Yaroslav Varshavskiy, an electrical engineer with more than three decades of experience, founded IVY Consulting following extensive work in the field of power electronics.
He started his career as a project engineer handling configuration and commissioning of excitation systems of power generators at various power plants.
After moving to Canada, his professional career shifted to the field of variable speed drives. While serving as a field service representative for ABB Industrial Drives and Automation Division in Canada, he was involved in servicing and commissioning of drives’ equipment for stand-alone and systems applications in major industries.
Later on, Varshavskiy worked at a paper-making company as a full-time electrical engineer and drives specialist In this role, he was involved in different aspects in the electrical field, with his main emphasis on commissioning, servicing and maintaining of drives equipment at different mill locations.
On top of that, over the years, he was involved in numerous power quality studies focused on finding proper power quality solutions to deal with multiple power outages caused by main switching equipment failures at different mill locations. His team was able to solve power quality issues on several utility feeders thanks to the ADM Engineering solution, where they implemented the Comsys ADF Power Tuning system.
With long-term established experience in this field, Varshavskiy is now interested in helping other industrial customers find their power quality solutions.