1. Teaching in undergraduate and graduate courses

I have extensive experience in various parts of university course teaching (creating new courses, developing different course materials and assessment schemes, lecturing, supporting lab and project work) at different university levels (BSc, MSc, PhD). I have a broad knowledge base in operations management and can develop new courses and teach them in different formats.

I have taught a total of 16 different academic courses and 3 individual courses for PhD students at 5 different universities. I typically do lectures, exercises, labs, workshops, delegating some of the topics to my colleagues, PhD students and inviting guest lecturers from my industrial research contacts. I focus on making students mentally active and engaged in my subjects, to be able to reflect given material right after lectures.

I often combine text books along with resent research articles while giving the students theoretical background. Besides, I have positive experience in recording video lectures and workshops, that give the students benefit in deeper understanding of given material.

The list of my recent courses can be seen on the Teaching Portfolio web-page, that follows.

2. Supervision of theses and research

I have supervised 9 BSc, 53 MSc and 3 PhD students who have successfully defended their degrees. My style of supervision is to be supportive and involved, but at the same time let them build confidence in their own abilities.

3. Theoretical knowledge and pedagogical studies

2017 - Teaching and studying in Technical University, Tallinn University of Technology (2 EAP)

Included into ING.PARD.IGIP qualification for STEM approach

2012 - “Creating Excitement in the Classroom”, Tallinn University of Technology (4 credits)

The course is dedicated to creating the exciting working environment in the classrooms. During the class the reasons of non-efficient education in the classrooms were studied, followed by practical workshops that enabled to receive the practical experience of group work management in the classes

2011 - “The power of the voice and power of the word”. Eesti Moreno Koolituskeskus (6 hours)

The course included the basic training of the voice usage while giving lectures, public presentations, face-to-face conversations.

2010 - “Improving English language and presentation skills”, Georgia Tech, USA

The course is designed to give students (teaching stuff) with an existing knowledge of English a deep grounding in practical speaking that can be used in social and professional situations. The strength of the course is its use of improvisation and theatre techniques, which aims students to be more self-confident and fluent in the English language. This course is included the theoretical background and the video training followed by assessment of presentation skills.

4. Reflections on pedagogical activity

I have chosen education specialty due to ability and strong willingness to give students knowledge on the fundamental yet contemporary subjects, supported by new technologies, methods and applications. As a teacher, I am enthusiastic, professional, but strictly assessing the achieved results. I am a follower of STEM approach in education. My opinion is that the traditional and innovation aspects are both essential for successful teaching experience. The most important is to define the course objectives and build the course structure supporting the achievement of the goals. Usually, I answer the following questions, when developing new course:

• • Audience (whom to teach?)

  • Content (what to teach?)

  • Objectives (Why to teach?)

  • Method (how to teach?)

My teaching attitude is influenced by existing previous experience of working as business consultant 2003-2008 in the field of manufacturing, logistics, finance, project management and internal educator of business information systems 2008-2014 in (ERP, DW, Business Analytics) fields. I perceive teaching as a practical wisdom, and my goal is to bring all my previous practical experience to the class. My usual practice is to support the theoretical knowledge given in the lecture by practical expertise received in closed to the real work environment. Usually, I bring the case studies and exercises directly from the companies and let students work on them independently. The consultancy is provided during the practical classes.

5. Subject area knowledge

My primary subject area field is mainly connected to business operations, lifecycle methodology (modelling and simulating), metrics (efficiency and effectiveness), configuration and management (risk, maintenance and improvement, integration). Particular areas of interest are related to the Collaborative enterprises, Virtual Organisations and implementation of applied science solution ( ICT, Blockchain, digitalisation and visualisation of manufacturing and business processes).