Developing a methodology that assesses and prepares the readiness of countries around the world to adopt Ukraine's world-renowned, innovative Diia digital government principles and ecosystem.

My latest projects include:FEASIBILITY STUDIES & DIGITAL MATURITY ASSESSMENTS• Joint U.S. State Dept./USAID Mobile Telecom Infrastructure Feasibility Study including 5G and Open RAN in Western Balkans region.• Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) of Ukraine encompassing its digital infrastructure, digital economy, and digital society for USAID Digital Frontiers.• Digital maturity assessment toolkit for municipal solid waste service providers for EBRD's Sustainable Infrastructure Group.DATA STRATEGY, GOVERNANCE & AI/ML SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT• Data governance strategy development for global international development organization and AI large language learning model.• Product Owner/Team Leader for AI/ML automated data collection tool for Estonian Tech4Good Fintech startup's wildlife biodiversity valuation system.• Data Strategy Advisor to senior leadership, led workshop and interviews that assessed key organizational issues, challenges and opportunities of its data analytics capabilities.• Twitter Data Labeling Task Leader for natural language processing (NLP) model to measure domestic violence in India during COVID-19.MONITORING, EVALUATION & LEARNING• Impact Measurement & Management Strategy for social entrepreneurship and artisan development program in Ghana and Ethiopia.PROGRAM DESIGN / PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT• Advised technical team on local government digitalization (GovTech) activities for the proposed 5-year extension of its USAID Strengthening Resource Mobilization Activity.• Open RAN program design for winning bid proposal for 5-year, $200M USAID Digital Strategy Implementation and Programs (DSIP).• Proposal support for USAID eHealth sector development in Ukraine.• Proposal support for global USTDA digital infrastructure program.

Digital maturity assessment toolkit for municipal solid waste service providers for EBRD's Sustainable Infrastructure Group.

Mobile telecom feasibility study for Critical Infrastructure Digitalization & Resilience (CIDR) program.

Technical Researcher for Digital Infrastructure & Adoption and the Digital Economy pillars for USAID/ Ukraine’s first Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA). Conducted desk research, key informant interviews and analyses. Developed recommendations for Mission and authored these sections of the final report.DECA supports the implementation of USAID's Digital Strategy and objectives to responsibly integrate digital technology into its development programs and strengthen countries' capacity for open, inclusive and secure digital ecosystems. The DECA analyzes a country's Digital Infrastructure & Adoption; Digital Society, Rights & Governance; and Digital Economy.

• Helped this startup's core leadership team to attract and create new AI-enabled NGOs and impact startups for global impact as Product Owner, Project Manager, and in Business Development.• Managed 45-person, multi-national (16 countries) data science project team for Endangered Wildlife OÜ (https://endangeredwild.life/), a disruptive #Tech4Good startup SaaS company that has developed the way to value individual species of biodiversity in any location in a practical and user friendly manner. Our team developed an intelligent, automated NLP data collection and extraction tool prototype that could generate a biodiversity food web and population database.• Collaborated with global 50-person Artificial Intelligence (AI) project for The Red Dot Foundation's flagship SafeCity program to measure domestic violence and online harassment in India during COVID-19 applying NLP classification techniques to social media posts (see link below). Visit safecity.in/ to learn more about safecity.Omdena (www.omdena.com) is the world's #1 platform to build AI exclusively for Impact organizations and real-world AI engineers with 1800+ technical and domain experts from 100 countries. Organizations like UNHCR, UNDP, World Resources Institute, World Energy Council, World Food Program, and other innovative impact organizations and technology startups have built AI solutions to address a variety of social and environmental sustainability issues.

Get the Data (GtD) was founded to serve organizations that work with vulnerable and at-risk people and their communities. Since 2012, GtD has helped development organizations embed advanced analytics and machine learning into their activities to support more informed decisions, drive greater impact, more effectively allocate resources, and tell a compelling impact story.Leveraging a combined 40 years in monitoring and evaluation, data science, social research, and evaluation, GtD's cutting-edge Social Impact Analytics services are delivered through its Measure, Learn and Prove packages and supported by robust methods, rigorous analyses, and cost-effective data collection.Learn more about GtD's capabilities in the attached media below.

As part of a bold, multi-year, Azure cloud data analytic initiative with Microsoft, helped Healthcare Advisory practice to mitigate compliance risk and deliver more value to clients by spearheading development and stewardship of data governance processes in support of cybersecurity, and as Product Owner leading development of a healthcare coding assessment tool.Helped Customer Advisory clients in a variety of industries, primarily mobile telecom, improve their customer experience with data-driven services and solutions including market and competitive intelligence products, CRM data management vendor selection and evaluation, analytics capabilities maturity assessments, and thought leadership.

One of CIO Review’s “20 Most Promising Big Data Companies” of 2013. Acquired by KPMG in 2014.Helped this startup's Tier 1 mobile operator clients more effectively track and understand consumers and competitors to acquire and retain customers. Led team of data scientists, software developers, data engineers, data analysts, market researchers, and customer segmentation specialists to deliver performance measurement solutions and strategic insights.

3rd-largest communications and entertainment provider in the U.S. and first to offer quad-play telecom services. Launched wireless service in 2010 and discontinued it in 2012.Helped launch its new wireless service by managing a variety of go-to-market projects including analyzing customer email marketing campaigns to optimize performance, design web pages and mobile apps to improve customer experience, integrate wireless offers into product recommendation engine to increase adoption.

Founded as marketing strategy services firm with the mission to help businesses penetrate new markets, brands, develop products, and grow sales in Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries. Provided external consulting and embedded management services to numerous client organizations while based in Ukraine. See my Kyiv Post interview in the attached media below.Embedded management (contract) roles are listed separately: Havas Worldwide, Sonopia, and Microsoft.External consulting clients are described below: Sauder Woodworking and Nostromo.Export Market Development - SAUDER WOODWORKINGAs its exclusive representative to the CIS countries, helped North America’s leading producer of ready-to-assemble furniture revive its dormant distribution channels in Ukraine and Russia secure its first sale in several years through our aggressive go-to-market strategy, coordination of its first trade show participation, and distribution support services.NOSTROMO WIRELESSMarketed non-gaming mobile content for leading Czech mobile gaming developer to Kyiv advertising agencies. See attached media below for more information.

Expanded brand presence of Windows Mobile-embedded devices in 200 Ukrainian retail shops to exceed sales targets. Developed first Windows Mobile local brand-building strategy, supported retail channel partners with merchandising and training for 400+ retail store employees, and strengthened strategic marketing partnerships with major mobile device manufacturers.Read my interview in Ukraine's 'IT Businessweek' magazine below (Russian language).

Sonopia developed branded mobile phone services for brands, charities, environmental organizations and entertainment groups. Named one of “Fierce 15” companies in 2007 by FierceWireless. Closed operations in 2008. Read about this shooting star in the attached media below.Helped this innovative, early-stage startup with teams in Ukraine, UK and Silicon Valley USA to enhance customer engagement among diverse segments of US customers by streamlining marketing and production processes; developing, executing and optimizing Internet advertising and email campaigns; and customer base analytics.

Havas is the world’s fifth largest global marketing communications network. EuroRSCG Kiev is its Effie Award-winning Ukrainian affiliate. EuroRSCG Prague, its Czech affiliate, was named Czechia's ‘Best Agency of the Year’ in 2004, 2005 and, 2007.STRATEGY DIRECTOR FOR KYIVSTAR - EURO RSCG KIEVHelped catapult Kyivstar, the agency’s largest client, into Ukraine’s largest mobile operator through a major rebranding effort, providing strategic guidance to the local creative teams on award-winning brand image and promotional campaigns, and advising the client on brand strategy as well as global advertising, branding and pricing best practices. Watch a couple of our TV spots below (in Ukrainian).TELECOM CONVERGENCE CONSULTANT - EURO RSCG PRAGUESupported the agency’s business development efforts with competitive analyses of global quad-play telecom offerings and innovative global brand marketing ideas for its mobile operator clients.

As part of OSCE's largest election observer mission, monitored Ukraine's presidential election activities in Kyiv, Odessa and Zakarpatskiy oblast during Orange Revolution.

Start-up turned dominant provider of independent business intelligence to the leaders of the U.S. wireless industry. Helped disrupt how the wireless industry measures and improves its competitive performance by transforming data into actionable pricing, advertising and market share intelligence for 12 clients while contributing to consistently above-average sales growth.

Helped this newly-launched, Ukrainian-Korean mobile operator to continue strong subscriber base growth by leading my team to maintain our price competitiveness, effective advertising spending, developing and launching the industry’s first customer loyalty program.

Produced two enterprise field studies for humanitarian and community development foundation at request of its founder, a US Congresswoman. Conducted local stakeholder assessments, key informant interviews, and field observations in two western Ukrainian towns. Delivered investment outlook analysis of a brick manufacturer and case study for replicating a bakery’s social enterprise business model.

Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) is a $150 million regional fund, a pioneer in Ukraine and Moldova with over 25 years of successful experience in investing in small and medium-sized companies. WNISEF was funded by the U.S. government via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).Embedded with local management team of a newly-privatized construction materials manufacturer, Slobojanska Budivelna Keramika (SBK), built marketing strategy and operational management skills and knowledge of local Ukrainian management team. Developed first product and marketing plans, prepared marketing department budget, guided advertising agency selection, developed job descriptions, crafted distribution and sales contract terms, and created a departmental training handbook. In under two years, SBK’s unit sales grew from zero to 21 million bricks and $1.9 million in revenue, achieved quality leadership, delivered an economic impact of $5.53/$1 invested, and returned 250% ROE.See the attached media below for more details and a case study in my Featured section.

Helped this Yellow Pages directory publisher by developing and executing sales/marketing plans for a $60M portfolio of directories that consistently led in sales growth and customer satisfaction.