Personal Info
- Name: Alexey (Alex) Ott
- Address: Im Schlinge 59, 33106 Paderborn, Germany
- Phone: +4917650439409 (mobile), +4952549210056 (home)
- E-mail: alexott@gmail.com
- Citizenship: German, Russian
- Date of Birth: 04 Jun 1974
Summary
- Serious experience in products development for Data Leakage Prevention & Content
Filtering
- Leader of software development projects (commercial & open-source)
- Software architect and developer using many different programming languages
- Business vision of problems and requirements
Work Experience
- Senior Developer at McAfee, Inc.
Dates (from-to): 01.2007-now (2007-2008 — Secure Computing Corp.)
Name and address of employer: McAfee, Inc. 33100 Paderborn, Germany
Positions held: Senior Developer
Type of business: Software Development
Main activities and responsibilities:
- Development of content-filtering software
- Architect of new versions of software — collecting requirements, creating top-level
view, planning concrete development tasks, etc.
- Head of Software development group at Jet Infosystems
Dates (from-to): 10.2001-11.2006
Name and address of employer: Jet Infosystems. B. Novodmitrovskaya, 14/1, 127015 Moscow, Russia
Positions held: Head of Software development group, Chief System Architect
Type of business: System Integration
Main activities and responsibilities:
- Leader of development group (9 people);
- Lead of development projects;
- Architect and development of custom and off-the-shelf software (C/C++, Scheme, Lisp, Java);
- Negotiation with customers
- Present solutions for customers;
- Participation in marketing activity;
- Infrastructure architect (data & process integration projects, network projects,
mail projects).
- Performed Projects:
- Mailboss (aka SMAP "Dozor-Jet") – mail filtering and archiving software (architect
and develop software, lead the development process);
http://www.jetinfosecurity.com;
- Webboss (aka SKVT "Dozor-Jet") – web filtering software (architect and develop
software, lead the development process); http://www.jetinfosecurity.com;
- BeepayXP – payment processing software for the Vimpelkom – large Russian Mobile
Company (Data architect, server infrastructure architect, project coordinator);
- File-NG – data type detection library;
- KC IAS - lead architect in data and process integration pilot project (on the base
of Sun Java CAPS) for a Russian Central bank. Business process analysis, Project
architecture design, product selection.
- Content-type detection add-on for the Cerberus software (Mail filtering software
for Lotus Notes);
- Custom Web Portals for the government departments (architect solutions, project
coordinator);
- Mail projects for different clients (Infrastructure architect, project
coordinator);
- Custom software solutions (Development in C/C++, Java, Scheme).
- Teacher at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Dates (from-to): 09.1998-08.2001
Name and address of employer: Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenina Str, 30, Tomsk, Russia
Positions held: Assistant of Chair of Technical Physic (Teacher)
Type of business: Education
Main activities and responsibilities:
- Provide trainings for students in branch of thermodynamic, molecular physic,
computer modeling of physical processes;
- Administration of faculty network (mix of Unix and Windows servers) – 1500 users;
- Development of Intranet applications.
- Developer at E-Compare Corp.
Dates (from-to): 10.2000 – 4.2001
Name and address of employer: E-Compare Corp, USA
Positions held: Developer (remote work)
Type of business: Software Development
Main activities and responsibilities:
- Writing modules for search engine (Perl, Oracle);
- Web programming (HTML, JavaScript).
Education and trainings
- Engineer at Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
Dates (from-to): 1991-1997
Title of qualification awarded: Physic (Engineer)
Name and type of organisation: Physical-technical department of Tomsk Polytechnic University
Principal subjects: Physic and Chemistry of Plasma, Mathematics
Level in national classification: Higher education diploma
- MBA at Magdeburg University, Germany
Dates (from-to): 2003-2005
Title of qualification awarded: Master of Business Administration
Name and type of organisation: Deutsches MBA Program, Magdeburg University, Germany
Principal subjects: General management, Finance, Marketing
Technical skills and competences
Programming languages and software development skills
- C and C++ – more than 10 years (mostly in Unix – Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD)
- Scheme and Common Lisp – 8 years (commercial & personal projects)
- Clojure - 1 year (commercial & personal projects)
- Erlang - 1,5 year (personal projects)
- Haskell - 1 year (personal projects)
- Java (including J2EE) – 5 years (currently inactive)
- Perl – 5 years (currently inactive)
- OCaml and F# – 3 years (currently inactive)
- Prolog - 2 years (currently inactive)
- SQL – 7 years (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
- UML modeling in complex projects
- x86 Assembler – 5 years (currently inactive)
- Hadoop and corresponding topics - 1 year
Other computer-related skills
- Administration of UNIX-like OS – Linux (since 1996), Sun Solaris (since 2000), HP-UX
(since 2001), FreeBSD (since 2000)
- Administration of Windows OSes – NT4, 2000, XP
- Administration of relational databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
Open Source projects
- Catdoc — Open-source converter for MS Office files, development of PPT & XLS converters
- ALTLinux — Linux distribution, package maintainer (2001-2004)
- Dansguardian – web-filtering software
- openfwtk — application level firewall
- Russian documentation for Linux – author of different articles about Linux
Certification
- Authorised "ALTLinux specialist", certificate number 0x000C;
- Brainbench certification (Brainbench ID 5075245):
- Master C++
- Master C++ Fundamentals
- Master Unix Programming
- Master Linux Programming
- Master Network Authentication
- Master Unix Administration (General)
- Master Linux Administration (General)
- Master Linux Administration (Redhat)
- C Programmer
Personal skills and competences
Languages
- Russian: Mother tongue
- English: Good reading, writing & verbal skills
- German: Good reading, basic writing and verbal skills
Social and organizational skills and competences
- Ability to working in multinational commands, working with foreign customers
- Ability to work in teams and alone
- Experience in managing of software development teams, coordinating different
departments to make projects.
- Participation in Open Source projects
Other personal info
- Driving license: present
- Artistic skills and competences: Author of different articles, in physic and
computer-related branches. Co-author of Russian translation of "GNU Emacs manual",
"Practical Common Lisp", "Types and programming languages", and some other.
Last change: 01.07.2010 08:28