6312 Boone Ave. N., Apt#210, Brooklyn Park, MN 55428; home tel: (763) 536-3953
Email: mailto:skuchin@sprynet.com, kuchin@hotmail.com

This resume in the MS Word format is available. References are available upon request.

LEGAL STATUS in US: Green card holder.

HIGHER EDUCATION: Major degrees in Computer Science, Applied Math & Mechanics, University of Novosibirsk , Russia, Department of Mechanics and Applied Math, 1981-1986.

SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE:

• Generic (3+ years), object oriented programming (7+ years)
• Relational and object oriented databases (7+ years): client/server, multi-tier architectures; database analysis, modeling, schema design, optimization, application development & tuning; high performance back end, batch, and data warehouses
• C (12+ years), C++ (10 years), ANSI C++ with STL (3 years): Visual C++, Sun C++ Workshop / Forte C++, IBM Visual Age (xlC), HP ANSI C++ (aCC), Borland C++, GNU C++.
• Unix (8+ years): Solaris, AIX, HP UX, Linux;
• Windows (6+ years): Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000
• Oracle (7+ years): SQL, PL/SQL, ProC/C++, OCI with C++, Oracle Developer (Forms/Reports), tuning & optimization, data warehouses, and Oracle back end for Web based systems
• MS SQL Server (3 years): SQL, Transact-SQL, ODBC with C++, data warehouses, and MS SQL back end for Web based systems
• Miscellaneous skills: Oracle Apps, Account Receivables, Project Accounting (1 year); Crystal Report Writer (1 year); HTML (4 years); Rogue Wave Tools++ & DBTools++ (6 months); Natural Language Processing (4 years); C++ Object Store (1 year); MS Office 95/97/2000 (5 years); Sybase (9 months) DB2 (9 months); fluent in ANSI SQL-92; exposure to Java/JDBC/JNI;

• Financial database applications development and support (4 years)
• Commercial software product design and development (9 months)
• Power control system and database applications development and support (3 years)
• Real-time control applications development and support (2 years)

EMPLOYMENT & PROJECT HISTORY:

Apr-01 – present. Senior Developer, MQ Software, Minneapolis, USA. Product developer of QPasa , a cross-platform monitoring tool / middleware,. Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Sybase; C/C++, Windows 9x/NT/2000, Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP UX, Linux).

Feb-97 – Apr-01. Systems Analyst, Analysts International Corp, Minneapolis, USA. Financial, data warehouse, Web based systems development and support projects, as well as legacy system conversion projects. Oracle, MS SQL Server, C/C++, Windows 9x/NT/2000, Unix (HP UX, Solaris, Linux).

1996 - present. Ongoing Open Source project: Oracle, ODBC and DB2-CLI Template Library (OTL). OTL 1.0 was contributed to the Open Source in late 1996. Since then, it has acquired 8000-10000 users. OTL is a cross-platform C++ template library, which provides access to Oracle (7, 8, 8i, 9i), MS SQL Server, DB2, and ODBC data sources in Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP UX, Linux, Alfa Unix, BSD) as well as Windows (9X/NT/2000).

OTL was described as the best alternative to Pro*C in the "Software Engineering with Oracle: Best Practices for Mission-Critical Systems" by Elio Bonazzi.

Nov-94 - Feb-97. Technical Consultant for Siemens Empros Energy & Automation via Mosakin Corp. Minneapolis, USA. Power control systems development, customization, and support. C/C++, Oracle, Developer 2000, Pascal, AIX, Solaris, Windows NT.

Jun-94 – Nov-94. Systems Analyst, Siberian Trade Bank, Financial Technology Center, Novosibirsk, Russia. Redesign and migration of a legacy banking system. C/C++, Windows 3.1, SCO Unix, Oracle, Developer 2000, ODBC, Btrieve, Clipper.

Nov-92 – Nov-93. Visiting Researcher. German Center for Computer Science, Integrated Information and Publication Systems Institute, Darmstadt, Germany. A research project for a multimedia distributed object oriented database. SunOS/Solaris, C++, Object Store.

Aug-88 – Oct-92. Research Programmer. Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, AI Lab, Novosibirsk, Russia. Chief developer of a natural language front end (called InterBASE) for relational databases. C/C++, Pascal, Assembler, Clipper, xBase, MSDOS, Windows 3.x, Xenix.

Aug-86 – Jul-88. Programmer. "Applied Mechanics" Space Corporation, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Operating systems for embedded microprocessors. C, specialized assembler languages.