
Freelance Telecom Specialist (OSS/BSS)
Ukraine

Freelance Telecom Specialist (OSS/BSS)
Ukraine
IS/IT Analyst, Project Manager, System and Software Architect with a focus on VAS development and NSS integration. Vast experience in business and technologies of a modern Telecoms provider.
Certificates from PMI (Project Management Institute) for successful completion of courses: "Managing projects", "Managing IT projects", "Systems Integration Project Management", "Scheduling and Cost Control", "Risk Management", "Troubled Projects Management".
Certificates from Siemens Learning Center for successful completion of "SS7 basics" and "IN technology basics" courses.
Requirements gathering and analysis; project planning and execution; tender proposals evaluation; system and software architecture; code review; technical writing; telecom business processes; GSM OSS/NSS systems, protocols and processes; wide variety of application programming languages, *NIX OSes
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
December 2002 — July 2007 (4 years 8 months)
Responsible for: a number of internal IT projects and VAS development projects: requirements collection and analysis, project planning and execution, system and software architecting, technical writing and code review.
Successfull projects include: "Corporate network", "Corporate group", "Partner networks", "Friends and Family", "PABX Integration", "Prepaid to Postpaid migration" and many more
Participated in: a number of system acquisition tenders; analysis and evaluation of proposals; vendor selection; introduction of proper software support lifecycle
Supported: problem troubleshooting and root-cause analysis; budgeting
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for: execution of the Comptel's MDS/SAS provisioning system integration project; MDS/SAS support and development.
Participated in: requirements collection and analysis; system customization, setup and testing; major billing system upgrade project (BSCS v4 to BSCS v6).
Responsible for: introduction of the IT knowledge base in UMC.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for: in-house development (ASN.1/snacc, C++, *NIX) and support of mediation system for call data records pre-processing (pre-billing).
Interfaced the system to Siemens EWSD D900 SR6 & SR8 (GSM), Nokia and HansDamm MTXes (NMT) on NSS side; LHS BSCS v4 & v6 on OSS side.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Software development using Java & Swing (later - AWT)
Specialist, Applied Math and CS, 1995 — 2000
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