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Alexey Maksimov Overview Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Skills

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Skills UNIX administration Sun Solaris (SCSA), Linux, FreeBSD Programming Perl, C, shell scripting Oracle DBA OCP 9/10, Managing Oracle on Linux Certified Expert Administrator, developer and designer skills Consultant-grade knowledge and real life experience in one piece Solid theoretical background – used to read commercial courses on Oracle

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Skills Network skills Real life experience with various network and application-level protocols Good understanding and practical skills tuning and troubleshooting firewalls Cisco hardware skills – PIX, routers, SIP phones, VPN Microsoft SQL Server General DBA skills for Hardware, storage, backup Sun hardware: servers, storages, tape libraries Veritas NetBackup, Solaris Volume Manager (Solstice Disk Suite) Really good at Oracle backup/recovery, standby servers, corruption fixing, tuning

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal & professional features Employment history Ideal employment Skills Network skills Real life experience with various network and application-level protocols Good understanding and practical skills tuning and troubleshooting firewalls Cisco hardware skills – PIX, routers, SIP phones, VPN Microsoft SQL Server General DBA skills for Hardware, storage, backup Sun hardware: servers, storages, tape libraries Veritas NetBackup, Solaris Volume Manager (Solstice Disk Suite) Really good at Oracle backup/recovery, standby servers, corruption fixing, tuning Personal and professional features

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal & professional features Employment history Ideal employment Really customer-oriented “I can not help you and I don’t know who can” – virtually never happens Treats unsatisfied customer as a personal fault. Happens very rarely Tries not to be black box – always advise what’s happening and timeframes An optimizer man If something is not optimal, can be improved or automated – does so Really keen to solve a problem If the issue is challenging and important, can put great deal of effort resolving it’s core cause and preventing it from happening again Personal and professional features

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal & professional features Employment history Ideal employment Under time pressure delays low-priority tasks If there is a time pressure and a task can be delayed, it will be delayed Hates routine reporting Reporting takes valuable time and does not help to do the job Needs enough time Can work in time-constraining settings, but to perform at his best requires enough time. A masterpiece takes longer than a quick fix. Usually spends more time than necessary to make sure a solution is adequate and comprehensive, nothing better can be implemented. Personal and professional features

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Under time pressure delays low-priority tasks If there is a time pressure and a task can be delayed, it will be delayed Hates routine reporting Reporting takes valuable time and does not help to do the job Needs enough time Can work in time-constraining settings, but to perform at his best requires enough time. A masterpiece takes longer than a quick fix. Usually spends more time than necessary to make sure a solution is adequate and comprehensive, nothing better can be implemented. Personal and professional featuresEmployment history

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Really big company Only the branch he worked for served > 6M customers. (NZ population is 4.2M) DBA Lead: Mobile Telesystems Russia/FE branch Employment history True world-class enterprise With state-of-art hardware and software, challenges and bureaucracy Sun and IBM servers – F6800/6900/25K, enterprise class Hitachi storage Oracle databases. In-home systems only. Resigned moving to New Zealand Otherwise would hardly left the company Got excellent references

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Outsourcing Although TCL is a telecom, they outsource integrated services to clients as well Senior DBA: Telstraclear New Zealand Employment history New: outsourcing environment, MS SQL Server administration Tens of database hosts, more than hundred databases New Zealand style work relationship and culture Supervised team Not much of a challenge Good money but no exciting tasks Difficulties in professional development

Alexey Maksimov www: tel: Skills Personal and professional features Employment history Ideal employment Oracle DBA or consultant Healthy mixture of BAU and projects Possibly combined with UNIX administration and teaching Ideal employment In-home systems No or very little outsourcing. Limited amount of systems to own and know top to toes No routine reporting Let me focus on the job and professional development, not on documenting every minute and the paperwork nobody ever reads Good money for good job Feed me with challenging tasks, scale and real responsibility Let me focus on the job, not on making ends meet

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