COO at Syntext, Inc
Russian Federation
COO at Syntext, Inc
Russian Federation
I form the solutions, build teams and get them performing. And create products customers love.
Company setup and business development, team-building, IT-consulting, startup-management, crisis management. OOD, OOP, large system architecture development, GUI development. Top-notch expertise in XML/SGML application and documentation development (Docbook, DITA, S1000D). Programming language expterise: C, C++, Python, XSLT/XSL, XML Schema, and others.
(Computer Software industry)
September 1997 — Present (12 years 4 months)
• Syntext company development: setup and management of company business processes, full product development processes, and customer support. Development of business and customer relationships.
• Syntext Serna WYSIWYG XML Editor: development of requirements and overall architecture of a significant part of Syntext Serna, the world first and the only open source WYSIWYG XML editor employing dynamic XSLT/XSL.
• IT consulting: I help to enhance, audit, set up or direct internal IT-process, educating customers. This results in product quality enhancement, smoothly running IT-process and positive strategy change.
• Syntext Customer Management System: complete design, implentation and management.
• SMS Gate (a processing core for SMS service operator): project management.
(Consumer Services industry)
February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)
* Company’s foreign expansion. Formed the vision, business-plan and the complete rollout-package for business-deployment. Built the team and lead primary partner negotiations.
(Consumer Services industry)
November 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 3 months)
• IT-department reorganization, crisis-management, management system standardization.
• Company’s foreign expansion.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 8 months)
Large-scale Configuration Management Solution (LCMS). Specified system, designed architecture, managed the development. LCMS allows professional services to maintain the configuration of a large heterogeneous application bundle. (C++, Python/Windows, Linux).
XML Schema Validation Framework (XSV). Project management of XSV development.
Exigen Object Library (EOL). Project management and participation in the design of certain modules of EOL: a multi-platform, highly secure, and scalable distributed object broker. (C++/Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris).
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1995 — June 1997 (1 year 8 months)
Technological Control and Management Automation for Power-stations System (TkA). Desing&development of the core of TkA, a real-time event-driven system providing full control for power-stations (C++/Windows).
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
June 1995 — September 1995 (4 months)
Visualisation of Data in Social Anthropology. A tool for graphical representation of social anthropology data and its investigation. (Advanced Visual System, HP-UX)
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
August 1994 — September 1994 (2 months)
Histogram Manager for Single Branch System. A module for the data acquisition system for CAMAC and FAST BUS hardware serving on the GSI colliders (C/Unix).
Physics, Applied Math 1991 — 1997
First Class Honour Award (Red Diploma) at Moscow State University
Postgraduate program, 1997-2000.
Watercolors, psychology, philosophy, boogie-woogie & lindy-hop dancing, wind-surfing