Since 1978 he had been working as a design engineer in Mechinstrument Design Bureau, department of the same scientific and production organization in Pavlovo. He led Mechinstrument in 1986 and became the CEO of Mechsborka enterprise in 1991. In 1993 he became the deputy of CEO and CEO of Instrum-Rand, Russian-American joint enterprise based on Mechinstrument. Later it was transformed into Ingersoll Rand public stock company, the Russian branch of Ingersoll-Rand, the American transnational corporation. In 1996 he became the CEO of Instrum-Rand private stock company (Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast).
