Dmitry Samko
Mobile tel.: +38-093-*******
Email: ******.*****@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Seeking job in hi-tech corporation for increasing professional qualities and contribute to the company.
I am interested in system engineering: network management, design, implementation. IT security is my
strong point, network troubleshooting is my favorite game.
EDUCATION
2002-2007
Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics
Field: Information Managing Systems and Technologies
Degree: Bachelor and Expert of Computer Sciences
2000-2002
Kharkov Technical Lyceum 173
Field: Physic/Mathematic
Special Secondary Education
PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jan. 2012 till now
Freelance Network Engineer
Experiencing project management for the small/medium business companies like an external
engineer in a network architect role. Doing onsite activities in a short term manner also.
Key Projects:
Data center relocation design.
ServerFarm architecture design for the virtualized environment.
Core ATM-processing network development according PCI DSS.
Employer: Mobile operator in Republic of Abkhazia (www.aquafon.com)
March 2011 - Jan. 2012
Senior Network Engineer
AQUAFON-GSM is the first mobile operator in Republic of Abkhazia, provides 2G/3G mobile
services; leading regional ISP company. The scope of my responsibilities include:
Multiservice network maintenance.
Design and implementation of network infrastructure solutions from scratch.
Budget estimation of network department projects.
LIR interaction activities with RIPE NCC; object registration for customers.
Key Projects and Accomplishments:
High level design of multiservice MPLS network, Mobile Backhaul Network.
Design development and use-case testing of network infrastructure for Radio Aaccess Network
for LTE project (4G mobile network).
Design and deployment of enterprise network; end-to-end QoS implementation.
Implementation of Internet Exchange Point in Sukhum; routing policies development.
Employer: Swedish ISP company (www.prq.se)
Dec. 2009 - March 2011
External Support Engineer
PRQ is Internet Service Provider company that provides hosting service for a wild range of
customers. My responsibilities include:
Enterprise network maintenance.
Design and implementation of network infrastructure solutions from scratch.
Security system support, incident management.
Employer: International outsourcing Nordic company (www.edb.com)
June 2008 - Sept. 2009
Senior Network Engineer
Sept. 2007 - May 2008
Junior Network Engineer
The company specializes in providing support services of IT-resources for a large number of
Europe, US, British, France and Nordic companies (Bank&Finance, Oil&Gas, telecom, government
organizations, etc), maintains operations for data centers in Sweden and Norway. Main functions:
Customers support operations 24x7.
Low level network design; security solutions design according customer requirements.
Consulting key customers on network security issues.
Troubleshooting of Data Centre network problems.
Design and onshore implementation of new project solutions.
Key Projects and Accomplishments:
Network infrastructure compliance testing for PCI DSS requirements.
DC interconnection project implementation.
Deployment of Cisco Security MARS in corporate network infrastructure.
Design and deployment of perimeter network security solution by means of CheckPoint
FireWall-1/VPN-1 NGX.
Network intrusion detection system deployment (IBM Proventia Management SiteProtector).
Design and deployment of network security solution for datacenter by means of Crossbeam
X45 Security Platform.
Adoption and support of network intrusion detection system Snort Sourcefire in corporate
network.
Design and implementation of Internet security policy for corporate network by means of
Websense Web Filter URL-filtering solution.
Employer: Leading Internet Service Provider company (www.itl.com)
Oct. 2005 - Aug. 2007
Network Engineer/NOC technician
iTL – Leading Kharkov ISP company, creator of Metro BGP domain KH-IX, hosting and media
content provider (telephony and IP-TV). Main NOC Engineer duties:
Customer support operations.
Enterprise equipment management, network/service problem troubleshooting.
Firewall and network IDS management.
UNIX system lifecycle maintenance.
Key Projects and Accomplishments:
Internet Exchange Point KH-IX development project for new POPs installation.
Design and implementation of centralized authentication and authorization system based on
LDAP; its integration with existing IT-infrastructure (billing system, RADIUS, Exim MTA,
SMB file-server, Web-based monitoring systems, Cisco CallManager).
PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGES AND SKILLS
Security standards: PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27k (27002:2005).
Hands-on experience in network Data Center solutions: layer 2, layer3 design, storage, security.
ITSM environment systems and procedures for incident/problem mgmt, configuration, change mgmt.
Network technologies:
Switching: Spanning-Tree (STP, RSTP, PVST+, MSTP); 802.1q, Q-in-Q, VTP, Flex links.
Routing: OSPFv2, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGPv4 (MP-BGP), MTR, multi-VRF.
MPLS: LDP, L3 VPN, AToM L2VPN( EoMPLS, CESoPSN, SAToP), RSVP-TE, QoS in
MPLS networks.
NHRP: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.
Multicast: IGMP, CGMP, PIM-SM, PIM-DM.
Security: PKI, AAA, IPSec framework/SSL VPNs, firewalls, IDSs, DDoS prevention, access
control (ZBF, CBAC, ACL, VACL, Private VLAN etc.), content filtering, anomaly detection.
Monitoring: CiscoWorks, HP OpenView NNM, OpenNMS, Nagios, Cacti, WatsUP.
Last mile/WLAN: xDSL, 802.11a\b\g\n (Wi-Fi), leased line, dial-up, FR, ISDN.
IP Services/Misc: NAT, NetFlow, WCCP, SNMP, NTP, Server Load Balancing.
Data Center virtualization (nTier): routing, switching, security platforms, hypervisors, application
virtualization (Citrix).
Have in-depth knowledge of software and hardware products of such vendors like Cisco Systems
(IOS, ASA OS, CatOS, SAN-OS), CheckPoint (FW-1, VPN, UTM-1, VSX), CrossBeam (C- and X-
series), Juniper Networks, Websense, TrendMicro, IronPort (Mail&Web security platforms), IBM,
Snort (Sourcefire), Linksys, HP ProCurve, ZyXEL, D-Link.
Security analyzing frameworks: Nessus, Matasploit, elfsh.
Scripting lang - Perl in aspect of administration UNIX-based OS and network automation.
Virtualization environment: Xen, VMWare ESX/Infrastrucrure, Sun VirtualBox.
More than 10 years of hands-on experience with administration Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora),
FreeBSD systems.
Others: Cisco MARS, ACS(all versions), CSManager, Apache, Bird, Bind DNS, HP Service
Center, Open LDAP, freeRADIUS, Exim, Postfix, Courier IMAP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NFS, FTP,
SMB.
CERTIFICATES
Cisco: CCNA, CCSP.
CheckPoint: CCSA NGX.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Analytical mindset, result-oriented and decisive person, well organized and quick learning.
OTHER SKILLS
Native languages: Russian, Ukrainian.
Fluent English, intermediate.