Yuri Zinchenko

Chief Executive Officer at IT-GRAD
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  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German Limited working proficiency

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Mikhail Zakharov

Under Yuri's supervision Digia's BI practice has grown rapidly and became strong and experienced. Yuri is a excellent leader with firm beliefs and really wide experience in BI area.

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Experience

    • Russian Federation
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Executive Officer
      • Aug 2019 - Present

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Partner - Financial Institutions
      • Jul 2015 - Aug 2019

    • Head of Business Intelligence at CPM Department
      • Nov 2013 - Jul 2015

      Reporting to:General DirectorDepartments under supervision:Business Intelligence Practice (14 employees) with sales, marketing, production and support service functions. Department is responsible for projects of BI, reporting and DWH systems implementation using the following platforms: Microsoft BI, Oracle BI, SAP BO, QlikView, Deductor, Prognoz Platform.Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: business profitability; sales, consulting services and software licenses revenue (acts of acceptance); - Sales of new projects and software licenses;- Marketing strategy and activities planning and coordination with QlikTech, Oracle, SAP and Prognoz;- Supervision of all projects;- Maintenance and development of good relationships with clients and partners;- Resource allocation planning for the future projects;- Staff selection;- Development and professional growth of subordinates, career path planning;- Regular employee performance evaluation and attestation to fulfill the qualification requirements;- Business development;- Departmental budgeting.

    • Finland
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Intelligence practice lead
      • Feb 2011 - Nov 2013

      Reporting to:General DirectorDepartments under supervision:Business Intelligence Practice (12 employees) with sales, marketing, production and support service functions. Department is responsible for projects of BI and reporting systems implementation.Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: business profitability; sales, consulting services and software licenses revenue (acts of acceptance); - Sales of new projects and software licenses;- Marketing strategy and activities planning and coordination with QlikTech and Microsoft;- Supervision of all projects: 50+ projects in retail and distribution segment over 2 years;- Maintenance and development of good relationships with clients and partners;- Resource allocation planning for the future projects;- Staff selection;- Development and professional growth of subordinates, career path planning;- Regular employee performance evaluation and attestation to fulfill the qualification requirements;- Business development: QlikView practice and MS BI practice creation;- Departmental budgeting.Achievements:- Built new department with sustainable growth and performance – over 50 projects completed in retail and distribution segment based on QlikView and Microsoft BI stack platforms; - Own industry analytical solution (Digia Retail Analytics) successfully driven into the market;- Large accounts in retail and distribution segment attracted and successfully developed;- Built from scratch a strong and solid team of professionals to fulfill large projects including working with the Big Data.

    • CIO
      • Nov 2008 - Jan 2011

      Reporting:Genera director (owner)Departments under supervision:IT department (service desk, development team, business analysis team)Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: IT strategy development to support ambitious overall growth plans; new office IT infrastructure development (A+ class);- Strategic and tactical planning;- IT investment 3-year budgeting;- Total IT infrastructure modernization- Business processes reengineering and optimization QMS compliance to ISO 9001:2008 standard.- Business applications implementation and maintenance;- Communications system implementation and maintenance;- Development of internal and external information environment;- Information security;- User support and incident management;- Interaction with government and international ISO certification authorities;- Team building, professional development, career planning and performance assessment of IT staff.Achievements:- 3-year IT strategy and budget developed;- IT department created and includes service desk, development team and business analysis team (9 people total). For cost savings some people employed based on outsourcing model;- New office IT infrastructure project developed (A+, 2000 square meters) including the following core systems: cable network and Wi-Fi, IP-telephony, CCTV, access management, video congress system;- IT infrastructure modernization project completed (CISCO networking equipment, IP-telephony; all servers migrated to HP blades + MSA, WM Ware server virtualization project, MS ISA server for internet security, MS System Center for IT infrastructure management);- New communications system implemented (e-mail service migration from PostFix to MS Exchange 2010 + MS OCS);- BI and budgeting system implemented using Share Point 2010 platform.

    • General director deputy
      • Jul 2008 - Oct 2008

      Reporting to:General director (owner);Departments under supervision:Coordination of the following departments: sales, logistics, finance and HR;Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: implementation of measurable KPI system for all management levels of the organization; management accounting, budgeting and financial consolidation systems implementation; building strong IT infrastructure of the holding company;- Strategic control and supervision of CRM system implementation and overall sales process automation; - Strategic control and supervision of business processes reengineering and corporate standards implementation project; - Strategic control and supervision of management accounting, budgeting and financial consolidation systems implementation;- Strategic control and supervision of department heads KPIs development for FY 2009;- Strategic control and supervision of FY 2009 holding budget planning and revision of corporate strategy. Achievements:- Substantially increased the level of holding business process formalization and standardization;- Strategic goals and budget developed and approved by owner for 2009-10; - M&A deal prepared to sell the holding to a large federal market player.

    • Russian Federation
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • CPM department director
      • Jul 2007 - Jun 2008

      Reporting to:General director;Departments under supervision:CPM department (50 employees) with dedicated marketing and support service functions. Department is responsible for projects of methodology development and implementation of strategic planning, budgeting, financial consolidation and analysis systems. Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: business profitability (normal profit generation); consulting and software licenses revenue (cash received); positive cash flow; revenue per employee;- Sales of new projects and software licenses;- Marketing strategy and activities planning and coordination;- Supervision of all projects of budgeting and financial consolidation systems implementation in the department for the following clients: Svyazinvest, Irkut, Transaero, KUZOTSM, KAZMANAIGAS trade house, DHL Russia, Petrolesport and others;- Maintenance and development of good relationships with clients and partners;- Resource allocation planning for the future projects;- Staff selection;- Development and professional growth of subordinates, career path planning;- Regular employee performance evaluation and attestation to fulfill the qualification requirements;- Business development: Oracle Hyperion practice creation, Open Source and free software solutions for budgeting;- Departmental budgeting.Achievements:- Department became profitable division of the company; - Tight planning and execution of main financial parameters of operations (revenue, expenses, profit, cash flow);- Technical support service started generating profit;- Built a strong and solid team of professionals to fulfill serious projects;- Jedox Palo Server (free software platform for budgeting and financial consolidation) successfully introduced to Russian market.

    • Project manager / project coordinator
      • Mar 2005 - Jun 2007

      Reporting to:CPM department director;Under supervision:Project teams (3 teams up to 15 consultants under supervision);Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: project budget fulfillment (project profitability); overhead expenses minimization; on-schedule project completion; technical support and systems maintenance contracts negotiation; sales of new projects to the existing clients;- Project portfolio management for projects of methodology development and implementation of strategic planning, budgeting, financial consolidation and analysis systems for the following clients: Kyrgystelecom, SELA, Natur Product, London Borough of Bromley, London Borough of Newham, Dorinda Holdings (O’K hypermarket chain), SP Fashion Group and others;- Maintenance and development of good relationships with clients;- Participation in sales of new projects in the position of pre-sales expert consultant, presentations to customers;- Building strong projects teams and professional development of subordinates;- Staff selection.Achievements:-Successful completion of large IT-solution implementation projects.-New projects sold and built strong relationships with the existing customers.

    • Senior consultant / consultant
      • Oct 2000 - Feb 2005

      Reporting to:CPM department project manager;Under supervision:Up to 4 consultants;Responsibilities:- Main duties and KPIs: on-schedule completion of projects tasks; overhead expenses minimization; find opportunities to sell new projects to customers or enlarge scope of the existing projects;- Participation in projects of methodology development and implementation of strategic planning, budgeting, financial consolidation and analysis systems for the following clients: Chaikovskiy Textile trade company, Solikamsk Magnesium Works, pharmaceutical factory Akrihin, Svyasinvest, Ekaterinburg Airport, KomiArkticOil, VanieganNeft, Tuapse sea port;- Management of project tasks blocks;- Business processes analysis and optimization, financial model development for future implementation in CPM system; project documentation development;- Trainings preparation and conduction; - Installation, configuration and testing of CPM system (Infor PM);- End-user training and instructions development.Achievements:- Only one in Russia and Europe who got vendor’s approved status of Infor PM (Comshare MPC) certified trainer.- Substantial experience in projects of methodology development and implementation of strategic planning, budgeting, financial consolidation and analysis systems.

Education

  • Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Finance
    Ph.D., Economics
    2002 - 2006
  • Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Finance
    Master of economics, Economics
    1997 - 2002

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