Experience

DigiFabster Inc.

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer

  • May 2016 - Present

  Munich Area, Germany Gathering, categorizing, prioritizing and translating into upper-level algoritms user feed back and requests, to make the DigiFabster product-market-fit skintight. As creative as it gets, plus I can use my project management experience.



Digi Faber

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sole Proprietor

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Traditional industry took 150 years to discover statistics as a tool to improve productivity. AM is still toying with technology, but if it ever wants to really compete, they will have to adapt SPC to their toolbox. Digi Faber is unique in that we are able to almost instinctively find those data worth monitoring, and then propose strategies to gather and use them.



DigiFabster

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co Founder, Manager Business Development

  • Apr 2015 - Mar 2016

  Munich Area, Germany Business Development, responsible for Europe. DigiFabster, www.digifabster.com, is a Front Desk SaaS for the Additive Manufacturing industry, integrating customers, sales personnel, in-house technicians and management in one network. My task is to develop contacts, and preferably business, with both established Rapid Prototype/Small Series companies and new fab labs and 3D printing service bureaus. Challenges: Established routines which might be easily improved but people are used to, and… Show more Business Development, responsible for Europe. DigiFabster, www.digifabster.com, is a Front Desk SaaS for the Additive Manufacturing industry, integrating customers, sales personnel, in-house technicians and management in one network. My task is to develop contacts, and preferably business, with both established Rapid Prototype/Small Series companies and new fab labs and 3D printing service bureaus. Challenges: Established routines which might be easily improved but people are used to, and competition with seemingly analogous services. Attraction for me: being part of the wave of people now rethinking the manufacturing industry, towards lower wastage, more clever resource usage through design dictated by functionality not production tools and materials, and, just around the corner, the decline of mass production. http://3dprint.com/90893/digifabster-crm-production/ Show less



Mondelēz International

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Consultant

  • Jun 2014 - Oct 2014

  Санкт-Петербург, Россия 1. For the Mondelez pastry plants: set up tender documents capturing the peaks and lows in both loads and volumes of waste water; communicated with Mondelez’ project engineers and potential suppliers to clarify any questions concerning the tender documents or the production processes they reflected. Formulated a recommendation on the most apt technology supplier for Mondelez’ plants. 2. For Mondelez’ soluble coffee plant: Given the huge volumes of water used, first of all, did an analysis on… Show more 1. For the Mondelez pastry plants: set up tender documents capturing the peaks and lows in both loads and volumes of waste water; communicated with Mondelez’ project engineers and potential suppliers to clarify any questions concerning the tender documents or the production processes they reflected. Formulated a recommendation on the most apt technology supplier for Mondelez’ plants. 2. For Mondelez’ soluble coffee plant: Given the huge volumes of water used, first of all, did an analysis on how to reduce the water use. The theoretical exercise, thanks to the co-operation and ideas of Mondelez’ own project engineers, led to a theoretical reduction of 25 %. Studied the feasibility of using anaerobic processes for adequate wastewater treatment, sludge reduction and biogas production. Visited, together with a.m. project engineers, a site in the UK where anaerobic treatment had been implemented. Helped formulating the tender documents for the plant’s upgraded wastewater treatment plant.

• free lance consultant

  • Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

  Санкт-Петербург, Россия Compile and analyze information on legislation surrounding industrial waste water treatment in the EC and the Russian Federation, formulate proposals to simplify the Russian legislation. Based on findings (e.g. EC BREF) propose a standard solution for all of Mondelez’ pastry plants in the RF. Deliverable: Recommendations, including some theoretical information on biological treatment of food production plant waste water, in the form of a powerpoint presentation.



OZSK Group of Companies

• Director of Operations

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

  Московская область, Россия Aligning 3 of the group's glass factories with the owners' vision of innovation, efficiency and profitability. At zero budget I improved furnace capacity at the worst-performing plant, in Spirovo, by 25 %, IS machine capacity by 40%. Unfortunately the company was near- bancrupt when I started and stopped paying salaries in October. I held on until March. Although officially employed until August, I left in March to do free-lance work for Mondelez.

• Manager Business Development

  • Feb 2011 - Oct 2012

  Sobinka, Russia Major projects: New Products (production line extensions):, Jubilejnoe Utrenee (Belvita); Wholesome biscuit with special claims: Second hand rotary molder, oven extension, new flow packers, new box loader Jubilejnoe Junior; Kid's biscuits: Vertical (bag) packing area. Jubilejnoe Fruit and Berries; wholesome biscuit ('digestive'): Enrober, automatic pile packing in trays, flow packers Line upgrades: Alpengold Chocolife; soft biscuit with jam and chocolate glazing: Widening… Show more Major projects: New Products (production line extensions):, Jubilejnoe Utrenee (Belvita); Wholesome biscuit with special claims: Second hand rotary molder, oven extension, new flow packers, new box loader Jubilejnoe Junior; Kid's biscuits: Vertical (bag) packing area. Jubilejnoe Fruit and Berries; wholesome biscuit ('digestive'): Enrober, automatic pile packing in trays, flow packers Line upgrades: Alpengold Chocolife; soft biscuit with jam and chocolate glazing: Widening dough and jam depositors, oven belt and conveyors from 1000 mm to 1200 mm Jubilejnoe glazed; traditional biscuit with compound glazing: Oven extension, cooling conveyors, enrober, cooling conveyors, manual flow pack loading. New Product (complete line); Cracker TUC: Fully automatic raw material loading, continuous mixing, sheeter, hybrid oven, automatic flow pack loading in two formats, manual shipping box loading, left job at commissioning stage. New production line: Barni; soft bear-shaped cake with filling; Automatic raw material delivery, batch mixers, depositors and baking tray transport system, oven, cooling tunnel, automatic flow packing, automatic box loading, manual shipping box loading, left job at contracting stage. Process: Recipe unification, automatic glucose dosing. Utilities: Steam upgrade, Water filtering installation, new compressor. Construction: New R&D laboratory, new rapeseed oil tank farm. Overall responsibilities Leading a staff of 5 project engineers and an administrator. Budgeting and budget updating; Writing and defending business cases for above-mentioned investments Planning; working to schedules while using other departments' recourses Interfacing with production; so as not to hinder output during commisioning Interfacing with Marketing. Implementing best practices in Food,- and Operator Safety. Show less



Veda Pak

• Director New technologies

  • 2007 - 2010

  Kingisepp, Russia Director New technologies Veda Pak (glass factory at Kingisepp) Major projects: Design and/or implementation of process information systems for SPC Proprietary "pack to melt" efficiency calculation system, hourly update per email to all interested. Vertech's SilC, SilQual on furnace 1 tendering, purchase, installation and commissioning of glass furnaces, forming, inspection and packing machines Sorg 320 ton furnaces at Ruzaevka glass factory XPAR's Polysigma at line 2… Show more Director New technologies Veda Pak (glass factory at Kingisepp) Major projects: Design and/or implementation of process information systems for SPC Proprietary "pack to melt" efficiency calculation system, hourly update per email to all interested. Vertech's SilC, SilQual on furnace 1 tendering, purchase, installation and commissioning of glass furnaces, forming, inspection and packing machines Sorg 320 ton furnaces at Ruzaevka glass factory XPAR's Polysigma at line 2 Kingisepp First triple gob machine (Bottero) in Russia (Kingisepp line 4) Conversion from double gob to triple gob of line 6 Kingisepp. TECOGlass' Quinn Elton project, ordering similar 450 ton oven for reconstruction of Kingisepp 1. Wall thickness inspection of non-round containers. tendering, purchase, installation and commissioning of auxiliary equipment Samsung turbo compressor 140m3/min@4barg Pneumofore vacuum pumps Setting up and implementing of technology and know-how transfers: "Good practices" forming handbook by Ron Hobman (NZ), License agreement HAP technology with Heye (Ardagh) Membership of Glasstrend: Benchmarking of Kingisepp furnaces by TNO, Holland; UV protection for beer in flint bottles: aborted; Furnace manual by GEM-Projects (Belgium). Through contract with CERAM (UK): Implementation of Quality Assurance System at Zhengzhou Yuandong Refractory factory (China) for critical refractory delivery. Developing proprietary know-how Developing inserts to run 5" moulds on 6 1/4" machines, 4 1/4" on 5". Standardization on neck (take-out) clamps; Using relatively cheap smart camera systems to detect line over finish. Daily routines Budgeting and budget updating; project budgets from 50.000 to 25.000.000 euro Planning; working to schedules while using other departments' resources Interfacing with production; so as not to hinder output during commissioning. Leading a staff of 3 to 6 project engineers.

• Project leader

  • 2000 - 2007

  Kingisepp Responsibilities: Planning, purchase, delivery, commissioning of glass factory inventories: Batch houses, furnaces, machines and auxiliaries Projects: Kingisepp glass factory (finished 2002). Second furnace Kingisepp glass factory (finished 2004). Ruzaevka glass factory (2006, project sold). Float glass factory Veliky Novgorod, aborted.



INT

• Algeria
• Business Skills Training

• Export manager

  • 1993 - 2000

  Amsterdam Responsibilities: Purchase and export of foodstuffs, spare parts and machinery to Saint Petersburg. highlights: Major exporter of Unilever's Corona margarine. First industrial project: buying, installing and commissioning of a liquid foodstuffs filling line. Delivery and commissioning of second filling line at Kingisepp, Russia, for Veda, Saint Petersburg