Vladimir Bishev

1101 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.7743

e-mail: bishev.vladimir@gsb.uchicago.edu

EDUCATION

1995-1997 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Chicago, IL

Master of Business Administration Candidate.

Active member in Finance Club.

1987-1993 Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow, Russia

- The leading higher education institution for the Soviet space and military aircraft industry.

Master of Computer Science / Economics.
Chairman of the Rhetoric Club.

Lecturer of the “Knowledge” society with a focus in economic affairs.

Studied full-time while working full-time for IBM Corp.

EXPERIENCE

1991- 1994 IBM East Europe/Asia LtD Moscow, Russia

- Computer services and wholesale.

Team Leader, Customer Engineering (3 promotions in 2 years).
Supervised team of five engineers, servicing IBM RS/6000 workstations and associated products. Responsible for the territories of Russia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan.

· Established first Eastern European local expert support for IBM workstations.

· Performed work flow, information flow, cost/benefit analysis of customers’ operations and used the results to design IBM system solutions.

· Successfully promoted, implemented, and supported IBM computer solutions with diverse customers: The United Power System of Russia, Russian Space Control Center, Stolichni Bank (personally embossed first Russian credit card).

· Prepared system integration proposals for banking, manufacturing, research & development, and other industries.

· Created and ran educational course on IBM workstation service for internal and external customers, which resulted in 62% reduction of the service response time.

· Monitored fulfillment of international license agreements.

· Coordinated installation and service of IBM supercomputers.

Awarded ‘IBM System Engineer School Top Performer’ title by instructors.

Awarded ‘Best System Engineer’ title by peers.

1991 West-Ost Soviet-Austrian joint venture Moscow, Russia

- Software development.

System Administrator

· Installed and administered 60-user computer system.

· Mediated distribution of computing resources between users.

1987-1990 Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow, Russia

- Military aircraft, rocketry, space research & development.

Software designer, Group Leader, Computer Programmer.

ADDITIONAL

Permanent Resident of the United States, native Russian speaker.

Enjoy mountain biking, running, ballet, reading Science Fiction.