Eugene G. Crosser email: crosser@average.org phone: +7 495 768 2281 More than 10 years experience as architect, developer, sysadmin and technical manager for a major Internet Service Provider; more than 20 years in computer programming and system administration. Currently working on IBM zSystem software. From 1995 till 2007, worked for a project that has become one of the biggest ISP in the country. Played key role in choosing technical solutions and defining architecture for the ISP services platform, architected and coordinated development of the customer authentication and accounting system. Languages: C, PL/SQL, Perl; OS: *NIX (several flavors). Developed several open source projects, such as a tool to control a certain class of still digital cameras (it is used, among others, by a USGS volcano observatory), implementation of a proposed WHOSON protocol that facilitates "POP before SMTP" validation for distributed mail relays, and a simple network "health monitoring" system. Languages: C, Perl. OS: *NIX, some code ported to Windows. Also have some (rather old and limited) experience in Linux kernel development as I did the first implementation of multinational character support for Linux text mode console that was included into the official kernel in early 90's. Have M.S. (equivalent) degree in Physics (Moscow University, 1982), one article published in Moscow University Herald, 1981, and one paper in the proceedings of USENIX 1998 annual technical conference. Currently employed by IBM. Up to 2007, worked for Sovintel (former Teleross, former Sovam Teleport), subsidiary of Golden Telecom (NASDAQ:GLDN), and before that, as Network Administrator for the Moscow office of Coudert Brothers company, for a software development cooperative, and at the computer center of the national Railway Ministry. I am not married, have no children, d.o.b. June 27, 1960. Some web resources related to my activities are: http://www.average.org/software.html http://www.average.org/~crosser/ ====================================================================== Appendix 1 Job History === ======= 2007-now Software Engineer at IBM (RSTL) 1995-2007 Programmer, team leader, head of section at EDN Sovintel (leading ISP in Russia and CIS countries) http://www.sovintel.com/about.asp 1993-1995 Consultant at the Moscow office of Coudert Brothers LLP http://www.coudert.com/ (?) 1989-1993 Programmer at the Small Venture PIEJSM 1985-1989 Programmer at the Central Computer Center of the National Railway Ministry 1982-1985 Engineer at Central Radio Engineering Laboratories 1976-1982 Student at the Moscow University, Physics Department ====================================================================== Appendix 2 Software Projects ======== ======== 1995-2007 Development team leader for ISP Provisioning & Billing system. Developer for authentication interface modules (for Apache, Zmailer, UW-IMAPD, WU-FTPD), redundant and cryptographically secured transport framework. The latter facilitates authentication and access control to dialup, mail, web and other resources according to limits that are updated in real time as resources are consumed, and produces billing data. System deploys Oracle backend, is written in combination of C, Perl and PL/SQL code. Includes credit card transaction processing subsystem that deploys strong data protection scheme. (closed source) 2003-2007 Zmscanner - modular contentfilter for Zmailer and Sendmail MTAs, designed to be fast and efficient and thus suitable for high traffic mail systems. Features virus scanner based on ClamAV library (http://www.clamav.net/). (open source, http://www.average.org/zmscanner/) 2001 Netwatcher - simple network "health monitor" with low resource consumption, easily extensible using Perl5 object model, controlled by Web based interface. (open source, http://netwatcher.sourceforge.net/) 1999-2001 Reference implementation of WHOSON protocol - a tool facilitating "POP before SMTP" authentication for big distributed mail relays. Supported by Zmailer out of the box. (open source, http://whoson.sourceforge.net/) 2002 Simple NFS failover cluster (handles two SPARC/Solaris machines accessing single hardware RAID array over Fibre Channel) for customer mailboxes. (closed source) 1995-2002 Multiple additions and bugfixes for Zmailer MTA (which is currently maintained by Matti Aarnio, http://www.zmailer.org/) 1997-2001 Photopc - library and command line tool to control certain class of still digital cameras over serial line using proprietary protocol that was reverse engineered. Runs on many flavors of UNIX, and, thanks to code contributions, on Windows and DOS. Popular gPhoto digital camera control tool (http://www.gphoto.org/) was originally based on the Photopc code. (open source, http://photopc.sourceforge.net/) 1996-2000 library implementing on the fly character set translation for Internet servers. (open source, http://www.average.org/mcs/) 1992(?) Original support for alternative character sets on Linux VGA text console (drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c, drivers/video/vgacon.c, loadfont, loadkeys and mapscrn utilities. These where later mostly rewritten by other people.) 1992-2000 Ifmail - software implementing Fidonet (http://www.fidonet.org/) transport on UNIX platform and gateway between Fidonet message format and RFC822/RFC1036 mail/news message format. (open source, http://ifmail.sourceforge.net/) 1992-1993 Gateway software between a proprietary x.400 mail system and RFC822 mail. (closed source) 1989-1992 MS/DOS based programs: inventory database based on dbVista, simple graphic video games, simple utility TSRs written in C, Pascal, x86 Assembler. 1982-1989 OS/360 / OS/370 based programs, mostly operating system quirks and hooks, written in OS/360 Assembler.