Alexandr Sergeyev

Contacts:

+7 913 96-318-96

Objectives

Work on big projects involving newest WWW technologies.

Eight years Perl programming experience (includes mod_perl, AxKit, Mason and other Perl web tools practical usage)
Three years of using XML for web-development (XSLT, XForms, SOAP/WSDL, SVG, RSS/Atom, and XML Schema)
Seven years of work developing applications that use MySQL and other SQL RDBMS.
Nine years of managing various Linux/Unix OS and installing/tuning server software (Apache, Postfix, Proftpd, CVS, etc.)
Three years administering network devices and configuring network routers.
Strong PHP, Java, and C/C++ programming skills. Cross-browser Javascript including AJAX fundamentals for building interactive web pages.
Experience of using popular web services API (Google and Yahoo search and maps API, Amazon E-Commerce Services, Google AdWords API, etc)
Projects involving search engine optimization techniques and web usability methodology.

Application Developer
Dynamic Network Services Inc., Manchester, NH USA
Nov/2006 - Present Time

Maintained and extended application components on company's website DynDNS.com. Added eCheck support to DynDNS.com billing system.
Modified internal tool that syncronizes application code to company's servers to automatically exclude currently updated servers from load-balancer pool.
Significantly updated DynDNS internal system for receiving dynamic DNS updates from users. This upgrade reduced load related to these tasks on involved servers more than to 40%.

Director of Web-Based Research Applications
The Livingston Group of Marketing Research, Windham, NH USA
(former Executive Solutions Inc., Syosset, NY USA)
Apr/2001 - Sep/2006

Implemented Interface(tm) marketing research technique as an complex online testing system containing few related applications. (done project planning, Perl programming, consulting with technique inventors and coordinating setup of the system to run research studies for few Fortune-500 companies)
Wrote a multiuser program to administer e-mail subscriptions (application to create sets of letters to be delivered on an individual schedule).
Developed survey management scripts for collecting, checking and screening people's responses; exporting results to SPSS or CSV files including a tool for converting any XML files to custom-format data file with optional calculation stage.
Created lightweight AdWords API Perl library that allows to use Google Adwords API even in envirorments that do not have Perl-XML modules installed.
Managed two Linux servers with more than 50 working web projects (Apache HTTP service with PHP and mod_perl frameworks) and TCP/IP services for company employees and contractors (MySQL, SSH, FTP, CVS, DNS, SMTP/POP3 mail server with spam and virus filters). Made research, and selected services and software providers, done regular software upgrades.

Senior Engineer (Full Time)
JSC "National Information Technologies", Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan
(Internet service provider, country-wide FrameRelay/X.25/IP network operator)
Apr/1998 - Feb/2002

Developed and supported company's web sites.
Participated in programming of a billing tool for Internet service clients (Perl/C++/PostgreeSQL, IP netflow daemon and web scripts).
Regularly gave a review of junior engineers' work to regional office director and participated in his decision making.
Managed Linux, FreeBSD and SCO Unix servers in 24*7 production environment.
Done network administration tasks: configured, monitored and managed "Cisco" routers, Dial-Up modem pools, and other devices. Did planning, addressing and routing for segments of wide area network. Played role of a group leader in network installation procedures.

System Administrator (Part Time)
North-Kazakhstan State University, Computer Science Department
Sep/1996 - Jan/1998

Done routine maintenance of 30 computers. Supervising students' work in a computer class.

North-Kazakhstan State University. Majored in mathematics and computer science, graduated in 1998 with honors (GPA 3.9)

Teaching Experience: High school teacher of mathematics and computer science (as part of pedagogical training), Oct-Nov/1997 and Feb-Apr/1998
Undergraduate Admission Committee Secretary, 1997, Department of Information Technologies
Thesis paper "Fuzzy Sets and Expert Systems in Education," 1998
Member of Bachelor Thesises Examination Committee, 2000, Department of Computer Science

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updated in May, 2008