R E S U M E
						April 2007
		    ALEXANDER

mail.alex.r@gmail.com
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	OBJECTIVE
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To obtain a senior technical lead position that will utilize my deep understanding of technology, hands-on experience and wide range of skills.

	HIGHLIGHTS OF SKILLS
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* Experienced technical leader with extensive understanding of the most recent software, hardware and network architectures, OS implementation details, database systems, software development tools and techniques.
* Skilled analyst, system designer and architect, technical strategic thinker, highly organized and goal oriented.
* 15+ years of in-depth hands-on experience in analysis, design and architecture, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and management of complex system solutions; thorough experience in full life cycle of systems development.
* Experience leading architects, software engineers, programmers, database and system administrators, QA and testing. Mentor and coach staff to maximize performance.
* Unique combination of technical leadership and hands-on development skills, cross-functional experience.
* Stable employment history

	WORK EXPERIENCE
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11/2002		Project Team Lead
 - present	Entrac Technologies Inc.		Richmond Hill, Ontario

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
* Acted as technical lead for new and on-going development projects.
* Business and project functional requirements analysis, database analysis, systems architecture and design.
* Technical leadership and direction to cross-functional teams, coordinating efforts of multiple technical groups.
* Full cycle software development, testing and support.
* Collaborate with clients to identify and document technical requirements.
* Actively participating in project specification reviews, writing and maintaining technical documentation.
* Long range R&D, technology, product and vendor evaluation

Platforms:	Windows NT / 2000 / XP / Embedded Systems / 8051
Programming Languages: 	C / C++, XML, SQL
Software Tools:		MS Visual Studio .NET, MS SQL Server, XML Spy, MS Project.
General Software Development:
* Software analysis, architecture, design and implementation of the financial transaction processing systems
* Self-Serve and POS Systems
* XML data exchange systems and integration with 3rd parties
* Security requirement analysis, authentication and data encryption, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance
* Payment processing, pricing and tax calculation architectures
* SMNP / MIB Network Systems

Wireless/Wi-Fi: 
* Wireless systems infrastructure - analysis, architecture, design, implementation and performance testing
* Hardware selection, evaluation, integration and performance testing - wireless adapters, access points, RF antennas, etc.
* Protocols and standards - 802.11a/b/g/n, interference and frequency allocations
* Security and authentication - WEP, WPA/PSK, TKIP, 802.11i, etc.

Hardware / Embedded Systems: 
* Electronic hardware and circuit design
* 8051 micro-controller firmware development
* Fax communications (V.17, V21, etc.), IP/Internet Fax
* Hardware device interfacing - copiers, fax machines, kiosk, controllers.
* USB device interfacing

Card Technologies:
* Design and development of the payment card processing systems - Credit and Debit cards, magnetic stripe, Chip/Smart cards (SVC/chip), contactless/wireless.
* Card-based loyalty programs, Store cards, gift and reward cards, Tax Exempt cards

System Integration:
* FedEx/Kinko's OTP
* Staples POS Service Gateway (PSG)
* TIBCO - BusinessWorks
* Mosaic - Payment Switch / eSocket.POS
* DataCap Systems - DataTran, NETePay
* Sony Picture Station
* Various proprietary data and transaction processing systems


11/1992		Sr. Software Developer / Systems Architect / Team Lead 
-11/2002	Umbrella Communications Inc.		Toronto, Ontario

		Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
* Building technical department team the ground up
* Lead and manage team of programmers, software developers, DBAs and testers of Software Development of the large mission critical systems
* Develop and document system architecture strategies and plans that support development philosophy.
* Project and application management, software production management, support and maintenance management
* Systems analysis, software architecture and data structures design
* Programming, debugging, deployment and maintaining of most crucial software modules
* Full administration and maintenance of complex Distributed Relational Database Cluster
* Broad application and database performance tuning, hardware and software troubleshooting
* Installation and maintenance of Windows NT Server, Web Server, SQL Database Server - server management and maintenance, backups, disaster recovery plans, data archiving and transfer, monitoring for potential performance and security problems
* Planning growth and changes (capacity planning)
* Analyzing, implementing and enforcing application security policies
* Major project was awarded R&D Achievement and Innovation Grant by Canada Custom and Revenue Agency

Application Development:
   Internet and CD-ROM E-Commerce Multimedia Electronic Catalogs,
accounting, communications, data and image processing software.
    * Full cycle development and maintenance of complex Mission-Critical (24X7) on-line order processing system with real-time Credit Card processing, customer activity tracking, continuous data updates from data suppliers and clients using variety of transmission formats.
    * Design and development of transactional data storage solution intended for high performance and high scalability when processing large data volumes under high-concurrency conditions.
    * Focus on object-oriented architecture and development of distributed, multi-tiered and multi-threaded scalable component-based applications for the Internet/Intranet/WWW, Client/Server and stand-alone.
    * Relational and persistent object databases design and development, data structures, memory management and thread synchronization, data encryption, performance tuning, inter-process communications.
    * Integration with JumpCart (cXML) and QuickBooks (qbXML) technologies; hi-color GUI; digital image, sound, animation and video processing, art work;
    * Mixing programming languages and technologies to achieve optimum results.

	Platforms:	Windows 3x / 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / XP, MS-DOS,
			UNIX / FreeBSD / Linux, Novell, MAC
	Languages: 	C / C++ / C#, Visual Basic / VB Script, Transact SQL,
			HTML, XML (cXML / qbXML), XSL / XSLT, Java / JScript, ASP, PHP
	Databases:	MS SQL Server, MS Access, PostgreSQL, MySQL
	Software Tools: MS Visual Studio - C/C++, VB, J++, MS IIS, MS Office,
Apache, PHP, Borland C++, OWL, BDE/IDAPI, Delphi, Turbo Debugger / Profiler, Visio, CodeBase++, Adobe, etc.
Networking and Internet: TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, FTP, SMTP


1984-1993	Senior Programmer / Systems Analyst
		Kiev Technological University		Kiev, Ukraine
		Computers and Applied Mathematics Chair, Computer Technologies Lab.

Applications:	Business, Industry, Education / E-Learning, Finance, Mathematics/Formulas,
		Engineering, Ecological, Encryption and Copy-protection systems,
		Development of the plant processes simulation models.
Platforms:	IBM PC, VAX, PDP-11, MS-DOS, Windows, Novell, UNIX, RT-11, VMS
Languages:	C/C++, Basic, xBase, Pascal, Fortran, PAL, SALT, Macro Assembler
Software Tools:	Turbo/Borland C/C++, Microsoft C, QBasic, GX Toolkit, AutoCAD
Databases:	Designed proprietary relational database management engine,
		Paradox DB Engine, dBase, FoxBASE/FoxPro, CodeBase, DBUNIT

	EDUCATION
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1984-1992	Kiev Technological University,				Kiev, Ukraine
		M. Sc. in Engineering

1982-1984	Electronics Assembling Training School			Ukraine
		Training Certificate

1974-1984	High School,						Ukraine
		High School Diploma, Honor Certificate

On-Going	Self taught in software architecture and development for Windows,
		UNIX/Linux, embedded systems/8051 and the Internet.
		Various conferences, seminars and technical upgrade courses.


	SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
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Technical Team Leadership				15
Technical Project Management				10
Software Systems Architecture and Design		15+
Software Development and Programming			15+
Database Architecture, Design and Administration	10
Network Design and Administration, Network Security	8

Platforms:
PC / DOS / Windows					15+
UNIX / FreeBSD / Linux					5
VAX / VMS / PDP / RT-11					4
Internet / WWW, LAN					10
Embedded Systems					5
Hardware, Electronics and Circuitry			8
Wireless/Wi-Fi						4

Programming Languages:
C / C++  (ANSI, Win32 / MFC / OWL, .NET)		15+
Basic / VB / VB Script					8
Java / Visual J++ / J2EE / J2ME / Jscript / JSP		5
HTML / DHTML, XML/XSL, ASP, PHP				8

Databases:
SQL / MS SQL Server  / Transact SQL			10+
ORACLE / DB2 / ANSI SQL					2
MySQL / PostgreSQL					4
xBase / CodeBase++ / FoxPro				8

	SPECIAL INTERESTS
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* Finance and investments
* Electronics and robotics
* Sci-Fi / Artificial Intelligence
* Honor Certificate in software programming contest, author of several published proceedings