Boris Sokolov

Working for Valtech branch in Eindhoven

Working as .Net and ETL developer on the projects of the Bulgarian mobile operator MTel (http://www.mtel.bg/en). .Net area covers several projects (C# and C++) based on different technologies like ASP.NET, Web Services, MFC, CLR Stored Procedures... ETL: the main tool is IBM InfoSphere DataStage. There are lots of different subsystems implemented on various technologies. DataStage plays very important role in the process of integration of those subsystems, transferring data into DataWarehouse, etc.

Working as a .net developer for a large billing system. Languages: C# (the main), Java Script (rarely), C++ (managed and unmanaged, rarely), VB Script, T-SQL, PL/SQL. Tools: Visual Studio 2010 + ReSharper, Jira (+GreenHopper Agile addon), Tortoise SVN, MS SQL Server Profiler, MS SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, Araxis Merge, Fiddler, Total Commander Technologies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, WCF, ASP.NET, ASP (classic), NUnit, Ajax DBMS: MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g

I worked as C#/C++ developer in a distributed team. I was analyzing the various data sources for widgets (for instance, weather forecast services), creating the new widgets (ASP.NET), third-party components integration prototypes (ASP.NET), data feed logic (C# and C++). At the end of December 2010 I have been told by my PM that the Company has funding problems for the next year and the development will be frozen for indefinite period of time. That's why I've decided to leave.

I've lead a small .Net team. I've been responsible for the communications with customers and other dev teams, planning, application design and development, knowledge sharing. I've worked on the various projects from different customers (from Austria, Morocco, USA), learned new technologies (for instance WPF) which were used then during the implementation.

I worked as a Junior .Net Developer directly with the dev team in Graz because I was the only .Net guy in Kharkov office (there were already PHP and Java departments). This position was my first full-time job as Software Developer. It helped me to improve both technical and communication skills (all the meetings and chats were in English; all the specifications were in German).

Worked as an J2EE Instructor on the courses for students. Topics: functional and non-functional requirements, Ant, Hibernate, JUnit, EJB, Oracle.