Maxim Rudensky

Primary Skills

• Development Languages: PHP, Perl, HTML, JavaScript
• Database Development: MySQL, PostgreSQL, general ANSI SQL knowledge, XML
• Operating Systems Administration: Linux (since 1999), FreeBSD, Windows NT/2K
• Web Servers Administration: Apache 1.3/2.0
• Protocols: HTTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP

Secondary skills

• Development tools: GCC, CVS, make, GNU autoconf/automake
• Programming: C/C++, UNIX shell

Projects

Unless specified otherwise, my duties in the projects are general architectal concept, database design and php coding.

• Omnistar Live!
  Online customer support desk. Key features of the system:
  • multiple operators and departments totally independent from each other
  • online visitors monitoring
  • live chat
  • operator can initiate a chat with a visitor (!)
  • tickets can come via email (either by mail piping certain mailbox or by using "Fetch POP3 mailbox" function)
  • knowledge base
  • address book
  • calendar
  • contact manager
  • many more, check here the complete list of features
  Demo site: admin area
  staff area
  users area
  NOTE: demo site is often updated; you can find the latest URLs of the demo areas here.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4, Perl, fetching email via POP3, mail piping/filtering, extensive Javascript
• Omnistar Mailer
  Online email list management software. Key features:
  • Unlimited subscribers in unlimited email lists
  • Unlimited HTML email campaigns
  • Bounce messages handling
  • Customizeable registration forms for every email list - you can add/remove any fields of 25 types (text input, radio, checkbox etc)
  • Delayed and immediate auto-responder feature
  • User interface for members
  • many more, check here the complete list of features
  Demo site is here: Admin area
  Users area
  NOTE: the demo site is often updated, please see this page for the latest demo location.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4, Perl, fetching email via POP3, mail piping/filtering, extensive Javascript
• Omnistar Cart
  Online shopping cart.
  That is the site that keeps a large number of virtual shopping carts on the same domain name. If you are Internet Merchant, you may rent your virtual e-shop and customize it according to your needs. Each e-store has its own unique ID. Access to the e-store is by that ID, e.g. http://shopnow.secureonlinecart.com/?setstore=number.
  The list of the featured stores are here. Key features:
  • highly customizeable frontend
  • credit card processing via Authorize.net, VeriSign PFPro/PFLink, BluePay, LinkPoint, PayPal, 2Checkout, CyberSource, and simple email orders processing
  • shipping via UPS, U.S.P.S., shipping based on the total ranges, and custom scheme
  • simple mailing list management
  • customers and orders management
  • many more; check the complete list of features here
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4
• Omnistar Article Online press releases manager. Key features:
  • Built-in templates
  • Easy online HTML editor
  • Multi-level access to articles
  • Site search
  • Unlimited site pages
  • Re-brand the admin area
  • many more; check the complete list of features here
  There is a demo site:
  Admin area
  Frontend area
  NOTE: the demo site is often updated, please see this page for the latest demo location.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4
• Omnistar Recruiter
  Online recruiter tool. Key features are:
  • Members can post resume, search and apply for a job
  • Employers post and update jobs from the admin interface
  • Each job/resume has a list of appropriate skills
  • Register form is customizeable with the basic types of fields - text input, dropdown, radio, checkbox
  • Complete list of features is here
  There is a demo site:
  Admin area
  Members area
  NOTE: the demo site is often updated, please see this page for the latest demo location.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4
• www.lateraljobs.com
  Job search/Recruiter site for the lawyers and lawyer companies. Tools: MySQL, PHP
• Hosting Control Panel
  Control Panel for Omnistar Interactive, Inc. Internet Hosting Provider
  This is an administrative area for the sites and users who are hosted on the servers provided by Omnistar Interactive company. Currently there are 5 installations:
  www.myhostingadmin.com
  www.myhostcontrolpanel.com
  www.hostcontroladmin.com
  venus.hostcontroladmin.com
  pluto.hostcontroladmin.com
  Features are including:
  • POP and mail forward accounts management
  • UNIX accounts management from the web
  • Reseller management (resell sub-accounts and earn money by that)
  • Diskspace/traffic usage reports
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4, shell programming, Perl
• http://www.queencitylincolnmercury.com
  B2C site. Luxury vehicles search engine and services.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4
• Lib2 PHP library
  Service library implements sessions over HTTP protocol, session-based authentification, unified simple interface to SQL engines and some other common tools used for creating of dynamic web-sites. Used in most of the listed projects.
  Freshmeat: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/lib2
  Tools: PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase

Some projects were completed and in production for a certain time, but the world moves on...

• http://www.candleberry.com
  B2C E-commerce site. Candles e-store.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4
  NOTE: rewritten in ASP by the different company
• pricereporter.com
  B2C price list site, similar to pricegrabber.com or pricescan.com. Interesting feature of the site was a filling the database using a web bot, for the initial time (aka Data Mining).
  Tools: MySQL, PHP
  NOTE: currently not available
• http://www.giv-u-life.com
  B2C E-commerce site. Health products e-store.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4, mod_rewrite (Apache)
  NOTE: currently not available
• http://www.globaltechtrends.com
  E-magazine focused on high technology in various aspects of modern life.
  Tools: MySQL, PHP4. Full-text search.
  NOTE: currently not available

Web Site

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Professional Employment

• Note. I included only the companies with which I have 2+ years of a relationship. I also often have occasional one-time sub-contracts.
• August 2008 - present: ISM Ukraine
  http://ism-ukraine.com
  Zhitomir, 2 prov.Schorsa, 20
  +380 412 445403
  +380 67 7582991
  Director Dmitriy Antonuk
  Team Leader in a PHP team. Work on various customer projects based on an in-house built framework; support of existing projects and development of a new client requests and brand new projects. Mostly sites based on CMS.
• September 2007 -- June 2008: Community Development And Support
  http://wap3.com.ua
  Zhitomir, Chapaeva 7
  +380 412 480198
  Director Alexandr Rozhik
  Team Leader in a small PHP team. What we were doing is a work on experimental projects, modelling sites, various projects on integration of the telecom databases and services with social network sites.
• May 2004 -- January 2007: New Millennium Media, Inc.
  http://nmm.com.sg
  Working remotely for Singapure outsourcing company. Web programming -- mainly admin web interfaces for user & content management.
• April 2001 -- January 2007: OmniStar Interactive, Inc.
  http://www.omnistaronline.com
  Position: Remote Web Developer, Tech.Support
  Duties:
  • Web-sites development using PHP4 and MySQL
  • Web-servers remote administration
  • Web-sites support and troubleshooting
• I have a work history on a local IT market prior to 2001, but it is not such exciting. It was just a gaining of the initial professional experience. I supported Progress 4GL application, ported that application on Linux, worked as a sysadmin with SCO Open Server, layed twisted pair by office, supported users, did system integration work, experimented with MySQL and Perl, then at last gained my first sub-contract from a London-based company DivisionX, Ltd. for the development of the recruiting site (Perl, MySQL). It was a time of dot-coms. After successfull completion of the contract I disappeared from a local IT market and continued work remotely, for abroad companies only.
• February 2001 - April 2001: Ukraina Co., Ukraine (example of my local IT market job)
  Position: Intranet Application Developer, System Integrator
  Duties:
  • Development of network traffic accounting application with web interface (solution based on SQUID proxy)

References

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