Project Management

Alexander N. Khoroshun

***, ******** ***** *.*., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2Y 3L4

E-mail: *****@*****.***

Tel. (Home) 403-***-****

Cell: 403-***-****

TARGET:

Looking for Senior GIS Developer/Consultant position with a dynamically

developing or well-established company that will provide opportunities for

further career development.

SUMMARY:

. Over eighteen years of Information Technology experience including

extensive experience with Geographic Information Systems, Object

Oriented Programming and solving GIS related problems.

. Solid experience in programming with C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, WPF,

Silverlight, JavaScript, Visual Basic 6, VBA application development

using ArcObjects within ArcGIS 8.x, 9.x, ArcEngine and ArcGIS Server,

ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS Mobile and MS Bing maps.

. Experience in design, analysis, interpretation, and management of

spatial databases using Personal GeoDatabase, ArcSDE, Oracle and SQL

Server.

. Have a solid GIS experience in Oil & Gas, Mining and Transportation

industries.

. Have Project Management, Analysis, Troubleshooting and Development

skills.

. Good Communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:

Programming Languages:

. C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET

. MS Silverlihgt 2/3, WPF

. JavaScript,

. Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic for Applications

. ArcObjects,

. MapObjects,

. ArcView Avenue,

. XML,

. SQL,

. Assembler,

Geographic Information Systems:

. ArcGIS 8.x/9.x with 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst extensions,

. ArcGIS Server,

. ArcGIS Image Server

. ArcGIS Engine,

. ArcSDE

. ArcView GIS 3.2a including extensions,

. MS Bing Maps

Databases:

. Oracle including Geo Databases, TOAD

. MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 including Geo Databases and SQL Server

spatial

. MS Access including Personal Geo Databases

. File based Geodatabases

Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions (ERP):

. Hansen 8

Design (UML) tools:

. Visio 2000/2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ESRI Canada, Calgary, Alberta

(December, 2008 - Present)

GIS Solutions Architect (Enterprise Solutions Group)

. Providing senior-level technical expertise in user needs analysis,

design, development and implementation of client solutions.

. Working in partnership with existing and potential customers for

the analysis of business processes/workflows and assist with

developing change management procedures that leverage the proposed

GIS functionality.

. Working closely with the solutions team to design, develop,

recommend, implement, and support system architecture (hardware,

software, application, database and communications) for enterprise

GIS solutions.

. Working with other consultant(s) for gathering client requirements

and defining functional specifications.

. Working with other consultants in the design and delivery of client

solutions from conception to completion.

. Working closely with project teams to manage client expectations

and ensure project objectives are met.

. Providing input into the preparation of proposals (e.g. RFPs, RFIs

and RFQs) as requested.

Marston Canada Ltd., Calgary, Alberta

(February, 2007 - December, 2008)

GIS Developer/Consultant

. Created and implemented design for ArcGIS Server 9.2/9.3 Web based

applications for

Solar/Wind energy and Oil Sand projects.

. Ongoing GIS support of multiple Oil&Gas and mining projects.

. Designed and built central Geodatadatabase for federal NTDB/CanVec

data.

. Developed ATS Grid application to generate ATS feature classes from

coordinate file.

. Designed and developed Mineral Data application to process EUB

Mineral Data file.

2002-2007

West-East GIS Solutions., Calgary, Alberta

GIS Consultant/Sole Proprietor

Founded the startup company to provide GIS programming services in

Transportation, Oil and Gas industries.

PROJECTS:

City of Calgary, Alberta

Roads Asset Management Program (RAMP) (November, 2005 - December, 2006)

. Analysis, development and implementation of Asset Management, Work

Management, Citizen Relationship Hansen's 8 modules.

. Hansen and ArcGIS integration

Complete Land Services Ltd., Calgary, Alberta

Seismic Extension Project (May, 2005 - November, 2005)

. Created GIS Web-based version of Seismic Application for ArcGIS

Server.

. Designed and built ArcGIS Server Web Services for topographic data

distribution.

. Developed the Seismic Application for ArcGIS Desktop 9.0

. Designed and developed stand-alone (ArcEngine-based) version of

Seismic Application

City of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

Road Maintenance Project (January, 2005 - April, 2005)

. Redesigned and redeveloped the VB.NET Boulevards Maintenance

Extension for ArcGIS Desktop 8.3

. Upgrated the VB6 Street Overlay Extension for ArcGIS Desktop 8.3

with additional functionality.

. Redeveloped old VB6 Street Cleaning Extension for ArcGIS Desktop

8.3

Wisconsin State Department of Transportation, Madison, WI, USA

WISLR (Wisconsin Local Roads) Project (September, 2003 - June, 2004)

. Interviewed engineers in central office and local districts,

gathered requirements, provided analysis.

. Designed and developed VB6 ArcGIS 8.3 plot management and

cartographic production applications for Counties and Functional

Road Classes Map series.

. Created tools and utilities for automated and semi automated

geospatial data editing.

Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, Calgary, Alberta

CADM (GAP) Project (September, 2002 - July, 2003)

The major goal of this project was a replacement for the old CAD based

Computer Assisted Drafting and Mapping package ('Informap'). The ESRI

ArcGIS product suite is the standard that has been selected for this

project. The pipeline data was migrated from the old CAD system into the MS

SQL GeoDataBase. Responsibilities included:

. Interviewed users and gathered requirements.

. Provided analysis, solution proposal and solution approaches.

. Created VB6 ArcGIS 8.2 application with all of the functionality

required replacing Informap.

2000-2002

Complete Land Services Ltd., Calgary, Alberta

Senior GIS-Programmer Analyst

. Provided project management, analysis, design and development.

. Interviewed users and gathered requirements.

. Provided solution proposal and solution approaches.

. Reduced processing time seismic map production from 6 hours to 30

minutes.

. Provided Beta testing for new ESRI product - ArcGIS since February

2001.

. Designed and developed ArcGIS tools for conversion Microstation TRIM

data to more useful format for produce high quality maps.

. Created utilities for build and clean spatial data sets.

. Developed series of utilities for conversion GIS data.

. Created utilities for create metadata for spatial data sets.

. Designed and developed GIS custom applications in a variety of

technologies, using ArcObjects(COM based) with Visual Basic/ Visual

Basic for Applications.

. Upgraded applications written in Avenue to ArcGIS 8 technology.

. Developed special modules for automatic creation of high quality

seismic maps in the oil and gas industry.

. Designed and developed GIS application for pipeline GeoDataBase.

. Provided technical assistance for company personal.

. Provided continual in-house support for ArcGIS.

1999-2000

Donetsk State Geodetic Center, Donetsk, Ukraine

Senior GIS-Programmer Analyst

. Provided analysis, solution proposal, solution approach and design.

. Provided management for group of 2 developers and 4 technicians.

. Organized and provided management for data conversion from CAD formats

(Microstation, AutoCAD) to the shape file format for a number of

surveyor's plans.

. Developed Land use Inventory for Donetsk region using ArcView.

. Created Digital Atlas of Donetsk City using Visual Basic and

MapObjects.

. Created a multimedia CD with interactive city map, with a search

engine; indicate objects like shops, companies, historical places etc.

. Developed Internet-based GIS and business applications.

1991-1999

Oblservis Ltd.,Makeevka, Ukraine.

Owner & & CEO

. Coordinated automated cash registers software development.

. Project management for developing several tools testing and repairing

of cash registers.

. Managed development of the telecommunication software. We developed

and produced a non-standard modem and needed software.

. Coordinated development of real-time water control system. We

developed hardware and software for collects and analyzes information

from water-using detectors.

1982-1991

Several state companies.

Senior Computer Specialist

. Full development of the automated production control system.

. Development of software estimating ecological effects of coal mining

using Visual Basic and Clipper.

. Computer-aided design of ASICs and PCBs

1978-1982

Military service.

PART-TIME WORK:

2008

Kadme AS, Stavanger, Norway

. Developing Kadme ArcGIS Server GIS Application.

2000

GeoData Software System, Navarre, Florida, USA

. Developed of Contour Labeling Extension.

This extension allows the interactive editing of elevation values for

contour lines.

Elevation values can be assigned to individual contour lines or to a

series of

increasing or decreasing contour lines.

2000

Scottish Natural Heritage, Edinburgh, UK

. Created utilities for GIS data analyses.

1999

ThinkSpace Inc., London, Ontario, CANADA

. Designed and developed ArcView plug-in for exports ArcView's themes

to MFworks (raster GIS analysis tool).

With the ArcView plug-in for MFworks, you can use ArcView as your

vector-processing engine, then use the ArcView plug-in for MFworks to

seamlessly transfer data to and from MFworks.

This integration allows you to work in both the raster and vector

worlds interactively.

The advantage of this integration is that all the power of MFworks is

available to you from within ArcView.

You can use any of the facilities in MFworks to solve your specific

spatial problems. The results of any MFworks process can then be

imported back into ArcView on demand.

1999

Advanced Resource Consulting Ltd. Victoria, BC, Canada

. Created extension for interpolates flight line photo center points.

This system plots and interpolates photo centers along aerial

photography flight lines.

EDUCATION

. May, 2009 - World Class Productivity Inc., Canada

Introduction to Business Analysis course.

. December, 2008 - World Class Productivity Inc., Canada

Project Management Essentials course.

. March, 2007 - Orion Technology Inc., Canada

OnPoint 6 Administration course.

. April, 1999 - ESRI Virtual campus, USA

Basic of Avenue

. November, 1999 - ESRI Virtual campus, USA.

Basic of MapObjects

. Jun.--Aug., 1998 - ESRI Virtual campus, USA.

Introduction to ArcView GIS 3.0

. Sep.--Oct., 1987 - "SoyuzEVMComplex" Scientific Educational Center,

Kiev.

Assembler Programming Course (for IBM/360).

. Apr.--Aug., 1988 - "SoyuzEVMComplex" Scientific Educational Center,

Minsk.

IBM RS 370 and analogous workstation hardware course

. 1973--1978 - Mozhaisky Space-Engineering Military Academy,

St. Petersburg.

Earned Degree: MS, Computer Sciences.

Thesis: "Automated Information Analysis".

LANGUAGES

. English

. Ukrainian

. Russian

. Polish

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