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A social leader of groups. Born to rule and dictate styles, customs and manners.

Project Management

Oversee SDLC making sure that each phase of development is delivered on schedule and with high quality results. Lead IT recruiting activities. Form a team atmosphere and motivate people.

Elicit requirements using interviews, surveys and workflow analysis.

Clarify, rationalize and document project requests; priorities and deadlines, manage resources, coordinate cross-functional teams and manage on-time implementation

Develop Project Scope and detailed Business Requirements. Manage all aspects of the project, including timeline, scope, quality and customer expectations

Develop, monitor and update project plan

Monitor project performance, including deliverables, resource effectiveness and quality.

Communicate project plans, status and issues on a regular basis to project team members

Research and review new infrastructure-centric technologies, 3rd party tools, and industry standards

Develop/maintain the infrastructure efficiency strategy and roadmap. Topics include enterprise storage, server consolidation, federated search, identity management, portals, user interface frameworks, collaboration, instant messaging, blogs, wikis, charts, web/video conferencing, and other end-user technologies

Product Management/User experience

Analyze description of features, functions and benefits of products. Evaluate, recommend and implement product enhancements and new product concepts based on market demand, sales abilities, and operational feasibility

Develop product from strategic planning to implementation to post-launch analysis based on strategic priorities, industry experience, idea generation, site and marketplace research.

Analyze every aspect of the user experience, putting users' needs and expectations first in the definition of requirements. Cultivate and constantly improve user experience. Create usability surveys.

Optimize and analyze product performance. Facilitate site acquisition and build networking communities.

Advanced Degree

Enjoy sports, running, swimming, hiking, table tennis, hunting.

Meditation.

Love borzoi and hunting dogs. Know pretty much everything from training, feeding, hunting.

Love to cook for family and friends.

Professional at French and Russian cuisine. Can cook selected Indian, Thai, Italian, Brazilian food. Like to experiment with different cuisines. Most favorite food is Thai.

Tarot, Astrology, and the kind. Personality testing, designing questionnaires. Business diagnostics and consulting.

Films

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Ritchie

Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt) by Tom Tykwer

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring by Kim Ki-duk

Films about samurai - Zatoichi by Shintaro Katsu, Drunken Master, selected films by Takeshi Kitano

Love Actually by Richard Curtis

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Johnny Depp

Match Point by Woody Allen

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Once Upon a Time in Mexico by Robert Rodriguez

Kill Bill: Vol. 2, by Quentin Tarantino and toehr films with Uma Thurman

Catch Me if You Can

TV/Shows - Monty Python, Friends, X-files, Lock, Stock... and Two Smoking Barrels

4 Ad Rock
Cocteau Twins, This Mortal coil, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard (The Mirror Pool)

Doom Metal
Crematory

Ethnic
Katsuya Yokoyama, Loreena McKennett

Gothic
Lacrimosa, Therion, Elend, Angiza & Haggard, Moonspell, My Dying Bride

New Age
Kitaro, Oliver Shanti, Cafe Del Mar, Vangeles, Enio Marricone, Andreas Vollenweider, Enigma, ENO, Expositions in the blue sky, G.E.N.E., Jarre, Kate Bush, Taste Zen in tea

Other Music:
Beatles, Doors, Scorpions, Dire Straits, Ramstein, Black Sabbath, Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, David Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael Jackson.

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll,

"Journey to the West", Chinese legend

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien and all his writings,

"Witches Abroad", "Equal Rites", "The Wee Free Men", The Colour of Magic, "The Witches Trilogy" by Terry Pratchett

I like to read everything my Mark Twain including his speeches

All kinds of stories of Hodzha Nasreddin who is the hero of the Central Asian folklore

The Iron Flute by Nyogen Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless

1001 nights

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps