Alexey Zhilin

 

26 M.Gorkogo St., apt.11, Tyumen, 625006, Russia
Phone +7-912-9220065 E-Mail alex_zhilin@yahoo.com

 

Senior Software Engineer, Consultant

 

• Dozens of successfully completed projects
• Two decades of software design, development and architecture experience
• Strong organizational and management skills, able to lead a large team
• 10 years offshore / offsite / telecommute work experience
• MS in CS (software development, databases and mathematical modeling)

 

OBJECTIVE, TARGET JOB, AND LOCATION

 

Seeking challenging contract development work. Available as independent sole proprietor or corp-to-corp with one week notice.

 

SKILLS

 

C#, Java, Scala, C, C++, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, OOD, OOP, UML

Windows, Visual Studio 2003-2010, .NET 1.1-4.0, SQL Reporting Services, SharePoint

Linux, Eclipse, BIRT, RCP, OSGI, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Maven, Subversion, Git

DB2, Oracle, MS SQL, XML, XSLT, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, Ajax

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

04/2011 - Present              Arctorus Software Inc., Las Vegas, NV, USA

Co-Founder / Lead Developer

Organized and managed work of the company and development team. Designed and developed Eclipse BIRT emitters which able to export reports directly from Eclipse BIRT Report Viewer or using BIRT Runtime to native Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress formats. Designed and developed library in Java and .NET which allows creating all these formats using universal API.

 

01/2004 - 03/2011              Aspose Pty Ltd., Sidney, NSW, Australia

Chief Architect / Lead Developer

Organized and managed work of large development team located in Tyumen, Russia. Designed and developed full range of successful Aspose.Slides Family and Aspose.Tasks products. Aspose.Slides is a flagship Aspose’s product and unique PowerPoint management component that enables .NET and Java applications to read, write and manipulate PowerPoint presentations without using Microsoft PowerPoint.

 

11/2002 - 12/2003              Design Universe Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Senior Software Engineer

Designed and developed tool for capturing text that users write with Wacom tablets, translating it to a text using proprietary handwritten character recognition technology. Also was developed application for handwritten filling of electronic forms.

 

02/2002 - 11/2002              MobileTeleSystems, Tyumen, Russia

Senior Software Engineer / Development Team Leader

Designed and supervised implementation of several client/server applications for mobile-phone company. Managed 3 developers. Carefully selected, hired and managed the team of world class engineers. This saved substantial amounts of money for the company. Provided detailed requirements and designs to developers and presented the technical approaches to management.

 

12/1999 - 02/2002               Alfa-Bank, Tyumen, Russia

Senior Software Engineer

Organized smooth transition of large codebase to a new database engine (DB2 SQL Server). Among this task, was performed effective query analysis and on-the-fly performance optimization. This dramatically increased performance of bank’s applications. Designed and developed software for automate circulation of electronic payment documents between bank’s departments and with other local banks. Developed software for automatic generation of bank accounting reports.

 

7/2001 - 3/2003                    Rosvet Company, Birkdale, Auckland, New Zealand

Contractor

Short contracts. Developed ActiveX components for XML parsing, E-Mail processing, and etc. Developed CD-ROM based database for Australian Freight Company. Redesigned client/server application. Significantly improved application performance and established quality assurance routines.

 

9/1996 - 11/1999                 Federal Mining & Industrial Supervision of Russia, Tyumen, Russia

Software Engineer / Lead Specialist

Designed and developed client/server applications for corporate and government customers. Developed proprietary high speed ODBC drivers for DB2 SQL Server. Designed and developed database-driven Web site.

 

6/1993 - 9/1996                   part-time and full-time

Contractor

Designed and developed database projects for various customers including Tyumen's Oil and Gas University, Federal Mining & Industrial Supervision of Russia, Medical Clinics, Aeroflot. Supervised small development teams.

 

EDUCATION

9/1990 - 8/1996

Master of Science in Computer Science

Tyumen's Oil and Gas University                        Tyumen, Russian Federation

Specialized in software development, databases and mathematical modeling.