Vadim Vaiman

Vadim Vaiman

Senior Web Developer, Technical Lead at Thumbplay

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Senior Web Developer, Technical Lead at Thumbplay Inc
  • Consultant at Vaiman Internet Solutions INC. (Self-employed)
Past
  • Web Development Team Lead at Accoona Corp.
  • Consultant /Web Developer at Wallstreetreporter Inc.
  • Sr. Web Developer at Money-Media

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Education
  • Beer-Sheba Technological College
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Industry
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Vadim Vaiman’s Summary

Expert Web Development Team Lead with more than ten years of experience producing, building, testing, and maintaining large scale e-commerce and corporate intranet and internet Web sites. Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects while meeting day-to-day production needs of internal departments and external clients.

Vadim Vaiman’s Specialties:

Operating Systems:
Windows, UNIX/LINUX, MAC

Programming:
PHP, JSP

Scripting:
JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, Actionscript

Markup Languages:
HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, MXML (Flex)

Databases:
MySQL, Access, Oracle

Servers:
Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere

Version Control:
CVS, SVN

Software:
Homesite, Eclipse, FlexBuilder, Adobe CS3, Microsoft Office, FTP/Telnet clients

Bug Tracking:
JIRA, BugZilla, PCVS Tracker

AJAX Frameworks:
Prototype, Scriptaculous

Vadim Vaiman’s Experience

  • Senior Web Developer, Technical Lead

    Thumbplay Inc

    (Privately Held; Wireless industry)

    June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

    Involved in all the aspects of User-Centric RIA interface design and development for online (Website) and desktop (Air) applications, include: wireframes creation in Visio, coding HTML/CSS/JS based functional prototypes and usability testing.

    Working with business owners to define requirements and developing technical specifications.

    Ensure that deliverables are met on time, including day-to-day planning and coordination with testers, developers, project managers, creative group and business representatives.

    Defining coding standards and mentoring Front End Developers on coding and debugging issues.

    Overseeing and participating in migration and development efforts of Adobe Air based desktop application written in MXML and AS3 by on-site and off-site contractors.

    Expanding website JavaScript and components libraries to overcome browser limitations or missing functions.

    Maintaining and writing online documentation on company Wiki.

    Automating build processes of the applications targeted for Development, QA, Staging and Production environments utilizing Apache ANT and Batch scripting.

    Working closely with Back End and Mobile teams to assure seamless integration of Mobile, Desktop and Online sections of the system.

    Providing first level of Quality Assurance on new functional elements of the applications while making sure absence of regression errors and serve as technical liaison to QA group.

    Resolving technical issues as they arise and applying out-of-the-box solutions to design problems.

    Maintaining and supporting company online presence utilizing HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

    Participating in interviewing process to acquire top talent for company Front End department.

    Constantly analyzing existing applications and suggesting on ways to optimize, enhance and increase their performance based on cutting edge technology.

  • Consultant

    Vaiman Internet Solutions INC. (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

    Full cycle web development/support services.

  • Web Development Team Lead

    Accoona Corp.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 3 months)

    Leading a team of developers through all the stages of design, development and maintenance of the front end user interface of several public facing web sites, includes project and resource management, development of schedules and timelines for project initiatives. Working with business group to define proper User Interface standards and best practices, project requirements, status and day-to-day activities. Providing creative, innovative and efficient design solutions to business problems. Setting design and development standards, and ensuring that applications are compliant with these. Participating in hiring and knowledge transfer to new company employees. Maintaining SVN Version Control Repository. Responsible for all Front End related duties includes: technical advice for Creative and Business groups, interface development in HTML/CSS/JavaScript/AJAX/JSP, optimization, cross-browser compatibility, maintenance tasks, QA hand-off's and production releases.

  • Consultant /Web Developer

    Wallstreetreporter Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

    January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

    Developed custom CMS/CRM Intranet system based on MySQL/PHP that consists of 3 sections for Administrator, Booker and Engineer. The system allows all users to share information related to company clients, bookings and website, and perform different activity on data depend on user type. The development of application involved migration of company data from old database based on Microsoft Assess 2000. The system also used for generating reports based on database information for company statistics and payroll purpose.

  • Sr. Web Developer

    Money-Media

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

    June 2004 — January 2005 (8 months)

    Designed and developed CMS system that will be used by seven current and future company online publications. Built front end interfaces form provided by design department for BaseAndBonus.com and Ignites.com publications, that uses new CMS to post content provided by publications editors online. Consistently analyzed company editor's requirements and implemented user friendly solutions into CMS and on publicly accessible websites. Lead implementation of SVN (Subversion version control system) and enforced policies for code writing and maintenance. Trained junior member of development team. Helped with implementation of WebTrends Enterprise tracking system into existing company publications. Generated custom reports from database for company management.

  • Consultant / Web Developer

    Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HOT; Hospitality industry)

    January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)

    As a part of front end development team involved in redesign and update of company corporate website homepage (www.starwood.com) and one of the company brand websites (Westin). The redesign involved development of new XSL templates in Documentum, HTML/JavaScript development for user interface and graphics processing.

  • Sr. Web Developer

    ID Society Inc

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    March 2002 — April 2003 (1 year 2 months)

    Working with Project Management team to analyze end users needs and suggesting on user-friendly solutions.

    Analysis of existing sites functionality and recommending functional improvements for sites to maximize systems efficiency and overall performance.

    Suggesting designers on making web friendly design.

    Functionality design and coding of Websites, CMS, CRM, eCards, HTML emails etc... and documentation

    Integrating Front and Back End for different web projects.

    Testing of final product for cross browser compatibilities.

    Documentation.

    Upgrading, troubleshooting, maintaining and supporting existing projects.

  • Web Developer

    Hotjobs / Yahoo!

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; YHOO; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2003 (3 years )

    Provided full project cycle support including requirements analysis, systems design, coding, optimization, implementation, testing, documentation, upgrade and maintenance support.

Additional Information

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Vadim Vaiman’s Interests:

Web design, development, photography, multimedia, audio/video production

Vadim Vaiman’s Groups:

  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Yahoo! alumni
  •    New York Venture Community
  •    User Experience
  •    Prototype Community
  •    New York PHP Community

Vadim Vaiman’s Honors:

BrainBench.com Certificates:
PHP4, CSS 2.0, JavaScript, HTML, Apache 2.0

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