Michael Staroverov

Full responsibility for Group-wide Infrastructure and Applications, including BUILD and RUN; Run Business Processes Development Department; Lead Digitalisation Program to utilise latest IT underground; Project lead for group consolidation, internal margin elimination and management reporting; One of the leading roles in Normet Sales Excellence Programme to improve sales operations effectiveness; Regional Operations Manager at interim for the USA and Canada; the same for Latin America region.

Reported to Executive Board; Assessed current situation and developed company IT/IS Strategy; established Programme Management Office; Restarted failed MS Dynamics CRM implementation project and launched first live pilot; Moved WoodWing implementation project from “red” status back to the original schedule; Actively participated in the process of creating a marketing strategy for certain products/markets; Provided consulting on product strategy, Sales and Marketing Strategies, and Organisation structure.

Defined and implemented IT/IS Strategy and IT Governance; Successfully led business requirements collection and business processes re-engineering; Selected appropriate 3rd party suppliers, defined KPIs and managed supplier relationships accordingly; Actively managed IT/IS solutions development, implementation and acceptance projects; Managed data collection from local and regional offices; managed creation of BI Tools.

Actively participated in the company business plan creation and business case justification; Performed deep research and analysis of supply and demand markets; risk management; Efficiently organised all back-office operations, including logistics chain, contracts with 3rd parties and HR matters.

Participated in Global IT/IS Strategy creation; Successfully managed Schindler EMIA ERP Template completion; Successfully completed Schindler EMIA ERP Template implementation at Schindler Slovenia and Croatia; Deputy of CIO EMIA with full responsibility over EMIA Zone Applications; Developed EMIA applications strategy, which was presented to and approved by Schindler top management; Successfully managed Schindler SAP Template implementation project at Schindler India onsite.

Reported to Director of Bison Factory Network (BFN); Successfully established, organised and managed Support organisation and processes for end clients and partners; Substantially improved and further developed Maintenance processes of BISON Products.

Successful global programme and project management activities, including multi-site complex ERP projects; Product design and implementation activities, including leading requirements collection process; Designed, developed and maintained business-vital KPIs, Group reporting and data analysis operations.

Project management of multi-site complex ERP implementation projects; Business requirements collection and formalisation; Project management of new Global Products development, like iScala development projects: over 100 project team members with several outsource companies involved; Developed and implemented standardised procedures for 8 R&D centres, 6 regional helpdesks, 60+ local offices; Managed 10 cross-functional distributed software development teams consisting of over 50 people.

Full responsibility for the Company Infrastructure and Applications, including BUILD and RUN. Successfully created a complete company IT infrastructure and designed a computerised client database.

International Leadership, General Management, Strategy and Business Development.