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Green Card Holder Master of Science vkouevda@yahoo.com
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VADIM V. KOUEVDA
UNIX ADMINISTRATOR / ENGINEER / DEVELOPER
TECHNICAL TRAINER
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OBJECTIVE
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Systems Administration, Engineering or Development position in an orga-
nization where robust and reliable, easy supportable and cost-effective
IT environment would be needed.
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SKILLS
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o Excellent in troubleshooting and identifying problems as well as
solving them quickly and completely.
o Can make sound decisions and take responsibility under pressure
(trading floor and 7x24 experience).
o Communicative, capable of team and project leading, skilled in
training of personnel.
o Inventive and innovative, intelligent, self-starter, well organized
and committed to excellence.
o Skillful in writing technical documentation, standards and proposals,
evaluation of new technologies.
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SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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o Development and conducting of Solaris/Linux administration and
Shell/Perl programming training course.
o Highly customizable, cost and time effective JumpStart with an option
of 20 min cpio installation.
o Independent HA cluster solution (NFS, NIS, DNS, and Sybase) with under
1 min switchover time.
o Automated hands-off system for ODS/VXVM installations with root
encapsulation and mirroring.
o Transition of corporate regional office to LPRng printing with ~ 170
networked and serial printers.
o Design, computer modeling, and patenting of innovative particle
accelerator structure.
o Low-cost batch automation tool (Autosys-like) with centralized, NFS
mounted configuration.
o Implementation of client-server graphical engine for SAR performance
analysis of corporate IT.
o Design of sophisticated automated patch management system with patch
clusters and host classes.
o Numerous successful Solaris crash dump analysis with subsequent
system tuning or redesign.
o Development of upgrade strategy and automation of large oil
processing industrial plant.
o Extensive system (UNIX) and applied (Web, DB, numerical methods,
games) programming.
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TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE (on a scale of 1-10)
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Level Years
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Engineering, Hardware
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UNIX automation, JumpStart, app. packaging, HA, performance
tuning, Sun ODS; SPARC (1-20), Ultra (1-420), Enterprise
(80-6500), IBM PC compatible ................................ 10 94-pr.
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Operating Systems
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Sun 4.1.3 - Solaris 8, Linux (Red Hat, Devil, LCBT),
Windows 3.1-2000, MS-DOS .................................... 8-9 90-pr.
VMS 5.3+, SCO Unix, UnixWare, NetWare ....................... 7-8 90-96
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UNIX Administration and Security
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TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, automounter, FTP, DNS, crash dump
analysis & kernel tuning .................................... 8-9 90-pr.
Apache/Tomcat, IP-chains/filters, SATAN/SAINT, Sygate,
ZoneAlarm, rsync, rdist ..................................... 7-8 98-pr.
SSH, Tripwire, ntop, Kerberos, pgp, AFS, amd, samba, LPRng,
LDAP ........................................................ 5-7 98-01
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Programming
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Ksh, sed, CGI, HTML ......................................... 10 94-pr.
FORTRAN, Intel and VAX Assembler, MS Visual Basic, FoxPro .. 9-10 85-94
awk, C/Qt, perl (Tk, DBI), SQL, make, JavaScript, CVS/RCS,
TeX, Postscript ............................................. 6-8 94-pr.
MySQL, Neural Networks, AI systems .......................... 6-7 01-pr.
Expect, XML, ndbm ........................................... 4-6 00-01
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Specific Vendors and Applications
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ORACLE 7, ORACLE Office, ORACLE PDB (parallel database) ..... 8-9 94-97
Veritas FS (VXFS) and Volume Manager (VXVM) ................. 7-8 97-pr.
Legato Networker, Autosys, Cyrrus IMAP, Netscape iPlanet
and Calendar servers ........................................ 6-7 98-01
Tibco Rendezvous, BEA WebLogic, Veritas NetBackup, Visio
Designer .................................................... 5-6 00-01
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WORKING EXPERIENCE
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10/01 - Present Kouevda & Associates IT Solutions.
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o Further development of JumpStart (shell, perl, C) and advanced
patching system.
o Research in Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic. Extensive scripting
(shell, perl, SQL) and programming (C, C++) of "Fuzzy Cognitive Map"
technical trading system, MySQL administration (DBA).
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12/02 - Present New Age Training
Technical Trainer
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Development and conducting of training course "Intermediate+ UNIX
administration", including Linux and Solaris administration, shell and
Perl programming, administration of popular applications.
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10/01 - 11/02 URS, Inc.
Security Architect
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o Evaluation and administration of various Linux (RedHat, Linux From
Scratch, LinuxCare BT, Devil-Linux, SuperRescue, and Gibraltar) as well
as BSD (Open and Free) distributions and engineering of cost cutting
and highly secure diskless UNIX-based firewall/router solution.
o Effective securing of the heterogeneous (win2000, Linux)
international development environment.
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2/00 - 10/01 Bear Stearns & Co. Inc
UNIX Engineer, VP, Enterprise Engineering Task Force
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2nd level support of 2500 hosts at Intranet, De-Militarized Zone and
directly Internet-connected. System design and deployment, hardware
maintenance, security monitoring. Establishing of corporate standards,
hardware and software evaluation (VA Linux, Brocade, EMC, IBM),
technical presentations and SA training. Application packaging and
support: Veritas VXVM and Sun ODS, Apache/Tomcat, Tripwire, WebLogic,
Autosys, TIBCO, Veritas NetBackup, ntop, and SSH.
SOLARIS PROJECT WORK: successful leading of Enterprise Configuration
Management, extensive system programming (ksh, sed, awk, C, perl, CGI,
HTML, expect), completion of several firm wide IT projects:
o Highly customized and time effective JumpStart with:
* NIS/NFS-based configuration system with automated patch, software,
and EEPROM updates,
* Fast (3-10 times faster than standard), cpio-based technique of
Solaris installs,
* Fully automated, EMC-enabled ODS and VXVM (including encapsulation
and mirroring) install.
o Cost cutting conversion of Solaris environment to packages,
packaging of all applications in use.
LINUX AND SOLARIS PROJECTS included system automation and platform
independent solutions:
o SSH-based monitoring system for hosts at "De-Militarized Zone",
where SysWatch is unavailable.
o Development and deployment of centralized sar-based graphical
performance monitoring engine.
o Low-cost batch automation tool (Autosys-like) with centralized (NFS)
scripts, executed on clients.
o Centralization of syslog facilities (including "De-Militarized Zone")
and automated log rotation.
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7/98 - 2/00 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Sr Sys Admin, USA Unix Operations. USA, NY
Sr Sys Admin, Unix Infrastructure. Japan, Tokyo
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Second level, 7x24 support of corporate UNIX AFS/NFS, Kerberos/NIS
environment: 700 hosts (Tokyo) and 3000 (USA) as well as some external
clients. Administration of VXVM and Legato Networker. Participation in
firm wide "UNIX system automation group", with following specialties:
o Solaris crash dump analysis; Sun hardware maintenance and
troubleshooting,
o Administration of Web/Internet related services (Netscape, Cyrrus
IMAP, LDAP, Calendar, Apache).
Conducted training of floor support. Redesigned Tokyo UNIX web site and
created "How-to" page with host inventory system (perl, ksh).
Successfully performed several long-term projects at Tokyo office:
o Implementation of LPRng print system with over than 170 networked
and serial printers.
o Redesign of Telerate Trading Room System.
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8/97 - 7/98 Merrill Lynch Japan Inc. Japan, Tokyo
System Administrator, Unix Group.
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Sole 7x24 admin for Equity trading floor (120 hosts) and Back Office (30
hosts) in complex NIS/NFS automounter environment. Crash dump analysis.
Support of Windows NT business applications, troubleshooting of UNIX and
Windows NT interoperability, samba services. Project work included:
o JumpStart with fully automated (shell, sed, awk, C) installation of
Veritas VXVM or Sun ODS.
o System architecture and development of HA (for NFS, NIS, DNS and
Sybase servers) solution.
o Deployment of Autosys and CVS. SunOS to Solaris conversion. Sybase,
NFS and NIS consolidation.
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3/96 - 8/97 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Russia, Moscow
Technical Support Project Manager, Sun Service
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Member of East European Sun Service Solution Center:
o IT Operation Services providing system performance and disaster
recovery evaluations, assessment of development strategies, design
proposals, and successful implementation of IT projects.
o Key support Field Engineer for Sun HA and PDB (ORACLE Parallel
Database, Sun/Veritas Volume Manager, ODS) projects with Gold support
program: "4 hours fix" troubleshooting and maintenance.
o Development of an upgrade strategy and automation of large oil
processing industrial plant (Sun PDB cluster with Informix DB on top
with backup solution based on Sun's tape library).
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10/94 - 3/96 LVS / Price Waterhouse Business Solutions Russia, Moscow
Head of Direct Customer Support
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Headed the group of IT support and services for key customers (over $10M
contracts):
o Automation of Russian Parliament (SunOS, Solaris, SCO, NetWare,
Windows, ORACLE). Sun and PC hardware maintenance.
o Implementation of accounting system (SCO UNIX and ORACLE) for
Russian cellular providers. Applied SQL programming.
o DB administration and tuning interoperation's tuning of the entire
line of ORACLE products in heterogeneous environment.
Initiated firm's Web server, extensive HTML design. Developed training
course, performed Internet training of IT personnel.
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1/90 - 10/94 Institute Of Theoretical And Experimental Physics
(6/92-10/94) Engineer programmer Russia, Moscow
(1/90-6/92) Scientific specialist
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o Technical planning and administration of laboratory's complex VAX-
centric heterogeneous computer environment.
o Pioneered using of Web technologies (Lynx and NCSA Mosaic) and Linux
(0.99) for scientific purposes.
o Extensive applied and system programming in TeX and C (Linux 0.99);
C and Assembler (VAX/VMS 5.3); Visual Basic, FORTRAN, TeX, and
accounting databases in Fox Pro, Dbase, and Clipper (MS Windows 3.1).
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9/85 - 1/90 Moscow Engineering Physics Institute Russia, Moscow
(5/88-1/90) Probationer, Post Graduate, Engineer
(9/85-5/88) Engineer
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o Planning, development and managing of laboratory computer center.
Research in physics and numerical methods.
o Design, modeling (IBM OS/360, FORTRAN), and patenting of innovative
particle accelerating structure.
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EDUCATION
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1982-1990 Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
M.S., Automatics and Electronics
Post graduate Studies, Computer modelling and Simulations
2000 Administration of BEA Weblogic Server (BEA Systems, Inc., NY)
1999 Project Planning and Control (Total Systems Education, NY)
1999 SAN overview (Brocade, NY)
1999 Autosys job scheduler for UNIX (Computer Associates, NY)
1998 NetWorker 4.2.5 for UNIX (Legato Systems, Tokyo)
1996 Solaris 2.x System Administration (SunService AEC, London)
1996 PDB Installation & Administration (SunService AEC,Manchester)
1996 Guide of Engagement Service (SunService AEC, Camberley)
1995 Networking Technologies (Novell AEC, Moscow)
1980-1982 School for talented in physics and math.
Where AEC stands for "Authorized Education Centre",
PDB stands for "Parallel DataBase",
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AWARDS AND HONORS
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2000-pres. Numerous certifications at www.brainbench.com (Linux,
Network, General Computer support).
1989-1990 Two certificates of inventions based on my computer modeling
of physical structures for particle accelerating.
1988 Master of science with major "Computer simulation of movement
of charged particles in linear proton accelerators."
GPA in major 5.0/5.0.
1981 Regional physics Olympiad. First degree diploma. IQ=158.
1980 2nd diploma at Regional and 3rd diploma at Republican physics
Olympiad.
1980-1982 School for talented in physics and math. GPA 5.0/5.0.
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REFERENCES are available upon request.
March 18, 2003.
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