About Us 

Vojo Bubevski comes from Berovo, Macedonia where he completed his primary and secondary education. He graduated from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1977, with a degree in Electrical Engineering – Computer Science and Informatics. He started his professional career in 1978 as an Analyst Programmer at Alkaloid Pharmaceuticals in Skopje, Macedonia. At Alkaloid, he worked on applying Operations Research methods to solve commercial and technological problems in the pharmaceutical industry from 1982 to 1986. For these applications, he developed his software for optimisation including Linear and Non-Linear Programming, Dual Algorithms, and Integer Programming. In this period, he was a part-time lecturer at the “Koco Racin” Open University in Skopje, for which he, and co-author two textbooks.

In 1987 Vojo immigrated to Australia. He worked for IBM™ Australia from 1988 to 1997. For the first five years, he worked in the IBM™ Australia Programming Centre developing systems software. The rest of his IBM™ career was spent working in the IBM™ Core Banking Solution Centre.

In 1997, he immigrated to the United Kingdom where his IT consulting career started. As an IT consultant, Vojo worked for Lloyds Bank in London, Svenska Handelsbanken in Stockholm, and Legal & General Insurance in London. In June 2008, he was engaged as a Senior Consultant by TATA Consultancy Services Ltd. He is a specialist in Business Systems Analysis & Design (Banking & Insurance) and has delivered major business solutions across several organisations. He left TATA Consultancy Services Ltd. in May 2018.

In 2018 he established his business “Bubevski Consulting™ – Risk & Decision Analysis, Vojo Bubevski CEO, Independent Researcher”.

Vojo has a very strong background in Mathematics, Operations Research, Modelling and Simulation, Risk and Decision Analysis, Six Sigma, and Software Engineering, and a proven track record of delivering solutions applying these methodologies in practice for which he has received several formal awards.

Since 2007, he has been doing practical research in applications of Stochastic Risk Assessment and Management, and Operations Research including Decision Analysis and Predictions. His work evolved and resulted in a novel stochastic Six Sigma DMAIC method for Risk Management. Vojo has published many written works in eminent international conferences and journals, featured as a guest speaker at several prominent conferences internationally, and published 12 papers, one chapter, and 68 books on Risk Management (10 original books in English, and 58 translated books in major European languages) (Ref. ORCID: 0000-0002-7181-4445).

The author’s renowned book “Six Sigma Improvements for Basel III and Solvency II in Financial Risk Management”, applies his unique Six Sigma DMAIC methods for Risk Management, currently holds 4.06 stars and ranks 65^th in the “100 Best Financial Risk Management Books of All Time” by the BookAuthority (Ref. https://bookauthority.org/books/best-financial-risk-management-books).

Bernstein stated, “The risk will always be there, so we must explore many interesting tools that can help us to control risks we cannot avoid taking” (Bernstein & Damodaran 1998). The author’s Six Sigma DMAIC Methods for Financial Risk Management is one such tool.

“100 Best Financial Risk Management Books of All Time”

The renowned book authored by Vojo Bubevski “Six Sigma Improvements for Basel III and Solvency II in Financial Risk Management”, applying his unique Six Sigma DMAIC methods for Risk Management, currently holds 4.06 stars and ranks 65^th  in the “100 Best Financial Risk Management Books of All Time” by the BookAuthority (Ref. https://bookauthority.org/books/best-financial-risk-management-books).

Bernstein stated, “The risk will always be there, so we must explore many interesting tools that can help us to control risks we cannot avoid taking” (Bernstein & Damodaran 1998). The author’s Six Sigma DMAIC Methods for Financial Risk Management are one such tool.

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Vojo Bubevski

Email: vbubevski@aol.com

ORCID: 0000-0002-7181-4445

Profile

Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1977.

Practical research in applications of Six Sigma in Risk Assessment and Management, which evolved and resulted in a novel generic Six Sigma DMAIC method to Risk Assessment and Management since 2007. Featured as a guest speaker at many prominent auditoriums internationally.

Published 68 books and 12 papers on Risk Management in eminent international conferences and journals, applying his Six Sigma DMAIC method across industries. Books published in multiple languages: 13 in English; eight in French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish; seven in German; five in Dutch and Polish; and one in Macedonian.

His book “Six Sigma Improvements for Basel III and Solvency II in Financial Risk Management” ISBN: 9781522572800 currently holds 4.06 stars and it is ranked 65^th in BookAuthority’s list of 100 Best Financial Risk Management Books of All Time.

Established “Bubevski Consulting™- Risk & Decision Analysis” in 2018.

Specialised in Systems Software Analysis & Design of Database Systems, and Business Systems Analysis, Design & Development of large and complex banking and insurance systems from 1988 to 2018.

Worked on the Life, Pensions, and Investments Program “Future Product Framework” (FPF®) at Legal & General™ and Tata Consultancy Services™, delivering many major applications for 20 releases of FPF® from 1999 to 2018.

Eight years experience in IBM™; Four years on the strategic DB2® Performance Monitor® project; Four years on the core & retail banking, i.e., the IBM™ Corebank® system.

Five years of international IT Consulting on financial systems, including FPF® at Legal & General™, and the core / retail banking systems at Svenska Handelsbanken™ and Lloyds TSB™.

Forty years of international IT experience, eight years at IBM, on mission-critical full-life cycle projects, of which 26 years’ development with AppBulder® (HPS®).

Three years Part-time lecturer at The Open University “Koco Racin” in Skopje, Macedonia, for which co-published two textbooks.

Nine years of programming in Alkaloid Pharmaceuticals in Skopje, Macedonia.

Devised solutions to enhance software products and processes and improve productivity and quality across several organisations, for which five formal awards were received.

Experience

Vojo Bubevski is the CEO to “Bubevski Consulting™” since May 2018, working on Risk & Decision Analysis” as a Freelance Independent Researcher, in the UK. 

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd (June 2008 – April 2018), Legal & General Assurance Account, Mission-critical Future Product Framework (FPF), Lead HPS Analyst Designer & Developer: Architecture Forum Member, Owned FPF Analysis, Design & Development (AppBuilder™ (HPS)).

Legal & General Assurance, Lead Analyst Designer (2002-2008) & IT Consultant (1999 – 2001), Strategic Future Product Framework (FPF), 24 releases full life cycle, Architecture Forum Member owning FPF Claims and FPF Data Model (AppBuilder™ (HPS)).

Svenska Handelsbanken (1998), IT Consultant: IBM NORD Core Bank strategic project (FSDM, AppBuilder™ (HPS)).

Lloyds TSB (1997), IT Consultant: Retail Banking strategic project (FSDM, AppBuilder™):

IBM Australia Core Banking Solution Centre (1993–1996), Analyst Designer: IBM Core Bank strategic project (full life cycle, FSDM, AppBuilder™ (HPS)).

The Open University in Skopje, Macedonia (1985-1987), Part-time Lecturer: Teaching PL/I Programming.

Alkaloid Pharmaceuticals in Skopje, Macedonia (1978 – 1987), Programmer, Analyst Programmer, and Specialist Programmer: Analysis, Design, and Development of Financial and Technological Applications.