Kalin KOZHUHAROV - Resume Contact Information: Kalin KOZHUHAROV Dorfu-Misono B-201 Misono 5-12-5 Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa-ken 228-0817 Phone: +81 90 6265-0856 Email: kalin@thinrope.net URL: http://thinrope.net/ Professional Objective: To bring value to any business while further improving my skillset as an IT Consultant / Security Officer in a challenging international environment in which I will be able to apply my skills in Security, Open Source, Linux, Web Development and Internationalization. I am a good team player with strong leadership and communication skills. I posses very broad general knowledge and analytical mind which allows me to easily grasp new concepts and clearly present new ideas to any audience on any medium. My experience as a member of a rescue squad and my passion for alpine climbing have taught me to make decisions quickly and confidently in high risk situations. Being fluent in four (human) languages allows me quick access to a broad range of information, while programming allows me to quickly extract what is relevant. The Open Source community has taught me a lot and I have been devoting much of my free time and some of my professional time to OSS. In 1998 I received a full scholarship from Japanese Government (MEXT) and this was a turning point both in my language abilities and education. All of the above allow me to spot any issues immediately, assess their risk value and provide possible solutions or directly act to solve them. Employment History: IT Security Officer Adecco Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) July 2006-Present Take care of the overall security of the company networks, data and transactions Ensure SOX compliance of all IT operations Design security policies, guidelines and SOX-related procedure documentation Coordinate security and compliance efforts among Adecco Group and other international and national business units Design preventive security measures and coordinate emergency response when needed Document, monitor, audit and optimize IT infrastructure for reliability and performance Design procedures for secure storage and transmission of sensitive data Evaluate software and hardware solutions and negotiate with vendors Deploy various Open Source Software in the enterprise Design document management system and issue tracking/work-flow system for IT department Interview prospective employees for the IT department and evaluate their performance Prepare risk assessment reports to senior management Attend various IT related conferences and exhibitions to follow latest trends Chief Security Manager, Infrastructure Engineer, Web Developer FBKS Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) May 2005-June 2006 Take care of the overall security of the company networks, data and transactions Domain name management (registrar and DNS) Improve Internet connectivity, switch ISPs Deploy additional firewalls and restructure internal networks Deploy VPN solutions for branch offices and mobile users Create and work on enforcing IT security policies Unify development process based on Subversion revision control system Deploy various Open Source Software in the enterprise Consult clients about security, OSS and IT systems design Keep all systems in good health, improve them and upgrade them when necessary Improve general project management infrastructure Improve hardware administration and tracking with custom web-based database Design tailor-made solutions for groupware and e-mail handling Experiment with VoIP and BlueTooth technologies for better communication Experiment with secure messaging (based on SILC) for company-wide communication Research in formal methods for software development Quality Control on internal and external software products Web site design Attend various IT related conferences and exhibitions to follow latest trends IT Consultant, Technical Support, Web Developer (Self-employed) (Bulgaria, Japan) 1997-Present Domain name registration/setup/hosting/administration (both in-house and outsourced) Web and e-mail server setup/hosting/administration (both in-house and outsourced) OS and application software installation/configuration (mostly Windows-based) PC and other hardware purchase/assembling/testing/deployment/repair/upgrade (DIY customizations, cost-performance optimization) Wired and wireless network planning/deployment/repair/administration (Ethernet + WiFi) Data backup/recovery (recovery of unintentionally deleted data, application or hardware crash) Auditing of information system security (general consulting) Telephone, e-mail and on-site user support (Windows-based software; network troubleshooting) User training (Windows-based software, Web design, Internet user security) Mountain Guide (part-time) NPO Earth Wind (Sapporo, Japan) April 2002-March 2005 Ice-climbing Instructor (part-time) NPO Earth Wind (Sapporo, Japan) December 2001-March 2002 Web designer and IT consultant (part-time) NPO Earth Wind (Sapporo, Japan) January 2002-May 2002 Organize web site content and ideas Register domain and provide hosting Improve Internet connectivity and LAN use in the office Technical Support, System Administrator, IT Consultant (part-time) CanonBoard Co., Ltd. (Sapporo, Japan) January 2001-March 2003 Desktop hardware and software, printer and scanner purchase consultant Company LAN: design, implementation and monitoring (10 PCs + 3 printers) DNS/e-mail/Web hosting and support Web design Web Developer and System Administrator (part-time) Department of Photonics Material Science, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology (Chitose, Japan) September 2001-August 2002 Server hardware and software purchase consultant Server setup and deployment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, ProFTPD) Tailor-made MySQL database for images Web interface for the database Software Developer (part-time) J-MAC System, Ltd. (Sapporo, Japan) February 2001-April 2001 Java/VC++ cross-development, Java Native Interface Software and Web Developer Design Soft, Ltd. (Sofia, Bulgaria) September 1997-March 1998 Multi-lingual Multimedia Catalog and Spare Parts Ordering for Sparky, Gmbh (Visual Basic, ASP, VBScript) Custom installer system in Visual Basic Internet Consultant for deploying Web and Mail Servers Web design for customers Web designer (part-time) Misho-97 (Sofia, Bulgaria) July 1997-August 1997 JavaScript and Active Server Pages; Java applets integration Education: Master of Engineering in Electronics and Information Engineering, April 2003-March 2005. Scholarship: Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) ScholarshipWas a contestant in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in the Asian Regionals in 2003 (team j-Dai)Master thesis: Development of a Self-configuring Stochastic Optimization System based on Web Service Architecture Hokkaido University, Japan Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering, April 1999-March 2003. In 2000 I received Lane Memorial Award and Medal for English ProficiencyScholarship: Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) ScholarshipWas a contestant in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in the Asian Regionals in 2001 and 2002 (team j-Dai)Undergraduate thesis: Study of SOAP-based Platforms for Internet Computing Hokkaido University, Japan Advanced Level in Japanese Language Studies, April 1998-March 1999 Center for Japanese Language, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan (3 semesters for) Master of Science in Chemistry, October 1996-March 1998. I terminated my studies, because I started my studies in Japan. Sofia University, Bulgaria Overall GPA: 5.83 out of 6.00 (High School) in English Language, September 1989-June 1996. Represented Bulgaria in the 28th International Chemistry Olympiad in Moscow, 1996 English Language School "Geo Milev" - Rousse, Bulgaria Overall GPA: 5.63 out of 6.00 Communication Skills: Human Languages * Bulgarian is my mother tongue and I have specially strong knowledge of scientific terms. (Fluent) * English was my primary language of instruction in high school and I have earned good scores on TOEFL and SAT. I am using English for reading, writing and daily conversation. (Fluent) * Japanese is what I most often use in my daily life at present. Special one-year language course in CJLC, OUFS. (Fluent) * Russian was mainly used for reading scientific literature (chemistry, IT) and watching Russian TV since the age of ten. (Almost fluent) * I have studied German for several years, but I don't use it lately. A short-term refresher course will be enough to get past intermediate. (was fluent) Software: Programming Languages * Perl: My preferred language for CGI scripts and system administration, daily used. (Almost native) * C: Used it often for my research and most linux-related stuff, the linux kernel. (Almost fluent) * Java: Know the basics, have used it in a few projects. (Beginner) * Bash: From one-liners to complete "programs". (Fluent) * JavaScript: Once overused it, now I try not to use it in my web sites. (Intermediate) * Pascal: My first "real" programming language (Intermediate, mostly forgotten) * x86 Assembly: Rarely used for some speed-critical code mainly from Pascal. (Beginner, mostly forgotten) * Visual Basic: One of my jobs required it. (Intermediate, need refreshing) * Python: Gentoo linux uses Python for it's core, so I have to look here and there occasionally. (Beginner) Operating Systems * I am very experienced in Linux, mostly using Gentoolinux. Currently I administrate several Gentoo desktops, laptops and servers. I use Gentoo 90% of the time for desktop and development platform. (Advanced User/Admin) * I first saw MS Windows 2.0 a long-long time ago. MS Windows 3.0-98 has no secrets for me, while MS Windows Me, 2000 and XP are only used by my customers. (Advanced User/Admin) * I have maintained MS WFW 3.11 with Samba and Novell connectivity. I have been NT4 network administrator and Widows 2000 administrator for a while. (Intermediate Admin) * MS-DOS 2.3-7.0, PC-DOS, Novell-DOS, Norton-DOS, 4DOS - the good OSs of their time were used at full for work and play! (Advanced User) * I was a happy user of DEC Ultrics in Rousse University several years ago. (User) * I worked on Solaris 7 and SunOS at my university. (User) * I am using HI-UX/MPP and HP-UX11 at my laboratory. (User) * I have used QNX. (Beginner) Application software * I can use more than 75% of MS Office 2.0-2000 functions. Working with styles, templates and all the automated gizmos has saved me a lot of trouble while publishing 100-200 page documents. And sometimes they give a lot of trouble... (Advanced) * I used Adobe PhotoShop 4.0-7.0 quite well for retouching and web purposes. Not very good at painting. Now I use the GIMP. (Intermediate) * I have used Corel Draw! 4.0-9.0 for tasks like creating a cover page for a school project to designing business cards for customers. Now I use InkScape for vector graphics and SVG. (Intermediate) Hardware: Computer architectures * 8bit and less: I have used/opened/repaired/trashed lots of H8, Izot-1031C, Apple II, Imko 2, Pravets 8(M,A,D,C) hardware. (Intermediate) * 16 bit: I have used/opened/repaired/trashed a few Pravets-16 and other PC-XT. (Intermediate) * 32 bit and more: For the last 7 years, I have opened, repaired, looked at, or even crashed several hundred PC desktops and laptops, Macs, SPARC workstations and other exotic hardware. I own/use about a dozen machines at the moment. (Advanced) Networking * Ethernet: Design and deployment of physical (UTP/coax) medium and L2 hardware (Intermediate) * Cisco solutions: Monitor and administrate Cisco switches, routers and firewalls (Beginner) Data Center * Maintenance: Troubleshooting servers and network equipment (Intermediate) * Data backup: Use various SAN, NAS, DAS and tape backup devices in an organized manner to provide full and incremental data backup (Intermediate) * UPS: Monitor and optimize power for various equipment, deploy and service UPS devices (Beginner) Core Technologies: Web, XML * XML (Advanced) * HTML/XHTML (Advanced) * CSS (Advanced) * CGI/SSI (Advanced) Databases * SQL (Intermediate) * MySQL (Advanced) * Perl DBI (Advanced) * ODBC (Beginner) Networking Protocols * IPv4 (Advanced) * IPv6 (Intermediate) * TCP, UDP (Intermediate) * HTTP (Advanced) * SOAP (Advanced) * WAP, HDML (Intermediate) * DNS (Advanced) * NTP (Advanced) * SMTP (Advanced) * POP3 (Advanced) * IMAP (Advanced) * LPD (Intermediate) * NFS (Intermediate) * SMB/CIFS/WINS (Intermediate) Others * GIS (Intermediate) * GPS (Intermediate) IT Security: Special Skills * Firewalls: IPTables (Advanced) * VPN: IPSec, L2TP; PPTP, MPPE, MPPC (Intermediate) * PKI: OpenSSL (Advanced) * WiFi: 802.1x, EAP-TLS, WEP, WPA2, 802.11a/b/g (Intermediate) * Ethernet (Intermediate) * Data recovery (Beginner) General Security (by CISSP CBK) * Information Security Management (Intermediate) * Security Architecture and Models (Intermediate) * Access Control Systems and Methodology (Advanced) * Applications and System Development (Intermediate) * Operations Security (Advanced) * Cryptography (Intermediate) * Physical Security (Intermediate) * Telecommunications, Network, and Internet Security (Advanced) * Business Continuity Planning (Beginner) * Law, Investigations, and Ethics (Beginner) Tools * Reconnaissance tools: telnet, tcpdump, ethereal, kismet, airsnort, nmap, traceroute, ping, mtr, whois, wget, dnsq, openssl, looking-glass, Google * Controlled environment tools: ucspi-tcp, ucspi-ssl, ucspi-proxy, ethereal * Attack tools: john-the-ripper, airsnort, kismet, nessus, hping * Defensive tools: snort, tripwire, ntop, iptraf, openssl, gnupg, md5sum * Scripting and Programming: Perl and bash, sometimes C Hobbies: * Photography. Since 1985; amateur to semi-professional photography, in film and digital. * Climbing. Since 1996; alpine ice and rock climbing, sport ice-climbing (11th in Japan in 2003). * Amateur Radio. Since 1996; LZ2SAF, KF6UTZ; Took part in many international contests. * SCUBA diving. Since 2003; NAUI SCUBA diver. Last modified 07 September 2006.