Mr. Alexey N. Kovyrin

Contact Information:

Phone/Fax: +1-905-861-93-78
E-Mail: alexey@kovyrin.net or kovyrin@gmail.com
ICQ/AIM: 92459936
MSN: kovyrin@hotmail.com>
Skype: kovyrin
Yahoo: kovyrin
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Objectives:

  • IT Project / Technical Department Manager of ISP (6 months of expirience)
  • IT Consulting for ISP, VoIP, Web Hosting Companies (more than 1 year of expirience)
  • UNIX System/Network Administrator (4 years of experience)
  • Unix System/Web Programmer (4 years of experience)
  • C/C++ Programmer (4.5 years of experience)
Desired salary: $4000+
Desired locations: Canada.

Skills:

Operating Systems Skills:

  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003
  • MS-DOS

Networking Skills:

  • OSI Model
  • LAN: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI
  • WAN: PPP, SLIP, PPTP, PPPoE
  • IP Routing: Static/RIP/OSPF/BGP on Gated/Zebra/Cisco
  • LAN Bridging and Switching : STP/VLAN/VTP
  • VoIP: Miscellaneous H.323 and SIP Configurations (with Asterisk, SER and some hardware VoIP-gateways)
  • Advanced Routing, QOS and Traffic Control in Linux with iproute2+iptables: SNAT, DNAT, Traffic Shaping/Classification/Prioritization with CBQ, HTB and other queueing disciplines
  • Information Security: Firewall, NAT, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, IPSec, PPTP, VTUN, IP-IP Tunneling
  • Wireless Networking: Orinoco WaveLAN, Linux and FreeBSD Clients and HostAP
  • Dial-In Server: pppd, portslave and mgetty with RADIUS authentication and accounting
  • Network management, monitoring and problem notification (Nagios, BigBrother and self-developed software)
  • Remote Boot, X-Terminal solutions (LTSP and special self-developed configurations)
  • Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) and Subversion administration and intensive using
  • Clustering of calculations and building of automaticaly load-balancing systems

Network Services Skills:

  • WEB (Apache with MySQL/Postgres integration, self-developed modules and clustering solutions),
  • E-Mail (Sendmail/Postfix/Exim + Courier IMAP/POP3 with MySQL/Postgres integration),
  • FTP (ftpd, lukemftpd, ProFTPd with MySQL/Postgres integration),
  • SSH (OpenSSH with MySQL/Postgres integration),
  • RADIUS (OpenRadius and IC-Radius with MySQL/Postgres integration),
  • DNS(bind, djbdns, PowerDNS with MySQL/Postgres integration),
  • DHCP/BOOTP (with MySQL/Postgres integration),
  • RDBMS (Oracle with Clustering solutions and replication, MySQL/PostgreSQL with clustering solutions development, SQLite),
  • News(inn),
  • Samba(file server and PDC),
  • NFS (generic and for root-over-nfs)

Hardware skills:

  • Layer 2/3 Switches: Allied Telesyn, D-Link, Corecess, Cisco, 3COM Managed Switches Configuration and Installation
  • xDSL Hardware: Zyzel, Corecess, Dynamix, D-Link and Lucent DSLAMs and Modems Configuration and Installation
  • Terminal Servers: Livingston Portmaster 2, USR Netserver 8/16, Ascend Max TNT
  • Wireless Networks: Orinoco WaveLAN, Linux and FreeBSD Clients and HostAP
  • Flash-boot Dial-In Server: MOXA Multiport Serial card + pppd, portslave and mgetty with radius authentication and accounting
  • Remote Boot via Network, Terminal solutions
  • Broadband Hadrware: SkyStar-1 DVB Card, Taide Broadband Router

Programming Skills:

  • C/C++: ANSI C/ISO C++ Language with STL, UNIX System and Network Programming (including very efficient asynchronous network programming techniques)
  • Perl: CGI/FastCGI Programming, System Administration and Automation Solutions
  • Web Development: LAMP (Linux + Apache + PHP + MySQL), HTML, CSS, SSI, CGI, JavaScript/AJAX
  • XML (XSLT, XPath, RSS, ATOM, Web-services)
  • bash/sed/awk: System Administration and Automation Solutions
  • SQL: Pl/SQL, ANSI Standard SQL, miscellaneous MySQL extensions (standard and self-developed modules)
  • Pascal/Delphi
  • Assembler (x86): Some Windows System Utilites and Drivers (9x/NT)

Development Skills:

  • Remote Development: intensive CVS, Subversion and miscellaneous Groupware Tools Using
  • Oracle/MySQL/Postgres integration with many unix-services (HTTP/FTP/Telnet/SSH/DHCP/RADIUS/DNS)

RDBMS Skills (installation/administration/programming):

  • Oracle (System PL/SQL Programming)
  • MySQL (programming and integration with miscellaneous system services)
  • PostgreSQL (programming and integration with miscellaneous system services)
  • SQLite (programming and integration with miscellaneous system services)

High-Performance Systems and Clustering Technologies Skills:

  • IPVS Load Balancing and Miscellaneous Fail-over configurations
  • OSCAR
  • MPI (MPICH and MPI/LAM)
  • PVM
  • DistCC (Distributed Compilation System)
  • HPL (parallel version of LINPACK perfomance test)

Spoken Languages:

  • Russian (native)
  • Ukrainian (native)
  • English (upper intermediate)

Education (reverse ordered):

  • November 2005 — Brainbench Certification (transcript ID:1656491):
    • LinuxAdministration (Master)
  • September 2004 - June 2005 — Kremenchug State Polytechnical University
    • Master of Science in Computer Systems Engineering.
    • Graduated with honors from the Computers and Informational Systems Department.
    • GPA: 5.0
  • September 2004 - October 2004 — Obtained Category B Driver’s License
  • July 2004 — Brainbench Certification (transcript ID:1656491):
    • PHP4 (Master);
  • September 2000 - June 2004 — Kremenchug State Polytechnical University
    • Bachelor of Computer Science.
    • Graduated with honors from the Computers and Informational Systems Department.
    • GPA: 5.0
  • October 2000 — Brainbench Certification (transcript ID:1656491):
    • C Programming;
    • TCP/IP Administration;
    • Programmer/Analyst Aptitude;
    • Math Fundamentals;
    • WWW Concepts;
    • MS Windows 95 Administration
  • June 2000 — Finished secondary school (Lyceum #4, Kremenchug)

Employment history (reverse order):

  • June 2006 - Present — “Galt Networks Inc.” - Canadian corporation primarily involved in the areas of domain monetization, performance based internet advertising and rich media web applications (Senior Unix System Administrator / Core Developer - fulltime)
  • October 2005 - June 2006 — “New Age Opt-In.” - a leading online relationship marketing company specializing in email marketing for customer acquisition and retention and located in USA (Senior Unix System Administrator / Core Developer - fulltime remotely)
  • July 2004 - Present — “Okhei, Ltd.” - international e-business company (cluster based hosting platforms, clustered internet advertising servers, VoIP projects (Senior System Administrator / Programmer - fulltime remotely)
  • April 2005 - October 2005 — Internet Service Provider “Delta-Net” (IT Project Manager/Senior System Administrator)
  • December 2003 - April 2005 — Internet Service Provider “Fuji-Line” (Senior System and Network Administrator)
  • September 2002 - December 2003 — Internet Solution Provider “S-Net, Ltd.” (System and Network Administrator)
  • January 2002 - November 2002 — Kremenchug State Polytechnical University (System Administrator)
  • August 2000 - July 2004— Kremenchug State Pedagogical School (System Administrator)
Projects History is in the separate Projects History Section