Alex Sporyk, Manager,IT Infrastructure Engineering

Alex Sporyk

Manager,IT Infrastructure Engineering

Quest Group DMCC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Doctorate, PhD
Experience
24 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 11 Months

Manager,IT Infrastructure Engineering at Quest Group DMCC
  • My current job since May 2015

Planned and developed robust, highly available, and standardized IT solutions that streamline the integration of new acquistions and business processes.

Designed Enterprise Architectures capable of supporting large networks and computing frameworks in EMEAR, Asia and India.

Exercised complete administration responsibilities: implement backup/recovery, manage capacity and archival, ensure security, provide quality control, tune code and SGA, and support the high availability of multiple production and development database environments.

Wrote and supported several programs/API's in shell and SQL for custom data requirements, ranging from reporting/data archival to mass item/business unit updates.

Senior Consultant, Senior PHP / Drupal / Wordpress Developer at The Address Real Estate Brokers
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2013 to March 2015

Personally provided consulting, custom PHP/MySQL web development, various PHP/MySQL software platform integrations, web design, marketing, and graphic design for business websites.

With client input, designed and developed lots of ecommerce websites and other custom PHP/MySQL projects on various PHP/MySQL platforms, often with customizations such as CRM integration, social voting, online scheduling, multi-level-marketing, etc.

Managed remote contractors to help complete web development and marketing projects.

For numerous Wordpress based projects for Real Estates completed:

Developed custom WordPress responsive theme using Bootstrap, SASS and HTML5
* Created custom PHP plugins
* Developed home-grown WordPress widgets such as dynamic PHP/CSS3 sidebar widgets for news and events
* Developed custom MySQL queries and tested with phpMyAdmin
* Customized child theme templates to enhance functionality and UX
* Performed manual WordPress core and plugin upgrades
* Developed custom plugins

IT Manager at Aella Technologies LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2013 to May 2013

Software Development including Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.

Expertise in design & development for Android Operation System on mobile and tablets using Java, Eclipse, Android SDK, Geo-Location enabled mobile applications.

Expertise in design & development for Android Operation System on mobile and tablets using Java, Eclipse, Blackberry JDE6-7, Geo-Location enabled mobile applications. Develop and consume RESTful application, design and developed web services, messaging and notification systems.

Handled project release right from compilation, deployment and communicating to the team members along with the relevant project release documents.

Environment and Tools: Eclipse, ADB, Android OS emulation software, SVN, GIT, Blackberry OS6-7, JDE 6, 7.0 and 7.1

IT Professional and IT Consultant Self-Employed at Self-Employed
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2012 to December 2012

I have extensive experience with scalable web development techniques and technologies. Having done engineering work for online retail, I understand scalability and large-scale web architecture concerns. As chief architect of an internet startup, I have experience with end-to-end implementation of an online strategy, including application development, data modeling, web service architecture, deployment, security, performance, scaling, and agile processes.

Most of my work has been done on the Mac OS X and Linux (primarily RedHat-based) platforms, in both software development and system administration capacities. I also have a high level of familiarity with unix-based technologies such as bash, git, gcc, postfix, apache, etc.

Recent roles have covered numerous areas, including client-server and mobile architecture, web development, geospatial technologies, rich graphical clients, visualization, programming language design, collective intelligence, and more. My research background comprises various computer graphics topics such as image-based rendering, multiresolution geometry, and 3D photography. I am probably best utilized in a senior engineer or senior architect role.

Marketing Manager/New Media Manager at Seven Sky International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2012 to September 2012

Developed and implemented marketing objectives, strategies and programs including conducting market research, beneficial relationships working with strategic partners to develop joint marketing initiatives, corporate communication and public relations strategies.

Played a key role in support and lead the development of marketing communications goals and tactics; execute positioning, customer segmentation strategies, sales channel strategies and promotion strategies in a B2C environment.

Continuously improved the websites content and effectiveness, keeping up to date with latest strategies and algorithms. Planned and executed European, Middle East PPC campaigns for direct sales generation. Developed and implemented competitive SEO strategies and back linking tactics to increase natural SE rankings.

Creative brainstorm for marketing campaigns. Tracked and analyzed results for campaigns optimization.

Ongoing testing of new strategies and new traffic pools with innovative techniques for improvements of sales figures.

Designed, executed, managed and maintained an Email marketing database.

Senior Software Engineer at Invensense International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2011 to September 2011

Software Development including Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.

Expertise in design & development for Android Operation System on mobile and tablets using Java, Eclipse, Android SDK, InvenSense motion sensor SDK.

Handled project release right from compilation, deployment and communicating to the team members along with the relevant project release documents.

Environment and Tools: Eclipse, ADB, Android OS emulation software, SVN

Director of Engineering/Project Manager at Promosoft Corporation
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2007 to March 2011

Managing of engineering staff (sales and technical), in technical and administration issues.

Design supervision, and Project managements of many R&D projects, logging systems, and Automation systems.

Providing pre‐sales assistance for turnkey projects, like studying customer’s specifications, requirements, preparing primary designs, block diagrams, workflow drawings, Prepare Project presentations.

Providing after sales services, like system maintenance, technical support, upgrades, and expansion projects.

Technical Analyst/Engineer at Promosoft Corporation
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2004 to December 2006

Build and lead developer teams in multiple countries, delivering UI upgrades, security improvements and performance tweaks to company flagship application. Drove flagship software product from concept through design and development, managing delivery and quality.

Software Engineer at IDS-World
  • United States
  • March 2003 to April 2004

Worked with team of engineers designing country wide distributed warehousing application for mainframe and numerous mobile clients. Assisted in engineering of routines and developing tools for IBM DB2 mainframe databases automatic performance optimization. Writing technical documentation, user manuals.

Business Consult at IBA
  • Belarus
  • March 2001 to March 2003

BI optimization, managed complex applications for IBM, Continental and others. Participated in design and delivery of applications and procedures for enterprise data transport from SAP R/2 into SAP R/3 system.

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer at DFZ
  • Belarus
  • January 1999 to January 2001

Supported Business Systems, Backup operations and Networking teams. Promoted to design pricing support system, managed team of 4 members delivering analytics to executive team. Developed payroll and tax set of applications, worked closely with CFO, leading team of 3 members.

Education

Doctorate, PhD
  • at Homel Technology State University
  • October 2002
Diploma,
  • at Lukoil
  • September 2002

“SAP education. Module FI”. IBM Moscow “SAP education. Module FI-AS”. IBM Moscow

Diploma,
  • at IBM
  • April 2002

Workshop on SAP R/3: FI module, IBM Germany, April 2002, certificate

Diploma,
  • at IBM
  • March 2002

Business Economics, IBM Germany, March 2002, certificate

Diploma,
  • at IBM
  • February 2002

“Business economics”. IBM Germany. 2002.

Master's degree, Industrial Robots and Automatic Lines
  • at Homel Technology State University
  • May 1998

Belarus state award for best science student project Co-author of patent for invention of New oscillation electric drive "Computer modeling of new mode of asyncronous electric drives " Dissertation

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Technologies
Cloud Computing
Software Development
Virtualization Technology
Software Engineer
Project management
IT manager
Borland/Codegear Delphi senior software developer
SAP R/3 FI/CO consult
Microsoft SQL Server DBA and developer
HTML/XHTML/PHP Web Design and Development
XML/XSLT/XPath data processing
Microsoft Office Developer (VBA)
Installation Packaging (InstallShield, NSIS, WISE, MSI)
Application protection (Ani-piracy, tracking, e-commerce, hardware lock etc)
Windows API 32/64
Networking and network programming
Embedded application development (Palm OS, Symbian, PPC. iOS/iPhone, Android)
Microsoft Visual Basic 6, .Net, VBA
Microsoft Visual C++
Unix (Linux, Sun Solaris, BSD)
IBM DB/2
Team development, offshore team building
Cloud Computing
DBA/Database Administrator
Cloud Computing technologies, Amazon EC2, Azure
Linux platform experience (Ubuntu, SuSe, CentOS, BSD, Fedora, RHEL)
Virtualization technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V)
SANs and data replication, iSCSI

Languages

English
Intermediate
Russian
Expert

Memberships

Microsoft Corporation
  • Software Beta Tester
  • September 2002
Google
  • Google Open Directory editor
  • November 2005
SourceForge.net
  • project coordinator
  • March 2006
SalesForce.com developer
  • Developer/Tester
  • June 2009
Embarcadero/Borland/CodeGear
  • Software Beta Tester
  • May 2006
Facebook
  • Developer/Tester
  • October 2009
VMWare
  • Developer/Tester
  • August 2008

Training and Certifications

“SAP education. Module FI-AS” (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2002
Valid Until:
June 2002
"SAP education. Module FI" (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2002
Valid Until:
June 2002
“Business economics” (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2002
Valid Until:
March 2002

Hobbies

  • Software Programming
    I'm a constant learner and love to discover new languages, devices or technologies to be on the Edge.