My up-to-date CV (English version)

(And there is ukrainian most recent version of the CV)

Name: Oleh Hrynchuk

Address: Rivne city, Ukraine
E-mail: oleh.hrynchuk(at)gmail.com
Driver license: yes
Citizenship: Ukraine
Marital status: married
Availability:        Ready to negotiate

Employment Objective:

I would like to work with an organization where I can be creative and utilize my skills as multifunctional business/IT analyst (COBIT and partly BABOK methodologies and recommendations).

The most desirable option for me are (grouped by priority):

• participation in IT-business processes optimisation:
  • or as the head of the corresponding working groups (in the relevant areas),
  • or as consultant (in the relevant areas).

I see my role as an organizer, coordinator or member of business/IT activities ensuring effective functioning: a system analysis through the prism of world best practices, risk management, addressing and solving of current specific problems and issues of strategic development.

In general, attractive to me looks like any area of focus where necessary:

• to analyze a variety of factors, which are related to different object domains (i.e. in competitive intelligence);
• take effective (that is based on "common sense", special knowledge, expertise and world best practices) decisions by taking into account all the possible consequences;
• and undertake decisive action to achieve concrete results on the basis of the all above-listed.

It is in this I can bring the greatest benefit for potential partners, relying on my own experience, knowledge, professional, moral and business qualities.

Employment Summary:

At the moment (Oct, 2016) I play two roles:

1. as volunteer in regional self-defence forces. My duties include help of Ukrainian Army and solving of various problems using open source software,

2. as IT consultant for couple various businesses: Unix/Windows system administration, PHP&MySQL programming, open sources software system integration, business processes automatization etc

1. Since December 2014 I was working as project/scrum manager at Edutone Corp.. I finished that work in end of August 2015 because temporary issues with health.
2. Since November 2013 due to general political situation in Ukraine my activity was limited to volunteering in regional self-defence forces.
3. Before that time, for the past 2 years I was working as OSS/BSS architect at pre-sale department of famous Ukrainian system integrator “S&T Ukraine”.
4. Before that time, for about 2 years I was working at Kratos Ltd. (asset management company in agro-industrial business area) as CIO with “standard” CIO functions.
5. And before that time, for 3-4 years I was working as multifunctional analyst-engineer, engineer-consultant and lead project engineer on junction of various themes of business and technology.
6. And before that time, for five years I served as a project engineer in VIP-projects related with IT-infrastructure.
7. And before that I played role as senior Unix system engineer and senior network engineer (configuring and supporting Unix/networking services and networking equipment: Cisco, Sun, HP, Nortel, ZyXEL and much more).

I have good experience of solving the problems encountered in large service providers, system integrators and in system operations area. And I have completed numerous projects in this fields.

My main responsibilities and activities during most of my working life mostly covered R&D, architectural and pre-sale tasks, related with IT↔IT and Business↔IT integration.

Experience Profile:

(Short version. Full version is accessible on demand)

• More than twenty five years experience in IT area
• More than 5 years experience with the functionality of big- and middle-size european and USA companies (internet service providers, system integrators, independed software vendors) in a multilingual and multiultural environment
• Active participation in large-scale project implementation of OSS/BSS (service provisioning and activation, fault management, trouble ticketing, SLA management modules) in the national telecommunications operator. I directly had responsible for establishing of correct procurement process, architecture design, tracking employer interests before vendor and using world best practices
• Good experience in the field of modeling and reengineering business processes for service providers

Employment History:

• Feb 2016 - now. IT consultant in couple businesses. Unix/Windows system administration, help in procurement process (RFI/RFP), PHP&MySQL programming, software integration, business processes automatisation etc
• Sep 2015 - now. Regional self-defence forces. Volunteer. Help for Ukrainian Army, IT consulting, open source software deployment, comprehensive assistance to Ukrainian Army
• Dec 2014 – Aug 2015. EduTone Corp. Scrum (project) manager
• Nov 2013 – Dec 2014. Regional self-defence forces. Volunteer. Military trainings, service organization for checkpoints, patrolling with border guards and policemen, ...
• Jan 2012 - Nov 2013. S&T Ukraine, Kyiv. Architect of telco solutions. R&D activity, design and implementation of telecommunication OSS/BSS solutions for big telco providers.
• Sep 2010 - Dec 2011. Kratos Ltd. (asset management company of quite big agroindustrial holding). Rivne. CIO. "Standard" CIO's role.
• Feb 2010 - Sep 2010. Independent entrepreneur. IT-consultant: analysis of adaptability of IT solutions for concrete business and proposals for its implementation
• Oct 2006 - Jan 2010. InCom Corp., Octava Business Development (asset management company). Kyiv. Ukraine. Lead engineer of R&D department. Analysis of perspective technologies. Evaluation of them in terms of benefit to the company's business-employer. Modeling business processes for service providers. Determination of breakthrough fields. The elimination of crisises of diverse nature (including organizational, business and technological)
• Jun 2004 - Sep 2005. InCom Corp. (Rivne’s branch). Senior engineer-consultant. Moving to native city due to family reasons (childbirth). Duties remained the same as before.
• Oct 2002 - May 2004. InCom Corp., Senior engineer-consultant. Technical examination of big corporative projects based on information technologies, networking equipment (mostly Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks). Giving of seminars and lectures (sometimes with Cisco Systems representatives). Practical testing of various networking technologies.
• Jul 2002 - Sep 2002. InCom Corp., Ukraine. Technical director of Rivne's branch office. Responsible for managing a 10-person team of system and network engineers as like as for network and backup projects design and implementation. Cisco VoIP and VoFR solutions, backup systems. Tooking part in testing of corporate satellite links and studying people in regional offices for Cisco technologies.
• Aug 2001 - May 2002. Soltima, Inc., USA (formerly 12Snap Prague s.r.o.). Prague, Czech Republic and London, UK. IT Manager. Responsible for managing a 4-person team of system and network administrators. Sun Sparc servers (E250, E450), Solstice Backup (Legato), Veritas, TSM, Cisco VPN concentrators and PIX Firewalls. Backup system, DNS, Sendmail, Postfix, service monitoring and statistics. Soltima Inc. has been terminated by its investors.
• Jan 2001 - Jul 2001. 12Snap Prague s.r.o.. Prague, Czech Republic. Senior System Engineer. System and network administration of Sun and IBM servers and workstations including Linux servers as well. Backup system, scripting, service monitoring; TIVOLI Storage Manager, SUN Solstice Backup (Legato), VERITAS Data Manager administration.
• Jan 2000 - Jan 2001. Nextra Czech Republic s.r.o. (formerly Telenor Internet). Prague, Czech Republic. Senior Network Engineer, Network Management Department. Integration project leader in the Czech Republic for network monitoring and statistics systems. Routing, switching, SNMP and NetFlow software.
• Mar 1998 - Jan 2001. Telenor Internet (Czech subsidiary of Telenor A.S.), Prague, Czech Republic. Unix/Network system administrator, SNMP expert, System Department. SNMP management, accounting, statistics, monitoring, NOC software and features. Merit AAA Radius server software (with additional features made by other developers); DNS administration; Mail and Usenet administration (sendmail, INN); Administration of Cisco routers and Access Servers (7500, 5300, 3600, 1600 series) and Livingston PortMaster. SGI IRIX, Sparc Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD administration, scripting (shell, perl), backing up; Responsibility for and activity in several projects (network monitoring, network statistics, server architecture, QoS and backup policy).
• Oct 1995 - Mar 1998. (Yes, I had three jobs simultaneously during that wild times):




State Joint Power Company Rivneoblenergo, Rivne, Ukraine. Director of Computer Department

JB Service. Internet Solution Provider. System manager, Unix/Network System Administrator. Implementation and maintenance of corporate intranet. Network administration (Cisco Network Access Servers (5200, 5300), BSD/OS, SunOS/Solaris 2.5.1, Intel based PC's, SUN Ultra stations), Unix-to-NetWare™ integration. Employee productivity training in techniques utilizing computer software and hardware.

Ukrtelecom (Rivne's branch). Network engineer in computer department. Novell Netware & Unix integration.

• Oct 1992 - Sep 1995. Regional State Scientific Technical Information Centre. Rivne, Ukraine. Unix System Administrator, intranet system manager. Design, implementation and maintenance of the Internet/Intranet infrastructure. Employee productivity training in techniques utilizing computer software and hardware.
• May 1992 - Oct 1992. "Volyn Tecom/+" and later "Telecommunications Centre", private company, commercial UUCP-provider. Rivne, Ukraine. Chief Engineer and co-owner. Design, implementation and maintenance of Internet and UUCP infrastructures, (UUCP, Usenet, mail, various gateways etc.).
• Sep 1990 - Apr 1992. Joint Stock Bank "Econombank", Rivne, Ukraine. Unix System Administrator. Installation and maintenance of the UUCP infrastructure (UUCP, Usenet, mail etc.).
• May 1998 - Jul 1990. Lviv State University Student Intern (III-V year of study). Studies and Activities:




Theoretical database research (theme: relational temporal databases, analytical technical reviews).

Programming on PC's (MSDOS, Dbase-IV, FoxBASE, FoxPro, C)

Mainframe Programming - ES-1033, ES-1045 (IBM series 360/370), Assembler, PL/1, Fortran.

Software Experience:

A lot. Accessible by demand

Hardware Experience:

A lot. Accessible by demand

Education:

• Lviv's State University, applied mathematics faculty. University diploma in Mathematics awarded in 1990.
• Certified Unix Administrator (Master Level) authorized by TekMetrics, Inc. (Brainbench, Inc. now). Transcript ID Number 18151. 1999.
• Passed Cisco special training courses with certificate (OSPF, ACL, queues and priorities etc.) in "Alef0 Ltd", Cisco Silver partner in the Czech Republic. Prague (03.1999)
• Certificates of completion of courses of English in the international school «Caledonian School» (05.1999)
• CCNA certified (04.2000)
• Passed training and exam on theme «Tivoli Storage Administration and Management» in “InTechnology” company (IBM data storage partner, Harrogate, UK). TSM certified (since 04.2001)
• CCNP certified (04.2003)
• Passed training and exams on themes «ADSL/SHDSL CPE, ADSL/SHDSL IP DSLAM, VDSL modem» (ZyXEL training centre, Moscow) (10.2003)
• ZCSE certified (ZyXEL Certificated System Engineer, xDSL equipment) (since 10.2003)
• Passed two-week training on «Entrepreneurship» and successfully public defense of its own business plan «Organization and operation of METRO data network» on the "Leader-2004" international program. The Richard Ivey School of Business, Dnipropetrovsk (05.2004)
• Passed training and exam on themes «NGOSS and eTOM standards and practices». TeleManagement Forum, Dubai, UAE (03.2006):




NGOSS Distilled

eTOM Distilled

Scanned copies of certificates and some (not all of them) recommendations are shown here.

Languages:

• English: Intermediate (freely within the specialty)
• Czech: Good enough (read, write, spoken)
• Russian: Excellent (read, write, spoken)
• Ukrainian: Native
• Polish: Read, understand
• Slovak: Read, understand

References and Recommendations:

A lot. Accessible by demand.