IBM Lotus Domino/Notes Developer/Administrator

Higher Education

• 1997 - 2003 National Aviation University
• Faculty: informatics.
• Specialization: systems of management and automation.
• Qualification: science worker, tutor.
• Diploma: the master of computer sciences.

Additional education

• 2008, IBM "Introduction to Lotus Quickr v.8.1" training, IBM Ukraine
• 2008, IBM "Introduction to Lotus Foundation Start" training, IBM Ukraine
• 2008, IBM "Websphere Portal 6.0" course, IBM Ukraine
• 2007, "Manager professional" course, International Institute of Management LINK
• 2004, IBM DB2 "Introduction to DB2 v.8.2 and Administration" training, InCom company

Certifications

• 2006, IBM Certified Advanced Application Administrator Lotus Notes and Domino 7
• 2006, IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer Lotus Notes and Domino 7
• 2005, IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
• 2005, Principal CLP Domino R5 Application Developer
• 2004, CLP Domino R5 Application Developer

Public activities

• 2013, Started blog ypastov.blogspot.com
• 2007, Article "Recommendations for development of Web-applications on the Lotus Domino/Notes" located at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ru/edu/dw-lotwebapp.html
• 2007, Lotusphere in Orlando, exhibitor from Aplana company: strategy, message, negotiations

Work experience

Virtuace. Information Technology Consulting. USA

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (August 2013 – now) (PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R8.5, LEI, JavaScript, HTML 4

Responsibility:

• Maintenance of IBM Domino/Notes environment of Endurance company that is a customer of Virtuace. The production environment contains many Web enabled IBM Domino/Notes applications which are integrated with Sharepoint servers, Active Directory server, Genius server and other external services using LEI.

iGlobe (formerly Intelliglobe). MS Sharepoint solutions. Denmark

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (November 2012 – Feb 2014) (PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R8.5, OLE, ADO, Java, SOAP, DXL, NotesApi, HTML 5, PhoneGap

Responsibility:

• Helping Company’s customers to move data from Lotus Notes based applications to different solutions by Microsoft, Axapta, Oracle, etc.
• Development of different tools for migration data from Lotus Notes to other platforms, such as: exporting of LN Richtext items to HTML-files, exporting of Lotus Notes emails to eml-files, exporting of Lotus Notes calendar items to ics-files, exporting of Lotus Notes documents to xml, csv, etc.
• Development of custom tools for automatic synchronization of Lotus Notes data with MS SQL (like LEI)
• Re-engineering of existing Lotus Notes applications and creating a documentation for developers to implement the same solutions on other platforms.

EVRY. IT Services. Norway

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (March 2012 – now) (PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R8.5, OLE, Java, XPages, HTML 5, jQueryMobile, Dojo, Sencha Ext JS

Responsibility:

• Development of Lotus Notes based Agile Development Manager with two UIs: Notes and Web based on XPages for Jotun company that is a customer of EVRY
• Taking part in development of huge CRM systems targeted for more than 100 Domino servers in more than 10 countries. It also has two UIs: Notes and Web based on XPages
• Development of Web UI for different Notes databases using jQueryMobile, Sencha Ext JS, XPages
• Managing and configuring of complex distribution environment based on native Lotus Notes replication since I had an opportunity to work for a customer with many offices all over the world.
• Resolving HelpDesk requests from the end users, communications and support for Agility Group company that is a customer of EVRY

Intelliglobe. CRM solutions. Denmark

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (January 2011 – October 2012) (PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R8.5, OLE, ADO, Java, SOAP, MS SQL Server 2008 R2, jQuery, jQueryMobile, Dojo, XPages

Responsibility:

• Integration of Lotus Notes based CRM system with Sharepoint based CRM system through exporting Lotus Notes data to MS SQL storage and back using ADO and OLE
• Development of tablet version of Lotus Notes based CRM system using jQuerymobile
• Integration of Lotus Notes based CRM system with Axapta ERP using SOAP envelopes
• Enhancing of native mail functionality with automatic substitution of e-mail attachments with the links to repository database, where attachments were extracted on sending (similar to Lotus Quickr native functionality). It allows to users to work with mail attachments without thinking about quotas on their mail files
• Integration of Lotus Notes based CRM system with MS Outlook: importing emails, calendar events etc from Outlook to Lotus Notes standard Mail database
• Dojo 2D Charting with XPages, MS Excel dashboards in Lotus Notes

IB Systems. IT Services. USA.

Job title: Lotus Notes Administrator & Developer (One month in July 201) (CONTRACT)

Used: Lotus Domin/Notes 8x

Responsibility:

• Migration of customer’s Lotus Notes mail to LotusLive with saving of custom Lotus Notes applications.
• Transferring of existing correspondence to LotusLive mail

Infopulse. Full range of services in high tech sphere. Kiev, Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (July 2011 – July 2012) (FULL-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R6x, OLE/ActiveX, Windows API, CSS, HTML, Java Script

Responsibility:

• Development of different Lotus Notes applications for documents approval based on ProcessIT Workflow from TeamWork Solutions, Kancler Workflow from IBA Group, Lotus Workflow from IBM and self-developed workflow engines. Worked on-site with MTS company that is a customer of Infopulse.
• Development of Notes/Web application "Meeting Minutes System" for British American Tobacco. It helps to schedule meetings, collect and organize meeting minutes, create and control follow up actions, creates reports etc. Developed with two UI: Notes and Web.

InvisibleCRM. Technology provider for CRM and ERP systems. USA

Job title: System architect (July 2008 – September 2010) (FULL-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R6x/R7x/R8x, C/C++ Notes Api toolkits, DXL, OLE/ActiveX, Windows API

Responsibility:

• Different investigations of Lotus Notes capabilities for integration with various CRM/ERP/DM systems
• Preparation of software specification requirements regarding integration with Lotus Notes
• Implementation of initial C++ prototypes with integration approaches for C++ team
• Supporting of full Lotus Notes expertise at all levels including low-level coding
• Participation in direct technical meeting with Oracle and IBM regarding developed applications

Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Main branch of Bank. Kiev. Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Domino Developer (August 2010 – January 2011) (FREELANCE)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R8x, OLE

Responsibility:

• Development and support of Company's CMS for booking and planning resources
• Integration of Lotus Notes databases with MS Excel

Manuli Ukraine Ltd from Manuli Stretch Group. Stretch Film Manufacturer. Kiev. Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Domino Developer and Administrator (February 2010 – till now) (PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R7x/R8x, OLE

Responsibility:

• Administration and support of Lotus Domino 7/8.5
• Development and support of Company's CRM
• Integration of Lotus Notes based CRM system with 1C 7/8

VPT. Retail trade. Kiev. Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Domino Developer and Administrator (October 2009 – November 2013) (PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes/Sametime/Quickr/Traveler R7x/R8x/R9x, ODBC, OLE

Responsibility:

• Administration and support of Domain with three Lotus Domino 8.5
• Deployment and administration of next IBM products: Lotus Sametime 8, Lotus Quickr 8/8.5, Lotus Traveler 8/8.5, Lotus Connections 2.5 (Pilot)
• Development of Lotus Notes based CRM system for a company
• Integration of Company’s CRM system with 1C, Company’s Website, employees biometric devices
• Training personnel to work with Lotus Notes
• Users support

Aplana Software, System Integrator and Software development, Moscow, Russia

Job title:

System architect (May 2006 – June 2008) (FULL-TIME)

Team leader (March, 2005) (FULL-TIME)

Senior developer (September, 2004) (FULL-TIME)

Used: Everything related to Lotus Domino/Notes R5x/R6x/R7x/R8x

Responsibility:

• Investigation and analysis of possible ways of application implementation. Designing and describing of application architecture
• Constructing, development and deployment of workflow corporate systems on Lotus Domino/Notes platform in distributed environment either for Lotus Notes rich client or for Web browsers using leading technologies, such as CORBA, Ajax etc.
• Lotus Notes implementations for integrations with any external applications using OLE, ODBC/JDBC, XML, Notes API, LS2J, Java, CORBA (basically for Windows platform)
• Help customers in understanding of application requirements, estimation of requirements implementation in may-days
• Application re-engineering
• Installation and configuration Lotus Domino 5x/6x/7x/8x servers, Lotus Notes 5x/6x/7x/8x rich clients, Lotus SameTime-server 3x/6x. Administration of Lotus Domino servers in distributed environment, maintain of Domino clusters
• Management of development teams. Tutorship, team leading
• Training of customers’ personnel to work with Lotus Notes, tutorship for Lotus Notes developers and administrators
• Upgrade/downgrade of Lotus Notes environments
• Analysis of an existing customer’s Lotus environment at the place and generation of recommendations for troubleshooting, optimization and improvement
• Supporting feedback for customers
• Hiring new developers, interviewing

Servus Systems Integration Ltd. Bank technologies solutions. Kiev, Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (August 2003 – till now) (FULL-TIME/PART-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R5/R6/R7/R8, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS VB, OLE/ActiveX

Responsibility:

• Construction and deployment of workflow corporate system for processing of electronic application forms with service requests from customers. This system covers full life-cycle of ATM, POS-terminals and touch kiosks: sales, warranty, maintain, upgrade, payment etc. System has two UI: either for Lotus Notes rich client or for web-browsers
• Development of different connectors between customers’ service systems and company’s system mentioned above. This helped to get additional customers for company because lots of clients were happy to get ability to use their own automated system to work with ours
• Automation of business activities of Service systems department and partial automation of other company's departments and subdivisions
• Company’s website development and support
• Enhancement of the standard functionality of the existing Lotus Notes databases: agents for forwarding incoming emails to the employees cell phones by means of SMS; development of custom reports in MS Access/Word/Excel; development of Web-UI for existing LN databases etc.
• Administration of Lotus Notes domain with two Domino R6/R7 servers and one Same Time R7.51 server

Bosch Rexroth, Ukrainian division. Industrial technology group. Kiev, Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (April 2003 – June 2003) (FREELANCE)

Used: Domino/Notes R5, MS VB

Responsibility (it was one time job by contract):

• Development of Lotus Notes application for enhanced emails processing with MS Office (Word, Excel) integration
• Installation and configuration of Lotus SameTime-server R3x

Business-Contact. Information services for mobile clients. Kiev, Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (March 2003 –July 2003) (CONTRACT)

Used: Domino/Notes R6, Java, HTML, CSS, XML, WML, JavaScript

Responsibility:

• Creation of mobile “Information system Kyivstar «609»”. This system comprises the fast search, conducting and data analysis, goods and services orders processing, SMS notifications, custom reports and other mechanisms. The system was integrated with Alcatel Call Center via its own VB-like language
• Development of requests reception system for sending announcements to local newspapers using mobile devices
• Development and support of company web-site and wap-site.
• Administration of Lotus Notes domain with three Lotus Domino R6 servers

Institute of oil transporting. Pipeline design for oil transporting. Kiev, Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer and Administrator (June 2002 – January 2005) (FULL-TIME)

Used: Lotus Domino/Notes R5, MS Office VB, C API, SQL, HTML, JavaScript

Responsibility:

• Development and deployment of shared for whole company «Automated information system» based on Lotus Domino/Notes R5 that includes, for instance: application for shared online presentations review; application for centralized management of company MS Word templates/documents; creation of main application for Help Desk; migration of company HR software from dBase to Lotus Notes; creation of application for supporting notifications about employees and customers birthdays; application for supervising of printing on valuable devices like A0 color plotter; development of custom reports in MS Word and MS Excel based on Lotus Notes data etc.
• Installation and administration of 2 Lotus Domino R5 servers (400 users)
• Teaching of company personnel to work with Lotus Notes R5, training of new LN developers and administrators for the Company

Pool Ltd. Software development. Kiev, Ukraine

Job title: Lotus Notes Developer (December 2000 – March 2002) (FULL-TIME)

Used technologies: Lotus Domino/Notes R5

Responsibility:

• Taking part in "Automated corporation management system" development
• Taking part in development of enhancements for the basic users’ Lotus Notes databases like Mail and Personal Address Book

Skills

IBM Lotus IDE, tools:

• IBM Lotus Domino Designer 5x/6x/7x/8/8.5/9
• IBM Lotus Workflow Architect 3x/6.5
• IBM Domino Global Workbench 8x
• LEI/DECS, Lotus TeamStudio, Ytria tools, Caliton tools

Programming languages, toolkits, libs:

• Lotus script, Lotus @Formulas, XPages, XPages Extension Library
• C/C++ Notes Api toolkits
• HTML 5, JS, JSON, CSS, XML, DXL, XSL
• jQuery, jQuerymobile, Dojo, Sencha Ext JS, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap
• Java basics (incl. servlets, applets + CORBA)
• Any VB-like languages

Application servers (deployment, administration):

• Lotus Domino R5/R6/R7/R8/R8.5/9
• Lotus SameTime R3x/R7x/R8x
• Lotus Quickr R8/R8.5
• Lotus Traveler R8/R8.5/9
• Lotus Connections 2.5/3/4
• Lotus IBM Websphere portal 6x

Technologies: OLE, Win API, ODBC/JDBC, ADO, SOA, DSAPI, REST

Other IDEs, tools: MS Visual Studio, MS VSS, Git, Tortoise SVN, VersionOne, Jira

Additional info:

Languages:

• Ukrainian - mother tongue
• Russian - fluent at the advanced level
• English – upper intermediate

Foreign passport: Yes

My hobby

My blog