Resume

Dr. Artyom Sokirko

E-mail:	a@sokirko.com
Web:	http://www.tyoma.com
mobile:	+49 160 885 7201
home:	+49 221 5481 8491
Fax:	+49 2247 758 067
mail:	Salierring 4, 50677 K?ln, Germany

Objective: Position of Technical Manager/Architect, either contract or permanent

Headlines:

Concentrate on Java/Oracle/UNIX development with wide expertise in web-based services
18 years as a hands-on developer, 9 years as a team lead
Specialize in e-commerce and finance reporting, work for telecommunications, publishing companies and academia
Act as a Team Lead, Applications Architect, Data Architect, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect and Project Manager
Manage a team of five, perform project planning, allocate resources
Contact outside clients and suppliers for project support and implementation
Extensive American and European experience, strong can-do attitude.

Current technical skills, primary (more on the last page):

Java- J2EE	Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, Hibernate, AJAX; JBoss, Tomcat and Eclipse;
Databases	Oracle 10g, MySql 5, MS Access; SQL, PL/SQL and ODBC;
XML	XML, XSLT, xHTML, CSS and Cocoon;
Portal	Apache, Fat Wire Content Server, Zabbix and Cacti;
Platforms	Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), Sun Solaris 10, Windows XP and Vista.

Experience:

Unitymedia Group , Cologne, Germany

03.2002 - present

Serving cable TV and Internet to more than 5 million households in Germany
Team Lead/Java Architect responsible for the Internet Services in Technology division.

Designed and led development, deployment and maintenance of corporate websites: www.unitymedia.de, www.ish.de
Technical responsibility for broadband portal www.ish.com with streaming content, downloads, online games, SMS, etc
Acting as Java Developer, re-designed Customer Self Care Application for the internet customers
Lead the ISP (Internet Service Provider) team of four, responsible for knowledge transfer, cross-training and continuity
Contact software vendors, external consultants and developers and coordinate their day-to-day activities with the Engineering department
Perform feasibility analysis; translate business requirements into multi-tier, high-load, highly scaleable web application infrastructures
Define interfaces and set development standards
Review the delivered source code; serve as a technical authority for migration of new products and product upgrades to production.

Ecopsy, (contract, telecommuting)

11.2001 - 02.2002

Developer and Architect

Designed, developed and deployed a finance reporting system for a mid-size business consulting firm.

StarMedia Network Inc. , New York, NY, USA

07.2000 - 11.2001

media portal for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audiences
Senior Technical Lead for multimedia initiatives

Coordinated the efforts of StarMedia engineering and media (advertisement) departments with the technical staff of the outside development companies
Developed and deployed the subsystem for populating StarMedia Network with rich media interactive ads
Created working prototype of wireless web site.

Time Inc. New Media , New York, NY, USA

03.1999 - 07.2000

umbrella web site for best-selling magazines: Time, People, Entertainment Weekly, Money and many others. The web site is one of the twenty largest in the world
Manager of E-commerce Development Technical lead of marketing efforts on www.pathfinder.com

Led operation and multi-stage re-design of the "Newsstand" - e-commerce application for collecting subscription orders to Time Inc. magazines (over 1,000,000 subscriptions sold). Identified business needs, performed OOAD (data dictionaries, sequential diagrams, logical database design)
Migrated the e-commerce application designed specifically for WebLogic into WebSphere
Performed OOAD, implemented and tested the working prototype for the original music search application
Maintained and supported web traffic reporting in Time Inc.
Supervised technical support of Ad operations, NetGravity ad server
Managed Time Inc. Home Entertainment e-commerce initiative.

Graphnet Inc. , Teaneck, NJ, USA

03.1998 - 03.1999

a leading fax broadcasting company
Technical Lead for Voice Billing

Designed and led development, deployment and maintenance of billing system running on Sun Solaris in clustered environment. The system used to handle up to 30 million calls a month
Identified business needs, developed functional requirements, data dictionaries, sequential diagrams, logical database design and IDL
Created package for generating monthly statistics. Was responsible for the selection and development of the new reporting system
Supervised voice billing process. Performed database optimization and query tuning. Was responsible for data cleaning and audit of final bills. Developed and documented standard business procedures.

TeleRoss, Moscow, Russia

1997 - 1998

Member of Global TeleSystems Group, Inc.
Finance Programmer

Developed a comprehensive consolidation package for finance reporting to headquarters
Performed systems analysis of existing billing cycle. Coordinated on-going billing process.
Prepared Monthly Operations Reports for the company
Designed, developed and maintained the principal database for Collection Department (full life cycle).

Pepsi International Bottlers , Moscow, Russia

1996 - 1997

Senior Finance Systems Analyst

Led the implementation, integration and support of accounting systems for most of the Russian branches
Designed, led development and maintenance of reporting system for transformation of accounting data from GAAP to the standards accepted by the Russian IRS
Created an original Payroll Module allowing to combine regular wages with taxable bonuses, which the company wants to pay on "tax-exempt basis", into a single paycheck
Created and maintained finance reporting to headquartersCognos PowerPlay ( Cognos PowerPlay )
Developed a program to transmit daily currency exchange rates from Internet to local databases.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

1995 - 1996

Senior Research Associate

Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

1994 - 1995

NATO Science Fellow

Oxford University, Oxford, England

1993

Royal Society Fellow

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

1991 - 1993

Project Lead

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

1990

Visiting Scientist

Academic research during 1990 - 1995 concentrated on computer and mathematical modeling of complex transport processes.

Municipal Development Department, Moscow, Russia

1990 - 1991

Database Developer

Data modeling, design, development and maintenance of principal document database for the legal department.

Technical skills:

Java- J2EE	Servlets, JSP, EJB (CMP, BMP and session), JDBC, Hibernate, SOAP, AJAX; JBoss, Weblogic, Tomcat, Sun One Studio, VisualAge for Java, JBuilder, Eclipse, WebSphere, JRun and JServ;
Databases	Oracle 7.1 - 10g, Oracle Web Server, Designer 2000, SQL Navigator, Toad, ERwin; MySql, MS Access ; SQL, PL/SQL, ODBC, JDBC; Sybase 11.5, BDE 5.01 (Paradox 5), Btrieve, Progress and dBase;
XML	XML, XSL, XSLT, DTD, xHTML, HTML; DOM, DHTML, CSS, FOP, WML, WAP, HDML, SMIL; Cocoon, Xalan/Xerces and Oxygen;
Portal	Apache, Fat Wire (Divine) Content Server, eWebEditPro, Linebreak CMS, Vignette Story Server, Macromedia Flash, Real Streaming Server and MiniVend (shopping engine);
Platforms	Linux, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu; Sun Solaris, Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000/NT and Mac OS 10;
Languages	PHP, Python, JavaScript, Perl, VBA, Visual Basic, ASP and shell scripts;
Various Software	Sun Web Server, Netscape Server, Netgravity 3.53 (ad server), Platinum AutoSys (load balancing), Zabbix, Cacti, CVS, UML, Iona Orbix (Corba), SIP configuration, Cognos PowerPlay, Oracle Designer 2000, Corel Draw, Crystal Reports, MS Project, MS FrontPage and MS Office;
Rusty	Fortan, C/C++, Turbo-Pascal, Q Basic, MatLab, Mathematica, MathCad, Algol 68, Assembler for IBM mainframe and processor code.

Education:

PhD Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Science ( Computer and Mathematical Modeling in Theoretical Physical Chemistry )	1990
M.S (diploma) - Moscow Engineering Physics Institute ( Theoretical Physics )	1986
Certificate Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering ( Programmer's certificate )	1980

Personal:

Age:	46
Citizenship:	USA
Visa Status:	German permanent resident (Niederlassungserlaubnis), EU work permit
Family status:	married, one daughter (7 years old)
Languages:	English (native fluency), Russian (native), German (working knowledge)
Publications:	Over 35 papers in scientific journals
Open Source:	Family Map, xmlResume, Family Finance, etc at tyoma.com
Outdoor hobbies:	small plane pilot, scuba diving, skiing, white-water kayaking
Indoor hobbies:	music, cinema, theater, photography