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Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Helping clients in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and Central Asia to bring their oil and gas operations to the next level of maturity with the help of automated closed-loop production optimization digital solutions.Few examples include:* Automated events detection for artificial lift installations to proactively predict and prevent failures, optimize performance, and maximize production* Closed loop gas lift optimization allowing to achieve stable production and reduce downtime* Automated waterflood operations management and optimization to exceed production targets

Paris Area, France

Dual-role combining business development and production technical authority duties focusing mainly on Sub-Sahara Africa region.Tasks performed:• Responsible for the marketing strategy of SIS production business portfolio in Sub-Sahara region• Support to the marketing & sales force within all the sub-domains of SIS production business• Participation in the opportunity management process for critical opportunities, and the account management process for key accounts• Responsible for the overall design, tuning, and troubleshooting of a number of solutions delivered to the clients to enable all E&P workflows, understanding the associated workflow requirements, and architect solutions as appropriate by workflow Major achievements:• Global distributed production operations management solution for a international oil company (IOC) in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North Africa• Displacing competition and establishing PIPESIM steady state flow assurance simulator as a corporate standard in a IOC in East Europe• Production optimization project for a IOC in South Africa

Luanda, Angola

Tasks performed:• In charge of SIS production domain business development and promotion as a technical expert in West Africa• Client-facing engagements: interviewing to identify production-related challenges and overall solution architecture design• Proposals preparation, solutions-demonstration development and presentation to various clients - from NOCs to Majors.• Consultanting and part-time project managing for production optimization projects• Local production engineering team coachingMajor achievements:• First integrated field development optimization project in West Africa with Angolan National Oil Company (NOC) identifying best scenarios under the influence of wide uncertainties range• Corporate production operations management project for Angolan NOC• Country production monitoring center for all producing operators (closed under my technical supervision)• Field production surveillance monitoring program deployment for offshore brown-fields

Moscow, Russian Federation

Russia Petroleum Engineering Sub-Segment Business Owner with Schlumberger. Line management and sales, marketing job function. In charge of software and consulting business for production solutions with SIS.Tasks performed:• Responsible for the business growth strategy of petroleum (reservoir and production) engineering domain in Russia, new business opportunities, and future customer engagements• Responsible for the quality of services delivered to the clients• Pricing tendering, contract, customer satisfaction involvement. Supporting cross products sales strategies/customer contact.• Solutions architecture design (technical proposals, post-deployment documentation, support)• General support role, quality control, development, training and coordination for a a team of 17 petroleum engineers, based in two locations - Moscow and Tyumen, Russia• Localization of SIS solutions and adoption them to the local market requirements as well as new engineering workflows development• Project management of joint projects with the customers (mainly related to integrated asset modeling)Major achievements:• 25% revenue YOY growth• First integrated asset modeling project for the largest gas producer in Russia• OFM-based workflow deployment for waterflood monitoring and analysis as a corporate solution for an IOC• Introduced PIPESIM steady-state simulator as a corporate standard for flow assurance modeling software in 4 business units for the largest gas producing company in Russia• Schlumberger President's Club Award 2007 for the first Integrated Asset Modeling project for Gazprom in Russia that provided necessary production levels of natural gas; created environment for effective interaction between various specialists to address the problems associated with gas production, treatment, and transportation.

Moscow, Russian Federation & Tyumen, Russian Federation

Tasks performed:• Consulting services, training and technical support in software methodology and workflows based on SIS software: OFM (production surveillance), PIPESIM (steady-state flow assurance simulation), Avocet Integrated Asset Modeler (full-asset life cycle from reservoir to economics simulation tool), Avocet (production data management and surveillance), DECIDE! (advanced workflow automation and data analytics)• New engineering workflows development, deployment, and supportMajor achievements:• First integrated asset modeling project (SIS and Aspentech) for a UK-Russian IOC• OilField Manager deployment project in a UK-Russian IOC as a corporate production surveillance tool

Samara Region, Russian Federation

Tasks performed:• Work-over candidates selection for EOR (several oilfields of a Volga-Urals region in Russia)• Production data quality control• ESP design, analysis, and optimization• Economical analysis of work-overs• Annual government reports automationMajor achievements:• Automated work over candidates selection workflow for five on-shore oilfields (500+ wells)• Automated post work over analysis workflow

Samara Region, Russian Federation

Mainly focused on accounting systems design and deployment

Postgraduate Diploma, Petroleum Engineering

Courses taught: Geology, Petrophysics, Drilling Engineering, Well Testing, Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Simulation, Production.

Master’S Degree, Applied Mathematics

Specialized in Applied mathematics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Economics modeling. Thesis: "Applied aspects of neural.