VALENTIN P. USOV
**** ******** **** ** ( Pasadena, CA 91107
626-***-**** ( *****@************.***
MANAGEMENT
Bilingual, accomplished and dynamic professional, with extensive experience
steering and directing all aspects of operations, sales, financial
management, and revenue growth. Results-focused and determined, with
strengths in business development, strategic planning, and negotiations,
delivering profitable solutions to propel company growth. Proactive and a
savvy leader, highly competent in recognizing and accelerating peer's
strengths, with working knowledge of the principles and techniques of
effective supervision and training. Proactive with excellent interpersonal
and communication skills, well-experienced in working with different teams
and personalities including clients and vendors as well as working on own
initiative.
Action-driven with expertise in business and product development, cross-
functional team leadership and delivering positive outcomes with strong and
sustainable gains. Able to identify and implement strategies to reduce
costs, increase revenue, strengthen customer relationships, improve
business practices and drive profitable growth. Broad-based management
skills, with strong planning, communication, organizational and decision-
making ability to successfully direct concurrent projects. Mentors staff
and encourages a team environment for high levels of employee confidence
and satisfaction
Area of Expertise
( Organizational Leadership ( Business Development
( Strategic Planning ( Kanban & Inventory
( Client & Vendor Relations ( P&L Accountability
( Cost Reduction & Lean Management ( Revenue Growth
( Financial Analysis ( Process Improvement
( Supply Chain ( Product Management
( R&D
Core Skills
( Communications and Interpersonal Skills ( Flexible
( Attention to Detail ( Team Player
( Management ( Lean Manufacturing
( Process Improvement ( Team Building
( Strategic Planning ( Customer Service
( Surveillance ( Microsoft Office
( Microsoft Windows ( FishBowl Inventory
software
( QuickBooks accounting software.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Real Skill, LLC, Pasadena ( CA
2011 - Present
Owner and Founder:
Designed and developed an idea into a solid social platform for talented
individuals providing professional expansion by polular demnand real-time
rating system.
. Defined user stories and personas to identify and understand the
different types of users who will
be using the product and what features will provide the most value.
. To attract individual talented users, provided features to upload
products, services, and businesses while providing a convenient, easy-
to-use interface to search, categorize and filter database.
. Based on customer interviews attract users, provide a bulk upload
service to import, export, parse, filter, add, edit, and remove
thousands of products at once.
. Prototyped and designed an intuitive interface to search for various
talents and
products that allow regular people and producers, directors and agents
to connect.
Arecont Vision, LLC, Glendale ( CA
2006 - Present
Production Manager:
Oversee 3 departments, 40 employees of security surveillance camera
production on daily basis. Manage all aspects of operations including
sales, marketing, purchasing, acquisitions, complete P&L, forecasting, and
hiring.
. Conduct daily meetings with subordinates prior to start of shift.
Perform Production Scheduling based on Sales Orders. Ensure personnel
meet production schedules.
. Maintain accurate and up to date production documentation. Maintain
proper level of inventory and perform monthly review of existing parts
and components inventory. Provide accurate payroll data to Accounting
Department.
Perform written annual
employees performance reviews. Communicate with other departments on
frequent basis. Interface with Customers and Quality Assurance
personnel relative to quality and delivery issues.
. Provide feedback to Development Team to insure maneuverability of new
products. Implemented improvements to products and process. Complied
with OSHA and company safety standards. Prepered, maintained, and
managed all required ISO9001:2008 documentation, conducted internal
production audits.
. Constant involvement in new product development, introduction and
launch.Participated in development and launch of multiple product
families including world's first WDR MegaPixel cameras Successfully
manage all six product families lifecycles.
. Beta built and successfully introduced into production10, 20, and 40
Mega pixel cameras
. Participated in development and testing of first industial use 4K
camera
. Established and implemented ESD procedures/testing in production
enviornemnt
. Successfully achieved an increase in passing PCBA yield from 78% to
99%
. Developed a flexible work force to reduce idle time from 25% to 10%
. Increased efficiency by 30% by introducing new procedures and
practices.Certified tooling and fasteners with development department
to meet standards, created feederline sections that focused on certain
portion of the product vs. cell based environment.
. Beta built and successfully introduced world's first H.264 WDR Micro
Dome cameras.
Production Supervisor:
Oversee and run a production department on daily basis. Distrubited even
work load between personnel, made sure all needed material was delivered to
production on timely manner for maximum output.
. Reported daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and yields to
upper management, QA department, and engineering, suggested and
proposed changes and improvements to current and new upcoming product.
. Beta built and tested new products with extensive reports on
improvements, changes and suggestions prior to product launch.
Communicated with peer supervisors about other product lines with
suggestions and assistance on frequent basis.
. Beta built, improved and assisted in Introduction and launch of the
very first in the world H.264 megapixel camera to the market, managing
all aspects of the product lifecycle.
. Run an R&D department with constant improvement output to process in
customer relation structure based environment.
. Ran an RMA department with achieving successful turn around rate from
6-10 days to 3-5 days on warranty and advanced replacements and/or
credits to the customer
Production Supervior Assistant:
Assisted production supervisor in every aspect of production process.
. Loaded the FPGA with FW&HW via J-Tag procedure using silicone labs
software projects to assign MAC address to every unit produced by
production department.
. Communicated between personnel and supervisor to meet their
professional needs. Assisted in daily production procedures of
assembly of MegaPixel cameras.
. Steped into supervisor role as needed, prepared PPOPs on weekly basis,
created transfer orders and delived all needed matrials from stock
room to manufacturing floor.
. Assisted management on important projects that required technical and
analytical knowledge for 100% satisfactory result.
Production Assembler:
Prepared all necessary feederlines for daily builds.
. cleaned sensors from dust particals for spotless image output.
. Installed metal and mechanical parts to PCBA assemblies. Attached
cameras to various housings, tested for functionability of the unit
along with QC/QA procedures to meet corporate standard.
. Packaged and shipped cameras based on sales orders on the given
timeline.
Key Highlights:
. Successfully achieve multiple employee of the month awards.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
Bachelor Science in Business Management, 2011
University of Phoenix - Pasadena, CA
CERTIFICATIONS
Fred Pryor Seminar - How To Communicate With Tact and Professionalism, 2012
Arecont Vision Channel Partner Certification Program, 2011
ISO9001:2008 Quality Management Systems, 2012
REFERENCES
Available upon request