Darijus Strasunskas

Current

PostDoc at NTNU, Dept. of Industrial Economics & Technology Management

Past

Research scientist at NTNU, Dept. of Industrial Economics & Technology Management
Visiting Lecturer and Researcher at Kaunas University of Technology
Research scientist at NTNU, Dept. of Computer & Information Science

PhD student at NTNU
Key user of the ERP system manufacturing module at Kraft Foods Lithuania
ERP system (MFG/PRO ver.9.0, by QAD Inc.) implementation at Kraft Foods Lithuania
Manufacturing finance analyst at Kraft Foods Lithuania

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Education

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Vilniaus Universitetas
Vilniaus Universitetas

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Information Technology and Services

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Darijus Strasunskas’s Summary

Darijus Strasunskas is Researcher at NTNU. He received his PhD in Information Systems from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2006. He has master degree from Vilnius University (2000). From 1997 to 2001 he was employed by Kraft Foods International in Lithuania as finance analyst and was responsible for financial control of Snacks Factory construction project and ERP system implementation, later he became a key user of ERP system manufacturing module. For his performance he was awarded with a letter of commendation in 2001.

His research interests include conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, semantic technologies, in general; and ontology and information quality evaluation, rule-based notification, information retrieval, distributed cooperative systems development, traceability and semantic interoperability of information, in particular. His publications include more than 35 articles in international refereed journals, books, conferences and workshops. He has assisted in the review process of international conferences including ER, RE, CAiSE, NLDB, ISD and other. He has been serving as a member of program committee for the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium, the IRMA Conference, the BIR Conference.

Darijus Strasunskas’s Specialties:

Information management and semantics, information quality and business value assessment, information system analyst, ERP system implementation specialist, finance analyst, manufacturing costs analyst, lecturer.

Darijus Strasunskas’s Experience

PostDoc

NTNU, Dept. of Industrial Economics & Technology Management

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

PostDoc researcher in the Evaluation Methodology of Integrated Operations (IO) project (the project is financed by iO Center and the IO program is promoted by the Norwegian Oil Industry Association).
Research scientist

NTNU, Dept. of Industrial Economics & Technology Management

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

November 2007 — June 2008 (8 months)

Research scientist in Telecommunication Economics / Operations Research financed by the FP6 IST SPICE project (Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment). Edit lead of the deliverable D1.7 Revised business analysis and models - quantitative analysis of novel and traditional business models for provision of mobile services.
Techno-business analysis: implementation of a framework for quantitative analysis of scenarios and valuation of SPICE services usage.
Visiting Lecturer and Researcher

Kaunas University of Technology

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

September 2007 — September 2007 (1 month)

Visiting Lecturer and Researcher at Dept. of Information Systems. Lectures and collaboration on the Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies, Intelligent Information Retrieval and Ontology Quality topics.
Research scientist

NTNU, Dept. of Computer & Information Science

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

December 2005 — August 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Research scientist in the IIP project (Integrated Information Platform for Reservoir and Subsea Production Systems). My tasks: Development of a framework to evaluate quality of ontologies used for Information Retrieval, investigate possibilities and restrictions for rule based notification in OWL Full.
PhD student

NTNU

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

June 2001 — March 2006 (4 years 10 months)

Development of a framework for distributed product fragments management to facilitate the coordination and management of the development process, and methodological approach for integration and manipulation of all information produced during the project. Implementation of a prototype system.

Teaching and assisting in courses, supervising master students, assisting in the review process of international conferences, participationin research projects.
Key user of the ERP system manufacturing module

Kraft Foods Lithuania

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Food Production industry)

April 2001 — July 2001 (4 months)

computerization of production processes, maintenance of ERP (MFG/Pro) system.
ERP system (MFG/PRO ver.9.0, by QAD Inc.) implementation

Kraft Foods Lithuania

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KFT; Consumer Goods industry)

September 2000 — April 2001 (8 months)

Implementation of manufacturing module, documentation and end-users training – letter of commendation for good results.

Oct 2000 – Nov 2000 Temporal project manager for Part I of Factory Site and Administration Building Reconstruction (project size: 200 K USD (part I) of total 2.5 MM USD).
Manufacturing finance analyst

Kraft Foods Lithuania

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KFT; Consumer Goods industry)

June 1997 — September 2000 (3 years 4 months)

Manufacturing P&L statement preparation; Analysis of the manufacturing costs and processes; Generating cost saving ideas; Evaluation of Capital Expenditures proposals/ control; Tracking of the CapEx and savings projects; Standard costs accounting.

Dec 1998 – Sept 1999 Project manager assistant – Snacks factory construction (project size: ~ 7 MM USD) – responsible for control of the project’s financial part, cash flow and expenditures.

Darijus Strasunskas’s Education

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

PhD , Information Systems , 2001 — 2006

Dissertation title: “Domain Model-Centric Distributed Development: An approach to semantics-based change impact management”; Examination: March 9th, 2006; Supervisor: Prof. Arne Sølvberg

Activities and Societies:

Participated in R&D projects (IIP; MINE; INTEROP; Learning Environment for Requirements Engineering)

Member of Program Committee (CAiSE Doctoral Consortium, '05–'06; IRMA, '07 - track on Enterprise Information Systems; BIR, '06)

Additional reviewer (NLDB, 2006; CONFENIS, 2006; ER, 2002 - 2003, 2005; ICSE, 2005 - Experience Track; CAiSE, 2003 – 2004; ISD, 2004; EJC, 2004; RE, 2003;
ISTA, 2003; REFSQ, 2002)

Teaching and supervising master students.
Vilniaus Universitetas

MSc , Management Information Systems , 1998 — 2000
Vilniaus Universitetas

BSc , Business Management , 1994 — 1998

Additional Information

Darijus Strasunskas’s Websites:

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Darijus Strasunskas’s Groups:

Member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), AIS (Association for Information Systems), LSU (Network of Lithuanian Students Abroad), ULMF (Academic Forum of Lithuanians Abroad).