WORK EXPERIENCE
Director
Oct 2010 - present

Pulse Projects, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
- HR, planning, budgeting
- Hired and trained local customer support executives to provide 24/5 customer support (email, chat and toll-free phones)
- Taking care of Malay, Chinese and Indian websites of Forex4you
- Internet marketing (Google AdWords & Facebook)
- Launched Markets4you - a WebTV in English and Malay
Managing director
Nov 2008 - Sep 2010

Esperanza Consulting, Mumbai, INDIA
- Company incorporation. HR, budgeting, planning, taxes
- Hired and trained local customer support executives to provide 24/5 customer support for foreign clients (email, chat and toll-free phones)
- Translated the main website (Forex4you.com) into: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, German
- SEO optimization (off-site + on-site)
- Internet marketing (Google AdWords, banners on relevant websites, etc)
- Built global CDN for performance optimization (Bind9, NginX & GeoIP)
- Developed website monitoring system (PHP + MySQL) - NinjaMon.net
- Managing a global UNIX serverfarm
Director
Sep 2004 - Nov 2008

Technologies of Smart City, Tomsk, RUSSIA
Managed a small company - main areas of operations were WWW development and IT-consulting
IT manager
Nov 2001 - Jul 2005

Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, RUSSIA
- Installed and managed UNIX and Windows 2000 servers (Internet, Windows Domain and mail services)
- Managed Sun workstations and Sun Enterprise 250 server (NIS+, Oracle)
- Project management of the 3D-visualization room construction (Barco, SGI and Crestron hardware, dealing with contractors)
- Developed and managed web-site (PHP, MySQL)
- Installed and managed network equipment (3Com/Cisco)
- Developed and managed a database of applicants (PHP, MySQL)
- Internet-promotion of student recruitment
- Managed video-conferencing system (Polycom hardware, ISDN access)
Systems administrator
Jul 1999 - Feb 2003

Sibintek, Nefteyugansk / Tomsk, RUSSIA
- Installed and managed Internet, mail and Windows Domain services
- Developed traffic accounting system for Nefteyugansk branch based on PHP/Mysql/Apache/Squid
- Installed and managed Cisco hardware for Western Oil Company, mail services and VPN
Programmer
Feb 1998 - Dec 1998

Temp, Nefteyugansk, RUSSIA
- Developed commercial software products (Borland Pascal)
- Rendered 3D clips for local TV channel "Yugansk" (Kinetix software)
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
  • 710 score in GMAT (94% percentile)
  • 10th place in the Russian Table football Championship
  • 9 publications in Russian magazines
  • Won prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship from the European Commission
  • Gave a speech at the Middle East Forex Expo 2009 in Dubai
  • Taught a networking (Cisco) course at the Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics for 1 year


EDUCATION
Royal Institute of Technology (2006-2008)
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Politecnico di Milano
Master in Industrial Management
A triple degree course taught in Madrid (Spain), Como (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden) called "International Master in Industrial Management" and supported by the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus programme. Scholarship holder. Master thesis: "Empirical study of SPC methods through software development".

POLIMI degree    UPM degree    KTH degree
Tomsk Polytechnic University (2005-2007)
MSc in Computer Science
One of the top technical institutions in Russia.
Final grade 5 out of 5, average 4.75 out of 5.
Spent one year of studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague (academic exchange).

TPU degree
Tomsk Polytechnic University (2002-2005)
BSc in Computer Science
One of the top technical institutions in Russia.
Final grade 5 out of 5, average 4.6 out of 5.
Did a summer internship at ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France (wireless networking research).
School of Arts (1991-1997)
Artist
Studied at the department of fine arts.
SKILLS
Operating systems
  • Windows family (expert)
  • FreeBSD (expert)
  • Linux family (expert)
  • Solaris, IRIX

Equipment
  • Cisco routers and switches
  • 3Com equipment
  • Barco / Crestron equipment
  • Polycom video equipment

Design, Graphics and Media
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premier
  • Ableton Live
  • Adobe Flash

Program Languages & Tools
  • HTML/XHTML
  • PHP
  • C/C++
  • TCL
  • SQL

LANGUAGES, MISC
Languages
  • Russian (mother tongue)
  • English (fluent)
  • Spanish (intermediate)
  • Italian (basic)
Miscellaneous
  • Active in sports (gym, aikido, certified PADI scuba diver)
  • Great social skills
  • Great managerial skills
  • Many hobbies - literature, music, movies, arts, photography, DJing
  • Born in Nefteyugansk city, Siberia on 04.04.1983
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