Vadim Tkachenko

Scottsdale, AZ

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What color is your parachute?

It's not parachute, dummy, it's a saxophone. Tenor. Gold-plated, as usual.

Posted @ 11:25AM, May 19, 2007 by Vadim Tkachenko | Permalink
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Work history

American Express August 2007 to the present
Lead Technical Architect

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How would you describe your time at American Express?

Official job description (abbreviated):

Performs development of Standards, research and participates in technical systems development initiative for review with A/Ls. Provides technical support and training to the architecture staff.

Leads system design, build, integration, and test medium to
large projects within the Global Corporate Services portfolio.

Researches and analyzes technical options and translates business needs into adequate technology solutions. Interacts with portfolio and project architects for decisions that have potential broad or cross-project impact.

Provides technical specifications and oversight to out-task developers. Leads quality assurance of key deliverables.

Provides guidance on technology capabilities to business partners. Collaborates, negotiates and influences key vendors, out-tasking developers, and technology and business partners to achieve objectives.
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VCommerce May 2005 to July 2007
Software Architect

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How would you describe your time at VCommerce?

Architected and designed a Struts based wizard framework, subsequently provided implementation for a client supplier setup application;

Performed stress analysis and refactored the middleware architecture to enable horizontal and vertical scalability sufficient to survive the holiday season
volume peak, twice (2005 and 2006);

Provided a metric collection and visualization module to monitor the system load during critical volume spikes;

Architected and designed integration adapter to enable eBooks products offerings;

Architected and designed integration adapters for several major online payment providers (including PayPal and Google Checkout);

Provided a core contribution to the Java related positions interview checklist;

Provided ongoing analysis of high traffic error reporting reduction solution;

Provided ongoing legacy application code and architecture refactoring to prepare the system for evolutionary J2EE and service oriented architecture migration;

Started content system architecture refactoring.
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VCommerce May 2005 to July 2007
Software Architect

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Information Technology International November 2002 to May 2005
Senior Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Information Technology Inte...?

Architected and designed enterprise security subsystem based on JAAS. Gained significant experience dealing with HL7 (http://www.hl7.org), LOINC (http://www.loinc.org/) and other health care related standards with emphasis on health alert notifications in context of anti-bioterrorism surveillance. Architected and implemented web services for interfacing with USPS Address Matching System and Delivery Point Validation native libraries, using JNI. Architected and implemented web services providing token (2-factor) authentication. Integrated the 2-factor authentication service into custom security solution provided by VirtualAlert. Architected and implemented Netegrity SiteMinder adapter for the application security infrastructure.... read more
Silverline February 2000 to November 2002
Senior Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Silverline?

Performed the credit card account management system J2EE migration proof of concept. Project involved replacing pure Servlets oriented application with classic J2EE architecture, relying on Servlets, JSPs, EJBs and JMS.

Performed duties of American Express Architecture Group member, including,
but not limited to, setting the standards, issuing the recommendations, performing the enterprise's project reviews.

Created the implementation architecture and project infrastructure support system, supervised and coordinated the implementation of the Customer Information Broker.
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4C Solutions June 1997 to February 2000
Team Lead

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How would you describe your time at 4C Solutions?

Performed duties of a technical architect and team lead working on projects for John Deere & Co and other local customers. Supervised midsize development teams. Provided the architecture guidance. Performed code reviews and quality assurance. Performed reusable code management for the company.
KPMG Peat Marwick & Barents Group December 1995 to June 1997
Senior Network Administrator/Architect

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How would you describe your time at KPMG Peat Marwick & Barents...?

Created and Managed heterogeneous country-wide mission-critical network supporting securities trading (NASDAQ software and hardware). Created the network architecture following the NASDAQ architecture guidelines and taking budget and technology constraints into account, performed network monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting, supported the corporate DNS, mail delivery system, website and news server.... read more
International Renaissance Foundation December 1994 to December 1995
Telecommunications Coordinator

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How would you describe your time at International Renaissance F...?

Provided a turnkey solution for Project Tracking System. Project facilitated distributed workflow management using generic mail transport, providing operations support for the locations with poor connectivity.
Arcada Bank October 1993 to December 1994
Head of Computer Department

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How would you describe your time at Arcada Bank?

Performed the duties of the technical architect, project leader and business liaison for the Banking Operations Division support software.

Education

Sun Educational Services May 2001 to June 2001
Architecting & Developing J2EE applications

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Kiev Polytechnic Institute September 1982 to February 1988
Computer Science

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