ALEXEY ABRAHAM

Personal details

Date of Birth

Phone
Skype
ICQ
Web site
E-mail

25 November, 1970
+380-(50)-2949154 (Ukraine, cellular)

towndwarf

68344544

http://www.towndwarf.com

alexey.abraham@gmail.com

General skills

•        More than 7 years in project management of complex software projects in different countries (Israel, England, Ireland, Ukraine).

•        1.5 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 (6 yrs.),
Product Manager (1.5 yrs.), as a Team Leader (2 yrs.)

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++ , C#, Java,
Assemblers: Intel-x86, Motorola 680x0,
VB, PHP, PERL, XML, .NET, HTML/ XHTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX,SQL, Unix shell

Professional history

Since 2007

Independent Consultant/Project Manager, Israel, Ukraine

·         Software projects management

o    Web projects (full-time group management)

§  Internet-TV: Riviera-TV.net

§  Web portal for Sevastopol Jewish Community

o    Software security and application development projects (outsourcing)

§  For Arkadium.com (C++ core for Flash games development)

·         General purpose project management (Advertizing company, Yoga studio, …)

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 the following countries: USA, 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, post-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, Intel Israel)

·   Full cycle development for a measurement tool for semiconductor process flow.

·   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.

 

2000 – 2001

Project Leader, Matrix/Elron Telesoft Inc. E-business division, Israel.

(Windows 2000, C/C++, MFC/Win API, DCOM, VB, ASP, Java )

 

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), Windows kernel drivers, telecom/telephony systems)

Education

2001 – 2002

courses

Various Project Management Courses
(Project management, CASE, Rational, MS Project, MS Office…)

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: fluent

 

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, travelling, sport, yoga, information technologies.