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Creative and energetic professional who understands technology, engineering and project management. Looking to use my strong leadership and analytical skills to help progressive and innovative companies to implement, improve and evaluate co mplex systems and processes. EDUCATION Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering, Industrial (Systems) Engineering, U niversity of Toronto. Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (2009/09 - 2010/04) - As part of fourth year thesis, applied an operations research technique that allows simultaneous comparison of multi-dimensional project data for one of the largest banks in Canada. - Completed a series of courses in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Small Busin ess Management. WORK EXPERIENCE Founder and Consultant, Bllure llc (2010/05 - present) - Providing Industrial Engineering services to not-for-profit, startup and smal l businesses. Business Intelligence and Process Improvement Analyst, Co-op, TELUS Corp. (2008/ 05 - 2009/09) - Identified challenges, then designed and built a metrics dashboard applicatio n, which shortened product delivery time by 700% , thus maximising efficiency an d cutting the cost of operations in half. - Assisted in designing and maintaining metrics, dashboards, and management rep orts. - Used focus groups and subject matter experts to identify operational pain poi nts and their solutions, along with measurable key performance indicators. - Created interactive training materials to improve user experience. - Analyzed user and workflow issues on a multi-million dollar project; develope d test plans and test cases; suggested improvements to the testing process and d eveloped tools to increase efficiency. User Interaction Designer, Freelancing (2008) - Designed and managed the implementation of a cost-efficient web-based collabo ration tool that provided a web-based backbone structure for the healthcare and pharmaceutical consulting. - Where applicable, utilized use cases and storyboards, built mock-ups. LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Conference Chair, National Business and Technology Conference 2010 (2010/06 - 20 11/06) - Managed a team of 25 to plan and execute a two-day event that attracted 200 d elegates, 20 speakers, and 30 companies from across Canada on a budget of $40,00 0. - Played a key role in establishing an umbrella non-profit organisation (Nspire .org) that will focus on building networks between university students across Ca nada. Competitor, BMO Vancouver Half-Marathon (2009/05) - Finished #8 in the division and #145 out of 6000 participants overall. Editor-in-Chief, The Cannon * University of Toronto Engineering Newspaper (200 7/05 - 2008/05) - Managed the staff and improved the image of the paper by working with student and faculty. - Increased readership and participation through understanding studentâ s needs. COMPUTER SKILLS Computer Programming and Data Mining - Learned procedural SQL to manipulate and extract data, then finished a month- long project in a week. - Familiar with various languages (php/java/html/jquery/css/prolog/xml/ruby) en ough to understand the code and solve logical problems as well as to developed b asic applications. - Proficient in: MS Office, Visio, Project Plan, SharePoint, Live Meeting, OneN ote, Project Server LANGUAGES - Fluent in English and Russian, and understand Spanish.