Summary
Mikhail Vasiliev is a Technical Director with over 18 years of hands-on experience leading multi-site operations and operational excellence in food production and industrial environments, currently heading site operations for Cargill in Moscow. He combines Lean Six Sigma discipline, project and CAPEX management, and automation know-how to drive safety, quality and measurable productivity gains across complex supply chains. A people-focused leader and coach, he has built and mentored engineering teams, implemented ISO-aligned processes, and overseen expansions and contractor-managed projects. Unusually for an operations executive, he also codes in C#, reflecting a pragmatic blend of software tooling and industrial systems thinking that he leverages to simplify workflows and improve site-level data use.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of science, Radiosystems, Master of science, Radiosystems at Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav-the-Wise (NovSU)
70% through, Economics, Finance, Business organization, Business English, 70% through, Economics, Finance, Business organization, Business English at University of South-Eastern Norway
Train the trainer, Production, Train the trainer, Production at Aalborg Handelsskole
English