George Vyshnya

Current

• General Manager, Operations at Cogniance

Past

• Director, DC Operations at Sonopia
• IT Director at SUMATRA-LTD
• Software Project Manager, Business Unit Manager at Tessart

• Senior Software Developer, Team Lead at Miratech
• Senior Software Developer at Intermicro Delta / Computer Inter Service, Ltd.
• Software Developer at Intermicro Delta

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Education

• Nacional'nij Universitet 'Kievo-Mogiljans'ka Akademija'
• Poltava State 'V.G. Korolenko' Pedagogical Institute

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

George Vyshnya’s Summary

Business development, business modeling, innovative IT, IT Infrastructure and Operations management, process management, project management, software architecture, technologies (Java, C#, VB.NET, Java Script, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, Servlet API, JSP, XML, SOAP, Database design, SQL)

George Vyshnya’s Specialties:

Managing People, Managing IT infrastructure & IT Projects, Business Process consulting, IT consulting, software development, innovative IT services, software development methodologies (RUP, MSF, agile approaches), ITIL

George Vyshnya’s Experience

• General Manager, Operations

  Cogniance

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

• Director, DC Operations

  Sonopia

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  - Built a world class Mobile service datacenter with 99.999% uptime in 6 mos
  - Was in charge of overall tactical management and operations of Sonopia's production DC and NOC
  - Supervised Operations (8 specialists) and IT support teams (3 specialists)
  - Established and run Change Control Board (CCB) for production DC
  - Established and formally documented business processes of Operations and ITS teams using ITIL standards / best practices (Service Desk, Change Management, Release Management, Capacity planning)
  - Coordinated technology researches and DC architecture synthesis
  - Participated in risk analysis and mitigation across CIO vertical
  - Supervised IT service procurement process, coordinated corporate tenders for hardware supply and external IT services, evaluated vendors
  - Contributed to composing annual and monthly budgets of expenses of ITS/Operations
  - Involved in Java, PHP, Visual Basic/VBA, DHTML and SQL development

• IT Director

  SUMATRA-LTD

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)

  May 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  - Formulated corporate IT strategy for Cosmo retail chain (www.cosmo.ua)
  - Managed corporate IT projects & project portfolios (defined scope, requirements, bugdget, work efforts, resources; involved in project planning, execution and control)
  - Performed audit of corporate BP
  - Supervised IT procurement, coordinated tenders for IT services, evaluated vendors
  - Created, coordinated, and managed team of IT Department (15 specialists)
  - Involved in risk management
  - Maintained project documentation
  - Involved in Architecture Synthesis & System Design
  - Performed contract management
  - Communicated with vendors & stakeholders within the company
  - Managed corporate IT Budget (USD 500000 annually)
  - Set up pilot projects, feasibility studies
  - Involved in ISO 9001:2000-compliant QMS
  - Conducted technology researches
  - Developed corporate methodology of IT project management
  - Involved in VB, .NET, HTML & SQL development

• Software Project Manager, Business Unit Manager

  Tessart

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  - Successfully managed 12 software development projects for international customers (Win32, PC and AS/400 Integration, .NET, Java, Web: ASP, PHP, JSP; database-aware applications; teams of 2-12 IT specialists managed)
  - Successfully identified and managed development of product and service offerings releted to legacy applications
  - Established partnership relations with several key accounts
  - Boosted development of company's e-learning direction
  - Boosted development of company's project management consulting direction

• Senior Software Developer, Team Lead

  Miratech

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2000 — June 2001 (1 year )

• Senior Software Developer

  Intermicro Delta / Computer Inter Service, Ltd.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 2000 (4 years )

• Software Developer

  Intermicro Delta

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Additional Information

George Vyshnya’s Interests:

strategy, BI, Investment Consulting, innovative IT, project management, Operations management, Web 2.0, chess, mathematics, phylosophy, Visiting trainer at Kyiv Business School (courses in MIS and Project Management)