Konstantin (“Kon”) Kondakov 350 Broderick St Apt #202 SF CA 94117 : kon@kondakov.com C: (415) 902-8942
Objective: Executive Position in Technology: smaller companies: CTO, CIO, VP, EVP of Technology / larger companies: Director of IT, Director of Operations, Senior IT Manager
Qualifications Summary:
Unique combination of “hands-on” effective IT management experience, deep technology knowledge , best practices implementation and systems integration.
20 years of strong industry experience in various high visibility “hands on” management positions including Director of Operations, Director of MIS, IT Manager, Senior System Administrator and Executive Level System Architect.
20 years very hands-on managing the complex Windows/Linux (including LAMP) /Mac/Solaris based fast-paced, hectic an energetic environment
15 + years managing a highly scalable project driven 24x7x365 “live” multi-tier production (1500+ workstations, 100+ servers, 7 data centers, multiple locations, multiple time zones) installations.
15+ years of managerial experience. Built effective and high-performing IT teams, including overseas/off-shore development experience. Managed in the capacity of MIS Director /Director of Operations) up to 7 people.
7+ years hands-on RedHat / Fedora / Mandrake / Gentoo /Centos Linux system administration, setup and troubleshooting. Active "Linux desktop" adapting for non-MIS users
Commercially and technically creative approach with excellent follow through, solving non-standard technical and architectural problems when priorities overlap
Pragmatic outlook to solving technical problems, helped many companies to create competitive advantage by using relevant technologies, multiple levels of automation and “self- healing” and combining best practices with low cost solutions.
Industries experience: Nationwide Retail, Wireless, Distributed software development, Data center, Data Mining, Call Center, Lead Generation, Market Research, Manufacturing, Investment Banking, Data Recovery, Education Institutions, etc.
Graduate degree (Masters) in Computer Science from Moscow University of Management supplied by 1992-1993 study in USF (Computer Science) .
Experience
April 2007 to Present Banks.com (formerly InterSearch Group) (AMEX: BNX)
DIRECTOR of IT OPERATIONS
Company Profile - Banks.com, Inc. provides Internet search services through a combination of traffic aggregation and proprietary Websites. The company operates in various areas of Internet commerce, including paid search, direct navigation, and online marketing (about 40 employees, $25M revenue 2006)
Responsibilities: Key IT Operations “hands-on” position responsible for implementing system architecture, problem management, capacity planning, deployment and daily IT operations of 7 data centers / and about 200 servers nationwide. Responsible for prioritizing the projects presented to the IT Operations group and work to help design each new generation of technology and processes: ITIL, SAS70, IT Sarbanes-Oxley, complete system automation, distributed development, advanced version control and IT “self-healing”..
Accomplishments: Stabilized and created policies, documentation and procedures for a Internet search company. Created version and release control via Subverion/Cfengine, implemented virtualized development environment by introducing multi-homed VmWare servers, converted Visual Source Safe (VSS) to Subversion (SVN). Designed and created a fully integrated Bugzilla / SVN / Wiki / MailMan / ViewVC “closed loop” code distribution system for the tag-driven release cycle. Deployed cfengine /puppet meta-monitored Nagios for system administration with strong focus on automation, version control, roll-back, security, efficiency, “self-healing” and operational excellence in all seven data centers (about 200 servers). Patched, configured, installed, tested and optimized many LAMP enterprise level packages: PHPlist, PHPMysqladmin, PHPsyslog-ng, OpenADs, WordPress, Awstats, webalizer, complex Sedmail/DK-filer, etc. Created and deployed multiple IPSec vpn tunnels for off-site locations.
Key IT Technologies: custom LAMP (Linux+Apache+mySQL+PHP), cfengine with classes, modules, methods, Puppet, VSS, SVN,, VmWare, SVN clients: Ecliples (Subclipse), SubCommander, Tortoise, WebDAV / HTTPS access to SVN, Sun A1000 RAID, Nortel BCM 400 telephony., Iptables/Ipchains, Nagios > 500 agents (with Nagios plugins, NexSM), Kailea monitoring, Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator, Winbind/Kerberos, OpenVPN, Net-SNMP, SNMP
Operating Systems: Linux Flavors: CentOS, Red Hat 7.2/ES 3/4; Fedora FC4/FC5; Gentoo 2.6.15+. MS Win2000/2003, Vista (+SFU/Winbind/SAMBA/Kerberos/LDAP) , Solaris 9
Databases/Office Productivity Tools: mySQL, QlickView, EquityEdge, MS Office 03/07
Data Centers: Verio, Server Mattrix / thePlanet, AKAMAI - WebEDGE
Hardware: CISCO PIX firewalls / VPN Concentrator, pfSense firewalls, Coraid, multiple Vlans
Languages: heavy *NIX scripting (shell scripts, awk, sed, grep, etc)
January 2007 to April 2007 Restoration Hardware (NASDAQ: RSTO)
SeNIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Company Profile– a specialty retailer of hardware, furniture, lighting, textiles, accessories and related merchandise (about 1600 employees. 103 locations, 30 states, $600M revenue)
Responsibilities: Senior level high visibility function that oversees and manages all Restoration Hardware e-Store (+$25M monthly) Solaris / Linux environment (over 50+ blade servers, over 10 Tb capacity) tightly integrated with LDAP/ Windows 2003 AD. Updated the corporate Sacramento based TIER4 data center. Responsible for IT SOX / Auditing: version control, change management board, problem management, revision history and required version control. .
Accomplishments: Created automated MS DHCP/TFTP driven PXE-based installations of Solaris 10 with intelligent “machine class/role aware” post-install slipstreaming of Software updates, patches, control tier applications into JASS (Jumpstart Security Kit 4.2) / JET (Jumpstart Enterprise Technology) Subversion (SVN) controlled framework.
Technologies: SCSI A1000/D1000 for Sun blade servers, Sun Fire 210/280/440R, AMD 64 x4100/x4200. SiteScope for over 100+ locations, Solaris SolidCore intrusion protection system, PXE, IP/Serial KVM, Linux Kickstart. Enterprise level NetBackup Win 2k3 / Solaris /Linux, Solaris mirroring (MD)
Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 9/10, Linux Flavors: Red Hat ES 3/ES 4; Fedora FC4/FC5; Gentoo 2.6.15+. MS Win2000/2003
Databases/Office Productivity Tools: SAS, 64-bit Cobol for IBM RS/6000 SMIT, Oracle 10g, Hyperion, etc
Protocols / Services: ODBC/JDBC
Languages: heavy *NIX scripting (shell scripts, awk, sed, grep, etc)
March 2006 to December 2006 ALIGO, Inc.
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Company Profile – wireless software maker ( 50 employees San Francisco, CA / 20 employees Atlanta, GA, revenue about $5M). The company was acquired in December 2006 by Oregon based wireless software maker Corrigo (http://www.corrigo.com).
Responsibilities: Critical “director-level” function responsible for all corporate IT operations, processes and procedures in the very high volume wireless company in multiple locations including product deployment strategy, multi-tier system clustered servers architecture and migrations, service operations, fault tolerance / load balancing, vendor selection, outsourcing agencies and security policies. Supervising and training the IT Manager. Responsible for capacity planning, problem/incident management and service escalation.
Accomplishments: Created automatic 30+ servers updates and WorkTrack distribution/version control via use of custom classes/objects in Cfengine Server Automation tool. Designed and implemented the “fault tolerant / self healing” framework for multi-tier architecture. Rolled into production a cluster of deployment/monitoring enterprise level scripts for 200+ parameters via Nagios. Created cluster update / monitor (Ganglia) / web log consolidation system. Administered corporate knowledge base Wiki / Tiki and bug-tracking (BugZilla). Installed and optimized IDS (chkrootkit, iptables, MD5/CFEngine. Integrated W2K/Linux/Mac servers. Converted 10GB Windows/Linux CVS repository to Subversion (SVN) collaboration. Ported and migrated load balanced data clusters (1 TB) . Restored and ported corrupted Linux installs (LVM2 RAID5 Linux: FC4 / Core5 / Linux). Established departmental policies and procedures for Service Level Product Architecture and Service Level Agreements with all vendors. Designed and troubleshooter Tomcat JDK application cluster under production loads (ANT)
Technologies: SubVerson/LinuxCVS/winCVS/Eclipse version control; Nagios; Ganglia/RRD; Cfengine with object classes, Tripwire. CISCO PIX515
Telephony / Call Center: AltiGen PBX (200 extentions) VOIP between San Francisco/Atlanta offices, CDR call accounting
Firewalls / Intrusion Detection / Protection systems / Security / Cryptography: CISCO 2851 QoS / IOS systems, CISCO Pix 515e, FW-2-FW, CL-2-FW VPN, WebVPN, ThickClient VPN, vpnc, AAA, ACL, Radius, Java Keytool/KeyStore Crypto, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, TripWire, CheckRootkit
Operating Systems: Linux Flavors: Red Hat ES; Fedora 4,5; Gentoo 2.6.15+. MS Windows 2000 / 2003
Databases/Office Productivity Tools: mySQL
Web Technologies: Apache, JK, Tomcat, VeriSign PKI Managed 10+ SSL Certificates for cluster
Protocols / Services: ODBC/JDBC (mySQL, Tomcat), GPS /ESRI / Sprint ping servers, LDAP directory setup, IMAP /POP3 /SMTP/WinBind / SAMBA, , HTTP/HTTPS DNS /DNS-Tsign, ProFTP/vFTP, GNU PG /PGP encryption, CfEngine, Web_DAV
Languages: heavy automation / scripting (Windows, DOS, UNIX / Linux shell scripts, awk, sed, grep, etc), HTML
July 1997 – March 2006 Tactical TeleSolutions, Inc.