• Analysis of information flows and formulation of the product requirements;
• Design of the database structure;
• Design of the user interface;
• Development of the core  procedures for other developers;
• Managing programmers;
• Managing implementations and  customizations.

EMPLOYMENT:

June 1999-   Present	Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.  Graduate Assistant,  Academic Computing,  Maintained several sections of the University's Web site, redesigned pages for Academic Computing. Worked with several departments, designed, coded, tested pages, using templates developed in HTML and JavaScript. Modified, tested, and implemented a MS Access application for the department of Academic Computing. The department uses database to report hardware and software problems in the sites outside the main campus.
August 1997-  May 1999	Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.  Graduate Assistant,  College of Business & Management Performed statistical tests comparing technical trading  systems, developed spreadsheet templates for undergraduate finance courses (see working paper in the section of publications). Developed Excel and Quattro Pro spreadsheet templates (Moving Averages, Channel Breakout, Bollinger Band mechanical trading systems) for undergraduate finance courses. Spreadsheet templates allowed a student to import stock quotes, to generate buy sell signals, to compute profits of trade and to perform elementary statistical analysis of trades. The templates were built using macro commands for Quarto Pro and VBA for Excel.
June 1995 -  July 1997	SKB Kontur, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Vice-chief of Development Department Privately held corporation SKB Kontur (http://www.skbkontur.ru) is a major accounting software developer in the Urals region of Russia. The company employs 150 people, has 3 subsidiaries in main industrial centers of the Urals, and sells software products through established network of dealers and partners in Russia and in Kazakhstan.  Developed and implemented accounting software. Responsible for setting up problems for programmers,  management of development,  management of implementation , signing of contracts, financial management.  Supervised staff of five programmers. Established and implemented policies for programmers, implementation consultants, salespeople, created distribution network.  - Focused on building sales force and consultants, because of the high deficit of qualified people. - Trained salespeople using monetary resources of government, sponsoring retraining of unemployed;  - Established partnership with principal customers with an intention to create dealers; - Trained, provided certification of dealers; - Organized interaction and contacts of programmers with dealers and customers;  - Visited sites of principal customers, such as government, time to time; - Traveled to far regions, organized workshops and trading shows.
June 1991-  May 1995	SKB Kontur, Ekaterinburg, Russia , Senior Programmer.  Developed and implemented non-for-profit accounting software (government,  health care, education), implemented accounting software in industrial sectors.
September 1989 - May 1991	Ural Polytechnic  Institute, Sverdlovsk, Russia.  Researcher.  Processed data of Gamma resonance spectroscopy of metal alloys

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Software Development:
Products:

January 1995- July 1996	General Accounting Software: "Accounting: budgetary organizations" v. 2.04 (DOS, Novell NetWare), Copyright SKB Kontur,  1995-1996. Summary of the product: Integrated networked accounting system for non-profit organizations. Provided accounting from source documents (invoices, checks, bank statements, etc...) to balance sheet and statement(s) of revenues and expenditures. The system embedded flexible reporting system, with the possibility of a user to create/modify various reports. It is in use at over 200 organizations: hospitals, school districts, city and district governments in the city of Ekaterinburg, in Sverdlovsk region, and in other regions of Russia. Several certified distributors sell and implement the software in the Urals and Siberia. The largest number of users at single site is 21. First version was launched in 1995, but was redesigned in 1996 due to adopted  changes of accounting regulations.   My duties: project leader, development and implementation, programmer-analyst, Inventory Module. - Developed model of functionality and database structure;  - Developed core methods for database support and user interface (see, for example, http://www.neiu.edu/~agkanali/Clipper/kbmark.html); - Developed basic methods for flexible reporting system; - Supervised development of the trial version; - Communicated with customers to adjust the model; - Redesigned model and database structure to include adjustments from trial implementations;  - Supervised programmers to make adjustments; - Promoted product to key customers, i.e. signed contracts, negotiated discounts, terms of payments, free installations; - Trained users of the product at large strategic customers; - Educated and trained sales force featuring issues of non-for-profit accounting;  - Trained dealers on their sites as well as through workshops in Training Center.
February 1992- November 1994	Development Tool "Information processing system" (DOS) v.3.1, v.4.0. Copyright  SKB Kontur, 1994. Summary of the product:  Network - supporting development tool for fast and convenient creation of database applications for DOS and Novell Netware. Used database file-, database field-, table-, form-, and report dictionaries. Provided storage of the application components in database and text files, making the application opened for customizations. Utilized exchange of source data modification messages among workstations. Provided user-friendly interface for monitoring reference integrity of database files and building data input/edit control as well as constructing queries through selection of database records. Supplied as a library of classes to work with application components. Developed in C, C++ and Clipper in the team of five programmers.  My duties: programmer-analyst, developer. - Developed a library of methods for database support for the selected records  (see example of source code at http://www.neiu.edu/~agkanali/Clipper/kbmark.html); - Developed class of tables with variable number of columns, which depends on the information in the data source file; - Developed user-friendly expression builder for the class of tables with fixed number of columns.
November 1991- June 1994	General Accounting Software "Accounting in budgetary organizations", v 1.1, Copyright  SKB Kontur, 1994.  Product summary: Integrated accounting system for non-profit organizations. Provided accounting from source documents (invoices, checks, bank statements, etc...) to balance sheet and statement of revenues and expenditures with advanced analysis of  expenditures. Was in use at over 50 organizations: hospitals, school districts, city and district governments before change of non-for-profit accounting regulations in 1996.  Functionality of the system: System constituted of the following modules: Cash and Other Monetary Assets, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Inventories (Including MRP for the drug manufacturing in hospitals) Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Food Service (for  hospitals, including MRP and scheduling), Dental Service (for hospitals, including order processing and payroll), Child Care (for educational institutions).  History: 1992 September: Signed the contract and got an access to informational flows;  1992 December:  Prepared the draft of project description contacting with  customers and studying documents (instruction had been provided), and real informational flows, developed foundation of the database support modules; 1993 February:  Installed first trial version of the program: Inventory Accounting and Fixed Assets Accounting; 1993 July: Released second trial version of the program Inventory Accounting and Fixed Assets Accounting; 1993 June: First trial version of the module: General Ledger and Financial  Statements; 1993 October:  Installed trial version of Cash Accounting;  1993 December:  Installed working version of Inventory Accounting, Fixed Assets Accounting;  1994 January:  Installed working version of Cash Accounting;  1994 January: Installed first version of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable;  1994 March: Installed the program for other customers; 1994 June: Corrected the program after trial implementations; 1994 August: Prepared the User's Guide, began advertising; 1994 October: Presented the product at the regional exhibition "Informatika-1994"; My duties: project leader, full cycle of development: - Collected user requirements; - Designed database structure for all modules based on instructions and collected information;  - Developed the Inventory module, supervised development of other modules based on the model, tested it;  - Installed trial version(s) for the customer; - Implemented trial version(s) for finding bugs and obtaining corrections and additions; - Made corrections to the functional requirements and database structure; - Made corrections to the program code, tested it; - Implemented corrected version.

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Software Implementation Projects:
Industries:

• Non-ferrous Metallurgy
• Machinery
• Health Care
• Government

• Other implementation projects were done for the  product ( "Accounting in budgetary organizations", v 1.1)

As the development project leader, was responsible for the implementation project management for all customers - hospitals, government and educational institutions.

EDUCATION:

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

January 1998 -  June 1999	Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. College of Business and Management , Tutor. Courses:  Business Statistics, Production/Operations  Management, Operations Research
October 1987 - August 1989	Ural Polytechnic Institute, Sverdlovsk, Russia  Department of  General Physics,  Teaching Assistant. Courses taught:  General Physics.

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RESEARCH:

Publications: ( only English )	A.G. Kanalin, L.P. Mokhracheva. "Interpolation of one electron energies using theoretical-numerical nets. "Physica status solidi (b), v.164, 1991, pp. 179-183.
Working Papers: ( only English )	Nauzer J. Balsara, Judith N. Aburmishan, Andrey G. Kanalin.  "Comparing  Fixed and Flexible Bollinger Band Trading System"  Accepted to Midwest Review of Finance and Insurance.

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AWARDS:

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

OTHER SKILLS:

• Numerical mathematical computations:  Differential and Integral Equations, Fourier Analyis, Linear Algebra, Monte-Carlo Simulation, Incorrect Problems;
• Development of Web-based educational courses.

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