Yerkin Sadykov

- Started from zero and built a sustainable sales business for a major worldwide automation vendor in Central Asia - Drafted up proposals for tenders/bids, negotiated terms & conditions for major customer projects - Conceptualized, designed systems (DCS/ESD, RTU, PLC/SCADA, OI, historian), quoted budget price for FEED stage - Successful solutions sold in upstream & midstream O&G, mining & metals, power T&D, and water conveyance.

- Customer-facing project management of multiple MV/LV projects for customers in O&G, mining, construction - Managed a portfolio of projects ranging in size from $20K to $1MM to a strict set of deliverables - Worked with design/engineering, suppliers and subcontractors to develop a turn-key solution the end-customer - Budgeting, scheduling, risk estimation, final price quotation / proposal to customer (up to $4MM)

- Took part in construction and commissioning of a new corrugated board facility (paper plant) - Supervised installation and startup (BHS corrugator line, Schneider Electric transformer substation, Atlas Copco compressor station, Ringwood glue kitchen, etc.) - Managed a team of commissioning staff, electricians, technicians - Cost-cutting measures in procurement, contract and tender management with suppliers and contractors

- Involved in a greenfield concentrate to metal slab zinc plant - Supervised start-up of process control systems and automated production lines - Hands-on control systems startup: Pressure leaching process control, concentrate separators, cathode stripping machine, slab casting line, AC/DC rectifier substation, etc. - Vendor products Siemens, Emerson, Endress&Hauser, ABB and induction furnaces, etc. - Developed new control systems design specifications, control philosophy, implemented new projects

- Administration and customer support in a corporate mixed LAN with large number of users (Unix/Windows) - Resolved customer issues with almost 100% rate of satisfaction, automated routines by writing CGI and shell scripts - Achieved maximum uptime on supervised devices: PC’s, SUN workstations (SparcStation, Ultra10, Blade), printers - Windows Active Directory domain administration; system-wide backups (Windows/Lotus) Veritas Backup Exec

- Thesis: MPC and Fuzzy control algorithms in crude oil separation system; - Courses: Control Theory, Comms Theory, DSP Theory, Adaptive DSP, Comms Networks, Industrial Control

- Final project: control optimization for zinc electrowinning process; - Courses: chemistry, programming, mechanics, system identification, instrumentation principles, system optimization