Engineering Management

ALEX SMIRNOFF

New York, NY • Cell Phone: 703-***-****

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SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Creative, hands-on, results-driven technology leader with 15 years of software development, systems engineering and product management experience of leading departments / project teams up of up to 45 people with operating budgets up to $11 million per annum for established as well as startup companies. Hands on full stack coding experience (MEAN stack). Overall knowledge of Python, Apache-Spark, Natural Language Processing, NoSQL databases and data science models and algorithms.

Hands on experience in:

o Development using MEAN

Projects include an analytics platforms prototyping for e-commerce initiatives using NodeJS/Express/ Mongo stack with Bootstrap/JQuery frontend, developing a set of design patterns / algorithms using js and work with external APIs

GitHub: https://github.com/pastrop

o Building / Scaling up engineering organizations supporting business growth o SW & Systems Engineering & Architecture including requirements, business rules, system design, enterprise architecture sw dev't and business processes re-engineering o Agile (SCRUM), Continuous Integration, Waterfall Dev’t Methodologies o SW Baseline Management using GitHub

o Familiarity with CI principles / workflow using Bamboo / Jira o Automated testing in JS environment using Supertest, Mocha, Chai tools o Cost account management using Earned Value Management Methodology o Implementing CMM-3-5 and Lean 6 Sigma

o Program management

o Proposal development

o People management

o Data analysis & voting algorithms development

WORK EXPERIENCE

Consulting Projects New York, NY Jan 2015 - Present

E-commerce platform for Wine Retail

o Business Concept Development / UI Beta

o Proof of concept using MEAN Stack

Sales Data Analytics

o NodeJS/Mongo/Jquery based App for sales data analysis

Concept development & prototyping using NodeJS/MongoDB/Socket.io/Angular/React

Endpoint security – product development

MyTwoCents (www.my02c.com), New York, NY May 2014 – Dec 2015 Co-Founder / COO

Mobile / Web Platform (www.my02.com) helping people to make better decision including fully responsive Web Portal and native iOS App.

o Product development Management including business planning, product road-mapping, use cases development, product team mangement.

o Managing engineering team, including hiring, compensation decision making and directing offshore development team

Web Channel Development

o Systems architecture

o Proof of concept using Node.js/Express/Mongo/ RESTful model

System Testing

Technologies: Javascript,Jquery, Node.JS, HTML5/CSS3, AJAX-REST, GitHub, Bitbucket Telephonics, Huntington, NY Sep 2009 – Oct 2014

Engineering Director / Project Manager Sep 2009 – Oct 2014

Being responsible for managing engineering organization supporting a portfolio of international and domestic SW development projects.

Managed product development using Agile methodology resulting in significant cost reduction

Delivered and deployed multiple systems to domestic and international customers

Managed multiple subcontractors

Managed winning proposals efforts (up to $ 20 million, federal procurement)

Led product switchover from Sun Solaris to Linux platform

Raised SW development productivity by 30%

Achieved 100% on schedule system delivery

Drastically reduced a number of post deployment defects for newly developed code

Re-engineered SW Development process in accordance with CMMI-3 requirements

Implemented Agile/Scrum methodology to manage needs for controlling scope and timelines. Trained and mentored development team in this development philosophy to enable them to meet tight delivery deadlines.

Mentored engineering teams.

Lockheed Martin, Rockville MD Dec 1996 – Jul 2009

Engineering Project Manager, September 2000 – Jun 2009 For Department of Homeland Security, led the development and testing effort for a web portal project for the US Customs and Border Protection (cost-plus contract, total of 2.5 billion).

Being responsible for coordinating software development activities for a large scale, mission critical system implementation including software development approach, code development planning, staffing, budget, customer interface.

Managed contractual activities in compliance with FAR and DCAA auditing requirements

Led engineering support for developing proposal in response to federal gov't RFPs in full compliance with FAR

Concurrently managed up to 15 cost accounts to the total operating budget of $11 million per annum using EVMS in compliance with the federal auditing requirements

Managed test engineering and systems engineering activities including system’s engineering enterprise architecture and business processes re-engineering, specialty engineering, and HW/SW COTS maintenance supporting an implementation of B2B CRM application (up to $180 million per SW release)

Created and run a system’s engineering department; implemented a fully matrixed organizational structure, served as an HR manager with up to 19 direct reports; managed over managers while directing 45 people strong cross functional engineering team. .

Acted as a focal point for a customer for requirements, use case and test procedures development

HR responsibilities in a matrix engineering environment included hiring responsibilities, managing salaries and raises, career development and performance reviews and mentoring 19 engineers who were direct reports.

Management responsibilities for product delivery included securing funding and supervising budget issues, as well as managing product development, timelines, and scope of the project.

Managed testing and development teams’ conducting integration & acceptance testing and performance tuning

Successfully turned around behind schedule and over budget engineering tasks; worked with internal/external customers to perform requirements decomposition to the level required for product selection.

Managed the testing effort, working with the testing team so they could elicit requirements, created 200+ test cases to verify user requirements and incorporate business use cases and led the team that performed regression and integration testing. Presented test cases and results to business leaders

Acted as a SW Development lead for a developing a large scale mission critical system for the Federal Aviation Administration

Supervised engineering support for the CMM-3 certification; leading effort to achieve CMM-3 certification in 9 months. Created framework for certification, including management and engineering processes and architecture. Led the team and sub-teams that performed process improvement and program analysis efforts. Achieved 20% cost savings for the tasks under direct supervision

Gained thorough understanding of the CMM-4 compliant SW development process and Experience with Mercury Test Suite, PVCS Dimensions, Mindjet toolset, DOORs

Technologies: Websphere, MQ, SAP CRM, DB2, JAVA, ABAP, Linux, Mercury Test Suite, PVCS Dimensions, DOORs

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Sr. Marketing Representative, Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management, Dec1996-Aug 2000

Responsible for leading marketing and business development efforts in 22 Eastern & Central European countries including business strategy development, new product launch, identifying and qualifying potential customers, advising capture teams, preparing bid packages, identifying and hiring international consultants, setting up foreign offices, briefing the executive committee of emerging markets.

Being instrumental in establishing company presence in the region including contracts in Albania ( $50 million), Georgia and Russia

Set up a field office in Moscow; participated in development of a business case for the space-based aircraft navigation and landing system

Anser Inc. Washington, DC

Jan 1995-Dec 1996

Aerospace Engineer

Responsible for International Launch market analysis including research of space launching capabilities in the Former Soviet Union Republics, technical assessments of leading Russian and Ukrainian aerospace companies; engineering support for the NASA Space Station Office and Mission to Planet Earth Office, including establishing NASA office in Moscow, Russian, supporting technical cooperation with the Russian aerospace industry, conducting technology feasibility studies.

Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow, Russia

March 1990-Aug 1994

Aerospace Engineer

Conducted R&D in the field of aerospace systems design and development including: Aerospace systems mission analysis and system design, mathematical modeling and numerical simulations. EDUCATION

Johns Hopkins University

Graduate Courses in Applied Mathematics 2007-2009

MS in Technical Management, Major: Technical / Organizational Management. GPA – 3. May 2004 Moscow Aviation Institute

BS & MS in Aerospace Engineering, Summa cum laude GPA 5.0 (out of 5.0) Feb. 1991 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Using MongoDB with NodeJS 2014

Big Data Algorithms using Apache-Spark 2014

Game Theory and Competitive Strategies 2012

Mobile Application Development 2012

Statistical Analysis; Algorithmic Complexity John’s Hopkins U 2008

Systems Oriented Architecture 2008

Program Management 101,201 2007

6 Sigma Process improvement training ( green belt ) 2007

Systems Engineering: Lockheed Martin Training Course 2003

Systems Architecture: Lockheed Martin Training Course 2003

Subcontracts Management: Lockheed Martin Training Course 2003

Competitive Marketing Strategies: Wharton School of Business 2000 RELATED SKILLS

Programming Languages / OS / Tools: Javascript, Node JS, Angular, MEAN Stack, Github, Bitbucket, Bootstrap,SQL Foreign Languages: Russian (native), French (proficient), Mandarin (beginner) Oversees working assignments: Russia, UK, France

CLEARANCES

DoD Secret - active

DHS (CBP) – full background investigation

US Citizen

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