Current job

• Refrigerators production plant Bosch Siemens Hausgerate (BSH), S.Petersburg Russia - Quality Engineer, Product, act as Head of Qality department (from september 2005-09-01 00:00:00.0)

  1. Assuring the flawless start of “green field” production facility at Russia. The start of production is scheduled to year 2006.
  2. Developing the quality department structure for the new facility.
  3. Product development support from QM side - responsible for quality product planning and quality tools implementations witin the project. Voice of the Customers implementation in finish product.
  4. Cost of quality elaboration. Targets are set and agreed with the company management.
  5. Customer Satisfaction and Post Sales development of the product. Organization and evaluation of the household tests of the products; benchmarking of the products and production from the quality point of view.
  6. Planning of the quality department areas at the new factory: quality control points at production, quality audit, and quality / development laboratory. All areas planning was successfully completed and agreed with the start up team.
  7. Selection of the equipment suppliers for the quality areas at the new facility – total budget of department invest is more than 1 mln euro; Negotiating technical and economical details of the supply, service agreements and suppliers evaluation matrix.
  8. Localization of the production – contacting and negotiating the quality targets with the local suppliers. Presentation of the BSH Supplier quality requirements for potential Suppliers, LCC supply development.
  9. SAP Quality Key User and responsible for QM module Go-Live; testing of SAP function in quality areas, Preparation of SAP training for Quality personnel.

Previous jobs

• Merloni Termosanitari (MTS) Rus, Factory in St.Petersburg - Quality Manager (2004-09-01 00:00:00.0 - 2005-04-01 00:00:00.0)

  1. “Greenfield” factory start up: Factory successfully started as planned on March 2005
  2. Quality department development at MTS Rus: proposed the quality department structure and staffing plan; the structure and plan agreed with the company management; quality personal hired and trained, in total 3 person trained as Quality specialists in 2005.
  3. Development of the Factory Quality Management System in accordance with ISO 9000: 10 standard operation procedures developed for production sequence, material check up, and quality control during process; log sheets for control of quality by operators elaborated; shop flour personnel trained.
  4. Local Suppliers Qualification and quality development: 4 (four) suppliers of key materials approved as qualified for full scale production; incoming control system was set up and documented as routine practice.
  5. Developing and maintaining the system of statistical quality control of the products: System of statistical control of finish goods elaborated and implemented in routine practice by quality personnel; 4 additional tests of semi product and finished product put in routine practice; factory quality results reporting – weekly to the factory management team, monthly to the corporate quality department.
  6. Training of the factory personnel in the area of quality management system: special training course prepared; in total 70 persons were trained.

• Wrigley Factory, St.Petersburg, Quality Department, - Quality Innovation / Performance Team Leader (2002-10-01 00:00:00.0 - 2004-09-01 00:00:00.0)

  Projects completed:
  1. Factory extension start up: factory extension was successfully completed 2 weeks ahead of plan in March 2004; personnel achievements during start up were honored by the company management.
  2. New type of product start up launch at the subcontractor facility: product was successfully launched in full accordance to the Wrigley requirements and according to the schedule.
  3. New product launches at the factory: 25 new types or flavors of products successfully launched in total; one of the new product launches was mentioned as “distinguished achievements” by the Wrigley Corporate Marketing Leadership Team in 2003.
  3. Lean Manufacturing project: 5S system successfully implemented in routine practice; quality support and expertise of “I Suggest” (Kaidzen) program; leader of TPM implementation in quality department; maintenance and audit of Visual Management program at shop flour; Quality Continuous Improvement program factory leader, overall cost saving of 50000$ in 2003 – 2004.
  Team leader duties and achievements:
  1. Leading of Quality Innovation / Performance team, budgeting: supervise the team of 6 persons.
  2. Quality System development and maintenance at the Factory:
  - HACCP system: Factory certified by the Wrigley as full HACCP compliance facility.
  - GMP: GMP implemented, all factory personnel, 450 persons are trained vs. GMP requirements annually; auditing of the GMP practices conducted daily by team members; in 2004 Factory showed 99% compliance to Wrigley GMP requirements – 2nd best of all 18 Wrigley Factories.
  - Wrigley Quality Management System: conducted 9 internal quality audits; all observation are followed by the corrective actions, in total 20 recognized corrective actions taken as results of audits; for the period of 2003- 2004 no market or customer product quality complaint received by the factory; quality related loses reduced in 2004 by 25% in comparison to 2003 results.
  3. Suppliers Quality Audits: 3 supplier and subcontractor quality audits conducted in 2004; 1 external supplier qualified as Wrigley supplier.
  4. Customer feedback and Nonconformance systems development: Complaint system implemented – 5 procedures of complaint handling and reoccurrence preventing are implemented in routine practice; System of Nonconformance (NCR) handling and NCR follow up developed and lead, the system mentioned as the best of its kind at all Wrigley Production Factories.

• Tuebingen University, Germany - Laboratory Assistant, Geochemistry laboratory (1999-11-01 00:00:00.0 - 2002-06-01 00:00:00.0)

  1. Analytical method development for detection and quantify of polyaromatic heterocycles in complex mixtures with presence of polyaromatic hydrocarbons: qualitative and quantitative method successfully developed and put in routine laboratory practice. Results of the work presented at International Geochemistry Congress in Nice, 2001.
  2. Chemichal analysis of contaminated groundwater samples for further remediation scenario. decision making: more than 1000 tests conducted.
  3. Statistical treatment of data, reporting.

• Tuebingen University, Germany - System Administrator at Faculty of Applied Geology (1999-09-01 00:00:00.0 - 2001-09-01 00:00:00.0)

  1. System administration of notebook pool operating on Windows NT platform: 50 notebook PCs, 1 File Server, 2 network printers, TCP/IP LAN, back up copy of the files, troubleshooting.
  2. Computer training for fresh international students at the faculty: Basics of Windows NT, MS Office, Fortran Power Station.

• Power Engineering problems Institute, Belarus - Project Leader (1996-09-01 00:00:00.0 - 1999-09-01 00:00:00.0)

  1. Management of the international project sponsored by US Government in the frame of Non Proliferation Program, project scheduling, reporting to funding agency: project successfully completed, total number of personnel involved 15 scientists from 5 countries; funding of the next stage of the project is approved by US DOE.
  2. Conducting the research in the field of risk assessment in radioactive biomass utilization in power production sector: Scientific results of the project – 5 publications.

University education

• Eberhard-Karls Univesitat Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, M.Sc., in Applied Environmental Geosciences, M.Sc. in Applied Environmental Geoscience, 2001-2001
  
• Manchester University /Central European College, Budapest, Hungary, M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Policy, M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Policy, 1999-1999
  
• International Sakharov Institute of Radioecology, Minsk, Belarus, Radiophysics, “Cum Laud” High Education Degree in Radioecology, 1997-1997
  
• Kingston University, Kingston, UK, B.Sc. (Hon.) in Environmental Chemistry, B.Sc. (Hon)1996-1996
  

Training courses

• FMEA, QAssesment practical course, BSH, Giengen, Germany, no, 2006
  
• Green Belt 6 Sigma, BSH, Giengen, Germany, no, 2006
  
• ISO 9000 requirements, MTS, Fabiano, Italy, no, 2005
  
• Supplier Quality Audit, qualified as Wrigley Supplier Quality Assessor, Wrigley France, Bieshiem, no, 2004
  
• Internal Quality Audits, qualified as Lead Assessor, Wrigley UK, Plymouth, no, 2003
  
• Risk assessment training, Brookheaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, no, 1997