Anton Honcharov, Ceo 🔹 Straga Products Email & Phone Number

✅ Built this customized & personalized modern hardwood furniture and accessories (with emphasis on hand-made products) manufacturing company from the ground up – led strategic initiatives to integrate change plans, new business process improvement strategies and innovative HR functions, leading to cost reduction, revenue growth & high employee moral➡️ Oversaw a 7500 sq. ft manufacturing facility and recruited, trained and mentored a staff of 30, including woodworkers, designers, engravers, packagers, customer service representatives, an accountant, and a sales and marketing division. ➡️ Specialized in manufacturing hand-made products – selected, assembled and finished products by hands, and warranted the implementation of numerous quality assurance steps and checks to ensure outstanding product quality and client service. ➡️ Provided strategic marketing leadership to evangelize and promote the company’s image, reputation and brand. Envisioned, designed, and executed brand building, while overseeing digital business strategy and social media to promote both B2C and B2B sales. Key Impact & Metrics📌 Introduced modern technology to increase product quality, productivity and customer satisfaction – added multiple automation technology and sophisticated woodworking machines (including as a state-of-the-art CNC machine).📌 Sold and shipped hand-made products, all across the world with the total count of products sold exceeding 1M units. 📌 Successful navigated through the pandemic years (2020-2021) – opened a new line of products, manufacturing furniture from solid hardwoods: Walnut, Maple and Sapele. Products included entryway and bathroom organizers and towel racks, bedroom sets, dining tables and benches, and TV units. 📌 Opened a separate showroom in the Vaughan metropolitan center area (2022) and in the process of setting up a warehouse facility in the Buffalo region, USA (2023) to be able to ship directly to customers via USA bound shipping couriers.

✅ Managed a brick and mortar & online retail business start-up, handling operations, human resources management, customer service, business development, marketing, sales, public relations, social media management, profit and losses and finances and budgets. ➡️ Exhibited expertise in devising strategies aimed to enhance organizational growth and sustained profitability.➡️ Identified inconsistencies in business processes; analyzed growth strategy and new business development chances.➡️ Maximized marketplace opportunities, addressed major business challenges, and forecast activities to best suit industry and corporate targets. Integrated functional strategies, utilizing business expertise to reach operational/financial objectives. 📌 Key Impact: expanded market penetration, formulated & executed solutions sales strategies. Surpassed sales goals, built professional relationships with a diverse customer base and maximized opportunities. Made a successful exist in 2014.

✅ Leveraging on a successful career as a Licenced Industrial Mechanic since 2000, brought on board Mondelez Canada Inc in 2010, in the role of a Packaging Mechanic. Gained extensive experience working in manufacturing and distribution facilities with such household name as Walmart, Wrigley's, Kraft, Mondolez, FGF Brands and Langen Packaging➡️ Worked with hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, packaging equipment, instrumentation and automation systems.➡️ Read blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures; dismantle and overhauled machinery & equipment. 📌 Key Impact: made recommendations to minimize waste, improve processes and implement innovative safety practices

✅ Handpicked to manage the day-to-day production operations across 5 different departments in a 30,000 square foot food processing facility – spearheaded a large and high-performing team of 100 in the planning, coordination, direction, scheduling and budgeting of the plant’s team operational activities, as well as in the maintenance of structures, facilities and systems➡️ Created and implemented cost controls and other expense reduction measures. Managed materials to keep up with production goals and meet customer demands. Evaluated the premises and promoted continuous improvement.➡️ Facilitated adherence to and implementation of health, safety, quality control and environmental policies and programs.➡️ Provided fair and constructive feedback, assessed employee performance, training needs, areas for improvement and possibility of future growth within the organization, and ensured training and development needs were addressed.📌 Key Impact: reported on performance indicators, identified areas of improvement and outlined approach to improvement. Ensured compliance for assignments, policies, procedures with quality standards, efficiency & productivity of work crews.