Alexey Abraham - Resume
General
Alexey abraham (rus: Алексей Абрамов and Heb: אלכסיי אברהם).
Current location: Minsk, Belarus.
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General information
- 8 years in project management of complex software projects in different countries (USA, Israel, England, Ireland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia).
- 3 years in product management of complex software projects.
- Deep technical knowledge in application development, networking, IT security fields (including intrusion prevention and hacking).
- Creative problem solving and analytical talents combined with vast experience in wide areas of program development.
- Participated in many complex projects on every phase of development and deployment, starting from the initial and financial negotiations and finishing with deployment and support procedures.
Professional skills
| Managerial Experience: | As a Project Manager (8 yrs.), Product Manager (3 yrs.), as a Team Leader (2 yrs.) |
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| OS: | Windows NT/2000/XP…, Linux (RedHat, Debian, FedoraCore,…) and UNIX(Sun OS V) |
| Dev. Environments: | MS Visual Studio, MS Project, Rational, Oracle, KDeveloper |
| Domains: | UNIX/Linux, Win32 API, MFC, COM/DCOM, DBA (Oracle, MySQL, MS-Access), .NET, Share Point, VoIP, telecom, image processing, web development, versioning control (VSS, SVN, Clear-Case,…) |
| Programming: | C, C++, VC++ ,.NET, C#, Java, VB, ASP, PHP, PERL, XML, .NET, XML, HTML/ XHTML/ CSS/Javascript/ AJAX,SQL, Unix shell |
Full list of skills could be found at Skills page.
Professional history
| Since 2007 | Project Manager at Towndwarf Co. · Software projects management o Software security and application development projects (outsourcing) For Arkadium.com (C++ core server for Flash games) o Web projects (full-time group management) * Internet-TV: Riviera-TV.net Web portal for Sevastopol Jewish Community · General purpose project management (Advertizing company, Yoga studio, …) |
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| 2004- 2006 | Project Manager/Product Manager, ZORAL Labs, London, UK & Kiev, Ukraine Held full technical responsibility for projects and clients including technical project management for security area projects for different countries (US, UK, France, Canada) Defined and managed full project life cycle: requirement analysis, kick-off meetings, planning, implementation, deployment team on-site management and training, customer delivery, support. · Research and development of intrusion and prevention techniques at Windows kernel level. · Build security and networking architecture for infrastructure projects. · Managed teams of 10+ programmers, development and support engineers on customer sites. · Provided technical assistance to customers and customer’s development team. · Created detection and prevention policies for own developed anti-viruses and firewalls. · Provided analytical/scientific researches and designed documentation. |
| 2002 – 2004 | Senior Software Engineer, Project Lead, GAT Systems Ltd., Israel (Win 2000/Win XP, C/C++/C#, MFC/Win API, VoIP), · International delegate for the on-site development and deployment missions (Intel Ireland (FAB-24), Intel Israel (FAB 18)) · Full cycle development for a measurement tool for semiconductor process flow (for Intel) · Full cycle development of an intelligence project (radio stations surveillance) |
| 2001 – 2002 | Project Manager, GALYS Technologies Ltd., Israel. (Win 2000, C++, VB, MFC/Win API, SNA, statistical and optimization algorithms) Capacity planning project for large-scale systems with Mainframe computers (System/360 compatible) Statistical Resource Usage Optimization, including future planning and scheduling of operations. · Design, Documentation cycle, Statistical Algorithms, Optimizations, Win GUI applications. |
| 2000 – 2001 | Project Leader, Matrix/Elron Telesoft Inc. E-business division, Israel/USA. (Windows 2000, C/C++, MFC/Win API, DCOM, VB, ASP, Java) - E-business/banking applications, algorithms (networking, natural text processing) · Creation of a Private Banking Portal for small/tiny banks in USA, which cannot afford their own site for on-line customers · Development and support of private banking sites for leading Israeli Banks (Mizrahi, Leumi (BLL)) |
| 1997 – 2000 | Software Engineer/Team Lead, Comverse Network Systems Inc. (comverse.com), USA/Israel (Windows/Unix/RMX/Linux, C/C++, Java, MFC/Win API, COM/DCOM, CORBA/orbix, Oracle, Informix, SS7, Windows clusters (Wolfpack - MSCS), Windows kernel drivers, telecom/telephony systems, NT-UNIX interoperability) - Controlling of processes, network traffic optimizations algorithms). · Conversion of core of Voicemail Project from Win32 to UNIX platform · Designing and coding a self- testing adapter for Informix and Oracle DBs. This software in a runtime helps keeping databases alive and redirects their log messages to the remote operator. (to System Unit Control) · Design and development of UnitController: controller for all the processes running in the system. Like OS-independent distributed task manager with remote control · Windows and UNIX based software “Windows ®-TaskManager”-like, controlling all the processes on single computer. |
Education
| 2001 – 2002 | courses | Various Project Management Courses (Project management, CASE, Rational, MS Project, MS Office…) |
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| 1998 – 2001 | courses | Various technical courses in Programming (Efficient C++,C#, Java), Networking, Unix and computer security areas |
| 1997 - 2000 | M.Sc. | Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. |
| 1987 - 1993 | B.Sc/M.Sc. | Electronics/Cybernetics, Baltic State Mechanical University, St.-Petersburg, Russia. |
Languages
English, Russian, Hebrew
Personal Treats
- Independent, goal-oriented, stress-resistant.
- Strong leadership and natural ability to establish consensus among cross-functional lines.
- Excellent interpersonal, managerial and customer facing skills.
- Good work-load capability both independent and within a group.
- Creative problem solver, have a systematic approach to problems.
Hobbies
Photography, traveling, sport, yoga, information technologies.
