Solutions Director and Principal Solutions Architect for Cloud Data and Analytics Solutions. Helping T1A clients solve their technical and functional challenges with the help of Data and Data-Driven Platforms, using a variety of modern technology stacks: Azure, Microsoft Fabric, AWS, Databricks, Enterprise Data Lake (Lakehouse), Hadoop, SAS, Tableau, and many other names and buzzwords. Previously specialized in Enterprise Marketing Technology solutions such as SAS Customer Intelligence, IBM/HCL Campaign and Interact, Salesforce, Localytics, etc.My responsibilities span across Services Delivery, Sales, Pre-Sales, and Account Management.Establishing and leading Tier One Analytics solutions practices and centers of expertise both on the engineering spectrum (Azure Data Platform, Databricks, SAS, etc), industry spectrum (Telecommunications, Non-Profits, Finance), and functional spectrum (Self-Serve Analytics, Financial Controlling, Customer 360 Profile, Omni-Channel Customer Engagement, Finance BI Reporting, and others).Sales and Pre-Sales discovery, projects scoping. Advising customers on solutions architecture and engineering challenges.Delivery Project and Program management.Architectural supervision the project teams throughout project delivery.

Leading company's professional services practice in the Analytical CRM / Marketing Automation domain, as well as a number of Data Warehousing and Big Data projectsSales and presales of marketing automation software and practice project expertise to key customers in Russia, ex-USSR and Eastern Europe Telco and Finance industries.Architectural consultancy (technical and functional) in several major Analytical CRM / Multichannel Campaign Management, Real-Time Omni-Channel Marketing implementation projects in large telcos and banks. Scope and requirements assessment, high-level, solution, integration and ETL architecture design, hardware sizing and deployment infrastructure design, etc. Chief architect and expert (key bearer of company's exertise) on Real-Time omni-channel marketing systems (SAS RTDM/ESP software, IBM Interact software, Complex Event Processing solutions).Subject matter expert (customer intelligence/marketing automation, batch and real-time, finance telco retail and other industries). Presale activity, project costs and scope assessments, commercial proposals and negotiationTalent acquisition and retention, team growth and development etc.Account management, Project managementSolution expertise in Customer Intelligence / Marketing Automation area: SAS Customer Intelligence suite (SAS CI 360, SAS Marketing Automation, SAS Real-Time Decision Management, SAS Marketing Optimization, SAS Digital Marketing), IBM EMM suite, former Unica (IBM Campaign, IBM Interact, IBM Contact Optimization, IBM Marketing Operations Management), EVAM, and other leading Marketing Technology solutions of that era;Other BI solutions expertise: Self-Serve Analytics (SAS) Query and Reporting BI, Dashboards (SAS, IBM, Tableau, etc.)Data Integration and information management. Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Big Data / Hadoop, etc.

Software development of early mobile apps using Java. The very beginning of mobile app and gaming era (pre-smartphone). Developed a chess game app, including AI chess engine, for mobile feature-phones with extremely limited resources (250kb memory and very limited CPU). Developed a 3D action-arcade game with custom engine (3D graphics, physics). Developed a Video-IP-telephony application for embedded devices (ARM). Elicited GUI requirements to meet the customer requirements, elaborated detailed tasks to graphics artist. Worked in team of 3 developers (quickly became a team lead), 1 graphics artist / designer, 1 QA.