I am a business/systems analyst with strong technical/developer
background and set of competences that include requirements gathering
and analysis; project planning and execution; tender bidding and
proposals evaluation; system and software architecture design and
evaluation; IT auditing; database architecture and programming (incl.
Oracle, PL/SQL); code review; technical writing; telecom business
processes analysis and design; implementation and integration of
OSS/BSS/NSS systems, protocols and processes. I am fluent in wide
variety of application programming languages and proficient with all
major *NIX-like OSes.
| Client: |
MTS Ukraine |
| Period: |
2008/05 – 2009/02 |
| Description: |
Modernization of the existing Electronic Archival system |
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Chief contractor of the project, Galantis, subcontracted me as a part of the team of four for the duration of this project. |
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I took part in requirements gathering and analysis, producing the Statement of Work and Requirements Specification for the project. Our team was responsible for all integration activities, and I was tasked with writing critical integration components using Expect and PL/SQL. |
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I also served as a main contractor liaison with the customer and oversaw data cleanup and migration from the old archival system into the new one. |
| Technologies: |
MS Office, MS Project, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Expect, Unix textutils and shellutils |
| Role: |
Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical Writer, Programmer |
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| Client: |
Comptel Oy |
| Period: |
2008/07 – 2008/12 |
| Description: |
Development of the Network Element Interfaces for Comptel InstantLink |
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I was contracted for development of the Network Element interfaces (NEI) for the Comptel InstantLink Implementation projects in BLYK Netherlands and Wind Hellas. |
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My responsibilities included: writing technical specifications for NEIs, development of the NEIs, writing installation guides and test specification for NEIs, testing NEIs produced by other developers, configuration of the InstantLink on the customer servers |
| Technologies: |
MS Office, ClearCase, expect, ksh, Unix shellutils and textutils |
| Role: |
Developer, Technical Writer, Systems Analyst |
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| Client: |
MTS Ukraine |
| Period: |
2007/12 – 2008/02 |
| Description: |
Analysis of the existing Electronic Archival system |
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As a part of the team of four I was contracted to analyze existing Electronic Archival system, asses its performance and limitations and come up with most feasible upgrade/modification strategy. |
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I was responsible for analysis of the current state of the system, related business processes and known problems/limitations. |
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As a result, a comprehensive 129-page report on the current state of the system was provided, along with 45-page requirements document. The latter was used as a basis for Request For Information document during the tender for Electronic Archive upgrade services. |
| Technologies: |
MS Office, MS Project, Oracle 9i, SQL |
| Role: |
Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical Writer |
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| Client: |
UMC, now re-branded as MTS Ukraine |
| Period: |
2002/12 – 2007/07 |
| Description: |
During this period I was responsible for a number of internal IT projects and Value-added Services (VAS) development projects. My responsibilities included: requirements collection and analysis, project planning and execution, system and software architecture, technical writing and code review. |
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Successful projects include: “Corporate network”, “Corporate group”, “Partner networks”, “Friends and Family”, “PABX Integration”, “Prepaid to Postpaid migration” services and many more. |
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I also participated in a number of system acquisition tenders, where I was charged with analysis and evaluation of proposals; vendor selection. |
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I also actively participated in the introduction of proper software development and support life-cycle in UMC |
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My daily activities included problem troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for all IT systems related to the post-paid customer segment of the UMC |
| Technologies: |
C, C++, Perl, expect, Tcl, unix shell, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i/9i, Python, Zope, MS Office, MS Project |
| Role: |
Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, System Architect, Project Manager, Developer |
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| Client: |
UMC, now rebranded as MTS Ukraine |
| Period: |
2001/11 – 2002/11 |
| Description: |
Implementation of the carrier-grade provisioning system. |
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I was charged with the execution of the Comptel MDS/SAS implementation and integration project. Responsibilities included: gathering and analysis of requirements, supplier management, project execution, participation in system setup and configuration, acceptance testing, software development. |
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After delivery, I was charged with support and development of the MDS/SAS. System is still in operation as of 2008. |
| Technologies: |
MS Project, Comptel MDS/SAS, tcl/expect, cvs, HP-UX 10.20, Oracle 8i |
| Role: |
Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Technical Writer, Developer |
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| Client: |
UMC, now re-branded as MTS Ukraine |
| Period: |
2001/05 – 2002/08 |
| Description: |
Major billing system upgrade |
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When UMC upgraded its billing system BSCS from v.4 to v.6, I was tasked with adaptation and customization of existing provisioning and CDR collection systems for the new version of the billing system. |
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I was responsible for supplier management, requirements gathering and analysis, software adaptation and acceptance testing of the provisioning and CDR collection chains |
| Technologies: |
C++, tcl/expect, MS Office, MS Project, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, Pro*C, cvs, make |
| Role: |
Systems Analyst, Developer, Business Analyst |
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| Client: |
UMC, now rebranded as MTS Ukraine |
| Period: |
2000/10 – 2001/12 |
| Description: |
Development of the Call Data Record (CDR) pre-processing software. |
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I was charged with re-design and rewrite of the in-house CDR pre-processing tool with aim to improve speed and stability of the software and incorporate a number of outstanding functionality change requests. Part of the task was to reverse-engineer functional specification from the sources of the existing system. |
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Delivered system achieved ~200x speedup, parts of it are still in operation as of 2007. |
| Technologies: |
ASN.1 (snacc compiler), C, C++, gcc, HP-UX 10.20, make, cvs, noweb, Oracle 8i, Pro*C |
| Role: |
Systems Analyst, Developer, Technical Writer |
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| Client: |
GradSoft |
| Period: |
1998/08 – 2000/02 |
| Description: |
Development of the workflow system components |
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As a part of the team of two, I was responsible for delivering a GUI component that produced an aesthetically pleasing layout of the workflow graph and allowed end-user to add/delete/modify workflow rules using specialized editing components. |
| Technologies: |
Java (JDK 1.2), SWING, AWT, Oracle 8, CORBA, cvs, make, SunOS, Windows NT |
| Role: |
Developer |
