analysis; using AI in art production pipelines. Sales Assistant & Office Administrator - Manufactory AV Exim | AUSBAU | Kyiv | October 2024 - July 2025 ● Client & Sales Support: Assisted the sales team with daily workflow organisation, handled client complaints, kept track of the contracts and production timelines. ● Documentation & Reporting: Maintained sales reports, contracts, and internal documents in English and Polish; kept CRM records clean and up to date. ● Process Management: Monitored business process compliance across teams, identified gaps and collaborated with company leadership to improve or build workflows from scratch. ● Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked closely with the marketing team and logistics manager on shared tasks and project coordination; followed up on delayed tasks and open issues across departments. ● International Exposure: Contributed to preparing the company for participation in an international trade fair ● Technical documents translation: translated equipment manuals, repair instructions, production specs between Ukrainian, English and Polish. ● Office & Admin: Managed office supplies, telephony setup and administration, organised regular team events, and provided direct support to the CEO on urgent operational matters. ● Marketing Support: Used Adobe Photoshop for basic product photo editing - colour correction, background removal, watermarking and maintained the company photobank. ● Recruiting: Participated in recruiting and onboarding processes.

Software Engineering - Rivne Professional College of NULES, 2017-2021 ● Programming fundamentals in C++, C#, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SQL, algorithms and data structures, math, IT project management, different platforms software and game development. Project management - Diia.Education, 2025 ● https://osvita.diia.gov.ua/share/jsUPc9oSgxyOcpbRtwKZHV5ofdLJwkQ- 2D Render | Character Design - ArtCraft, 2022 ● Digital drawing with a graphics tablet, art fundamentals.

Unity / Maya / Blender / Substance Designer / Figma / Adobe Photoshop / Structured pipeline thinking, risk management, QA & optimization mindset, team and client communication, GitHub / Azure DevOps / Plastic SCM - basic repository management, branching.

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Experienced outsource project manager with a technical background and high attention to details. I’m confidently working in a multitasking environment, with the projects that require active involvement, building the most effective pipelines. Hands-on experience in breaking down the requests to specific tasks for the team, focusing on clients needs, deadlines and risks mitigation from the start, fostering communication between the artists teams and the clients.