Alexander Novikov

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Alexander Novikov


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Nationality: Russian
Ready for relocation to: Ireland, UK

Personal statement:

A determined, highly motivated and result-oriented individual with experience in IT, banking and science, currently seeking a new position as an Application Support Analyst/Application Developer. A highly organised, flexible and responsible person, whose thorough and precise approach to projects has yielded excellent results. Recent achievements include the implementation of an innovative monitoring of the key parameters of centralized computer-aided banking systems and the discovery of novel quasi-crystal Luneburg lens along with heterostructure-based absorbers. Enjoys multitasking, easily retrained, open-minded.

Education:

Sept 2011 - June 2013: Samara State Aerospace University, Computer Science Department, MSc (Hons) Applied Mathematics and Physics, Samara, Russia
Studying for my masters' degree enabled me to develop my analytical, numerical and problem solving skills. Also I have gained the ability to operate with a great amount of information, effective searching skills. Having started since the second year of my BSc course and continuing up to the end of my MSc course, my researching activities made it possible for me to have comprehend all the facets of the research, including laboratory experiments, computer modeling, algorithms devising, interpretation of the information obtained and results documentation. Successful completion of my dissertation “The calculation and the research of optic properties of MDM nanostructures” gave me the opportunity to enhance my written communication and project management skills. Awarded The International Students Conference diploma for the best report presented (“The research of optic properties of photonic quasi-crystal Luneburg lens”) in the first year.

Sept 2008 - May 2012: Samara State Aerospace University, Foreign Languages Department, Translator and interpreter in professional area diploma (Hons), Samara, Russia
Exciting four years full of communication, idioms and discoveries. 20 subjects including English Lexicology, Latin, Country Studies of the UK.

Sept 2007 - June 2011: Samara State Aerospace University, Computer Science Department, BSc (Hons) Applied Mathematics and Physics, Samara, Russia
Course covers a broad range of subjects including main chapters of Chemistry, main chapters of Mathematics (Mathematical Analysis, Statistics, Numerical Methods, The probability Theory, Linear Algebra, etc.), Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, all the branches of Physics (icluding Optics, Photonics, Wave Theory, Nanotechnology) and programming (Matlab, C, Java, C++, etc.). Awarded The Korolyov Communications Scientific Conference Diploma for the best report presented (“Graded photonic crystals: photonic crystal and quasi-crystal Luneburg lenses”) in 2011.

June 2005 - July 2007: Samara International Aerospace Lyceum (Hons), Samara, Russia
A-level equivalent:
Information Science - A*
Physics – A*
Mathematics – A*
Russian – A*
and the rest of 16 subjects - A

Sept 1997 - June 2005: Secondary School #91 (Hons), Samara, Russia
GCSE equivalent: 19 GCSEs – A (including Physics, Mathematics and English)

Sept 1999 - March 2006: Art School #7 (Music School), 10 Balakovskaya Street, Diploma of guitarist (Hons), Samara, Russia
Awarded The Music Festival Laureate's Diploma in 2005.
Relevant Experience

July 2014 – April 2015: Senior Engineer, Sberbank of Russia OJSC, IT Department, Centralised Computer-Aided Systems Maintenance Section (retail/digital banking), Samara, Russia
Devised and developed SQL (including optimisation) and shell scripts (successfully accomplished several projects)
Administrated UNIX (Solaris) servers and Oracle databases, which included control of the processes of centralized computer-aided systems on a daily basis or while performing maintenance checks/ updates
Performed software updates and databases upgrades
Provided 2nd – 3rd support (resolved bug tracking incidents, analysed log files generated by centralized computer-aided systems)
Managed the activities of other team members in due course
Created and modified reports using MS Excel and extracting data tools on a daily basis
Communication with my colleagues, often from other departments, and working against the clock required me to enhance my leadership and teamwork skills as well as time management skills.

March 2014 - April 2014: Cardholders Support Specialist, Cardholders Support Department, Rosbank (Societe Generale Group), Samara, Russia
Received clients' calls and solved the issues within my fields of competence
Redirected the clients' issues to other departments
Worked with special banking software

Feb 2014 - March 2014: Customer Support Engineer, NetCracker Technology Corp.
Solved the problems with the software maintained
Worked with bug tracking systems
Advising clients on a broad range of issues gave me the opportunity to further develop my communication skills.

Sept 2013 - Nov 2013: Research Engineer (Internship), the University of York, York, North Yorkshire, UK, Department of Physics/ Department of Electronics
Researched the optic properties of PCs nanostructures (fascinated doing some calculations by using White Rose Grid (WRG) Supercomputer, analyzed the data received, etc.) Achieved promising results and considerably improved my English pronunciation.

July 2013 - Sept 2013: Engineer, Nanotechnology Scientific and Educational Centre of Samara State Aerospace University (National Research University)
Carried out the research of nanostructures, enjoyed doing lots of calculations, modelling of nano-structures and their properties and fabrication.

Additional Experience

June 2012 – present: Enjoyed giving private lessons of Physics, Mathematics and other university subjects (part-time)

Skills:
Computing - Shell (bash, awk, etc.), SQL (Oracle and MS SQL Server), Toad, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Java, HTML, C++, C#, C, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, MS .Net, MS Visual Studio; JIRA, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager; MS Office, LibreOffice, MS OSs, UNIX-like OSs, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), networking (WAN, LAN, TCP, FTP, VPN, PPPoE, etc.); Matlab, Scilab, meep (for scientific calculations).
Languages - Russian (native), English (advanced), Spanish (beginner). Volunteered in The English Discussion Club as a tutor, was marked by The certificate of participation in running of English discussion club “Go English” in 2012.

Interests and Activities:
Fascinated with books, especially by English and Russian writers
Enchanted by Argentine Tango, Ballroom and Scottish Country dances, practice them on a regular basis. Volunteered in The Charity Concert “Hurry up for good Deeds!” as a waltz dancer, awarded the letter of thanks from the authorities in 2014
Prefer active lifestyle in any season: Skating, Skiing, Riding a bike, volleyball. Keen on swimming (Advanced Degree, the crawl), participated repeatedly in the university competitions
References: References are available upon request.