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Project Management & Accessibility

Zakhar Kravchuk

Senior Accessibility Leader at The Walt Disney Company.

I merge technical inclusive design with strategic Project Management execution. Currently leading production monitoring and labor forecasting for global digital roadmaps.

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(413)-324-8612

Zakhar Kravchuk - Senior Accessibility Leader

Core Expertise

Leading by Inclusion.

Roadmap Strategy

Scaling team capacity through labor forecasting and effort estimations, ensuring accessibility is a foundational project pillar.

WCAG Compliance

Providing high-fidelity audits and requirement write-ups for UX and Engineering teams across global platforms.

Production Audits

Proactive production monitoring initiatives at Disney to maintain compliance health across the digital ecosystem.

Career Journey

The Walt Disney Company

Sr Accessibility Engineer

  • Strategic Orchestration: Directing accessibility integration across diverse product teams, aligning inclusive design goals with strict budgetary constraints.
  • Lifecycle Leadership: Serving as the primary bridge between technical compliance and creative vision from initial ideation through production release.
  • Program Management: Managing accessibility roadmaps, labor forecasting, and work-effort estimations for a high volume of concurrent projects to ensure team scalability.
  • Risk Mitigation: Identifying and mitigating potential accessibility-related project risks during the design phase to prevent costly downstream remediation.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Facilitating regular alignment meetings with product owners and leadership to report on accessibility health and roadmap progress.

Level Access, Inc.

Digital Accessibility Consultant

  • Operations Management: Streamlined testing workflows within JIRA, achieving a 90% defect resolution rate within 2-week sprints for high-priority accessibility bugs.
  • Client Success: Established comprehensive remediation roadmaps and testing programs for top banking institutions and global entertainment brands.
  • Strategic Planning: Administered accessibility project planning for top-tier banking clients, establishing standard operating procedures for large-scale digital transformations.
  • Resource Allocation: Leveraged automated testing suites (aXe, AMP) to optimize auditor output and focus manual efforts on complex functional validation tasks.

Capital One

Digital Accessibility Engineer

  • Process Transformation: Architected a data reporting framework that reduced high-level status delivery time from 4 weeks to 1 day.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Built efficient communication pipelines between accessibility teams and product owners, increasing overall problem-resolution efficiency by 20%.
  • Agile Integration: Spearheaded the integration of accessibility milestones into 2-week Agile sprints, ensuring "Definition of Done" criteria included inclusive design standards.
  • Cross-functional Training: Led educational workshops for design and engineering cohorts to empower decentralized accessibility ownership across the product lifecycle.

Upwork.com

Freelance Web Developer

  • Full Lifecycle Ownership: Independently oversaw end-to-end web development projects, resulting in a 20% reduction in typical turnaround times for small business clients.
  • Requirement Gathering: Conducted deep-dive discovery sessions with small business owners to translate business goals into technical product requirements.
  • Quality Assurance: Managed the complete testing lifecycle, including cross-browser validation and performance optimization for various device ecosystems.

Augeo Affinity Marketing Inc

User Experience Engineer

  • Requirement Synthesis: Collaborated across cross-functional teams to translate complex business needs into detailed technical requirements for interface design.
  • Implementation Oversight: Coordinated the implementation of responsive tablet and mobile UI components using Bootstrap and CSS3 media queries.
  • DevOps Tooling: Effectively utilized AWS, Jenkins, and Git Bash within the software development lifecycle to streamline application deployment and testing.

Credentials

Validated Expertise.

Academic History

B.S. Business Administration

University At Buffalo, SUNY

New York, USA

Concentrations in Management Information Systems and Marketing. Technical focus on SQL, PHP, and enterprise data solutions.

Kyiv International School

AP Computer Science & Varsity Athletics

Kyiv, Ukraine

Foundational Java and HTML development. Leveraged international athletic competition to build a global mindset and professional network.