Date : Thu, 12 Nov 1998 Mike Yakoubov qub@qub.com

OBJECTIVE:
Contract, outsourcing or permanent position utilizing my extensive experience in Web development and/or information research.

SKILLS:

• requirements gathering and development of complex websites, web management
• competitive analysis, Internet information research, composing of comprehensive resource indexes
• staff management and training, Perl/CGI/SQL programming, LAN administration, web pages layout, technical editing, professional translation

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Project Leader/IT Manager, Web-publishing company -- 2 years
Business Analyst -- 1 year
Team Leader, software development -- 1.5 years
Mathematician/Programmer -- 2.5 years
Editor/Translator -- 1.5 years

CAREER HISTORY:

Freelance Consultant Integral Solutions Corp., "Top Secret" media holding, "Kniga-Service" subscription agency, Institute of Law, others.

11/1997-present

• Determined feasible scenarios of Web presence and corresponding business models of several companies.
• Performed comparison of major commercial data visualization packages as applied to a large retail chain business.
• Performed competitive analysis for ISC's SupportWizard product.
• Composed Java and Perl knowledge bases.
• Gave lectures on efficient Internet usage techniques.

Project Leader/Senior IT Manager "IZ-Garant" Publishing House, "Zhurnal.Ru" on-line/paper magazine

8/1996-11/1997

• Developed the initial concept and structure of the "Zhurnal.Ru" e-zine
• Managed web layout, programming and deployment of "Zhurnal.Ru"
• Performed competitive analysis, requirements gathering and development of customer websites.
• Managed the company IT team.

Project Leader "IZ-Garant" Publishing House

11/1995-7/1996

• Developed the concept and structure of the first Russian Internet bookstore "Cyrillica".
• Wrote Perl software for on-line search, selection and ordering of books in the store
• Coded HTML of the server.
• Managed the development of software for the store catalogue maintenance.

Editor "IZ-Garant" Publishing House

11/1994-10/1995

• Shaped the translated computer books publishing plan, worked with authors, translators and copyright owners.

Freelance Translator IBM, UN High Committee for Refugees, Delta Translation Intl.

4/1994-10/1994

• Translation, software localization in particular.

Analyst "LogoVAZ", Moscow, Russia (top-100 in Russian economy)

11/1992-1/1994

• Performed document flow and head-office personnel duties' analysis
• Formulated proposals for improvement and office automation plan.
• Designed a workplace for filing company contracts, monitoring accuracy of their accomplishment and generating manager reports.

Software Development Team Leader "LogoVAZ"

4/1991-10/1992

• Led the development of new release of a commercial decision-making support system.
• Designed program structure and user interface model of the system.
• Implemented a flexible and compact library of algorithms for data storage and analysis, including mid-term forecast.
• Coordinated integrating, testing and documenting of the release.

Mathematician/Programmer Institute of Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

9/1988-4/1991

• Performed survey of decision-making support systems in manufacturing
• Developed innovative algorithms for widely applicable decision-making support system.
• Tested beta-version of the system and brought it up to the first commercial version.

EDUCATION:

BS/MS in Mathematics, High Algebra major Moscow State University, Department of Mathematics.

9/1983-7/1988

PUBLICATIONS: Co-author of three papers describing new approach to decision-making support, several papers on Internet technology in PCWorld/RE.