Educational Background:

1978-1982 - Tbilisi Artillery Command High Military Institution;
12.02.2001 - 01.08.2001 National Defence University (Beijing) , High Command Courses.

Working experience:

09.1982 - 03.1990 Armed Forces of USSR;
03.1991 - 03.1992 Chief of Staff of Gori #11 Battalion;
03.1992 - 04.1994 Head of Artillery Regiment, National Guard;
04.1994 - 04.1995 Chief of Staff of Main Division, National Guard;
04.1995- 12.1995 Commander of the 1st Artillery Brigade;
12.1996 - 01.1999  Commander of Artillery Brigade of Commander-in-Chief's Reserve;
01.1999 - 09.2000 Commander of Artillery;
12.2000 - 03.2004 The First Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces;
03.2004 - 08.2004 Military representative of Ministry of Defence of Georgia at the Coordinating Staff of Military Cooperation of Commonwealth of Independent States;
08.2004 - 11.2004  Military Representative of Defence attaches' office at Defence Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, Coordinating Staff of Military Cooperation of Commonwealth of Independent States;
11.2004 - 10.2005 Defence Attache, Defence Attaches' Office at Department of Defence Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration;
10. 2005 Dismissed from the Georgian Armed Forces;
10.2007 - 08.2008 Artillery Brigade Commander of Land Forces;
09.2008 - 03.2009 Deputy Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces;
03.2009 - to present Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces.

Awards:

1995 Vakhtang Gorgasali Order, III rank;
2002 Award for Devotion, I rank ;
2008 Medal for Meritorious Service at the Ministry of Defence of Georgia, I rank; 
2009 St.George's Victory Order.