Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
Total des années d'expérience :18 years, 1 Mois
2006 -2012 Booz Allen Hamilton Tbilisi, Georgia
Associate
• Lead the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) management and planning activities, mainly - the sustainability and transition planning efforts for Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program; Coordinate CBEP Sustainability and Transition Planning activities across the CTR offices in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). As part of the coordination, lead implementation of the program management approach based on Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBS); Serve as an advisor to the Defense Threat Reduction Office (DTRO); Coordinate with the DTRA contractors and facilitate meetings with them; Serve as a lead point of contact in Georgia with the BTRP project collaborators such as the Joint University Partnership (JUP) and the Medical Research and Material Command (MRMC)
• Initiate activities (trainings, presentations) for re-thinking the roles, functions and responsibilities under the CTR A&AS contract with Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Provide client recommendations on the smooth processes of interaction with Georgian Government on the Public Finance
• Participate in the start-up activities for the new country engagement efforts by preparing the pre-assessment of transparency of public expenditure management
• Act as a mentor for new sustainability and transition planning hires across the region
2010-2011 UK-Georgia Professional Network, USAID Project on Public Finance Management
Expert
• Provided trainings on Public Finance Management (including Midterm Expenditure Planning) to high Government officials and non-government organizations; building principal fundamentals for government-society dialogue
• Drafted and issued policy papers on Georgia's Public Finance Management - success stories, lessons learned, and recommendations
2006-2008, Member of the Working Group, Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Institutions
Germany, USA
• Developed Partnership Action Plan for Defense Institution Building, Chapter on Defense Management and Economics (Reference Curriculum, group project presented to the NATO Ambassadors on 10th Annual Conference of PfP Consortium
2005 - 2006 Parliament of Georgia
Leading Specialist, Finance and Budget Committee
• Converted vision of the chairman concerning composition of the state budget into detailed plan for the management of public expenditures and prepared initiatives on the amendments to the Law on Budget
2004-2005 National Security Council, of Georgia
Deputy Director, Economic Security Department
• Drafted Economic Security portion of the National Security Concept in close co-operation with the heads of different departments, requiring interpersonal skills for group discussions on politically sensitive issues
1999-2002 Ministry of Defense, Georgia, Maj (Ret)
Head, Defense Resource Management Department, Deputy Minister - Financial-Budgeting Issues
• Led initiatives in setting priorities for military program budget based on force planning and using Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE system) . Implemented Defense Resource Management Model (DRMM) under the advisory assistance of experts from the Institute of Defense Analysis (USA)
• Organized collaboration and submission of first military program budget to the Parliament. Transparency and accountability of the program budget was recognized by the World Bank as a significant step forward for the accurate management of public funds
• Demonstrated leadership in implementing training courses for battalion and brigade commanders, accelerating program budgeting at the lower levels. Permanent participation in working meetings with NATO officials on several documents under Partnership for Peace program. Participation in bilateral working group meetings (Georgia-Savanna, GE, U.S.) and trilateral working group meetings (Georgia-UK-Estonia), contributing by detailed description of the needs of Georgian Armed Forces and negotiating on the issues of assistance in the field of defense planning. Translated force structure of Georgian Armed Forces into the Defense Budget
1997- 1999 Military Inspection of the President of Georgia
Military inspector, financial issues
• Initiated plans for inspection of the military units and headquarters in the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, and Department of State Border Guard
• Reported violations of financial code and provided written recommendations for improvements
1994-1997 Commercial Bank "TbilComBank"
Chief, Personnel Department, Credit Department; Deputy-Chief of Board
• Organized recruitment of new employees from universities; initiated new training system for workers to further their professional growth
• Increased credit security by adaptation of best banking practices
• Expanded security of bank assets by improving communications and business relations with the National (Central) Bank.
2006 Tbilisi State University Tbilisi, Georgia • PhD, Economics. Approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia in 2006, comparable to Ph.D. in the United States (Ref #: 525498/rkt, Credential Evaluation Report made by World Education Services, U.S.)
Graduate School of Business and Public Policy • MBA, Security Systems Management
Center for Civil-Military Relations, Certificate • Course on Defense Restructuring, case-writing on challenges and accomplishments in reforming the Armed Forces in different transition countries.
2000 George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Garmisch, Germany • 17-week Executive Course of studies in defense management and formulation of defense strategy appropriate to democracies 1998-2000 US Department of Education, National Council on Economic Education • Training of Trainers Course on detailed instructions about dealing with classes in economics, Minsk, Belarus; Riga, Urmala, Latvia • Training of Writers Course on writing the lessons and lectures in economics, Prague, Czech Republic
1982-1985 I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University • Postgraduate degree in Economics, Kandidat Nauk