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OBJECTIVE 

I am looking for a position in application development or development in test.
Special interest in financial, accounting, securities, or banking applications.
Both permanent and contract work offers are welcome.

PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE

Languages

C#/.Net, Visual Basic, C++/C, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL, HTML, Perl, Java, Delphi.
Databases: MS Access, SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle.

Operating systems 

Windows XP, Windows 2000, Caldera 2.3-2.4 & Red Hat 6.1 Linux
Also: Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95, MS-DOS.

Platforms 

PC-line. Also: mainframes.

Tekmetrics certifications

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

May 2005 – present Bellevue Community College

Part-time accounting assistant for Student Services (50% accounting, 50% student societies management)

Apr 2001 – present Galiel.Net – consulting and publishing

Owner and operator. My projects included:

Oct 2005-present Contract for a financial (security trading) company

Full cycle (including development of new features, testing, maintenance and support) for a compiler and runtime of a TradeStation-like automatic trading language.

2003-2004 Writing a book on testing

I wrote and published a book “Software Testing: The Basics of the Trade” (ISBN 0-9770364-0-5, see Amazon.com).

2003 Contract for inventory maintenance system

Skills: Advanced MS Access, VBA scripting, SQL
I solely created inventory maintenance and accounting system for the multi-site producer of aromatic cosmetic and food oils I.P.Callisons, Seattle, WA
I owned the full development lifecycle from requirements to deployment.

2002-2001 Writing a book on .Net and C#

Skills: C#, .Net
I wrote and published a book on C# programming language (ISBN 1-55395050-X).

Nov 2000 – Mar 2001 Lineo Inc., Seattle Development Center, WA

Software Engineer, full-time permanent position

2001 Installation (setup) for Embedixä (embedded Linux)

Skills: Delphi, Perl, Linux, Windows 2000, INNO
I created the installation (setup) used in the distribution of LineoÒ Embedixä for Motorola 8260.

2001 Test suite for ixCOM on Linux/Embedixä

Skills: C++ (CodeWarrior 6.0 and GNU), ixCOM 1.0
I created the test suite for ixCOM (Linux-based COM-style object model)

2000 Collection and reporting system for distributed testers organization

Skills: IBM UDB DB2, MS Access 2000 (front end)
I worked on a system of collecting test results and their visual reporting for distributed testers organization, where separate testers may be located in different countries.

Feb 2000 – Oct 2000 Move from IL to WA

Break due to the move

2000-1999 Creation and maintenance of web sites

Skills: HTML, Javascript, WML, PHP, Apache
I created two web sites: http://www.thewisemoney.com and http://www.galiel.net from a concept to the production. Intensive JavaScript and PHP programming, maintenance, testing and validation. Sites are hosted in Linux / Apache environment.

Oct 1998 – Feb 2000 New Resources Corp., Peoria, IL

Consultant/Software Developer, full-time permanent position

1999 E-Business prototypes and systems development

Skills: VB, ASP, Javascript, HTML, ActiveX/COM, MS Access, IIS, Apache/CGI, Java
I created several completely functional prototypes of eBusiness systems, including virtual used cars dealership, used equipment eStore for heavy machinery dealerships, and parts availability locator for dealership networks. These completely functional prototypes were used to promote and complete sales of consulting services.

1999 Inventory system front-end

Skills: Oracle 8.0, Visual Basic, SQL
This project was planned by CaterpillarÒ Corp. IT department for permanent employees, but because of a deadline it was reallocated to consultants. I successfully completed this project at 400% of originally expected performance.

1999 MS Access application for billing in heavy equipment rental business

Skills: MS Access, VBScript, Visual Basic, SQL
I created the billing application for the heavy construction equipment rental company. The application replaced old mainframe-based application, providing flexibility and additional features. It covered the whole billing cycle from entering rental reports to issuing invoices to customers, based on the best applicable rate.

1998-99 Sales research clientele database

Skills: VB, MS Access, C
I designed MS Access database and collected data on potential clientele (dealers of particular companies) from Internet with a total amount of several hundred records. Then I created VB front-end to provide convenient access to this database for the company sales department to assist their work on locating prospective clients.

Sep 1997 – Mar 1998 JEG Engineering Company, Columbia, MO

Contract project for: 

1997-1998 Online data collection and statistical analysis of online auctions 

Skills: C, C++, TCP/IP, Socket programming, HTTP protocol implementation
I performed statistical analysis of eBay online auctions data. The result of the analysis was used to create the report “How to sell on eBay”.
I also created the data collection http agent, that was used to gather the data.

1984-1996 Previous experience in Russia and former Soviet Union.

• Leading group of 3 programmers in development of communication (telephone) embedded software;

• Two articles in industry publications (telephony and SDL implementation);

• Development of software tools for automated (CASE) design of telecommunication software systems;

• Implementation of SDL design language for embedded telephone control real-time systems;

• Implementation of cross-assemblers for embedded real-time systems.

OTHER

Education

Leningrad / St.Petersburg State University, mathematical department;  M.S. (mathematics & computer science)

Also in accounting:

Accounting & Credit College at the Central Bank of Russia (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Bellevue Community College (Bellevue, WA)
 

Languages

English, Russian

Professional associations

	Member of AMS (American Mathematical Society) since 1996
	Member of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) since 2004

August 21st, 2006