Resume

Paul Philippov
themactep@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE

I am a freelance web developer with over a decade of experience designing and developing Internet resources in a wide range of industries. My passion is to build simple to use and more intuitive web sites. I pay great attention to detail and I strive to write elegant and validating code in any programming language I use. I am a self-starter and always take initiative. I am a Linux developer, and an open software supporter. I have a number of open source projects available in public repositories.

SKILLS

  • Expert in HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP/MySQL, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AJAX.
  • Intermediate programming skill in Perl, Python, Bash.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft office, the Internet and all associated applications.
  • Knowledge of Linux, developing applications for Gentoo and Ubuntu.
  • MySQL, sqlite, PostgreSQL database design and management.
  • Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite applications, CorelDRAW, Xara, QuarkXpress.
  • Skill in Graphic design, pre-processing and publishing.
  • Amateur photographer with number of sales on photo stocks.

EDUCATION

  • Informatics and Computer Programming – Training and Production Centre #1, Barnaul, Russia.
  • System Engineering – Altai State Technical University, Russia.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Web Developer

August 1998 - present
Created miscellaneous web projects for customers from all over the world. Performed installations and configuration custom Linux solutions on remote servers over Internet. Consulted customers over the instant messaging to solve miscellaneous IT problems.

Senior International Reporter at OTR Global GmbH, Germany

July 2006 - November 2008
Led and participated in researching projects for Eastern European markets. Performed interviewing, data analysis, data presentation, writing reports.

Journalist at Radio Krai, Russia

March 1990 - September 1998
Live on-air programs, interviews with celebrities, talk-shows etc. Interviewing, Live on-air programs.

Journalist at Altai TV, Russia

January 1988 - February 1990
Live and pre-recorded programs for TV. Musical show. On-site reportages. Interviewing, Live on air programs, Music.

System Administrator at Training and Production Centre (Barnaul, Russia)

September 1986 - July 1988
Assembled and repaired computer hardware. Installed and configured local networks throughout the building. Wrote testing programs for educational purposes.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

The Kantor

http://thekantor.com/
A web-service that allows users to calculate given amount of money from one currency to another according to recent exchange rate from European Central Bank. The core library is written in PHP and released under BSD open-source license. The web site UI is written with XHML and JavaScript.

Grumblr

http://themactep.com/grumblr/
An open-source desktop client for Tumblr micro-blogging web-service. Runs on Linux operating system with GTK toolkit. Built with Ruby and GTK.

Internet Time libraries and applets

A set of open-source projects that allow users to have decimal Internet Time on their Nokia Internet Tablet devices running Maemo Linux, personal computers running Linux operating system with GNOME desktop environment; also available as libraries for different programming languages that let developer to use Internet Time in their projects. These projects are built with Python, Ruby, JavaScript (as jQuery plugin).

Ramka

http://code.google.com/p/ramka/
An open-source web-album that does not require installation. Written in PHP and JavaScript.

Gentoo Linux overlay

http://github.com/themactep/gentoo-overlay
A personal Gentoo Linux overlay repository with ebuilds that are not included in the main portage tree of Gentoo. Publicly hosted at GitHub.

LANGUAGES

  • English - fluent
  • Russian - fluent

REFERENCES

References are available upon request.