Smart, experienced and passionate IT leader
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Smart, experienced and passionate IT leader
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Smart, energetic and passionate leader with experience in project management, software development and entrepreneurship. Expert in offshore development management, software architecture, mobility and development processes management. Broad abilities in applying a wide range of security technologies for OS security modules, cryptography, Smartcards, PKI and rights management.
• Managerial: Team building, agile methodology, product management, software development lifecycle, budget estimation, process improvements and leadership.
• Technical: Mobile technologies, security, refactoring, automation testing, rights management, reverse engineering, architecture and low level development.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
• Initiated SCRUM methodology usage
• Participated in definition and implementation of branching and automation build strategy
• Developing Rights Management client
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
• Provided consultation on expansion of sales department, compensation strategy, overall business growth and positioning in the offshore market.
(Wireless industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
• Established a company and acquired several consulting projects in the Virginia and Maryland area.
• Managed several offshore consultants for project development.
• Directed, planned and executed research for the project related to ActiveSync activity.
• Created prototypes, architecture design and implementation for two WinMobile projects.
• Managed product definition and development of an automation testing tool.
• Participated in the adoption of Agile strategies.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2005 — September 2008 (2 years 10 months)
• Spearheaded a major security client refactoring, increasing reliability, reducing certification issues, improving architecture, and facilitating deployment for the U.S. Army and new Symbian consumers.
• Directed a team of eight software developers both in-house and offshore
• Created, planned, troubleshot, and managed mobile security client development in multiple platforms, including WinMobile, Symbian, and PalmOS; included encryption (AES, 3DES), password protection, wipe, resource disabling, and image management features.
• Collaborated with partner companies and customers as a subject matter expert (SME) for technical issues.
• Facilitated certification in FIPS 140-2 for WinMobile and PalmOS Crypto Library by expertly preparing code.
• Played integral role in two-factor authentication (Smartcard, CAC) development for security client.
(Wireless industry)
December 2005 — June 2008 (2 years 7 months)
• Steared business growth by tenfold over five years; provided expertise in mobile development for companies.
• Performed strategic technology planning; successfully organized sales department and expanded company from 20 to over 30 employees.
• Wrote and published book used to train new developers.
• Sold company to international mobile software development enterprise.
(Wireless industry)
September 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 4 months)
• Founded company; acquired orders from customers worldwide (US, Europe, Asia, Australia).
• Spearheaded major mobile projects including drivers for Bluetooth and IRDA keyboards, barcode scanner data processing application, Backup Manager and Delivery suite.
• Created strategy for business growth, developed policies and led the company size expansion from several to twenty engineers.
• Negotiated contracts with customers and helped them to define products.
• Directed and contributed to software development, architecture design, project management, human resources, accounting, and general business development.
(Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — August 2003 (4 years 3 months)
• Supervised team of eight server side and mobile side developers
• Managed development of automation testing utility.
• Managed full life cycle product implementation starting from product definition/estimation, architecture development, implementation, debugging, and completing with documentation.
• Analyzed requirements, created estimates, and assisted multiple mobile developers with troubleshooting.
• Developed PalmOS security application; completed multiple web projects in PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
September 1998 — January 1999 (5 months)
• Designed and developed five classic games for PalmOS still sold as commercial applications.
• Developed a task management tool for Windows.
2007 — 2007
Master , Computer Science , 1997 — 2002
PalmOS Certified Developer, 2003
Ukrainian intercollegiate programming contest,1999, 1st place diploma and some other awards for Ukrainian intercollegiate contests.