Hello! I'm Alex
I've been developing applications for Fixed Income brokers for the past 20+ years. I pride myself on writing code that is stable readable and maintainable. I think I'm a good team player. Working for a small business I have to wear >= 1 hat:
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Alex Dorokhin
Software Developer
Phone:
C: 917-439-0712
O: 212-571-6103
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Email:
Address:
H: Brooklyn NY
W:New York NY
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Pace Univercity
New York
Major: BS in CS Minor: Mathematics
Honors: Dean's Lists: Spring 94, Fall 95, Spring 96, National Dean's List 94-95
1994-1997
Bachelor's Degree
1987-1992
Bachelor's Degree
Polytechnic University,
Odessa, Ukraine
Major: Technology of Mechanical Engineering
Diploma equivalent to US BS.
EDUCATION
Excellent Designing, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
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1995-1996
CAD Designer
1992-1995
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Ship Repair Yard
Illichivsk, Ukraine
From metalworker to mechanical engineer.
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1984-1992
Engineer
Various dirty jobs
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1996-1997
Intern Programmer
NYC Department of Mental Health
Designed and implemented new Customer Service Application using dBase 4.
Maintained legacy and created new Databases
Designed reports for the 1997-Year Plan based on databases mentioned above.
Supported existing applications, trained end users (20).
EXPERIENCE
1997-Present
Senior Developer,
DBA, Sys/Network
Admin,
Software Development
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Reliable, Self-Monitoring, Traceable Applications.
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Writing various front/back-office applications, services and utilities. Trying to adhere to SOLID principles. Really do. Work independently or in a team of 3-5 developers. Very flexible. Green code in C#, maintaining existing one in C++/C (pretty good chunk of it written by me in the early years). List of projects and technologies included here.
Other responsibilities include evaluating software/middle-ware and making purchasing suggestions to management.
Database Administration and Development
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Security, Recoverability and Speed
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Managing SQL Servers - Installing, Upgrading (In Place and Side-by Side), Backups Backups Backups. Maintenance plans. Log Shipping. DB-mail. Logins and Users. Permissions.
SSIS. SSRS. Would love to work with Azure, AWS, whatever Google has or any other cloud base technologies.
Creating DBs, tables, views (indexed), indexes, etc. SPs, UDFs, assemblies, triggers, Service Broker, SSIS packages, SSRS reports. Profiling/Troubleshooting, optimizing performance issues and finding bottlenecks, analyzing execution plans. Thank You Adam Machanic Brent Ozar.and Paul Randal.
SSIS Development: Various packages exporting/importing files for customers stuck in 20th century, DB maintenance and relational integrity packages, FTP, SFTP, ZIP, archiving, auditing tasks, etc., etc.
System Administration
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Security, Reliability and Automation.
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Support of hardware in two co-locations (PRI and DR). 8-10 beefy servers and some small ones. I usually name servers after famous evil robots, computers or AI entities (thought you wanted to know). IPMI, DRAC. Creation and maintenance of DEV/QA/UAT environment. Active Directory Domains and Users. Data synchronization between locations. Automation of everything that is not bolted down. Virtualization (Hyper-V). Maintaining multiple websites. Ordering/renewing, issuing SSL Certificates, Private PKI infrastructure. DNS management. (S)FTP, Backups Backups Backups. rSync. Keeping Windows OS up to date with security updates and attempting to follow Microsoft Security bulletins.
Managing MSMQ and IBM MQ environments. Creating managers, channels, queues, triggers, etc.
Network connectivity.
Other responsibilities include making hardware purchasing suggestions to management.
Network Administration
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Security, High Availability.
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Support of Fabkom LANs and connectivity with customers. Establishing new connections and maintaining existing ones. VPNs, SSL VPNs, Routes, firewall rules, protocols. Support of Dells SonicWALL Enterprise firewalls HI & LB.
Other responsibilities include making hardware purchasing suggestions to management.