Expert Details

Sugar Processing, Chemical Processing, Fragrance applications, Management, Innovation Management

ID: 730086 Slovenia

Expert began his career as young engineer assisting in the setup of a beet sugar factory. After its establishment, he was responsible to gather with a group of young specialists to consolidate a process and run the factory to a desired quality and quantity of sugar. His involvement as senior specialist was in all areas of sugar production, ranging from field and transportation until organizing proper procedures for serving buyers of sugar. His responsibilities included all activities connected with environment, energy consumption and organization of crew. The factory was one of the best in its surroundings and was able to compete on the open market. Expert was very strongly involved in organizational issues as manager of maintenance, planning of investments, negotiations with construction companies and other issues connected with the smooth operation of sugar production. Also he was was involved in organization of innovation seeking and
execution of novelties into process. After closing the factory he decided to run a small independent firm where he is doing small projects in innovative chemical processing. He also works with young people to help motivate them for their career paths.

In recent years he is deeply involved into fragrance and natural cosmetics development and marketing.

As owner and development specialist, Expert offers solutions for the fragrancing of different products. As opposed to fine fragrance, Expert's firm lends a rational approach to the fragrances of everyday items -- for instance, candles, plastics and many others.

Expert has spent over 30 years working as a subject matter expert on the practical execution of different innovation motivation tasks. He has a very practical approach to solving and providing innovation management into small to medium enterprises.

Study for preparing of waste treatment in sugar factory. Task was how to diminish waste in sugar beet processing. As a result we succeed to diminish waste for more than 80%. Return on investment in 1 campaign (3 months)Performed a technological scheme for sugar warehousing in silos. Made for 200 tons capacity for sugar processor. It works and made 5% less sugar price for customerMotivation training for young people for designing of entrepreneurial projects. We realized tutoring of some projects

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 2006	Degree: MBA	Subject: Innovation Management	Institution: Faculty of Economics and Business Maribor
Year: 1977	Degree: BS	Subject: Chemistry	Institution: Fakulteta za naravoslovje in tehnologijo, Univerza Ljubljana

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2008 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Director	Department: Management, development
Responsibilities: Start up of a company, maintaining existing market and products and developing new markets and fragrance compositions
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1978 to 2007	Employer: Tovarna Sladkorja D.D.	Title: Process Management Leader	Department: Process Management
Responsibilities: He was responsible for the running of production from beet reception trough all stages of processing including energy and waste through end product packaging and warehousing.

International Experience

Years	Country / Region	Summary
Years: to Present	Country / Region: Austria	Summary: Acquisition of waste management projects in 1992 til 1993

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Slovensko Kemijsko Drustvo

Professional Appointments
Senior Process Designer

Publications and Patents Summary
About 20 professional papers in COBISS data base

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Dealt with government supervision of environmental and work safety issues. Introducing policies of prevention in law related issues. Experience in chemical law issues.

Training / Seminars
Many trainings were made every year at least 2 on fields of technical and also management issues

Vendor Selection
Sourcing in local as international level of services and goods.

Marketing Experience
Very good knowledge of European sugar scene. Contacts from Netherlands to Ukraine. Wide contacts in fragrance for industrial use scene.

Other Relevant Experience
Very good in dealing with people. Knowledge of different languages, beginning from English, German and languages of former Yugoslavia active trough passive Italian, Russian

Language Skills

Language	Proficiency
English	Fluent writing and reading. Speaking very good but not excellent
German	Perfect
Italian	Seeking elemental level, reading good, writing poor
Russian	Reading good, speaking poor but expected good when in frequent contact with native speakers

Fields of Expertise

beet plant, beet sugar, beet sugar processing, sucrose crystallization, fragrance compounding, innovation training, sludge processing, scented material, sucrose processing, fragrance manufacturing, sugar refining, odor