Biography
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 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 & 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 & 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 71 books on Risk Management (13 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 4.13 stars and ranks 25th 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.