Experience

Helicon Company

• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP International Relations

  • Oct 2021 - Present



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Workforce Capacity Manager, Digital Strategy & Interactive Experience -- Europe

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2021

• Workforce Capacity Management Leader -- Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa

  • Nov 2010 - Dec 2014

  Leader of a team that is the trusted adviser for IBM's consulting business in Central & Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, the Middle East and Africa on resource capacity actions required to assure full delivery readiness for all client engagements in the pipeline while meeting or exceeding profitability targets -- through extensive intra-company interlocks and advanced Business Intelligence and Analytics.

• Workforce Supply & Demand Analyst -- Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa

  • Sep 2007 - Feb 2011

  Analysis of upcoming human resource demand and determination of IBM Global Business Services resource requirements for IMT CEMAAS, including Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Austria, Switzerland, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. Lines of Business covered include: Consulting, System Integration, and Application Management. Building annual Sourcing Models and coordination of resources supply actions required to ensure preparedness for upcoming projects, keep utilization levels on target and supply and demand in balance. Mentoring. Show less

• Workforce Capacity & Resource Deployment Manager -- Russia & CIS

  • Oct 2005 - Aug 2007

• Consulting Delivery Unit Manager -- Russia & CIS

  • Jul 2004 - Dec 2005

  Managed all delivery consultants working for IBM BCS in Russia, including six first-line managers and one Resource Deployment Manager. Responsible for country BCS utilization in keeping with established targets. Responsible for hiring plans, individual hiring decisions, training, mentoring, and resolution of resource contention issues.Contribution: As Delivery Unit Manager, consistently exceeded country BCS utilization targets and grew the delivery organization by a factor of two in six months. Show less

• Complex Project Manager, Senior Managing Consultant

  • Oct 2003 - Jun 2004

  * Telecom Oracle E-Business Suite Project, Moscow, Russia Recruited to take over a troubled project at one of Russia’s leading mobile phone service providers, successfully completed it, and turned around the project and the client relationship leading to follow-on sales of additional services (BIIS, OSS/BSS) with potential of over 5 million USD in the next 2 years. Consisted of the implementation of an ERP (Oracle E-Business Suite) system (Financials, Human Resources Management System, Inventory, Order Management, Procurement and Purchasing). The project team consisted of more then 20 consultants. Initial head office implementation, followed by roll-out to 50 regional offices.* Pension Fund Project, Moscow, RussiaImplemented one of the first world-class pension fund management system in Russia, localizing it in the process. Show less



BOROS, Ltd.

• Voronezh Region, Russian Federation

• Managing Partner

  • Feb 2001 - Sep 2003

  RESPONSIBILITIES - Startup and Development -- Overall business responsibility MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS - Negotiated and signed exclusive supply contracts for the territory of Russia with leading manufacturers of meat, dairy, and canned food products in Bulgaria. - Completed Russian localization and certification of over 50 Bulgarian products. - Secured trade financing with Russian and Western banks and private financing sources. - Created and implemented business start-up project and created budgets and business plan for the company. - Negotiated distribution agreements for Moscow, Central Russia, Northern Russia, Siberia, and the Far East. - Executed planned exit strategy; sold my interest to local business partner. ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS - Reduced costs, enhanced the distribution network, and streamlined operations by finding a way to partner with an established competing firm. Show less



Golden Telecom

• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Regional Director

  • Apr 2000 - Dec 2001

  Recruited by Golden Telecom (formerly GTS) and seconded to Vostok Mobile BV to manage my choice of 12 Russian regional cellular operators. I chose the most challenging one, Votec Mobile, located in Voronezh, with a DAMPS license covering the Voronezh Region, an area of 52,400 square km with a population of 2.4 million people. The challenge was to lead the operator out of a local price war while increasing market share and profit levels and into evolution to new GSM network (given the need free the 800 MHz spectrum in Russia). Show less



CenturyLink

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regional Director

  • Mar 1998 - Mar 2000

  Recruited by US West (later known as Qwest) and seconded to Russian Telecommunications Development Corporation (RTDC), first a US West, later a MediaOne subsidiary in Moscow, Russia, to assume responsibility for one of RTDC's cellular joint ventures, AKOS, a cellular company in Vladivostok, Russia as Deputy General Director . AKOS' license covered the Primorsky Region, in the Russian Far East, an area of 165,900 square km with a population of 2.2 million people. Recruited by US West (later known as Qwest) and seconded to Russian Telecommunications Development Corporation (RTDC), first a US West, later a MediaOne subsidiary in Moscow, Russia, to assume responsibility for one of RTDC's cellular joint ventures, AKOS, a cellular company in Vladivostok, Russia as Deputy General Director . AKOS' license covered the Primorsky Region, in the Russian Far East, an area of 165,900 square km with a population of 2.2 million people.



Luxtron Corporation

• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Worldwide Customer Support Manager

  • 1994 - Mar 1998

  Recruited to create a world class customer support organization. RESPONSIBILITIES - Full responsibility for Customer Technical Support MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS - Turned department from a resource drain into a profit center with the highest contribution margin in the company. - Improved department performance by from 2 to 10 times in all areas of measurement. - Improved performance outside the department by redesigning packaging, revising processes, driving engineering changes. - Contributed to ISO9001 quality system certification in record time (7 months). - Automated department functions by creating a custom database application and integrating it into existing MRP processes. ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS - Redesigned and standardized ordering procedures for error-free filling of orders for complex custom optical sapphire sensors. - Designed new packaging for shipment of custom optical sapphire sensors, reducing breakage in shipment from 38% to less than 1%. Show less



Logitech

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Support

  • 1991 - 1994