Alex Kulshyn

904-***-**** ablbqj@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

. OVER FIVE YEARS OF EXPERTISE WITH SOFTWARE, WEB AND DATABASE DEVELOPMENT,

WITH THE FOCUS ON AUTOMATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF ROUTINE PROCESSES

. Highly motivated, hard-working individual with good organizational and

supervisory skills. Possesses strong ability to efficiently perform,

delegate when needed and track various tasks or projects to ensure that

expected deadlines are met. Highly capable in Project Management and Team

Leadership

. Extensively involved in all phases of SDLC including Analysis, Design,

Installation, Configuration, Development, Testing, Deployment and

Maintenance

. Solid knowledge of configuration tools, source code repositories,

automatic builds and deployment package products

. Excellent Problem Solving and Communication Skills

. Very productive on individual assignments, and known as an excellent team

player

. Eager to learn new techniques, face challenges, constantly improve

acquired skills, conduct self-study and complete required certification

programs

Technical Skills

PROGRAMMING: C#, C++, .NET, WPF, WCF, FORMS, ATL, WTL, WIN32, PHP, ASP,

ASP.NET, XML, XSL, RSS, HTML, AJAX, CSS

Development/Design Methodologies: Waterfall, Object Oriented Design, Scrum,

Agile

Server: Microsoft IIS, Apache

Database: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MySQL, Oracle 8i/9i

Operating System: Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT, Linux

Development/Design Tools: Visual Studio 2010/2005/2003, Visio 2007/2005,

FxCop, Sandcastle

Configuration/Deployment Tools: Visual Source Safe (VSS), StarTeam,

Subversion, TFS, FinalBuilder, InstallShield,

ClickOnce

Experience

THOMSON/TECHNICOLOR GRASS VALLEY 08/2007 - PRESENT

Software Engineer

. Designed and developed third-party device interfaces in C# and C++ to

automate live news broadcast production control rooms

. Designed WCF client-server interfaces to replace a legacy COM

infrastructure

. Redesigned and improved TV station network topology for the Grass

Valley Ignite System

. Designed and developed network setup utilities to assist field service

engineers to configure Cisco switchers and firewall

. Participated in Quality Assurance lab redesign, maintenance and third-

party vendor devices configuration

. Became expert in News Room Computer Systems such as Avid iNews and

Associated Press ENPS when asked to learn and implement MOS protocol

. Automated nightly source code builds and developed build reporting

system to help Quality Assurance Team to track code changes and

identify defect fixes quickly

. Designed InstallShield and MSI packages for deploying the Ignite

product line in the field, making the process more user-friendly and

failure prone

. Implemented set of rules and procedures for SourceSafe submission as a

part of build automation development

. Managed version control, builds and releases of Ignite product line

. Maintained and enhanced 1.6 million lines of legacy C++ code

. Provided telephone and on-site technical support for client's newsroom

control systems

. Successfully implemented Character Generator device interfaces with no

QA testing and zero defects on the field on major sports TV network

. Created in-house ASP.NET/AJAX website for tracking clients'

installations and configuration

. Participated in various research and design meetings for the future of

Ignite System product line and development of the next product

OVKore, LLC 06/2005 - Present

Software/Web Developer and Manager

. Worked on various freelance projects as a developer, manager and

accountant of the company

. Designed and developed custom web portal websites for small

businesses, enabling user without HTML knowledge to update the content

of main website

. Rewrote websites from ColdFusion and ASP.NET to PHP to help clients to

save money on hosting and maintenance while preserving website's look

and feel

. Migrated user data from managed portal by creating web spider to

collect all necessary data

. Created PHP pages to generate RSS feeds out of the database

. Designed and develop web payment gateway with multi-page order form

using SSL and Merchant Account API to charge credit cards and process

payments into clients' bank account

. Developed software applications according to customer specifications

and requirements in C# with Windows Forms or WPF UI

University of Florida 03/2003 - 08/2007

IT Engineer

. Automated the process of publishing articles in ARKIVOC web science

journal by creating ASP.NET web-application with C# code behind and

SQL Database back-end

. Setup RSS feeds using ASP.NET for Universities and publishing

organizations to obtain articles as soon as they are published in

ARKIVOC

. Restructured, tuned and maintained TransferLCDB information system

using Oracle Database and Symyx ISIS/Host

. Created database access points using Symyx ISIS/Base and Template

Forms

. Redesigned and improved in-house Chemical Compound Index system by

optimizing database and adding barcode solution

. Recovered critical data and set up permanent disaster recovery

procedures

. Managed over 50 Windows workstations, 5 NT based servers and group of

over 100 domain users

. Coordinated and supervised periodical hardware and software upgrades

. Switched and migrated all user data to Windows Active Directory domain

system from older Windows NT 4.0 domain

. Redesigned server room by building new hardware and setting up

rackmount solution

. Aided chemistry research efforts by developing custom application

solutions for analysis and statistical evaluation of chemical

compounds

. Modified look and feel of group's website

. Created automated solution to gather experimental data in the group

for future research needs

. Helped to convert hundreds of pages of USDA experimental data into a

digital searchable format by creating procedures and scripts to

automate the process.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; GAINESVILLE, FL, USA

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration / Computer and Information

Science

University of Tartu; Tartu, Estonia

Master of Science in Molecular Design

Master's Thesis focused on applying computer science on solving complex

chemistry/physics problem by utilizing knowledge base from previous

experiments and physicochemical properties of subject of interest. Designed

and developed ORACLE databases and analytical software to aid in research

of the topic

Fluent in English and Russian

Publications

NEURAL NETWORKS CONVERGENCE USING PHYSICOCHEMICAL DATA

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages

1891-1897 (2 Sept. 2006)

Mati Karelson, Dimitar A. Dobchev, Oleksandr V. Kulshyn, and Alan R.

Katritzky

Antimalarial Activity: A QSAR modeling using CODESSA PRO software

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages 2333-2357 (1

April 2006)

Alan R. Katritzky, Oleksandr V. Kulshyn, Iva Stoyanova-Slavova, et al.

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