Business Essentials in the Global Economy

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Led Clients’ teams during Operational and Capital Excellence studies across multiple metals, mining and utilities clients in North America, CIS, Middle East regions from initial potential diagnosis to actual value capture. Supported digital and agile transformations in retail banking with focus on loan-products development.

Senior Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Part-time intern

Experience Highlights:
– Accelerated commissioning and stabilized ramp-up of a gold processing plant, de-risking $200M+ in production. 
– Led detailed Operational Excellence diagnostics, mapping process inefficiencies, reliability gaps, and throughput bottlenecks, identifying $60M+ EBITDA improvement potential.
– Designed and deployed a Value Capture Control Tower for a multi-state U.S. power utility. Standardized reporting, set operational KPIs across 120+ service centers, and created management routines that captured $40M+ within the first quarter.
 – Introduced structured preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, daily management routines and multiple Operations focused initiatives at a copper beneficiation plant for a Top-10 Global Copper producer, driving 50% reduction in equipment downtime.
– Directed a 10+ person project office overseeing metallurgical furnace modernization. Scoped and delivered 15+ operational initiatives, including production planning, shift scheduling, and

Consultant

Trading and Supply Department, Middle Distillates Desk
Price changes and cargo tracking data analysis, report generating, actualization information in databases, study of refining processes, working with contracts.
Study and analysis of the practical application of derivatives for purposes of hedging risks in commercial transactions with oil and oil products. Study of quality specification of petroleum products.

Internship Trainee

Business Analyst Intern

Department of Global Marketing
Introduction to business of commodity exchange, database updating, reports generating, event organization, drafting and translation of press releases, preparation of analytical reports, preparation of presentations and informational materials.
Direct involvement in the work of the department during the launch of trading of futures contracts for Russian export blend of crude oil "URALS".

Intern

Co-Founder

ex-MBB, now building Subatix- AI agent that works your ops data like a consulting team would

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