How IT professionals work. Pavel Klepinin, IT Director, NIPIGAZ Center

We continue to ask specialists about the mode of work and rest, professional habits, the tools they use, and much more. It will be interesting to find out what unites them, in what they contradict each other. Perhaps their answers will help to identify some general patterns, useful tips that will help many of us.

Today our guest is Pavel Sergeevich Klepinin, IT Director of NIPIGAZ, the leading Russian center for design, supply, logistics and construction management, part of SIBUR.

In 2003 he graduated from the Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov in the specialty "Project Management".
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From 2001, he worked at ZAO Fronstep, where he went from being an intern to the deputy general director for consulting. From 2008 to 2012, he held the position of IT Director at Avtodizel JSC (Yaroslavl Engine Plant - YaMZ). In 2013, he started working in the Functions of the IT Group of SIBUR, from the end of 2014 to the summer of 2016 he worked as the Group's CIO.

In the summer of 2016 he was appointed to the position of IT Director of NIPIGAZ.

• The founder of the club of IT directors "I-IT s."
• The developer of the all-Russian professional standard "System Administrator".
• The head of a regional project to create a rating of IT companies through the eyes of the succession of customers.
• Member of the Board of the Union of IT-Directors of Russia.

What do you do in the company?

I push innovation automation into the company in order to increase labor productivity, while at the same time forming / educating business units in IT. If I don’t want to be educated, I’m lagging behind, let them sit around the clock in Excel and other Microsoft products. And I switch to those who are more interested in increasing the efficiency of their work through IT.

One word that best describes how you work?

Piston.

How many hours a day do you spend on work?

12 hours.

How many hours do you sleep?

6 o'clock.

How do you have breakfast?

Tea with bergamot and a spoon of coconut oil, as well as fresh quail eggs and fish oil (Omega-3). On weekends we eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes, bacon and basil.

What are you doing on the way to / from work?

In traffic jams I play the harmonica - I decided to master it.

What kind of todo-manager do you use personally?

MS Outlook.

What kind of task manager / issue tracker / repository do you use in the company?

MS Outlook.

What other tools and software do you use at work?

Document management systems, ERP, BI, personnel systems, the Microsoft family.

What annoys you most when you work?

At meetings, people get annoyed by gadgets.

Do not follow the key rule - be here and now. Not ready to discuss a profile issue.

What professional literature would you recommend?

Goldratt "Goal 1 , 2 , 3 " - must be read. "Goal 3" - about IT.

What do you prefer: electronic reading rooms or paper books?

Paper, smelling like in childhood.

What technique and why do you prefer at work and at home?

Evolved like this: at first there was a stationary PC, laptop, tablet, switched to a smartphone. Now 90% of the work is in the smartphone. To work with documents turn on a working laptop.

By the way, the tablet as a gadget died, apparently, this market came to an end.

What do you listen when you work?

Your thoughts.

Which life hack allows you to be more efficient?

• Delegate;
• Write down;
• Do not be lazy to set yourself reminders.

What would you recommend to a person trying to go the same way?

If you want to become a big manager, don’t work for others at all.