Head of IT Department
Gazprom International
Total years of experience :26 years, 7 Months
• Administration of Geoscience software contracts, annual maintenance renewals;
• IT budget planning, monitoring, execution and reporting;
• Geoscience software support: Petrel, Avocet, Merak, Geox, Pipesim, Studio, Eclipse (Schlumberger), ArcGIS (ESRI), Senergy (IP), Chemcad, Wellcad, Kappa, IPM (Petex);
• Administration of the "IHS Goldfire" information system.
• Administration of meeting rooms, audio-, video- and multimedia systems, videoconferencing, SharePoint (as a document management system);
• Administration of software licenses, updates and upgrades;
• Servers, virtual machines and geological workstations administration;
• NetApp data storage administration, backup and recovery of filesystems using Netapp and Vmware snapshots technology and HP tape library.
• Technical support of LAN, office phones and IP-telephony (CISCO), printers and scanners;
• Responsible for the IT security: management of user accounts and access rights, network security, Kaspersky antivirus administration, password policy, etc.;
• Responsible for the physical security system: access control, intrusion detection, working time and attendance control, video surveillance (BOSCH);
• Negotiations with suppliers of Geological software, requesting quotes and invoices;
• Storage of the geological data in the well-structured databank. Maintaining geological databank digital database.
• Personnel management (two IT-specialists);
• Management of contractors, providers of security system, fire-fighting system, air conditioning and server room electricity.
• Support of geoscience software for more than 100 geologists, geophysicist, reservoir engineers: Petrel, Eclipse, and other software from Schlumberger, Kingdom (IHS), Landmark, Paradigm Geophysical, Roxar, BASPRO, CMG, ArcGIS (Esri), Kappa, OpendTect, Peloton, Mesa, TNavigator (RockFlowDynamics), Tesseral, RokDoc, Hampson-Russell, FlexLM licensing;
• Single technical point of contact, responsible for all the steps of the "Decision Support Center" project from the design to operation: design, ordering, installation, acceptance and technical support. The "Decision Support Center" and corresponding meeting and control rooms were designed for effective decision making and real-time drilling monitoring. This was a high-end system, based on the rear-projection BARCO system (2 stereo-projectors, 7x2.5m curved screen) and professional AV equipment (Crestron, Extron for video switching and control automation, Bosch congress and simultaneous translation system, Biamp sound processor, Meyer Sound speakers, CISCO video conferencing system, professional Planar LCD panels). The system was built in Dubai Lukoil Overseas office in 6 months and supported by me during 2 years.
• UAE-based contractors coordination: Al-Rostamani (hardware supplier), Intertech (hardware supplier), Intertech-Vision (projection system supplier), MVP (IT Integration), Crestron (video equipment maintenance), AlTayer Stocks LLC and Paramount Technical Works (general construction works);
• Administration of all videoconferencing end-user systems (CISCO and Polycom) in all meeting rooms, videoconference servers administration, multipoint videoconferencing.
• Administration of servers and workstations, backup of servers, databases and virtual machines;
• Defining user needs in geological software, renewal of maintenance support contracts for software and hardware, IT budget planning.
• Participated in design, delivery and support of conference rooms for top-management.
• Upgrade of the "Decision Support Center" (initially it was called "Schlumberger iCenter", built with my participation when I was working for Schlumberger): development of technical requirements, tender arrangement, design, supervision of contractors’ work. Handover the system to the new owner (before moving to Dubai). In this project BARCO system was replaced by ProjectionDesign system with higher resolution and functionality.
• Building the first Realtime Drilling Operations control room in the Сompany, which was connected to the "Decision Support Center" for better collaboration.
• Supervision of regional Decision Support Centers in Moscow, Astana, Aktau, Tashkent and other branches of the Company.
• Enabling real-time collaboration using Schlumberger Petrel VR, LiveQest, HP RGS, Webex and others.
• Sales support: participation in presentations, providing technical details to customers, preparing pilot projects and data rooms;
• Schlumberger geoscience software support;
• Installation and upgrade of servers, workstations, disk storage and tape libraries;
• Data loading, project migration, data backup, archiving and restoring;
• Installation and support of audio-video conference rooms, Schlumberger iCenters (2002-2007, more than 15 installations). List of built iCenters:
o Yukos, Moscow (2002)
o Schlumberger DCS, Moscow (2002)
o Tomsk Polytechnic University (2002)
o Yamal Administration, Salekhard (2002)
o SibNAC, Tyumen (2002)
o TNK-BP, Tyumen (2002, 2007-renovation)
o Sibneft, Moscow (2003)
o RosNeft, Moscow (2004)
o Schlumberger OFS, Moscow (2007-renovation)
o Lukoil, Moscow (2004)
o Lukoil Overseas, Moscow (2004)
o VNIIGAZ, Moscow (2005)
o TNK-BP, Moscow (2006)
o SurgutNefteGaz, Surgut (2006)
o Lukoil Overseas, Cairo/Egypt (2006)
o Schlumberger SRG-HQ, Tyumen (2007)
o Schlumberger SLR-HQ, Moscow (2007)
o Schlumberger Training Center, Tyumen (2007)
o Lukoil Overseas, Astana/Kazakhstan (2007)
o Lukoil Overseas, Tashkent/Uzbekistan (2007)
• Implementation of the "Inside Reality", a Virtual Reality geological system with head/hand tracking capable of working in the real-time multi-user collaboration environment - two installations, for Gazprom and Lukoil;
• Implementation of the "Livequest", remote collaboration tool and alternative solutions evaluation form IBM and HP on the Schlumberger test data;
• Setup and administration of the 64-core reservoir simulation cluster (Eclipse) in data-center. Cluster was dual-boot: Linux and Windows HPC and running Platform LSF task scheduling system for better performance.
09.1999 - 06.2001: System Administrator, MobileService (Telecommunications Company), Tyumen, Russia
• Administration of the Oracle database and billing system, 24x7 support of broadcasting equipment.
• Call-center support;
• Interfacing between the Company management and the billing system vendor to change the system according to the business needs;
• Installation of LAN in the new office, two offices integration, network security enhancement by installing Cisco firewall.
• Sendmail and Bind administration, Internet domain name registration.
• Administration of the Oracle database and billing system, 24x7 support of broadcasting equipment.
• Call-center IT support;
• Interfacing between the Company management and the billing system vendor to change the system according to the business needs;
• Installation of LAN in the new office, network security enhancement by installing Cisco firewall. Sendmail and Bind administration, Internet domain name registration.
• I was giving lectures of "Systems Architecture" and "Computer Networks" for about 100 students every year;
• Built the first UNIX laboratory in the university: “The Open Systems Laboratory” which was available for students any working time for educational and communication purposes.
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