Cyril Pertsev

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OBJECTIVE:

• Find a job in the software development industry as a project manager, senior developer or outsourcing manager.
• Able to build an offshore team (hire and manage people) for the task.
• Able to work under stress, with tight time schedules and flexible specs.
• Able to work with business documents (contracts, NDAs, budgets, plans, etc) and engage in the business development of the software development company.

SUMMARY:

• Experience as the managing director of the offshore development office of the US hi-tech software company.
• Experience as the project manager and architect in the software development company.
• Vast experience in offshore and outsourcing software development as developer, as team leader and project manager.
• Erlang
• C/C++
• Perl
• TCP/IP experience including protocol stack development, Berkeley sockets, WinSock and drivers
  
• Various assemblers, mostly Intel
• Good command of HTML
• Knowledge of SQL
• Trolltech Qt3 and Qt4 libraries
• OpenGL and DirectX graphics, shader languages
• Experience with MFC/WTL/ATL, Direct3D, DirectShow, Windows Multimedia, Windows driver development, Linux kernel and driver development
• Very good command of UNIX shell and other utilities (9 years)
• Able to develop a TCP/IP, XWindow/Motif, MS-Windows, OS/2 software in C/C++/Java/VisualBasic.
• Good knowledge of IBM HACMP clustering solution principles and operations. HACMP programming (cluster-aware applications)
• AIX kernel knowledge
  
• Instructor/teacher/consultant on AIX and UNIX
• Presentation and negotiation skills

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1. Started the company, developed the prototype (P2P "personal cloud" networking system), acquired angel funding.
2. Took part in the development of the product (C, C++, Erlang, Qt GUI).

July 2005 - July 2007
Technical lead and senior developer at PostColor, Moscow, Russia

1. Designed and mainly implemented the GPU-assisted realtime color-correction software for PostColor operations (company is in the field of Digital Intermediate business, 3D effect integration, film recording, scanning and other processing). DirectX9, OpenGL2.0, Qt4.0 UI library
2. Took significant role in the design and implementation of company's array of high performance workstation and storage (over 60Tb of immediately available data at that time).

October 2004 - July 2005
CTO at RusInvent, fully owned subsidiary of RenderX Inc., California

1. Participated in the design and architecture of the new, completely rewritten version of the company's flagship product (XSL:FO formatter).
2. Responsible for searching proper people and interviews
3. General administration stuff
4. Minor participation in the development (Python, LISP)

November 2003 - NOW
Technical manager at the Internet marketing company Wedirect Inc., San Jose, CA

1. Supervision and participation in the development of the search engine
2. Maintenance of the company's server farm
3. Design and architecture of many company web services and internal web-based automation
4. Communication with big-ticket partners of the company

January 2003 - November 2003
Freelance software developer and team leader

Various software projects:

1. Bandwidth and content management system prototype. Apache + Perl
2. Realtime player with colorcorrection capabilities for feature film industry. Designed the high-performance I/O subsystem (up to the 1GB/sec disk transfer speed), uncompressed frame rendering (OpenGL and DirectX) and realtime modifications to the frames using shaders.
3. Development of the client SSL HTTP proxy authentication module for application written in C++. Module allows the application to authenticate with the HTTP proxy (Microsoft ISA Server) using Basic, Negotiate, NTLM and Kerberos methods. Microsoft Visual C++, SSPI API
   
4. Design and development of the 'Remote Office' application (remote team management and supervision, keeping track of the OS activity, video camera imaging, desktop contents). http://odesk.com/products/team.html Designed the whole system according to the flexible specification and took part in the development of the client application for Windows. Developed a HTTP client library, DirectX code for capturing still images from a video camera. Built a team of 3 developers and managed the team to deliver product on time. Code reviews, fixes, QA management, configuration management. Microsoft C++, DIrectX, Win32 API.
   
5. Development of the Online Stock Trading application. Visual Basic 6.0, OCX controls, HTTP/HTML. Developed a set of UI controls for navigation, HTML parsing and generation engine, HTTP-based protocol for client-server interaction. Lead developer.
6. Protocol converter daemon for mud logging/drill monitoring software (oil and gas industry). Same source for Win32 and Unix platforms. Berkeley sockets, WinSock, C++.
   

• Responsible for building the company branch from the ground up, including office rental, representative office official registration, office management, etc.
• Lead the offshore development projects outsourced to Moscow office
• Manage a small group of 5 developers, QA and operations personnel.
• Was involved in the design, development, testing and deployment of different modules of the company's software product.
• Resource planning, code reviews, QA management, configuration and release management.

1. DNS server development with some special features
2. Complex Billing system (design, prototype, production, QA)
3. Distribution system for automated distribution and installation of the compiled software, configuration and support files over the globally distributed network of servers
4. Linux kernel development (TCP/IP stack tweaks). Participated as senior software developer, analyst, specification developer and architect.

• Responsible for managing a team of 7-8 developers
• Specifications development
• System analysis
• HR management
• Business development
• Design, skeleton development,
  
• Configuration and release management
• QA management

1. Groupware software component allowing for easy building of online forums, seminars, press-conferences, fee-based support and like. Internal use.
2. e-Shop for selling electronic documents.
3. System for online creation of ad banners for online news publishing system for a major Internet portal in Russia.
4. Windows (NT/2000/9x) installable file system (IFS) driver for accessing information placed on the Web through a convenient "drive letter" metaphor (HTTP FS). C and Assembler languages, Microsoft IFS DDK. Analyst and specification developer.

1. Design and development of distributed protocol for deployment of financial information within loosely coupled cluster of machines of different roles (database, calculation, processing, client). Development of specification for distributing this information for extranet clients over HTTP protocol. Key analyst and software design specification developer.
2. Project manager in a long-term (2.5 years) development/maintenance project developing a complex modular content management system for US publishing house. XML/NewsML/JSP/Java/tag libraries. Built a distributed team of 2-4 developers, managed the team to deliver the product, performed code reviews, planning, QA and deployment.
3. "Virtual Hosting" Web service development. Service provides users a easily remembered third level domain name while allowing them to host actual content on free hosting sites. Perl, C, PHP3, Apache module, MySQL database, daemon dispatcher process on FreeBSD platform. Lead developer.
4. "Counter" Web service development. Apache module and ~20 CGI programs in C and Perl using SleepyCat's BerkeleyDB database on a FreeBSD platform. Lead developer.

• Involved in developing and reading courses on IBM's flavor of UNIX - AIX/6000.
• Got very good skills in system administration on AIX.
• Worked as a business consultant for IBM customers focusing at network development and system integration.
• Lead a small team of AIX instructors.
• Have a good knowledge of IBM RS/6000 family products.
• High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP/6000) installation and training for Central Bank of Russia (Far East region).
• Developed an Intranet application for IBM East Europe/Asia Education Center. Enrollment of students and accounting, written in HTML, JavaScript, Java, Perl and Rexx. IBM DB2 database server, IBM Net.Data DB2 to WWW interface, SQL. Key analyst and developer.
• Lead a software development project for IBM Russia aimed at porting various free UNIX software to IBM AIX. C/C++, UNIX shell, Perl. Lead developer.

• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ) library for extended DOS/80x86 embedded. The code was written entirely from scratch without borrowing from BSD Unix sources. Implemented Winsock-compatible library for MS Windows 3.1 based on the above work.
• TCP/IP protocol stack implementation. Member of small (3) team of developers. Was responsible for TCP protocol implementation, participated in IP protocol development  Platform: 80x86 embedded.
  
• X-Window Server implementation for extended DOS. Project manager, lead developer and architect. Successfully managed a group of 3 programmers and wrote the main part of graphics engine of this server. Coordinated all developments of other parts of the project, bug reports, testing and documentation. Developed 2D engine, a few hardware drivers, networking code and  ROM-able version
  
• Office automation tools (Mail/Fax) development. Software developer. X-Window/Motif environment. Language: C++/C.
• Head of technical support department. Installation of various UNIX systems, National Language Support development, device driver development, consulting.
• Multimedia database (video and sound) development for wholesale company. Visual Basic and Informix via ODBC.

MINOR PROJECTS:

1. Software package for cartoon studio. Solution for "lip synch", i.e. establishing conformity between spoken words and letters/phonems for character lips animation. Also solution for creating X-sheets for assemblation of frames into one reel. Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, OCX, Windows multimedia. Windows NT platform.
2. Cross-plaform database replication and data conversion package. Development of IBM DB2/6000 module for this package. C++ and RogueWave Tools++ library. Member of a group (5-7 developers). Was responsible for IBM platform.
3. Various small Web applications like chats, message boards, image galleries with rudimentary image manipulation support, etc. Firmware for DEC VT320 compatible async terminal produced by MBL/ComputerLand Company. 80286 platform. C.
4. Motif/OpenGL based visualization system of human body for 3D-scanner. C++.
5. Various converters of 3D format files for different packages - Alias PowerAnimator, WaveFront, Softimage, PIXAR RenderMan, Autodesk 3D Studio. Silicon Graphics Indigo, IRIX 5.x/6.x operating systems. C/C++.
6. Adobe Photoshop plug-in modules development for 2D animation studio. Windows NT platform. C.
7. Special effects modules for Discreet Logic's FLINT video post-processing software. C/C++.

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

•  IBM Developer Assistance Program
• "TEAM RS/6000" professional organisation.
• ACM

PERSONAL: