Valentin Kuznetsov

http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~vk/
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
14+ years of professional experience in software application development, web development, Unix systems administration, installation, configuration in High Energy Physics environment. SQL database design/management, shell scripting, cross-platform software porting, programming and troubleshooting. I am reliable, versatile, disciplined, competant, and capable of working as a team leader.

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
A broad spectrum of interests, including neutrino physics (electromagnetic properties of neutrino, neutrino toroid moment, neutrino oscillation and topological phases), dilepton and neutrino trident production at fixed target experiments, B physics at Tevatron.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1993-1998 1998-1999 1999-2002 2003-present time
JINR, Russia and CERN, Switzerland CERN, Switzerland Fermilab, USA Cornell Univ., USA
C, Fortran programming, sys. administration, shell programming. Leader of software group, C programming, sys. administration. Co-leader of D0 global tracking group. C++/Python programming, sys. administration. A member of core software development group. C++/Python programming, data management.

A computer specialist/core software developer, Cornell University, NY
[2003-present]
CLEO-c and CMS experiments
CMS Data Bookkeeping System (DBS)
CMS DBS discovery service
EventStore data management system
Web service interface to EventStore MetaData DB
DB and data management
CLEO-c legacy application: traceback debugging system
porting 800+ packages between OSF-Solaris-Linux, remote software deployment

Post. doctoral researcher/Software developer at UC Riverside and Fermilab
[1999-2003]
D0 experiment at Fermilab
B physics
Co-leader of software development group (D0 global tracking group).
Development of track reconstruction software for D0 experiment
UNIX administration, support and management of D0 software and ClueD0 cluster.

Researcher/Software developer at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[1998-1999]
NOMAD-STAR experiment
Leader of software development group.
Neutrino physics
Desing and implementation of NOMAD-STAR software, including track reconstruction, digitization, visualization and data management.
UNIX administration, data backup and management, user account management, porting of software from OSF to Linux.
web master for NOMAD-STAR experiment.

Reseacher/Software developer at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), Russia
[1995-1998]
NOMAD experiment.
Neutrino physics
Development of the reconstruction software, data analyse and software management.
NOMAD tracking software development.
UNIX administration, CVS management, data management, troubleshooting, auto transfer of NOMAD software between CERN and JINR, system backup and user account management.

Junior Reseacher/Software developer, JINR, Russia
[1993-1995]
Monte Carlo simulations of various physics processes, matrix calculations
Neutrino physics
UNIX administrator (part-time), Network installation and configuration using NFS and Samba.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Computer Hardware:
IBM PC, DEC/Alpha, SUN, SGI workstations, X-terminals, Exabyte backup systems.
Operating Systems
Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX, OSF, SunOS, Solaris, Mac OS X.
Network hardware and protocols:
Ethernet, PPP over Dialup, TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, DNS, NIS.
Software:
languages: C/C++, Python, Fortran, Born and C shells, awk, sed, Tcl/Tk, basic knowledge of Java, Perl.
Web technologies: AJAX, XML, SOAP, HTML, CSS.
Databases: Berkley DB, SQLite, MySQL, ORACLE
security: tripwire, SSH, Nmap, Nessus, port filtering firewalls, PAM authentication scheme.
miscellaneous: make/ant, RPM, CVS, VMWare, JBoss/apache.
Tasks and prcedures:
system and maintenance planning, installation and documentation;
kernel installation and tuning;
building, installing and remotely deploying software;
planing and implementing system security;
shell programming;
backup planning and management;
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2003-2006, Computer Science department, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Computer Networks
SQL training
The Architecture of Large-Scale Information Systems

1999-2003, Training at Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
Object-Oriented Design and Programming in C++;
Fast Track to Objects;
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML

1999, certificates issued by www.brainbench.com

1999, Ph.D. in Physics, JINR, Russia
1993, M. Sc. in Physics, ISU, Russia


ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Experience in leadership of small and medium size groups.
Skillful organizer with experience in long-term research projects. Experience of work as a member of large (over 500 people), small and international teams.
Familiar with handling of research grants and purchasing of equipment.
Day-by-day advice and leadership of students.

PERSONAL
Languages: Russian, English, French (basic).
Self-motivating with good communication and interpersonal skills.
Fast learner in programming languages.
A list publications is available upon request.
Permanent resident of the USA. Employment is fully authorized.