Ivan Timakhovich Business Analyst, Experience: 7+ years

ABOUT

Business Analyst with 7+ years of experience working between clients and delivery teams. I run requirements workshops with stakeholders, capture business needs, and translate them into clear user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria for developers and QA. I map processes, define scope, and clarify edge cases early so teams can build the right thing with minimal rework. I have led discovery and scoping for 20+ client initiatives and kept developers, QA, and product owners aligned from the first workshop through delivery.

EXPERIENCE

Autotelic Council 02/2024 – Present, 1 year 9 months

Internal development and consulting agency for a group of companies, including a VC fund.

Cut live training time by 83.1% and lowered instructor cost by leading requirements and delivery for an internal AI learning platform, which standardized the content creation process and automated large parts of the training process
Drove go or no go decisions on strategic initiatives by creating 20+ decision briefs for executives that summarized pain points, required capabilities, scope, risks, and dependencies, which determined which projects moved forward and in what order.
Reduced delivery risk before build by mapping flows for loyalty, digital fashion and AR try on, tokenization onboarding, and cross border fulfillment, which exposed gaps, blockers, and integration needs early and prevented scope surprises later in the project.

Stakewolle 04/2022 – 01/2024, 1 year 10 months

Validator with gamification platform and $20M in assets.

Gathered stakeholder requirements across marketing, product, and engineering and led the website and platform redesign. Launched new user flows and feature set that attracted 13% of active users in two months.
Coordinated internal and external teams to scope and deliver 14+ complex initiatives used for partnership development and grants. Supported >$1.2M in secured funding by documenting value, gaps, and integration scenarios.
Introduced and documented Scrum workflows to clarify priorities, improve communication, and support strategic planning. This increased team productivity by 21%.

ATEM Capital 11/2020 – 05/2022, 1 year 7 months

New York-based VC fund investing in biotech innovation startups.

Built investment cases by analyzing market fit, risk, and scalability for biotech startups. Supported a $24M investment decision.
Helped early stage sustainability startups shape their positioning, economics, and fundraising story. Contributed to successful pre-seed rounds and strategic partnerships.
Organized a global startup program that drew 200 participants and 50 sustainable startup ideas. Structured the program agenda and speaker lineup with investors and founders.

ITMO University 09/2018 –10/2020, 2 years 2 months

Worked on innovation and entrepreneurship programs at a top technical university. Supported early stage teams with market validation, positioning, and pitch readiness.

SKILLS

Business Analysis: Stakeholder interviews and workshops, User stories and acceptance criteria, Functional requirements specification, Use cases and flow diagrams, Scope definition and prioritization, Risk and impact assessment, Preparing decision briefs for leadership.

Software: Jira (backlog, user stories), Confluence / Notion (documentation, knowledge base), SharePoint / Monday.com, Trello (stakeholder tracking, status, ownership), Miro / Figjam / Mural (process flows, system mapping), Postman / Swagger, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, Advanced Excel.

Languages: English: Fluent (IELTS C1), Russian: Native, Spanish: Conversational (B1).

EDUCATION

Courses: Agile Project Management, Postman: From scratch to autotests, DevTools, HTTP/S, SQL and more.

EDHEC Business School Lille, France
7th Business School in Europe, according to the Financial Times.
Exchange Semester, International Business Administration

ITMO University Saint Petersburg, Russia
79th university in the world according to QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Bachelor’s degree, Economics of a High-Tech Business. University top 40 graduates of the year.