Alex Levashov
Bachelor from Vladivostok State University, MBA from University of Melbourne. Worked with Altima as a Managing Partner, Owner of Altima Interactive.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.levashov.biz |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, English, Entrepreneurship, Guerrilla marketing, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Russian, Sales, Viral marketing, Writing |
| Next step: | For the June-Aug, when I finish my 2 terms in MBS, I am very interested to get an internship in Australian start-up company or venture capital firm. |
| Location: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Groups: | MBSEC - Melbourne Business School Entrepreneurship Club, MUEC |
| Visas: | Australia, Russia, Ukraine |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company, Trading services |
| Tags: | interactive design, mba, outsourcing, Web development |
| Schools: | University of Melbourne, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service |
FULL BIO
I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia (the USSR that time) in 1975. At a very young age I moved to Vladivostok, quite a big city in the Russian Far East.
There I have finished a secondary school, high school (with concentration on technical sciences as physic and math) and in 1992 entered the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services. My specialization was a mix of informatics/business, its official name was “Information systems in Economics”. In 1997 I graduated from the university with a ‘red diploma’ (diploma with honor).
I worked at part time job since high school times; in 1994 I joined my university friend in his recently founded stock brokerage company, where I worked almost 7 years. That time was a period of massive privatization in the former USSR and we took part in that process. I did established custody service, was reliable for joining Russian Trading System, opened field offices all over Russia all and surely traded stocks on organized and non-organized market. In 1998 we opened an office in Ukraine and in 1999 I moved there to take part in Ukrainian privatization.
At the end of 2001 I have got an offer to lead Altima, a Ukrainian web development and graphic design company. My 1st job there was anti-crisis management, since the period of 2000-2001 years was a hard time for Internet related business. I have done it rather successfully and from 2002 I am a co-owner and a managing partner of Altima.
IT is my passion since childhood, I started to write programs on calculators around 10 years of age, when I was 13 my farther bought me my 1st PC. It had 32 Kb RAM, was connected to a TV as a monitor and to a tape-recorder as a storage device. And it had built-in BASIC! A couple years later I saw for the first time IBM PC with VGA display, HDD, FDD and a mouse. It was so impressive for me
I have started to work with IT project as a manager in 1997, we developed a back-office system for the brokerage house where I worked. I played a role of a project manager of that project. The system passed tests of NAUFOR (Russian stock market participant association) successfully and was allowed for use. Then I managed a project related with the neuro-analysis software for stock-movement prediction. The system was developed, tested and sold to several customers. In Altima since 2001 I have managing mainly Internet projects (corporate web sites, e-commerce projects, online ordering systems, etc).
At the end of summer 2009 I moved to Australia to get MBA degree from Melbourne Business School (University of Melbourne).
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Altima Interactive |
| Position: | Owner, Sole Trader |
| Time period: | January 2009 - Present |
| Description: | IT and management consulting, Internet projects development. |
| Employer: | Altima |
| Position: | Managing Partner |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Recovered the firm from 2001 crisis via optimization of both processes and structures and changing marketing strategy; made the company profitable, became a co-owner
Managed to provide stable growth in terms of size, revenue and profit (35% per annum in average) Organize company entrance to new markets: North America (USA, Canada), Western Europe (France, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, Switzerland) Personally managed creation of more than 120 Internet projects as a project manager from developer side and 40 projects as internal customer Stared online Advertisement part of business, obtained Google Advertisement Professional status and successfully managed company and client's campaign |
| Employer: | Alfa-Broker Ltd. |
| Position: | Vice President |
| Time period: | January 1994 - December 2001 |
| Description: | Bring the firm to a leading position on the Far-East of Russia in terms of trade volumes and client base
Organize an entrance on the leading Russian stock exchange and stock market participant association Managed several IT projects as internal customer |
EDUCATION
| University: | Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service |
| Time period: | 1992 - 1997 |
| Degree: | Bachelor (Honours) degree in business/IT |
| University: | University of Melbourne |
| Time period: | 2009 - Present |
| Degree: | MBA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Mountain skiing, biking, traveling, reading. |
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Daniel Trujillo
Industrial Engineering graduate from University of Lima, with an MBA from the University of Melbourne and working on his own start up.
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Dylan Nguyen
Aeronautical Engineering graduate from The University of Sydney. Last worked as Structural Design Engineer at Boeing, Seattle.