
Free Software Expert and Development Manager
Russian Federation

Free Software Expert and Development Manager
Russian Federation
(Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Full-circle project management (see the previous position). Line management of the Moscow-based developers group (~10 employees).
International relations (since the middle of 2008) establishing contacts with partner companies abroad, representing the company on international events, writing announcements and press-releases, interaction with international Free Software developers community. Participation in Free Software projects (mostly GNOME) as a tester and contributor.
Notable projects: Chainmail 2 (a server OS for Internet gates and office servers).
Achievements: ALT Linux office in Brazil (in partnership with a local company), partnership in Venezuela.
Technologies: Agile development. Software: GNOME, Vim, GCC-based building toolchain, Planner, office environment (Linux).
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Full-circle project management: establishing contacts with potential customers, negotiations, writing technical requirements, WBS, writing SOWs, setting up and managing the workflow, delivery of intermediate and final product releases. The size of projects varies from very small to medium-large.
Participation in Free Software projects (mostly GNOME) as a tester and contributor.
Management of a developers department distributed among 3 locations (Moscow, SPb, Balabanovo).
Notable projects managed: Free Software Suite for educational institutions (a set of 6 distributions for various needs and configurations), School Server (a small server OS for educational institutions), Chainmail 2 (a server OS for Internet gates and office servers), ALT Linux 4.1 Desktop (general purpose desktop OS).
Technologies: Agile development. Software: GNOME, Vim, Git, Subversion, autotools, GCC-based building toolchain, Planner, office environment (Linux).
(Consumer Electronics industry)
February 2007 — September 2007 (8 months)
Organizing a software development department with all necessary development infrastructure from scratch. Stuff hiring and management. Development of custom Linux-based firmware for ARM and MIPS architectures. Establishing contacts with ISVs, negotiating with potential customers.
Technologies: HDTV, C/C++, makeconfig, cross-building toolchain, shell scripting; software: Anjuta IDE, Eclipse IDE, Subversion, Trac, Planner, office environment (Linux).
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
August 2006 — February 2007 (7 months)
Management of the telephone switches integration team (7 employees) on a large telecom operator project; interacting with other teams of the project, technical negotiations with the customer, writing technical documents. Technologies: Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, traditional telephony; software: Microsoft Project, office environment (Windows).
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)
Writing software for BEA WebLogic application server monitoring. Integration of customer systems with NetCracker software.
Technologies: Java, WebLogic, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL; software: IDEA, Oracle, SQLNavigator, NetCracker.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2001 — November 2005 (4 years 1 month)
Development of a web-based interface to a biological data search and retrieval system. Negotiations with the customer, writing requirements, carrying out analysis, design, and development; product delivery.
Technologies: CORBA, C/C++, shell scripting, Java, HTML, JavaScript; software: Anjuta IDE, Eclipse IDE, Vim, office environment (Linux).
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
April 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Development of various software modules of the short messaging system for cellular operators.
Technologies: C/C++, POP3, SMTP, Oracle SQL, MFC, multithreading. Software: Visual C++, SQLNavigator, office environment (Windows).
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