Summary

10+ years of experience in Telco Industry, 20+ years of experience in IT Industry. Multitasking skills. Self-motivated, insightful, hard working. Team Player. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of GSM/UMTS Core Network equipment and Mobile Telephony essentials (MAP, TCAP, ISUP, SCCP, MTP protocols). Excellent knowledge of Mobile Number Portability, Equipment Identity Register and Real-Time Billing solutions from most of vendors.
- Perfect knowledge of TCP/IP protocols suite, related applications and hardware components (routers, switches, firewalls, VPN and access servers) of major vendor. Excellent VoIP and computer telephony knowledge.
- Excellent Unix operating system knowledge (AIX, BSD, Linux, SCO, Solaris, Tru64) and related hardware platforms. Programming languages: Basic , ascal, C, C++, Assembler (Intel, ARM, IPS), Forth, Prolog, Perl, Expect, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk. Database management system: Dbase-clones, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)

Experience

CTO
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June 2008 – Present (4 years) Kyiv, Ukraine

Initial design of National Equipment Identity Register (EIR) project. Negotiations with vendors. Tender preparation & evaluation. Raising RFP.
Draft design of Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) project.
Initial design of National Number Portability Center. Negotiations with vendors, tender preparation & evaluation. Raising RFP. Solutions review and analysis. Collaborated in business plan design. Participation in MNP technical working group under State Administration of Communication supervisory.

RTBS Expert
Comverse
March 2005 – June 2008 (3 years 4 months) Mainly Kyiv, Ukraine

Key member in Kyivstar site expansion (more than 3 times). Hardware (including full service data point platform replacement from HP DS25 to IBM P5 Servers) and software upgrades, new products deployment in the shortest time under severe pressure. Developing debug, monitoring, automation and maintenance tools.
Beeline Ukraine and Utel sites deployment.
Participation in projects in CIS countries and Greenland
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Team Leader
JUMP Ukraine
April 2003 – March 2005 (2 years) Kyiv, Ukraine

Development of own Service Delivery Platform based on VoXML, SMPP and proprietary APIs

Team Leader
"Beeper" (East-European Telecommunication services)
May 2000 – March 2005 (4 years 11 months) Kyiv, Ukraine

Development of own Web2pager and Email2pager gateway. Development of own CTI server based on Corallink API for the first call-center in Ukraine. Management and participation in IP telephony and mobile content (SMS, IVR) projects in Ukraine, Angola, Peru, Liberia, Russia and Romania

Subcontractor
Movicel Telecomunications
2002 – 2003 (1 year) Luanda, Angola

Development of own Web2SMS and Email2SMS gateway.
Integration with Motorola (2002) and Nortel (2003) equipment. Restructuring the intranet organization at Movicel.

CTO
SpaceGate
February 1999 – May 2000 (1 year 4 months) Kyiv, Ukraine

Full redesign of network architecture and billing model of IP over DVB SAT-system, setup, maintenance and tuning.

Team Leader
V-Com
April 1995 – February 1999 (3 years 11 months) Kyiv, Ukraine

Participated start-up in area of wireless networking, internet over cable broadband (now Volia Broadband – leading Ukrainian broadband operators), internet over satellite (first internet over DVB provider in Eastern Europe), MIA SAI intranet as system integrator.