CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

• 2021/23 European Humanities University, "Cultural Heritage Development". Vilnius, Lithuania
• 2021 Business Informatics Competence Development Centre of HSE, "Game Projects Management". Moscow, Russia
• 2021 The ICA Moscow Summer School, Academic cottages. Vyshny Volochyok, Russia
• 2021 The ICA Moscow Winter School, Lake Senezh. Solnechnogorsk, Russia
• 2020 15 International Festival-School of Contemporary Art "Territory". Moscow, Russia
• 2018 British Higher School of Art and Design, "Graphic Design" Moscow, Russia
• 2018 HSE Art and Design School, "Illustration" Moscow, Russia
• 2016/17 British Higher School of Art and Design, "Theatre Stage Design" (Scenography) Moscow, Russia
• 2015/16 The ICA Moscow Summer School, Academic cottages. Vyshny Volochyok, Russia
• 2015/16 The Exchange Program for artists at Goldsmiths University of London. London, UK
• 2015/16 Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art, "Contemporary Art" Moscow, Russia
• 2003 Moscow State Institute of Radiotechnics, Electronics and Automation, System Engineer, MSC Moscow, Russia

WORK EXPERIENCE

The largest contemporary art fair in Russia (Moscow), where you can see works by more than 300 contemporary artists, discover new trends in the art market and acquire valuable knowledge about current art practices.

Responsibilities:

• Organisation and management of work processes (analysing work pipelines, setting up software, consulting and assistance to employees, access control to certain services, etc)
• The inner knowledge base organisation and maintenance (user guides, instructions, tutorials and other information)
• Organisation of employee access, service operability, as well as consistency and integrity of data in the local CRM
• Inner mutual integration of various services of the company (CRM, websites, etc). Processes automatisation
• Search for a contractor to perform a software development, preliminary analysis of commercial proposals (for such a development) for their compliance with customer requirements
• Analysis and formalisation of requirements for software development to be provided to a contractor. Monitoring the timing and quality of development
• Participation in negotiations between company managers and contractors when the issues to discuss involve details that require technical expertise.
• Preparation of the IT budget for the coming month, year
• Development of a strategy for further IT development of the company, selection of the direction of development and technological solutions

An American developer of products designed to protect (obfuscation, encryption, integrity protection, etc.) mobile software from various cybersecurity threats and potential malicious acts.

The products are a vivid example of the “one button solution" philosophy, which provides the maximum quality with ease of use and requires minimal user qualifications.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the smooth operation of the support team
• Track incoming customer support requests and questions
• Provide timely solutions for all issues
• Supplement the inner knowledge base and check for the presence of all necessary information
• Daily communication with clients, maintaining a history of requests
• Control of completion deadlines by engineering team
• Monitoring the relevance of operational information (current product versions, planned release dates, etc.)
• Incoming product trial requests validation

Center-Inform is a federal state unitary enterprise (FSUE), affiliated with the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation. The company pioneered the development and introduction of the first electronic tracking and monitoring system for alcohol production and sales in Russia.

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and analysis of requirements and wishes for the future product (EGAIS)
• Creating the preliminary (pre-production) design documents
• Design of the future software architecture
• Dividing the project into smaller, more manageable portions and tasks (project decomposition)
• Estimating labor costs and the project duration
• Search, selection and education of personnel 
• Organization of the development process, tasks distribution
• Development of the system core, which is the base of the future product
• Evaluation of the project's code quality
• Regular product demonstration to the customer
• Preparation of technical and user documentation
• Organization of technical support of the product

Despite the fact the company was being developed its own product, it also offered software development-as-a-service to survive.

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and analysis of the developing product requirements
• Creating the preliminary (pre-production) design documents
• Participation in the design of the developing software architecture
• The developed product demonstration to the customer
• Integration of the developed product into the required environment and technical infrastructure

During the time the software development-as-a-service was being provided, the following projects had been completed:

• A solution providing the secure communication channel and the storage of participants data (long before popular messaging services)
• An integration and configuration of the automatic face recognition system in a public institution
• A system of distributed mobile weather stations, the data of which was collected by a single state center
• Reverse engineering of the SMS gateway solution (the source code was lost by the customer)
• An automatic creation of a heat map of tweets by specified hashtags or topics
   

A company in Montenegro (Petrovac) developing a set of free online applications that allows people to find a three-dimensional model of their apartment, office  or any other room, or quickly create and design it in real-time to see a photorealistic result.

Manufacturers and vendors will have an opportunity to demonstrate the three-dimensional models of household products, and users to try them in their apartments and purchase.

Responsibilities:

• Organization of the development process
• Supplement the inner knowledge base and check for the presence of the necessary information
• Design of the developing software architecture
• Company's digital resources management and maintenance (domain names, Amazon Cloud, DNS server, mail server, etc)
   

The company that grew out of the "Metrobank" commercial bank division after the bank joined the ABISS Group, – a union of organisations whose activities were aimed at developing and promoting the Standard of the Bank of Russia STO BR IBBS "Maintenance of Information Security of the Russian Banking System Organisations. General Provisions".

Responsibilities:

• Analyse, assess and adapt previously developed software
• Document the design of the existing software and its architecture, evaluate the code quality and develop the plan of the software future development
• Continue software development in accordance with the approved development plan
• Organise a smooth trouble-free software operation (SaaS)
• Organise the software technical support
   

A small commercial bank with Kazakh roots. Being rapidly developing on the consumer credit market and getting acquainted, as it develops, with complex and constantly changing legislation, the bank's management set out to transfer the Russian online consumer service model to the Kazakh market, which was developing with a slight lag.

To implement the desire, a team was invited to the bank, which I was a member of (and subsequently headed), the tasks of which were:

• Analysis of the process of internal bank software development
• Organization and improvement of the existing development process
• Organization of the environment and software infrastructure to support the development process
• Search, selection and education of personnel 
• Analysis of the Kazakh banking software market, comparison and preparation of the preliminary software development documents
• Participation in the discussion and design of the developing banking software architecture
• Design of the future software architecture
• Dividing the project into smaller, more manageable portions and tasks (project decomposition)
• Estimating labor costs and the project duration
• Development of the system core of the developing banking software
• Creation of developer and user documentation
• Evaluation of the project's code quality

East View is a leading provider of native and translated foreign language information products and services, including Russian, Chinese, and Arabic databases, print periodicals, books and microforms. The company serves all geographies and many market segments, including academic institutions, government organizations, corporations, public and federal libraries and law firms.

Responsibilities:

• Participation in the design of new software solutions
• Constant development and improvement of existing software solutions
• Software maintenance and support
• Search, selection and education of personnel (software development)
   

BIFIT is a Russian developer of Banking And Financial Internet Technology systems (the name is formed by the first letters of each word). BIFIT was established in 1999.

The key area of the organization's work is Internet banking for legal entities and individuals. More than 40% of all Russian banks use the services of BIFIT, including VTB, OTP Bank, LocoBank, Qiwi Bank, BINBANK and others.

Responsibilities:

• Software development (including CLI utilities, libraries, modules) according to the technical assignment and design document
• Bug fixes according to the testing and support departments reports
• Development of first mobile software solutions (WAP protocol, WML markup language, PocketPC platform, J2ME applications)
• Development of phone banking
• CRM development (which was used in the company for years after that)
• Web banking solution development (Bank of Moscow)
• Younger colleague mentoring

At the dawn of the emergence and mass spread of the Internet in the country, I got a job as a software developer in a company that owns several offline stores selling household appliances.

The company set itself a task that seemed challenging in those days: "to organize sales of household appliances online and achieve revenue no less than sales in offline outlets." Despite the skepticism of several shareholders, the goal was achieved in just a year.

Responsibilities:

• Choosing a software solution (online store engine) for online sales organisation
• Adaptation of the selected solution to the company's processes and goals, interface localization
• Design and development of solutions for the integration of the online store with the accounting software used in the company
• Automation of work processes (for example, batch loading of product data to the store)
• Development of user documentation and instructions for office staff
• Technical support for users and staff in case of any  technical issues
• Software solution maintenance and support (online store component security updates, backups, bug fixing, etc)
   

The distant past

Being the happy owner of a primitive computer, I enjoyed looking at the running lines of code on the screen as games were loaded from the tape into the memory of a smart machine.

The presence of friends with a similar situation predetermined the competitive characteristic of our communication and the subsequent exchange of technical knowledge, the only source of which at that time was personal experience.

Our first programs were written in Basic and imitated the interfaces of popular DOS programs (for example, Norton Commander). It seemed very funny to replace the program on the computer of some friends and enjoy watching how the familiar interface behaves weird in their hands.

PRO BONO PROJECTS

I regularly provide assistance to various cultural (and not only) institutions experiencing difficulties in organising technical resources and processes on a pro bono basis.

The most famous school of contemporary art in Moscow, created by a prominent representative of the Moscow Conceptualism movement, Joseph Bakstein.

One of the four relevant art schools available to people who want to get an education in the field of contemporary art. Being created by people living outside the neoliberal agenda and at the dawn of its emergence, today it is one of the last educational structures successfully holding the defense in relation to education as a market business model.

Responsibilities:

• Development of school websites, technical support
• Integration with various services (mailing list, CRM, etc.)
• Improvements according to the requirements of an ever-changing world
   

The only verbatim, non-commercial and not supported by the state budget theater in Russia.

Many recognizable and popular media personalities (directors, artists, etc.), shining on the covers of magazines and reflecting on their creative path on television, began it with small sketches on the stage of this theater, open to any experiments and manifestations of life.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a spark of life in the hopelessly outdated theater website
• Organize regular data backups, allowing everyone to sleep well
• Add new features to the website, keeping the level of technical tone comparable to expensive solutions in this area
• Create integrations with other services (ticket sales, mailing system, etc.)

My favorite cafe that did not survive the quarantine and anxiety of the 2020. Being a regular visitor, I was happy to help in solving everyday technical issues related to the digital representation of cafes on the Internet.