Igor — Project Manager

Partnered with cross-functional teams and championed new product development projects. Led a team of Engineers, acting as a subject matter expert, mentor, and trainer. ● Maintaining an effective product planning process that meets company-defined target metrics for release to production schedules and product/project costs. ● Leading a cross-functional team through five to seven New Product Development (NPD) projects from conceptualization to release in a high-volume product manufacturing corporation. ● Partnered with cross-functional teams that established and managed project expectations. Clearly communicate project status to stakeholders and the leadership team. ● Identified, documented, and proactively avoided project risks throughout the project lifecycle. Encouraged team members to mitigate the risk successfully and ensured the projects maintained original project release schedules. ● Managed projects to comply with the requirements of the ISO 9008 Standard ● Led hardware projects using agile techniques, sprint planning sessions, and daily stand-up meetings that obtained, managed, and supported stakeholder buy-in. ● Created, implemented, and maintained comprehensive project documentation that included comprehensive project burn-down charts.

08/2011 to Present Rockwell Automation - Mequon, Wisconsin Project Manager Managing variety of projects, involving department resources or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a project into a finished state. Responsible for successfully planning, controlling and managing project deliverables to ensure that customer needs met. Manage the efforts of team members and third party vendors. Manage the integration and/or development and delivery of deliverables directly to the customer, or in support of a major enterprise-wide project. Participate in development of business team strategic plan. Perform all aspects of project management functions for customer projects, including commercial responsibility as well as technical. Manage execution of assigned projects within margin targets. Manage and report all financial aspects of assigned projects. Applying complex and advanced project management and scheduling techniques. Applying interpersonal skills required to lead, motivate and resolve conflict within a project team environment so that scheduled activities performed in a cost-effective and timely manner. Ensure team member goals align with project objectives, facilitate team decisions within guidelines, and effectively communicate business issues/directions to team and management. Provide specifications, competitive bids, purchase order requests, invoice control, and other related activities. Taking accountability for meeting deadlines and budget requirements

06/2010 to 08/2011 Watlow Electric Company - Richland, Illinois Senior Automation Engineer Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) -- Working, creating & maintaining Design & Process FMEAs, Control Plans, and assisting PPAP execution. Creating and executing validation testing on manufactured products and equipment processes. Participate and lead process development by developing manufacturing processes and optimizing for safety, quality and cost, specifying, designing, purchasing or procuring manufacturing equipment to meet safety, quality, delivery and cost goals of projects. Work with inside and outside suppliers or equipment manufacturers to meet project goals. Provide expertise and sets of standards for robotic systems implementation design and set standards for robotic systems integration. Manage and implement design and manufacturing issue resolution by use of practical problem solving tools (fish bone diagram, cause chain, thought map), root cause identification and corrective action implementation. Work directly with production team (production team leader, operators, maintenance etc: ). Provided project management of internal and external product developments with minimal direction, requirement planning, scheduling, project cost forecasting/monitoring, reporting and providing technical coordination guidance across multiple functional areas. Managed multiple human resources and project finances. Was accountable for meeting deadlines and budget requirements

08/2006 to 11/2009 Hoffer Plastics Corp - South Elgin, Illinois Automation Project manager Analyze and improved departmental operations. Establish new procedures using lean and 5S methodology, resulting in increased productivity and more efficient resource utilization. Prepared and modified large cost proposals. Closely coordinated job schedules and needs with all departments to ensure smooth operation. Streamlined company operations, identified supplementary productive methods to achieve top performance, eliminated waste and reduced expenses. Supervised the design, planning, and startup of 70+ automation projects. - Managed multiple projects and successfully achieved milestones, ensuring projects complied with all cost and scope specifications. - Provide timely estimates for project, controls costs of project, and keeps project within schedule and cost. - Proactively manage projects by preparing and presenting proposals, writing statements of work, and building client relationships. - Hired and supervised team members, established project goals and timelines, assigned tasks and monitored progress. - Directly oversee and manage automation maintenance department and carry responsibility for production support, preventative maintenance and any internal automation projects. - Administer small power generation plant with eleven gas generators, Work on the power saving initiative involving power purchases and optimization of use. - Responsible for the analysis of customer prints and machine quotation requests, preparation of project quotations. Review project quotation proposals with the department managers to be certain off full understanding of the project goals and needs. - Incorporate automated robotic systems to improve manufacturing or other operations - Integrate robotics with peripherals, such as mechanical, electrical or pneumatic case handling end of the arm tooling, - Negotiate contracts and procure various high-speed automated machines, vision systems, robotics and other equipment required for custom manufacturing. - Review concepts and design of proposed equipment with sales, customers, manufacturing, and engineering representatives to assure that agreement is attained prior to construction and delivery of the equipment

01/2002 to 08/2006 ACRO Automation Systems Inc. - Milwaukee, WI Controls Project Engineer Work in the Controls group and was responsible for multiple projects budget and design simultaneously. Specified and design custom electrical control systems for automated robotic systems. Work with customers and vendors on the project component specifications and negotiate appropriate solutions. - Designed, developed and implemented special safety application for new robotics system - Dealt tactfully and effectively with difficult customers - Demonstrated ability to apply sound robotics knowledge to diverse applications - Demonstrated effective and consistent technical support - Helped prioritize work schedules and delegated assignments - Excel at organizing, coordinating, and managing projects - Comprehensive knowledge and experience in-group facilitation

01/1998 to 01/2002 ABB Flexible Automation Corp - New Berlin, WI; Site manager (Field Service Engineer), Distribution Systems Division Served as project point person on site. Responded to inquiries related to the all aspects of the project. Configure standard and custom robotics applications, Device networks. Train personnel on RCS (Robot Containerization System) installation, configuration, and troubleshooting. Provided emergency support and field as needed. Assist with writing assembly and user manuals. Work with the variety of application where robots were uses for complex assembly and material handling

2008 Keller Graduate School of Management - Milwaukee, Wisconsin M.B.A., Project management - GPA: 3.4

2000 Milwaukee Area Technical College - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Business & Computer Programming Course Work

1995 Odessa Polytechnic University - Odessa, Ukraine M.S., Computer Science - GPA: 3.3

1995 Odessa Polytechnic University - Odessa, Ukraine B.S., Computer Science - GPA: 3.3

1989 Odessa Machine Building College - Odessa Ukraine Associate of Science, Electromechanical engineering - GPA: 3.3