Igor Kovalev

Current

Member of Supervisory Council at St.Petersburg CIO Club
IT Manager at Ford Motor Company

Past

Member of Advisory Council at St.Petersburg CIO Club
Member at St.Petersburg CIO Club
IT Business Development Director at Uniland

IT Manager at Neste
Freelance Software Developer at TOR Co-Enterprise

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Education

Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Politehniceskij Universitet

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Automotive

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Igor Kovalev ’s Summary

IT Manager organizing the support for the manufacturing plant, sales office and parts depot, supervizing the team of more than 35 IT professionals.
17 year of experience in IT.
14 years of experience IT Project Management.
9 years of experience in Russian Automotive market. Unique experience of launching the 1st "more than just assembly" automotive plant in Russia (body+paint+assembly*3 shifts). Launch of National Sales Companies for 4 different brands, while exploiting synergies (Ford, Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar). Experience in IT support of acquisition (Volvo, Land Rover).
Launch of SAP R/3 for Parts Depot for 2 brands.

Guest speaker of Stockholm School of Economincs.
Guest speaker of Adam Smith Institute.

Articles:
"Либо слияние, либо поглощение: опыт ведущих CIO", Intelligent Enterprise | #6 (182) http://iemag.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=6781
"ИТ в машиностроении - область контрастов" Intelligent Enterprise | #19 (175) http://iemag.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=6287
"Работать с сервисами сложней, чем с традиционными приложениями", Intelligent Enterprise | #16 (172)
http://iemag.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=6151
"Потенциал рынка аутсорсинговых услуг огромен", CRN | #18 (263) http://www.crn.ru/numbers/reg-numbers/detail.php?ID=11686&phrase_id=231927
"Применить ИТ в нужном месте и в нужное время", Intelligent Enterprise | #15 (147), http://www.iemag.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=2613
"По конкурсу или по знакомству?", Intelligent Enterprise | #11 (144), http://iemag.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=2852
"Чужой среди своих". "CIO" №2 от 21 февраля 2006 года www.outsourcing.ru/content/rus/190/1906-article.asp
"Два директора". "CIO" №7-8 от 31 августа 2005 года, http://www.jur-jur.ru/articles/articles55.html
"Алгоритм двух господ". Intelligent Enterprise | #8 (118) http://iemag.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=5660
"Кто готов к аутсорсингу?" http://www.cio-world.ru/offline/2004/31/36987/
"Каждый проект стремится стать неуспешным", http://www.osp.ru/text/302/81756/

Igor Kovalev ’s Specialties:

IT Team and Project Management; Outsourcing; IT Budget; Interaction between business and IT; IT and Automotive business (Manufacturing, Logistics, Sales, Service, Dealers); ERP; Global vs Local; From-the-shelf solutions, Customization and Proprietary Development; IT and M&A

Igor Kovalev ’s Experience

Member of Supervisory Council

St.Petersburg CIO Club

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
IT Manager

Ford Motor Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Ford; Automotive industry)

April 1999 — Present (9 years 7 months)
Member of Advisory Council

St.Petersburg CIO Club

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2005 — June 2006 (8 months)
Member

St.Petersburg CIO Club

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — November 2005 (11 months)
IT Business Development Director

Uniland

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

February 1998 — February 1999 (1 year 1 month)
IT Manager

Neste

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

March 1994 — February 1998 (4 years)
Freelance Software Developer

TOR Co-Enterprise

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1991 — March 1994 (3 years 1 month)

Alma Mater

Igor Kovalev ’s Education

Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Politehniceskij Universitet

MSc, Economics and IT, 1990 — 1995

Additional Information

Igor Kovalev ’s Websites:

Igor Kovalev ’s Groups:

SODIT - Russian Union of IT Directors
SPb CIO Club
4CIO.RU Club
AmCham, St.Petersburg chapter
TopLinked.com
LION
Plaxo
CyberSleuths
DallasBlue Executives, Adam Smith IT Conference, ExecuNet