Maria Kalugina

Operating at the intersection of business analysis and solution architecture across a federated medical data-sharing ecosystem (GAIA-X/EDC) and an enterprise AI use case portfolio. • Contribute business process modeling and domain structuring for a federated data-sharing platform, working alongside enterprise and technical architecture • Support delivery planning and scope alignment on complex, multi-stakeholder technical initiatives • Own business value definition and KPI frameworks across an 8-use-case enterprise AI portfolio, including delivery tracking and stakeholder visibility • Contribute to technical diagnosis and design of AI assistant interaction behavior, working closely with solution architecture • Design conversational flow and interaction patterns for an LLM-based assistant, informed by user testing

Owned product and delivery coordination across the Tax IT application landscape — Withholding Tax, VAT, and FATCA reporting solutions — acting as the interface between Tax Advisory stakeholders, delivery teams, and central IT/security. • Drove requirements, RFP specification, and vendor evaluation for a Withholding Tax platform rebuild; the resulting roadmap remained the delivery foundation through a project restructuring and beyond • Rebuilt vendor delivery transparency for the VAT platform from scratch, resolving a chronic reporting gap • Maintained a consolidated inventory of Tax IT applications, supporting visibility and planning across the portfolio • Developed a journey-mapping technique for feature prioritization, reused across multiple projects

Wrote functional specifications and test scenarios for a large EU legislative-procedures platform, translating UX designs and product requirements into structured documentation for the delivery and testing teams.

Worked in both commercial and pre-sale projects in roles of either consultant-analyst or project administrator. • Creating presentations, developing sections in tender documentation, related to planning, cost determination, company’s experience. • Requirement analysis (including analysis of legal requirements, foreign experience, interviewing users, formalization of business rules), scope outlining. • Requirement formalization (in UML notation) and development of line-in documentation (User’s guides, Administrator Manuals). • Support of project planning (including cost estimation and resource planning).