Igor Kovalev

Current

Member of Supervisory Council at St.Petersburg CIO Club
Head of IT dept 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

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Industry

Automotive

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Igor Kovalev’s Summary

IT Manager supporting the manufacturing plant, sales office and parts depot, supervizing the team of more than 35 IT professionals.
18 year of experience in IT.
15 years of experience IT Project Management.
10 years of experience in Russian Automotive market. Unique experience of launching the 1st CKD 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). IT support for acquisition (Volvo, Land Rover) and sale (Jaguar-LandRover).
Launch of SAP R/3 for Parts Depot for 2 brands.

Guest speaker of Stockholm School of Economincs (www.sseru.org), SPb Graduate School of Management (www.gsom.pu.ru),Adam Smith Conferences (www.adamsmithconferences.com), private IT management school "CIO way" (www.spbcioclub.ru/cioway)

Articles:

"Локальные и глобальные решения: плюсы и минусы". http://www.iemag.ru/analitics/detail.php?ID=19592
"Успех возможен. Почему у нас получилось — точка зрения «спонсора» проекта со стороны ИТ". http://www.iemag.ru/projects/detail.php?ID=19092
" Оптимизация элитарная и массовая", http://www.iemag.ru/researches/detail.php?ID=18556
"Либо слияние, либо поглощение: опыт ведущих CIO", http://www.iemag.ru/analitics/detail.php?ID=16417
"ИТ в машиностроении - область контрастов" http://www.iemag.ru/interview/detail.php?ID=16909
"Работать с сервисами сложней, чем с традиционными приложениями" http://www.iemag.ru/interview/detail.php?ID=16894
http://www.crn.ru/numbers/reg-numbers/detail.php?ID=11686&phrase_id=231927
http://www.iemag.ru/interview/detail.php?ID=16644
http://www.iemag.ru/interview/detail.php?ID=16695
www.outsourcing.ru/content/rus/190/1906-article.asp
www.jur-jur.ru/articles/articles55.html
www.iemag.ru/interview/detail.php?ID=16728

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 (3 years 6 months)
Head of IT dept

Ford Motor Company

(Public Company; F; Automotive industry)

April 1999 — Present (10 years 8 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

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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

Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
Information Security Expert Center
Executive Suite
LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
XING.com
Facebook.com
Plaxo.com
OpenNetworker.com
SOX Professionals
Priority club
LION LIONs™ Against SPAM!
IT Specialist Group
Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
Lean Six Sigma
IT Governance
Information Security Community
NetworkingPros
Gmail Users
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
Speakers and Panelists
Spock Users
Friends of France
Friends of the Russian Federation
Ford Motor Company
GroupLinked.com
Plaxo Pulse
Piter White Knights
CIO Russia
Green
Auto OEM Network
Automotive Industry Professionals Worldwide
LION500.com (Open Networkers)
Grafton Executive Search Recruiting and Career Network
FidoNet SysOps or ex-SysOps
EVC Leaders - Practitioners of IT Economic Value Creation (Only for CIOs, IT & PMO Managers)
Let's Connect! (Open Networkers)
Insight-s
AutoRussia - Russian Automotive Industry Network
Confisa Executive Search
European CIO
Automotive Europe Linked