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  Alexandre [Alex] POLOZOFF
440 North Wabash
Chicago, IL 60611
US

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Sr Programmer, Wireless, EJB, Toplink, Weblogic, Java Resume #1892831

OBJECTIVE Stay on the bleeding edge of technology. My work with the wireless internet has been featured in magazines like PC Magazine.

I am accustomed to mentoring junior members of staff in the latest technologies.

I have worked both in the USA and Europe and enjoy working in multilingual/cultural environments.

I am a US Citizen.

MS Word version of this resume at http://www.alexandre.polozoff.com/resume/theresume.doc and Text version at http://www.alexandre.polozoff.com/resume/theresume.txt

Brainbench.com IT certifications:
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TARGET JOB Desired Job Type: Contract
Desired Status: Full-Time
Salary: hourly, available on request
Site Location: downtown Chicago
Description of my perfect job:
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Available immediately.

Chicago downtown. Inquire about my rates outside of Chicago.

I have experience working overseas, unsupervised and am capable at telecommuting if necessary.
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Career Level: Management (Manager/Director of Staff)
Date of Availability: Immediately

TARGET COMPANY Company Size: No Preference
Category: Computers, Software

TARGET LOCATIONS Relocate: No
US-IL-Chicago

WORK STATUS US I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

EXPERIENCE 12/2000 - 12/2000 Sun Microsystems Baltimore, MD USA
Java Network Applications Consultant
Troubleshooting and debugging network/coding problems with existing server and client-applet for a Sun Microsystems client in Balitmore. The one week project involved figuring out why the application was experiencing network hangs and how to resolve the problem.

After a thorough examination of the networking code I devised and implemented a solution. In three days the hang was resolved. As a test when the network cable was pulled from the back of the machine the application was able to recover.

Sun Solaris 7, Windows NT, Apache v1.3.9, J2EE, Sockets

6/2000 - 11/2000 Square D / Diamond Technology Partners Chicago, IL USA
Technical Lead - Consultant
Technical lead on the design and development of the EJB based e-commerce web site for the Square D Corporation.

Primary responsibility is the design and development of the infrastructure based on EJBs/servlets and Toplink for Weblogic using CMP and transparent indirection. Teaching and mentoring of Diamond Technology Partners staff in Java, EJBs, Toplink, and servlets.

Consultant on wireless access technology; designing and development of WAP applications. Time and materials via wireless devices.

Electronic data interchange, using XML and/or http, among the partner sites. Business data such as job postings, integrated calendaring and email for the participating electrical contracting firms was exchanged.

JSPs provide the user access to the BEA Weblogic based servlets and EJB components. Container managed persistent objects were maintained via TopLink and MS SQL Server.

Designed and developed the integration of the Calico E-Commerce engine. Calico is based on Weblogic v4.51 but our platform uses Weblogiv v5.10. This was accomplished with RMI servers providing method access between the two Weblogic v5.10 and v4.51 servers.

The web site is currently available to approved beta testers at http://www.wantpad.com/

Development Environment: EJB, BEA WebLogic Application Server v5.10 and v4.51, Toplink, XML, RMI, iPlanet v4.1, JSP, servlets, Windows NT, Sun JDK v1.3, J2EE, Calico, Verity

6/1999 - Present OfficeServant.com & FootballServant.com Chicago IL USA
Co-founder
Co-founder wireless web-based applications at OfficeServant.com and FootballServant.com.

Written up in PC Magazine, March 16, 2000, "best sites" of the wireless web OfficeServant.com is the "nifty new service" in "Wireless on the Web." Our wireless internet web services are recognized along with industry leaders such as MSN-Mobile and Yahoo!Mobile [see article link at http://www.officeservant.com/ home page]. Written up in Mobile Computing & Communications magazine, July 2000, p54.


In my business development role we are a Phone.com Application Developer Alliance program member [see http://www.phone.com/solutions/app_dev/OfficeServant.html ]. Also provide online calendaring with partner eCal.

Technical lead on the wireless internet development to access websites from WAP cellular phones. Architected and coded mechanisms for providing POP3 and SMTP email access via java components, airline flight status, 20 minute delayed stock quotes, day's currency exchange rates and commodity prices. Exact details can be found at [ http://www.officeservant.com/docs/cellular ] "Cellular Central" with more detailed links available there.

The architecture of the website is completely database driven allowing OfficeServant.com to provide multi-language capabilities and the unique co-branding WAP partnership services for telecommunications firms and other organizations. I developed this architecture from many years of client-server and telecommunications programming in international environments.

Originally written using VBScript and ASP using the IIS web server I am in the process of leading the conversion to an EJB based application using the Orion server for EJB/servlet/XSLT XML translations to HTML, WML/WAP and cHTML for Japanese i-mode phones.

Providing the highest quality applications to the internet community at no charge. OfficeServant.com applications include time and bookkeeping, accounting and email access. FootballServant.com allows tour operators and private individuals to buy and sell ticket/hotel packages to soccer games throughout the world. All information is maintained on backend SQL databases via a load balanced IIS webfarm.

Development Environment: Windows 2000, WAP, WML, Orion Server, XML, EJB, Servlets, ASP, VBScript, JScript, ADODB, SQL, HDML, IIS v5.0, SNMPv1/v2, Sun Java jdk1.3, J2EE, Windows NT v4.0

8/1998 - 6/2000 CNA Insurance Chicago, IL USA
Consultant
Report directly to the Vice President of Commercial Insurance Infrastructure, a US$2 billion a year business division.

Port of business applications to web-based servers. Technologies implemented involved transaction and SNA servers for the backend DB2 mainframe access, Microsoft IIS web servers and load balancing systems for the web server farm. Technology used was MTS for the CICS transactions, Java applets/components and ASP pages for the user interface.

Porting of existing business applications from OS/2 to Windows NT/2000. Applications are client-server based, written in/using C, C++, SQL and APPC. The port is to C on Windows NT/2000.

In charge of network management workstation configuration and fault detection. Initiated the implementation of a proactive network management system (NMS) where none existed. Since the implementation of the NMS, help desk calls have dropped by over 60% and almost all network and workstation faults can be detected and corrected before the end-user is even aware of a problem. Technologies implemented are Java for the collection and SQL/JDBC calls to store the SNMP packets, java DB2 monitors for detecting and executing rules based faults, DB2 backend databases for data retention, C/C++ for the SNMP agent development and Microsoft IIS load balanced web server farms for the distribution of the Active Server Pages (ASP).

Development Environment: C/C++, ASP, VBScript, JScript, J2EE, ADODB, SQL, MTS, APPC, SNA, Microsoft DNA, IIS v4.0, SNMPv1/v2, Sun Java jdk1.2, SNMP Subagent DPI, HTTPODBC IDC, Windows NT, OS/2, IBM Enterprise DB2 v6.1 for NT/mainframe, Citrix Metaframe

1/1998 - 8/1998 Aspex, Inc. Köln [Cologne], GERMANY
TMN Developer
Opened the first European TMN development office for Aspex, Inc of Texas, reporting directly to the CEO. Coordinated the acquisition of the various work and business permits from the Industrie und Handelskammer(Chamber of Commerce) for a telecommunications network management project at IBM. Acquired my own Aufenthaltserlaubnis (employment authorization), which expired June, 1999.

7/1997 - 12/1997 Sodalia, SpA Trento, ITALY
Senior Systems Analyst - Consultant
Interviewed by, and reported directly to, the CIO of Sodalia at the time a partnership between Bell Atlantic and Telecom Italia.

Responsibilities were to direct a team of 20+ people, both in Italy and at Bell Atlantic in the USA, in the analysis, design and development of a Y2k compliant replacement for the SEAS mainframe data collection system spurred on by the introduction of new NetPilot Y2k routers into the Bell Atlantic network.

Participated and lead several steering committee sessions on the procedures and progress of the group.

Gathered requirements and conducted the analysis of the various Bellcore standards for SEAS, TIDE and the SS7 NetPilot Routers. Prepared the bid proposals to Bell Atlantic, identifying scope of work, implementation and testing requirements both in Italy and on the Bell Atlantic network in the USA.

Initiated the development project at Sodalia before the departure of Bell Atlantic from the partnership with Telecom Italia; the cessation of this partnership had no negative affect on the SEAS project. Worked with both Bell Atlantic and Sodalia during the initial transition period of the partnership changes.

Lead a team of 5 people on a performance analysis of Sodalia developed products for SNMP based telecommunications network management.

Development Environment: HPUX, HP Openview, C++, SNMP, Iona Orbix, SS7, STP, SCP, NetPilot, 5ESS

2/1996 - 6/1997 IBM Raleigh, NC USA
Technical Lead TMN Internal Platform Development
Technical team lead spread over 3 separate development locations, for development on the TMN/6000 Internal Platform Development Group within IBM. Provided TMN based technical knowledge and leadership in technical issues for expanding functionality of the TMN/6000 platform., driven by a development project at MCI.

Extensive development of both manager and agent technology for TMN based network management systems. Agent technology utilized the TMN++ specifications to develop and expand CMIP objects into business layer CORBA objects on AIX. Developed Java interfaces on the manager Windows NT end for the business objects represented in CORBA.

Trained participating consulting firm employees in Los Angeles and Colorado Springs in developing TMN applications using TMN++ toolkits. Trained in TMN/CMIP->CORBA implementations.

Member of two RFP response teams at IBM. Identified scope of work requirements, cost analysis and project timelines for bid proposals for SS7 and ICMP management.

Extensive development/debugging experience on 8x multiprocessor AIX workstations.

Development Environment: AIX, TMN/6000, C++, Iona Orbix, SONET OC-48, OC-192, 8xSMP, SS7, ICMP, Sun JDK beta, Windows NT

2/1995 - 12/1995 Effix, SA Paris, FRANCE
Crossplatform Product Development Manager
Reporting directly to one of the co-founders of Effix, my responsibilities were as manager of the development group on crossplatform C++ development of Effix's flagship software product, Kobra, from Unix to OS/2. Kobra is an object oriented financial application used by investment banking corporations around the world. My primary duty was to provide management of 25+ people on the crossplatform development and testing groups. Development was tasked with porting Kobra from the Sun Unix platform to OS/2. Testing had to ensure that the Kobra look and feel was maintained across platforms.

I managed the development in three phases. Our first phase developed the appropriate build environment on OS/2 and the initial move of the original code from Unix to OS/2. The second phase was to actually start the port and testing. The final phase focused on integration of the ported OS/2 code with the unix based code and continued testing and debugging of problems.

Alternate goals I had was to provide training in OS/2 development. This included such topics as C++ development and kernel debugging techniques, threads and multitasking concepts, build and network/communications (TCP/IP) issues, natural language support.

Effix is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reuters, Ltd. Reuters and has exclusive marketing agreements with Effix to distribute Kobra worldwide. All development was done onsite at Effix's headquarters in Paris, France. The members of the development, testing and documentation staffs I worked with were of international makeup from France, Switzerland, Great Britain and the United States. The contract was administered by IBM - Austin.

Development Environment: OS/2, Windows NT, C++, Sun OS, Roguewave

8/1994 - 2/1995 Sprint Kansas City, KS USA
TMN Broadband Network Management Consultant
Worked with the research division on architecting and developing a scalable TMN CMIP based enterprise network management prototype. Developed the solutions from the network elements to the business layer management, with primary focus at the Network Element (ATM and SONET) and Element Management Layers.

First architectural phase involved substantial effort in requirements gathering from the separate network management divisions within Sprint. Followed by the design of a CMIP/TMN based solution of the requirements was produced.

The prototype was CMIP based with seamless protocol support of TL1 and SNMP at the Network Element Layer. This was achieved by my architecture and development of CMIP based proxy agents. By including additional proxy agents the design supports additional protocols in a manner that is transparent to the upper layers. Each proxy agent provided full support of TMN, Bellcore and ITU related GDMO. Additional CMIP proxy agents could be quickly prototyped due to their object oriented design of the code.

The Element Management Layer implemented Objectstore's OODB and XShell for distributed objects (this was pre-Corba days). The goal of the EML was to hide the complexity of XOM/XMP implementation from the developers. This was achieved by architecting and developing C++ based objects which, when incorporated into the distributed objects, did not require apriory XOM/XMP knowledge by the buiness layer developer.

Our testbed network was the 10Gigabit MAGIC network.

Development Environment: AIX, HPUX, TMN/6000, HP Openview, ATM, SONET, C++

12/1993 - 8/1994 Continental Bank of Illinois/Bank of America Chicago, IL USA
WAN Network Management Consultant
Worked with the network management group to manage the architecture and development of applications to manage the corporate WAN. Our goal was to produce a set of applications that provided scalable network management of over 100 servers, 4000 workstations, 250 dialup lines and several different network protocols (Netbios, TCP/IP, LAN Server and Novell IPX).

The requirements gathering involved meeting with over 30 different division heads of the bank. Issues addressed were the particular network requirements and the scheduling of the roll out to administer and manage their part of the network.

Our group then architected and developed a distributed network managing application, NEWS the Network Early Warning System. The core of our network support operations. NEWS provided the ability to administer and monitor faults in the network.

Our developed solution provided the ability to detect faults and page network support personnel in as little as 10 seconds after fault occurrence.

Development Environment: OS/2, C++, Lotus Notes, Lan Server, Netbios, Novell IPX, TCP/IP, DB2, SQL

5/1993 - 12/1993 IBM Austin, TX USA
Instructor - OSI Distributed Network Management
Developed and taught CMIP based OSI distributed network management application architecture and development techniques for IBM's Developer Connection Division. The course was a five (5) day intensive hands on examination of using XOM/XMP to develop CMIP based OSI network management applications.I developed the outline, teacher's guide, overhead foils, student workbooks, and workgroup laboratory code. The course examined basic XOM/XMP/CMIP concepts, distributed OSI network management philosophy and actual XOM/XMP/CMIP based code development.

I personally taught the course at IBM's educational facilities in Austin, Texas.

Development Environment: OS/2, Windows

6/1991 - 12/1993 IBM Austin, TX USA
OSI Network Management Consultant
Worked with IBM's software development on architecting and developing IBM's OSI LAN Netview CMIP based distributed network management package. The development was based on X/Open's Consolidated Management and Object Management APIs.

I did the requirements gathering, architecture, and design and development of the LAN Server CMIP agent and GDMO. This involved meeting and working closely with several different members of IBMs LAN Server development group.

I also managed a team of testers for both functional and system testing. I also participated on the screenteam using the kernel debugger to evaluate software traps for both C and C++/SOM based code.

Development Environment: OS/2, HPUX, HP Openview, C++, SOM, OS/2 Kernel Debugger, Lan Server, ASN.1, BER, GDMO, XOM, XMP

10/1989 - 3/1993 IBM Austin, TX USA
OS/2 Consultant
Developer of the GUI based Hypertext initiative on OS/2.

11/1986 - 9/1989 First Boston New York, NY USA
Consultant
Consultant on trading workstations on both the Windows 3.1 and OS/2 platforms.

EDUCATION 1/1987 NYU US-NY-New York
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics

5/1986 NYU US-NY-New York
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

SKILLS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience
Java Expert Currently used 4 years
C++ Expert Currently used 8 years
XOM XMP CMIP TMN Expert 1 year ago 10 years
SNMP Expert Currently used 10 years
ATM SONET SS7 5ESS Expert 2 years ago 5 years
WAP Expert Currently used 1 years
WML HDML Expert Currently used 1 years
ASP Expert Currently used 3 years
DB2 SQL Expert Currently used 11 years
VBSCRIPT, Visual Basic Expert Currently used 3 years
JAVASCRIPT Expert Currently used 3 years
C Expert Currently used 14 years
Italian Beginner 1 year ago 2 years
French Intermediate 1 year ago 5 years
Russian Intermediate +4 years ago 20 years
IIS FTP SMTP POP3 Expert Currently used 6 years
MTS, CICS Expert Currently used 10 years
PASCAL, FORTRAN, ALGOL Expert +4 years ago 15 years
JSP, Tomcat, Apache Intermediate Currently used 1 years
JDBC Expert Currently used 2 years
EJB Expert Currently used 1 years
BEA Weblogic Expert Currently used 1 years
Toplink for Weblogic Expert Currently used 1 years
XML Expert Currently used 1 years
cHTML and i-mode Intermediate Currently used 1 years
UML Expert Currently used 10 years

REFERENCES Available upon request
Phone Number: when required
Reference Type: Professional

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Management Packages & Protocols:XOpen's Management Protocol & Object Management APIs: XOM & XMP (Agents and Managing Applications), OOI, MIBcomposer, OSIs CMIP, CMIS(E), CMOT (over TCP/IP), CMOL (over LLC), HLM, SNMP (Agents and Managing Applications) & SNMPv2, LAN Netview family of products, Netview/6000, HP's Openview, TMN/6000, Systems Monitor/6000 Languages:C, C++, Java, Assembly Operating Systems & Software Packages:AIX, HP-UX, Unix, X Windows (Motif), SQL (DB2), PVCS / SCCS / CMVC, FFST/2, DOS (up to 4.0), MS Windows (SDK), MDI Gateway, LAN Distance, ATM (FORE), SONET (NORTEL, Fujitsu, Pirelli), SS7 (DSC) Communications:ISO/OSI (Upper Layers), ASN.1/BER/GDMO, NetBIOS, TCP/IP, APPC (SNA LU6.2), IBM, Token Ring (802.5), LLC (802.2), ATM, SONET / SDH, X.400, X.500, X.25, T1, T3, DSUs & CSUs, FDDI, RS232, RIP, DNS, ARP, 3270 emulation, Frame Relay ISO/ITU Standards:ISO 9595 and 9596, ISO 10164 & 10165 Series, ISO 7498 Series, ISO 104000, CCITT/ITU X.200-229 ACSE/ROSE/ASN.1, CCITT/ITU X.700-752 CMIP CMIS SMFs GDMO, CCITT/ITU G.707-709, 774, 803, 831 Sonet /SDH, CCITT/ITU I.311, 327, B-ISDN General, CCITT/ITU I.361, 362 B-ISDN ATM, CCITT/ITU I.371 Traffic Ctrl., CCITT/ITU I.413, 414, 432 Network I/F, CCITT/ITU I.610 Ops. & Maint., CCITT/ITU M.3010, M.3100 TMN, GNM
SS7 STP/SCP related standards:Bellcore TA-NWT-00365, Bellcore SR-2802, Bellcore SR-NWT-002988, Bellcore GR-310, Bellcore TR-TAP-000019, Bellcore GR-310-CORE, Bellcore TA-STS-000298, Bellcore GR-778-CORE Misc. Standards:ATM Forum 94-744R1 M4 I/F, ANSI T.1214(a) I/F OS to NE, OmniPoint, Bellcore TA-NWT-001114 ATM, Bellcore TA-TSV-001409 PVC cell Relay, Bellcore TR-NWT-001042 SONET, Bellcore SR-TSV-002671 EML for FM & RCAA, Bellcore SR-TSV-002675 EML for Config., Bellcore FA-TSV-001294 Generic EML, Bellcore GR-836-IMD Generic Ops.

Non-English Speaking Languages:Technical and conversational Italian. Technical and conversational French. Conversational Russian
Limited German.