Russian Federation
- Current
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- Consultant at Admiral Markets Ltd
- Freelance photographer at self-employed
- Consultant at I-Free
- Editor-in-Chief Emeritus at Equestrian Review
- Founder at St.Petersburg Linux User Group
- Freelance IT consultant at self-employed
- Past
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- CTO at I-Free
- System Administrator at Devexperts
- CTO at TAG Ltd
- Network Engineer at Alcatel BSR
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Michael Bravo’s Summary
Worked as a network architect for Alcatel BSR, St.Petersburg, incurring major Cisco-related experience; helped found and maintain several on- and offline communities, including starting and coordinating St.Petersburg Fidonet network for some years, helping to organize St.Petersburg Linux user group, etc. Extensive system administration experience, primarily in Unix environment; good knowledge of web application programming in Unix-based application environments. Especially interested in connecting people, building topical communities, kick-starting innovative projects.
Contributed articles on various hi-tech, Internet and privacy issues to various publications; helped verify technical manual translations into Russian for Lucent/Avaya; worked as an independent technical consultant to oversee application of U.S.-based money to IT upgrades in St.Petersburg city government structures.
Cofounder and Editor-Emeritus of premier Russian-language equestrian web publication, Equestrian Review.
Michael Bravo’s Specialties:
Architecting online communities; designing, implementing and maintaining [intra|extra|local]net infrastructures; bringing people together; explaining things; helping people understand each other; facilitating knowledge exchange; portrait, concert and event photography
Michael Bravo’s Experience
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Consultant
Admiral Markets Ltd
(Financial Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
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Freelance photographer
self-employed
(Photography industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
I have been taking pictures since seemingly forever, starting with black-and-white film and all the darkroom stuff back in 1970s when I was a kid. In 2007, I have decided it is probably high time I apply my skill in this area more broadly and with some commercial streak. In 2008, together with several friends we have founded a photo group named Straylight, and all of my commercial photo work is now centered under that trademark.
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Consultant
I-Free
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)
Solving various, mostly IT and Internet related problems, now on a consulting basis.
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Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Equestrian Review
(Privately Held; Human Resources industry)
April 1999 — Present (10 years 9 months)
Cofounded and still helping maintain publication of premier Russian-language equestrian sports and horse hobbyist web publication, Equestrian Review, which can be found at http://www.equestrian.ru/
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Founder
St.Petersburg Linux User Group
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — Present (13 years 7 months)
In the summer of 1996 have helped found and promote St.Petersburg Linux User Group; formally I'm still a founder, though I don't take part in almost any activity by the group, helping only with managing contacts with outside world sometimes.
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Freelance IT consultant
self-employed
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1989 — Present (21 years )
I am available for consulting and, sometimes, teaching jobs related to computer networking, open source, in particular, Linux-based deployments and solutions, and broad spectrum of web technologies. Fluent English spoken.
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CTO
I-Free
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Responsible for all technical (as in computing, telephony, etc) infrastructure and daily operations; designing, anticipating and guiding technical aspects of new services development; actively participate and oversee procurement practices in related areas.
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System Administrator
Devexperts
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
March 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 2 months)
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CTO
TAG Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 1999 — March 2003 (3 years 5 months)
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Network Engineer
Alcatel BSR
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 4 months)
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Michael Bravo’s Interests:
communities, communication, networking, information technology, photography, horses, aikido
Michael Bravo’s Groups:
ACM member since 1997, Mobile Music conference in Barcelona, EZHE, SPbLUG, Straylight, St.Petersburg Photographic Society
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