Leadership Team/Board member. Digital strategy and innovation enablement, promotion of new technologies. Manage IT country investment portfolio, aligning with business priorities. Leverage enterprise digital capabilities, manage market demands through the global pipeline. Lead architecture board, oversee software development lifecycle, Scrum/DevOps processes. Oversee IT Risk Management and Security. Advocate data privacy compliance. Face off to statutory and corporate audits, ensure continuity of the business. Attract and retain talent, support team through the times of change, mentor and motivate.

Act as a Business Relationship Manager for Digital Marketing business – collaborating with exec BU leadership on their digital transformation journey, web and mobile platforms development; provide scalable reporting tools to help business measure their effectiveness. Drive the corporate IT strategic initiatives to implement central solutions, standardize processes in IT, and implement measures and processes to continuously improve quality of the IT service. Lead the strategic cross-functional program of implementing a regional CRM cloud solution for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Care. Ensure application and data compliance against customer personal data protection legislation (152-FZ); work closely with system owners and legal team, oversee and asses all compliance aspects of new systems and integrations. Lead the local IT portfolio definition process; manage the application development teams to ensure business requirements are implemented. Promote new products and features that improve collaboration within both IT and business divisions. Introduce Agile, DevOps methodologies along with the corporate IT transformation initiatives: #TwiceAsFast, #DigitalLife. Leadership of the team (8 internal employees, 25 external); Budget ownership (~5 MEuro) Key achievements: 25+ go-lives of the various enhancements and automations along with the integrations with central Daimler systems; Completed a feasibility study work of the Salesforce rollout for Russia. Defined high-level scope, project plan and the timeline along with the mitigation plan of the legal constraints with respect to the PII regulation. Launched JIRA as a corporate collaboration tool; implemented the software development process in JIRA at a first stage to drive the agile approach going forward. Successfully passed through Roskomnadzor state audit. Ensured compliance of all IT systems with 152-FZ. Zero observations were identified in the audit report.

Managed the project of implementation of the corporate FIFA IT Infrastructure at the World Cup venues (stadiums, hotels, broadcast centers etc.); made sure FIFA IT infrastructure is set up according to the project plan and the timeline given. Managed various IT vendors and teams to make them work as a unit within the strict deadline. Faced off to the FIFA and LOC leadership to manage the relationship and make sure the IT requirements are met. Overseen the Operational support process during the World Cup event. Ensured the IT services are provided within the FIFA operations service model. Key achievements: FIFA IT Infrastructure delivered as per the schedule for the World Cup venues in the area of responsibility; Special recognition achieved for the exceptional support of the FIFA Innovation services (VAR – Video Assistance Referee, GLT – Goal Line Technology, EPTS – Electronic Performance Tracking System).

Managed European Sales&Marketing applications development and enhancement projects; faced off to European Marketing business; worked with application development teams to ensure business requirements are implemented. Managed business requirements definition for the projects of new Vehicle Catalogue and Configurator applications development. Defined, drove and executed the IT strategy of systems and applications in the domain. Managed project portfolio planning including budgets, timing and resource allocation. Key achievements: Insourced all major European Sales end consumer and dealer-facing applications into GM IT data centres in the US. (About 30 apps, $7M budget reduction per annum - 75% cost reduction) Overseen a successful program as a key IT representative for Central Marketing business team. Provided insourcing support ensuring the business were updated and issues prioritised. Leveraged ITIL and Agile models for the apps sustain and enhancement. Delivered on the major strategic program aiming to implement a brand new global Vehicle Configurator platform. It was successfully launched in July-16 for German market as a pilot release. Contributed to the program as an IT Product Manager, responsible for business analysis, release scoping and planning. Contributed to further major releases. Six largest European markets launched, B2C and B2B channels enabled, brand new functionality introduced (Conflict Solver, Recommendations, Mobile Configurator etc.). Enhanced the Operational Support model of the European Sales&Marketing applications. Liaised with the Global Operations team to ensure the incidents are documented correctly and routed to appropriate teams for further triaging and troubleshooting. Worked closely with key business product owners to groom the incident backlog, prioritise fixes and define the release scope.

Managed cross-functional projects. Acted as a primary IT contact for the global executive business process owners and local executive stakeholders. Led GM Russia IT systems landscape strategic development. Aligned local systems landscape with a global model. Planned and managed GM Russia IT budget including planning, submission and approval on both local Finance and global IT levels. Ensured forecast and accrual accuracy and monthly reporting per RAS and GAAP. Was a focal point of contact for local executive business leaders to make sure IT project portfolio corresponds with business portfolio and matches with mid-term strategic planning of the GM Russia sales and manufacturing organisations. Key Achievements: Contributed as an IT Project Manager to implementation of a new Global Payroll & Timekeeping process and IT solution for GM Russia; Managed project of bringing GM Russia data in compliance with the new Personal Data (PII) Regulation. Contributed to a number strategic projects for GM Russia (Office relocation; Single Legal Entity introduction; Electronic Docflow with dealers; Structural cost reduction initiative etc.)

Led Russia IT team (2 locations, 26 direct reports). Developed and executed the IT Strategy and aligned it with regional IT leadership and Russian business executives. Ensured that the business unit requirements for IT services are met. Acted as a single point of accountability for Russia operations. Ensured local regulatory and compliance requirements are met. Collaborated with global and regional leadership on the definition of the GM Russia projects portfolio, balancing local requirements with support of the global strategy. Ensured planned deployments are effective and benefits are realised. Local IT team development. New talent acquisition, existing employees development and support development moves across GM where appropriate. Managed GM Russia IT budget and met budget targets (15+ MUSD). Drove activities to reduce operations costs, eliminated local unique systems and services, introduced global common processes and systems. Key achievements: Successful execution of Global IT transformation program. Completed the journey from fully outsourced IT services and systems into insourcing model. Ensured required resource to support the business. Migrated a number of local systems into the Enterprise Data, completed sundown of local legacy applications. Shadow IT Program: a number of applications / IT services were identified in business and transferred into IT governance (5+ MUSD to the budget); Major business initiatives supported: CIS Integration - new sales process introduction for a number of CIS countries; GM Russia Single Legal Entity concept elaboration.

Directed all aspects of information technology systems within an organization, including software, hardware, facilities, and security systems; managed a $5M budget for all hardware, software, and IT staffing requirements (>2000 end users); managed a 15 member team; supported the Global IT organization, including corporate headquarters, training and service centers, factories, and remote sales offices. Key achievements: Delivered a number of infrastructure projects (Major network upgrades, telecom projects, migration of various global services and software products deployment (Microsoft, Cisco); Lotus Notes / Domino migration to Exchange and SharePoint; Introduced a single telecom provider for both landline and mobile services (65% savings of budget achieved); Migrated significant part of systems and applications to the Enterprise Data Center to reduce maintenance cost; Implemented and enhanced corporate IT Policies (Mobile policy, Configuration Management Policy, write-off procedure, Request for service procedure); Championed an IT part of a Business Continuity Plan definition. Defined a Disaster Recovery Plan for GM CIS; Significantly improved end user satisfaction rating of services provided via surveys and feedbacks received from customers to address problem areas and maximize satisfaction.

Hardware and Software Lifecycle Asset Management; IT Service Management; Co-ordinating Service Desk Incident Resolution Management. Worked with Global Service Contract Representatives (HP, Capgemini, Cisco) to support Infrastructure Changes (both hardware and software). Key achievements: Brought the local inventory to the accuracy, Defined and set up the write-off process of an outdated IT equipment. Improved user support outside of Global Service Contracts responsibilities. Ensured some successful hardware and software upgrades.

Faculty of Physics, Nuclear Physics and Technologies

CBSD Thunderbird

General Motors UK

General Motors

General Motors UK

General Motors UK

General Motors Russia

General Motors Russia

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of computational mathematics and cybernetics