Who is Aleks Vladimirov?
Aleks is an experienced professional with an engineer background and over 12 years of experience as a software developer. He works with different governments and is responsible for negotiation features and requirements, understanding the customers’ needs and supporting the senior management with regular reports and analysis. He held various positions, starting as a software developer, moving to a team leader and software architect.
He strives in waterfall and an agile environment alike. He holds Scrum Master, Prince2 Practitioner, AWS Solution Architect Associate certifications, and he knows how to design business processes and help teams optimize their work.
During his tenure, he had to wear many hats, prioritizing business requirements, delegating work and mentoring team members, creating mockups with Balsamiq, providing MS Project plan to the senior management.
He had worked in many international teams, located in the same city or distributed in different countries and continents. He had been a team leader of cross functional international team of 8 people.
In his current position, he is a senior manager and formed a new team focused on developing new services on the cloud. He has excellent presentation skills.
He delivers training sessions on presentation skills and leadership and he had helped hundred of people to improve their presentation skills.
He is also interested in creating more positive changes in the workplace by using entrepreneurship skills.
He had won a startup competition where his team had validated and develop a business idea from scratch.
In his free time, he writes in his blog about effective product development.
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My mission is to help people, teams and businesses to achieve even greater success! The way I do it is by applying my experience in non-profit and the professional world and by using my skills as a Project Manager, Event Facilitator, Trainer/Coach and Software Developer.
In my free time I travel and work on volunteering projects. Some of them are: delivering training sessions, organizing conferences or having speaking engagements. My training session topics are on: Presentation Skills, Creativity, Problem Solving, Product Development and Leadership.
Brief summary
Aleks had worked for top companies, leaders in the industries.
- Vivacom – the biggest telecom company in Bulgaria.
- SAP – leader in the ERP market.
- Barclays – one of the top investment banks in the world.
- Thales – leader in Security and Digital Security.
Aleks is certified in:
- Project Management – he hold Prince2 Practitioner Certificate
- Agile and Scrum – he hold Professional Scrum Certificate
- DTM – Distinguished Toastmaster is the highest honor you can achieve in the Toastmaster organization, focused on improving the public speaking skills.
- He hold certification on innovation
- He is certified trainer and coach
- He holds AWS Solution Architect Associate certifiacte
- Aleks is an alumnus of Seth’s Godin altMBA program
- He is an alumnus of the student organization BEST
- He was a marketing strategist in the organization BEST Alumni Network
- He used to lead the Online Learning lab program for the organization Trainers Forum, focused on continues education and further training opportunities provided to international trainers
- He developed the very successful program called mastermind tribes, number one place for entrepreneurs.
Aleks constantly works on some new and cool projects.
- He is on the executive board of a non-profit international organization focused on connecting international professionals called BEST Alumni Network