Vladimir Kovalchuk

Vladimir Kovalchuk

Software Development Team Lead at EPAM Systems

Belarus

Current
Past
Education
  • Belarussian State Polytechnical Academy
  • Polytechnical Liceum
Connections
49 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Vladimir Kovalchuk’s Summary

Application Developer, Database Designer, and Team Leader in a wide variety of business applications. My primary focus was at using Java(tm) EE Platform and related technologies.

Vladimir Kovalchuk’s Specialties:

* Experience in most stages in application delivery life-cycle (requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, verification, support);
* OO Systems Analysis & Design with UML, Data/ Processes/ Work-Flows Modeling & Database Design;
* Technical implementation of enterprise-level solutions;
* Customization and integration with existing solutions;
* Team building / Team working, Project Management (especially in outsourcing).


Vladimir Kovalchuk’s Experience

  • Software Development Team Lead

    EPAM Systems

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; EPAM; Computer Software industry)

    April 2008Present (9 months)

    I am managing a development team to deliver Event Management Platform. Proper people at proper positions is the key to rapid and high-qualily product. Also, I am fond of creating Software Architecture design and analysis documentation.

  • Software Development Team Lead

    Reuters

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

    April 2006April 2008 (2 years 1 month)

    I was managing small but highly productive off-shore team while being at client site in New York. Re-implemented Reuters ecommerce web site for US, UK and JP editions. Legacy users and financial databases were migrated from MS SQL Server to MySQL. Also there was a big share of Customer incidents support and production monitoring. Quite a number of 3rd party data providers and data consumers to integrate with.

  • Project Coordinator

    EPAM Systems

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; EPAM; Computer Software industry)

    April 2006April 2008 (2 years 1 month)

    Worked on replacement existing Reuters.com ecommerce solution and was supporting production system.

  • Lead Software Engineer

    EPAM Systems

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; EPAM; Computer Software industry)

    December 2005April 2006 (5 months)

    I was developing MMS communication server (with associated backend and frontends) regularly stress-testing it. It required studying some GSM/3G technical specifications.

  • Team Leader

    EPAM Systems

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2005October 2005 (7 months)

    Project ATG-WSDM was a development of a new knowledge management product suite (code-named "Wisdom") for American company ATG (Art Technology Group).

    I had a role of Project Coordinator in one of four development teams (coordinating with two more QA teams).

  • Lead Software Engineer

    EPAM Systems

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2001March 2005 (3 years 7 months)

    EPAM Systems is a software solutions and services company with a head office in Princeton, NJ and development centers in Russia, Belarus and Hungary. ISO 9000 and CMMI level 4-certified.

    My roles on software development projects were Sr Developer, Key Developer, Database Designer for
    * Tumensk Oil Company (e-Commerce application, electronic signature);
    * Primus Knowledge Solutions (knowledge management, multilanguage search engine).

    I also participated in the company's certification on ISO 9000 as primary expert in Software Development Process.

    EPAm Systems is http://www.epam.com

  • Senior Programmer

    EPAM Systems

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2000August 2001 (1 year)

    Key Developer of Opportunity Management System for FirePond Inc. This was custom CRM based on pre-J2EE Java platform, later rewritten on J2EE. There were also further customizations for other companies.

  • Lead Programmer

    Research Institute of Control Systems

    (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1999September 2000 (1 year 4 months)

    Primary Developer of enterprise-wide worktime accounting, salary calculation and payroll generation system for the large (more than 20 000 workers) textile producing factory.

    Primary Developer of financial management information system for Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ, one of the largest producers of long-haul tractors in CIS countries).

  • Programmer

    Kompass Belarus

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 1996August 1998 (2 years 6 months)

    Primary Developer of information system of Business Data Directory (working in branch office of international company http://www.kompass.com/)


Vladimir Kovalchuk’s Education

  • Belarussian State Polytechnical Academy

    MSc, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, September 1993May 1998

    * Diploma with honors.
    * Major subjects include: Mathematics, Logic, Software Design, Physics.
    * 1st prize winner on Mathematical Contest of High School students.
    * My undergraduate project was related to Mathematical Physics in the field of elastic materials.

    Activities and Societies:
    Worked in the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences.
  • Polytechnical Liceum

    High School, Mathematics and Physics, September 1990May 1993

    * Diploma with honours in Informatics.
    * Major subjects include: Mathematics, Physics and Informatics.
    * Young talents local competition in Physics and Mathematics winner,- free entrance into a State University provided.


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