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<resumes>
 <resume>
  <header>
  <name>
   <title>Dr.</title>
	 <firstname>Artyom</firstname> 
   <surname>Sokirko</surname>
  </name>
<contact> 
<email>a@sokirko.com</email>
<url>http://www.tyoma.com</url>
<phone location="mobile">+49 160 885 7201</phone>
 <phone location="home">+49 221 5481 8491</phone>
<fax location="home">+49 2247 758 067</fax>
</contact>
   <address>
    <street>Salierring 4</street>
    <city>Köln</city>
    <country>Germany</country>
    <zip>50677</zip>
   </address>
  </header>
  <misc>
   <para><url>http://www.tyoma.com/scripts/h/fuehrerschein.jpg</url></para>
  </misc>
<objective>
 <para>Position of Technical Manager/Architect, either contract or permanent 
</para>
</objective>
 <skillarea>
  <title>Headlines</title>
  <skillset>
<skill>Concentrate on Java/Oracle/UNIX development with wide expertise in web-based services</skill>
<skill>20 years as a hands-on developer, 9 years as a team lead</skill>
<skill>Specialize in e-commerce and finance reporting, work for telecommunications, publishing companies and academia</skill>
<skill>Act as a Team Lead, Applications Architect, Data Architect, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect and Project Manager</skill>
<skill>Manage a team of five, perform project planning, allocate resources</skill>
<skill>Contact outside clients and suppliers for project support and implementation</skill>
<skill>Extensive American and European experience, strong can-do attitude. 
</skill>
   </skillset>
 </skillarea>
  <skillarea targets="highlights">
   <title>Current  technical skills, primary</title>
  <skillset>
   <title>Java- J2EE</title>
   <skill>Servlets</skill>
   <skill>JSP</skill>
   <skill>EJB</skill>
   <skill>JDBC</skill>
   <skill>Hibernate</skill>
   <skill level="9">AJAX</skill>
   <skill>JBoss</skill>
    <skill>Tomcat</skill>
    <skill>Eclipse</skill>
    </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Databases</title>
    <skill>Oracle 10g</skill>
    <skill>MySql 5</skill>
    <skill  level="9">MS Access</skill>
    <skill>SQL</skill>
    <skill>PL/SQL</skill>
    <skill>ODBC</skill>
    </skillset>
  <skillset>
   <title>XML</title>
   <skill>XML</skill>
   <skill>XSLT</skill>
   <skill>xHTML</skill>
   <skill>CSS</skill>
    <skill>Cocoon</skill>
      </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Portal</title>
    <skill>Apache</skill>
    <skill>Fat Wire Content Server</skill>
    <skill>Zabbix</skill>
    <skill>Cacti</skill>
   </skillset>
  <skillset>
   <title>Platforms</title>
   <skill>Linux (Ubuntu, Debian)</skill>
   <skill>Sun Solaris 10</skill>
   <skill>Windows XP</skill>
   <skill>Vista</skill>
  </skillset>
  </skillarea>
 <history targets="Experience">
     <job id="Ish">
		 <jobtitle>Team Lead/Java Architect</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Unitymedia Group</citation>
     <url>www.unitymedia.de</url>
     <emphasis>Serving cable TV and Internet to more than 5 million households in Germany</emphasis>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Cologne</city>
     <country>Germany</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><month>03</month><year>2002</year></date></from>
     <to><present/></to>
    </period>
      <projects>
       <project>Designed and led development, deployment and maintenance of corporate websites: <link>www.unitymedia.de</link><emphasis>, </emphasis><link>www.ish.de</link></project>
       <!--project>Technical Lead for e-commerce initiatives within the company, designing application architecture, data flow and processes </project-->
       <project>Technical responsibility  for broadband portal <link>www.ish.com</link><emphasis> with streaming content, downloads, online games, SMS, etc</emphasis></project>
       <project>Acting as Java Developer, re-designed Customer Self Care Application for the internet customers</project>
       <project>Lead the ISP (Internet Service Provider) team of four, responsible for knowledge transfer, cross-training and continuity</project>
       <project>Contact software vendors, external consultants and developers and coordinate their day-to-day activities with the Engineering department</project>
       <project>Perform feasibility analysis; translate business requirements into multi-tier, high-load, highly scaleable web application infrastructures</project>
       <project>Define interfaces and set development standards</project>
       <project>Review the delivered source code; serve as a technical authority for migration of new products and product upgrades to production</project>
    </projects>
      <achievements><achievement>responsible for the Internet Services in Technology division. </achievement></achievements></job>
  <job id="Ecopsy ">
   <jobtitle>Developer and  Architect</jobtitle>
   <employer>
    <citation>Ecopsy</citation>
   </employer>
   <location>
    <city>(contract</city>
    <country>telecommuting)</country>
   </location>
   <period>
    <from><date><month>11</month><year>2001</year></date></from>
    <to><date><month>02</month><year>2002</year></date></to>
   </period>
   <projects>
    <project>Designed, developed and deployed a finance reporting system for a mid-size business consulting firm</project>
   </projects>
  </job> 
  <job id="StarMedia">
	 <jobtitle>Senior Technical Lead</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>StarMedia Network Inc.</citation>
     <url>www.starmedia.com</url>
     <emphasis>media portal for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audiences</emphasis>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>New York</city>
     <state>NY</state>
     <country>USA</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><month>07</month><year>2000</year></date></from>
     <to><date><month>11</month><year>2001</year></date></to>
    </period>
    <projects>
     <project>Coordinated the efforts of StarMedia engineering and media (advertisement) departments with the technical staff of the outside development companies</project>
     <project>Developed and deployed the subsystem for populating StarMedia Network with rich media interactive ads</project>
     <project>Created working prototype of wireless web site</project>
    </projects>
		<achievements><achievement>for multimedia initiatives</achievement></achievements>
   </job>
   <job id="TimeInc">
	 <jobtitle>Manager of E-commerce Development</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Time Inc. New Media</citation>
     <url>www.pathfinder.com/pathfinder/</url>
     <url>www.time.com</url>
     <url>www.people.com</url>
     <url>www.ew.com</url>
     <url>www.money.com</url>
     <emphasis>umbrella web site for best-selling magazines:  Time, People, Entertainment Weekly, Money and many others. The web site is one of the twenty largest in the world</emphasis>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>New York</city>
     <state>NY</state>
     <country>USA</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><month>03</month><year>1999</year></date></from>
     <to><date><month>07</month><year>2000</year></date></to>
    </period>
    <projects>
     <project>Led operation and multi-stage re-design of the &quot;Newsstand&quot; - e-commerce application for collecting subscription orders to Time Inc. magazines (over 1,000,000 subscriptions sold). Identified business needs, performed OOAD (data dictionaries, sequential diagrams, logical database design)</project>
     <project>Migrated the e-commerce application designed specifically for WebLogic into WebSphere </project>
     <project>Performed OOAD, implemented and tested the working prototype for the original music search application</project>
     <project>Maintained and supported web traffic reporting in Time Inc.</project>
     <project>Supervised technical support of Ad operations, NetGravity ad server</project>
     <project>Managed Time Inc. Home Entertainment e-commerce initiative</project>
    </projects>
		<achievements>
			<achievement>Technical lead of marketing efforts on <url>www.pathfinder.com</url></achievement>
		</achievements>
   </job>
   <job id="Graphnet">
	 <jobtitle>Technical Lead for Voice Billing</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Graphnet Inc.</citation>
     <url>www.graphnet.com</url>
     <emphasis>a leading fax broadcasting company</emphasis>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Teaneck</city>
     <state>NJ</state>
     <country>USA</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><month>03</month><year>1998</year></date></from>
     <to><date><month>03</month><year>1999</year></date></to>
    </period>
    <projects>
     <project>Designed and led development, deployment and maintenance of billing system running on Sun Solaris in clustered environment. The system used to handle up to 30 million calls a month</project>
     <project>Identified business needs, developed functional requirements, data dictionaries, sequential diagrams, logical database design and IDL</project>
     <project>Created package for generating monthly statistics. Was responsible for the selection and development of the new reporting system</project>
     <project>Supervised voice billing process. Performed database optimization and query tuning. Was responsible for data cleaning and audit of final bills. Developed and documented standard business procedures</project>
    </projects>
   </job>
  <job id="TeleRoss">
   <jobtitle>Finance Programmer</jobtitle>
   <employer>
    <citation>TeleRoss</citation>
    <emphasis>Member of Global TeleSystems Group, Inc.</emphasis>
   </employer>
   <location>
    <city>Moscow</city>
    <country>Russia</country>
   </location>
   <period>
    <from><date><year>1997</year></date></from>
    <to><date><year>1998</year></date></to>
   </period>
   <projects>
    <project>Developed a comprehensive consolidation package for finance reporting to headquarters</project> 
     Closely interacted with Accounting Department serving everyday needs. 
    <project>Performed systems analysis of existing billing cycle. 
     Coordinated on-going billing process.</project>  
    <project>Prepared Monthly Operations Reports for the company</project> 
    <project>Designed, developed and maintained the principal database for Collection Department (full life cycle)</project>
   </projects>
  </job>
   <job id="Pepsi">
	 <jobtitle>Senior Finance Systems Analyst</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Pepsi International Bottlers</citation>
     <url>www.pepsico.com</url>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Moscow</city>
     <country>Russia</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><year>1996</year></date></from>
     <to><date><year>1997</year></date></to>
    </period>
    <projects>
     <project>Led the implementation, integration and support of accounting systems for most of the Russian branches</project>
     <project>Designed, led development and maintenance of reporting system for transformation of accounting data from GAAP to the standards accepted by the Russian IRS</project>
     <project>Created an original Payroll Module allowing to combine regular wages with taxable bonuses, which the company wants to pay on &quot;tax-exempt basis&quot;, into a single paycheck</project>
     <project>Created and maintained finance reporting to headquarters<citation>Cognos PowerPlay</citation>
     </project>
     <project>Developed a program to transmit daily currency exchange rates from Internet to local databases</project>
    </projects>
   </job>
     <job id="IIT">
	 <jobtitle>Senior Research Associate</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Illinois Institute of Technology</citation>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Chicago</city>
     <state>IL</state>
     <country>USA</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><year>1995</year></date></from>
     <to><date><year>1996</year></date></to>
    </period>
</job>
 <job id="Trent">
 <jobtitle>NATO Science Fellow</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Trent University</citation>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Peterborough</city>
     <state>Ontario</state>
     <country>Canada</country>
    </location>    
    <period>
     <from><date><year>1994</year></date></from>
     <to><date><year>1995</year></date></to>
    </period>
</job>
 <job id="Oxford">
 <jobtitle>Royal Society Fellow</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Oxford University</citation>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Oxford</city>
     <country>England</country>
    </location>    
    <date><year>1993</year></date>   
</job>
 <job id="KTH">
 <jobtitle>Project Lead</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Royal Institute of Technology</citation>
    </employer>
     <location>
     <city>Stockholm</city>
     <country>Sweden</country>
    </location>  
    <period>
     <from><date><year>1991</year></date></from>
     <to><date><year>1993</year></date></to>
    </period>
</job>
 <job id="Humboldt">
 <jobtitle>Visiting Scientist</jobtitle>
<employer>
     <citation>Humboldt University</citation>
    </employer>
    <location>
     <city>Berlin</city>
     <country>Germany</country>
    </location>  
	<date><year>1990</year></date>
    <projects>
     <project>Academic research during 1990 - 1995 concentrated on computer and mathematical modeling of complex transport processes</project>
    </projects>
   </job>
   <job id="MosStroy">
	 <jobtitle>Database Developer</jobtitle>
    <employer>
     <citation>Municipal Development Department</citation>
    </employer>
        <location>
     <city>Moscow</city>
     <country>Russia</country>
    </location>
    <period>
     <from><date><year>1990</year></date></from>
     <to><date><year>1991</year></date></to>
    </period>
    <projects>
     <project>Data modeling, design, development and maintenance of principal document database for the legal department</project>
    </projects>
   </job>
   </history>
  <skillarea>
   <title>Technical skills</title>
   <skillset>
    <title>Java- J2EE</title>
    <skill>Servlets</skill>
    <skill>JSP</skill>
    <skill>EJB (CMP, BMP and session)</skill>
    <skill>JDBC</skill>
    <skill>Hibernate</skill>
    <skill>SOAP</skill>
    <skill  level="9">AJAX</skill>
    <skill>JBoss</skill>
    <skill>Weblogic</skill>
    <skill>Tomcat</skill>
    <skill>Sun One Studio</skill>
    <skill>VisualAge for Java</skill>
    <skill>JBuilder</skill>
    <skill>Eclipse</skill>
    <skill>WebSphere</skill>
    <skill>JRun</skill>
    <skill>JServ</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Databases</title>
    <skill>Oracle 7.1 - 10g</skill>
    <skill>Oracle Web Server</skill>
    <skill>Designer 2000</skill>
    <skill>SQL Navigator</skill>
    <skill>Toad</skill>
    <skill level="9">ERwin</skill>
    <skill>MySql</skill>
    <skill level="9">MS Access </skill>
    <skill>SQL</skill>
    <skill>PL/SQL</skill>
    <skill>ODBC</skill>
    <skill level="9">JDBC</skill>
    <skill>Sybase 11.5</skill>
    <skill>BDE 5.01 (Paradox 5)</skill>
    <skill>Btrieve</skill>
    <skill>Progress</skill>
    <skill>dBase</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>XML</title>
    <skill>XML</skill>
    <skill>XSL</skill>
    <skill>XSLT</skill>
    <skill>DTD</skill>
    <skill>xHTML</skill>
    <skill level="9">HTML</skill>
    <skill>DOM</skill>
    <skill>DHTML</skill>
    <skill>CSS</skill>
    <skill>FOP</skill>
    <skill>WML</skill>
    <skill>WAP</skill>
    <skill>HDML</skill>
    <skill level="9">SMIL</skill>
    <skill>Cocoon</skill>
    <skill>Xalan/Xerces</skill>
    <skill>Oxygen</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Portal</title>
    <skill>Apache</skill>
    <skill>Fat Wire (Divine) Content Server</skill>
    <skill>eWebEditPro</skill>
    <skill>Linebreak CMS</skill>
    <skill>Vignette Story Server</skill>
    <skill>Macromedia Flash</skill>
    <skill>Real Streaming Server</skill>
    <skill>MiniVend (shopping engine)</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Platforms</title>
    <skill>Linux</skill>
    <skill>Debian</skill>
    <skill>Fedora</skill>
    <skill>Red Hat</skill>
    <skill level="9">Ubuntu</skill>
    <skill>Sun Solaris</skill>
    <skill>Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000/NT</skill>
    <skill>Mac OS 10</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Languages</title>
    <skill>PHP</skill>
    <skill>Python</skill>
    <skill>JavaScript</skill>
    <skill>Perl</skill>
    <skill>VBA</skill>
    <skill>Visual Basic</skill>
    <skill>ASP</skill>
    <skill>shell scripts</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Various Software</title>
    <skill>Sun Web Server</skill>
    <skill>Netscape Server</skill>
    <skill>Netgravity 3.53 (ad server)</skill>
      <skill>Platinum AutoSys (load balancing)</skill>
    <skill>Zabbix</skill>
    <skill>Cacti</skill>
    <skill>CVS</skill>
    <skill>UML</skill>
    <skill>Iona Orbix (Corba)</skill>
    <skill>SIP configuration</skill>
     <skill>Cognos PowerPlay</skill>
    <skill>Oracle Designer 2000</skill>
    <skill>Corel Draw</skill>
    <skill>Crystal Reports</skill>
    <skill>MS Project</skill>
    <skill>MS FrontPage</skill>
    <skill>MS Office</skill>
   </skillset>
   <skillset>
    <title>Rusty</title>
    <skill>Fortan</skill>
    <skill>C/C++</skill>
    <skill>Turbo-Pascal</skill>
    <skill>Q Basic</skill>
    <skill>MatLab</skill>
    <skill>Mathematica</skill>
    <skill>MathCad</skill>
    <skill>Algol 68</skill>
    <skill>Assembler for IBM mainframe</skill>
    <skill>processor code</skill>
   </skillset>
  </skillarea>
  <academics>
  	<degrees>
   <degree>
   	<level>PhD</level>
    <major>Computer and Mathematical Modeling in Theoretical Physical Chemistry</major>
    <date><year>1990</year></date>    
    <institution>Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Science</institution>
   </degree>
   <degree>
   	<level>M.S</level>
    <major>Theoretical Physics</major>
    <date><year>1986</year></date>
		    <institution>(diploma)  - Moscow Engineering Physics Institute</institution>    
   </degree>
   <degree>
   <level>Certificate</level>
    <major>Programmer's certificate</major>
    <date><year>1980</year></date>    
     <institution>Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering</institution>
  </degree> 
	</degrees>
  </academics>
    <interests>
   <interest> 
    <title>Age</title>
    <description>
     <para>48</para>
    </description>
   </interest>	
   <interest>
    <title>Citizenship</title>
    <description>
     <para>USA</para>
    </description>  
   </interest>
   <interest> 
    <title>Visa Status</title>
    <description>
     <para>German  permanent resident (Niederlassungserlaubnis), EU work permit</para>
    </description>
   </interest>	
   <interest>
    <title>Family status</title>
    <description>
     <para>married, one daughter (10 years old)</para>
    </description>  
   </interest>
   <interest> 
     <title>Languages</title>
     <description>
       <para>English (native fluency), Russian (native), German (working knowledge)</para>
     </description>
   </interest>	
   <interest>
    <title>Publications</title>
    <description>
       <para>Over 35 papers in scientific journals</para>
    </description>  
   </interest>
     <interest>
      <title>Open Source</title>
      <description>
       <para>Family Map, xmlResume, Family Finance, etc at <link href="http://www.tyoma.com">tyoma.com</link></para>
      </description>  
     </interest>
   <interest> 
   <title>Outdoor hobbies</title>
    <description>
     <para>small plane pilot</para>
     <para>scuba diving</para>
     <para>skiing</para>
     <para>white-water kayaking</para>
      </description>
    </interest>
   <interest> 
   <title>Indoor hobbies</title>
    <description>
      <para>music</para>
      <para>cinema</para>
      <para>theater</para>
      <para>photography</para>
    </description>
   </interest> 
  </interests>
 </resume>
</resumes>