CMC®, MTK, director, partner, lead trainer-consultant at Arsenal Uspekha LLC (Yekaterinburg, Russia); partner, lead trainer-consultant at Gemba Point LLP and Kaizen Arsenal LLP (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
2010 — present — Director of Arsenal Uspekha LLC (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2007 — 2010 — TsentrOrgProm LLC, lead trainer, head of department, deputy director
1983 — 2007 — Ural Automobile Plant OJSC, Miass, Chelyabinsk region. Director of production system development, lead lean production specialist, deputy HR director, head of department, shop manager, deputy shop manager, dispatcher
COMPETENCIES
Certified TPS (Lean Production) expert, Japan Institution
Certified CMC® consultant, co-chair of the certification committee of the CMC Kazakhstan Chamber of Consultants
Master Kaizen Trainer (MTK)
Production systems auditor
Coach, Erickson College International and BCI (Business Coaching Institute) (Russia, Yekaterinburg)
Project management practitioner (PMI, PMBOK)
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
developing and implementing production system development strategies for manufacturing and service enterprises
developing and implementing methodologies to improve enterprise performance in production, logistics and quality
developing the methodology and leading the project "Managing Production through the Value Stream"
developing the enterprise's HR and social policy
developing motivation programmes
developing, implementing and evaluating image and reputation programmes
implementing the process approach at the enterprise in line with the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system
developing and implementing the modernisation programme for the enterprise's railway and warehouse facilities. Lean courses taught and areas of competence:
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lean system — 15 years
Russia:
automotive — Ural Automobile Plant OJSC (logistics, 5S, TPM, pull with kanban, value stream management, standardisation, kaizen blitz)
AvtoVAZ OJSC (pull, cell building),
KAMAZ OJSC (Lean office);
aircraft and rocket engineering IRKUT Corporation (fundamentals, mapping, kaizen blitz, building a lean management system, 5S, logistics, SMED, TPM, pull with kanban, load levelling, flow building),
TsSKB-Progress (5S, pull, inventory management, levelling, TPM, kaizen blitz, problem-solving tools);
Ufa Engine Industrial Association (lean fundamentals).
mechanical engineering — Izhevsk Tool Plant (fundamentals),
Khimstroymontazh LLC (mapping),
POZIS (fundamentals);
Mostochlegmash (mapping).
energy — RusHydro group (Lean office, problem-solving tools, mapping, 5S), Orenburgenergosbyt OJSC (mapping);
oil and gas industry — Gazpromneft Omsk Refinery OJSC (mapping); Tatneft OJSC, TMS Group (fundamentals), Almetyevsk; BurService (office)
avionics and instrument engineering — Ramenskoye Design Bureau (mapping, kaizen blitz, problem-solving tools), Yekaterinburg Radio Equipment Plant (pull, problem-solving tools); Signal, Saratov (fundamentals), Elektromashina OJSC, Chelyabinsk (mapping);
rubber and tyre industry — Yaroslavl Tyre Plant (mapping, building a production system, pull, 5S, kaizen blitz), Uralelastotekhnika (mapping, fundamentals), Ural Tyre Plant OJSC (5S);
food — Kombinat Molochny Standart OJSC, Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region (mapping, kaizen blitz, Hoshin Kanri, problem-solving tools);
construction and window manufacturing — Stroymekhanizatsiya management company (mapping, lean fundamentals) and Etalon CJSC, Chelyabinsk (mapping, 5S, pull, TPM, cell building, standardisation, Lean office); Vitrazh CJSC, Moscow region (comprehensive project);
chemical — AZOT OJSC branch, Kirovo-Chepetsk (mapping, Lean office); POLYPLAST-NOVOMOSKOVSK (fundamentals, mapping, 5S);
furniture — Volkhovets CJSC, Veliky Novgorod (fundamentals);
garment — Cheboksary Cotton Mill (standardisation).
services — Gazpromneft Shared Services Centre, Noyabrsk (Lean office — comprehensive project), Gazpromneft — Logistics (long-term efficiency improvement project); Gazpromneft — Supply (long-term efficiency improvement project); Vodokanal, Leninsk-Kuznetsky (fundamentals, mapping) and others.
Kazakhstan:
instrument engineering — Omega JSC, Uralsk (fundamentals, mapping);
automotive — KAMAZ — Engineering JSC (fundamentals, mapping, 5S, standardisation, logistics), construction — BI Group, Avtodor NS and MZhK (Astana), Temirbeton-1, Bedel Construction LLP (Almaty) and others.
food — RG BRANDS, Almaty — comprehensive project; Meiram Group LLP (Shymkent) (fast food) — comprehensive project; Turan LLP (sugar packaging) (mapping, 5S, TPM); Adal LLP — (mapping, standardisation, warehouse and transport logistics, vehicle maintenance, improvement system, etc.);
electrical and mechanical engineering — Almaty Fan Plant (comprehensive project), Kentau Transformer Plant JSC (fundamentals, mapping, standardisation); AEMZ (fundamentals, mapping), KTF and PROMET — comprehensive project, Almaty.
pharmaceutical industry — DOLCHE FARM LLP — comprehensive enterprise development project.
Agriculture, poultry farming — Alel Agro JSC (broiler production) (Almaty) — project in progress. Services — Damu Entrepreneurship Development Fund JSC (Almaty) (fundamentals, mapping).
Kyrgyzstan:
food - Barkad, Bishkek — meat processing (mapping, building flow in cells); Begemot (mapping, building flow/cells, pull), Ak-Zhalga — cheese production (fundamentals, mapping, 5S, visualisation, problem-solving tools);
garment - Nissi (standardisation, service mapping, flow building), Russol (mapping), Nazik, Bishkek — (standardisation, flow building, mapping, problem-solving tools), Vivatex — comprehensive project; Textile Trans — comprehensive project.
furniture — Lina (Bishkek) — improving flows and product quality.
mechanical engineering— AvtoMash-Radiator — (all tools).
Uzbekistan:
furniture — Keng Makon, Tashkent (fundamentals, mapping, flow building).
pharmacy chain — Nika Pharm Service, Tashkent (comprehensive project);
pharmaceuticals, manufacturing— Nika Pharm (mapping, development strategy, improvements). Tajikistan: Sekhi Kartonbarorii Isfara — cardboard packaging production (comprehensive project).
AUTHOR OF ARTICLES, ROUND TABLE PARTICIPANT
on Lean production. Articles in the journals Standarty i Kachestvo and Delovoye Sovershenstvo, reviewer of the book "The Kanban System" by R. Louis and others.
PUBLIC SPEAKING AND OPEN PRACTICAL SEMINARS
Russian Lean Schools and Forums (Almaty, Astana, Yelabuga, Cheboksary, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Novosibirsk, Chita, Chelyabinsk, Astana, Almaty, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Shymkent and Moscow). Participation in May 2017 in the CMC Global conference in Singapore and a presentation at the conference in Astana (Kazakhstan, September 2017).
Organiser (since 2014) of 5 kaizen conferences in Kazakhstan (Almaty).
LEAN AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2010 — 2012 — work on the GIZ project (Germany — Switzerland) training kaizen consultants in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan) — more than 30 experts trained.
2012 — present — work on projects of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. More than 15 projects delivered in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan).
2013 — The project at the Almaty Fan Plant won the "Project of the Year" award in the international competition of the Gabriel Al-Salem Foundation.
2014 — Aksengir — RG BRANDS LLP (2012-2014 project) was recognised by experts of the Kazakh-Japanese Centre (JCA) as a model of applying kaizen philosophy, methods and tools in Kazakhstan.
2015 — Awarded the badge "For a Significant Contribution to the Development of Lean Production in Russia" by the Naberezhnye Chelny Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Member of the CMC Kazakhstan consultants' association (CMC Global) since 2015.
In 2017, at the conference in Astana (Kazakhstan), certified as an international management consultant — CMC Global (ICMCI under the CMC Kazakhstan Chamber of Consultants).
2020 — The project "Development of the Nika Pharm Service Pharmacy Chain, Tashkent" received an award from the Gabriel Al-Salem Foundation as the best consulting project of 2019 in the category "Consulting without Borders" (Bali).
2021 — The project "Development of the Nika Pharm Service Pharmacy Chain, Tashkent" received a laureate diploma of the Association of Consulting Companies (Russia, St. Petersburg) in the 2020 consulting case competition in the category "Consulting in the Global World"