Briefing

Average grade during the study — 4,87

Graduated DonNTU as a Bachelor of Telecommunications

Can fluently communicate in Russian, Ukrainian and English. Have a basic understanding of German.

Professional skills:

• programming (C++, PHP, Delphi, MFC, ActiveX, .NET, Qt);
• databases (SQL/MySQL/Oracle)
• system-level design and analysis (Elanix SystemView, AWR Microwave Office, Ansoft Designer)
• design of IP networks
• telecom technologies (ISDN, Frame Relay, xDSL)
• Web-design (HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• 3d graphics basics(3ds max)
• vector and bitmap graphics (Adobe Photoshop/Corel Photo-Paint, CorelDraw, MS Visio, Adobe Fireworks, Kompas 3d, AutoCAD)

Childhood

It has all started on March 14, 1986 in the town of Artemivs'k. It does not actually matter, why there, because it is Donets'k that is stated as a birthplace in my passport, and I've so far spent my whole life in this city. As I have poked into other masters' bios, I have found it common for them to write if their birthday is a significant date or otherwise. I, in fact, have never wondered. Save for recently making out that 14×3= 42, but this fact is for few to understand.

It is not much I can remember from the first weeks or even months of my life. I can just suppose they were spent spoiling diapers and my parents' nerves. All the later pre-school time I generally spent walking, playing or fighting with my brother, who was at the age of 4 when I was born. It is because of him that my childhood passed as it had, because I had never attended kindergarten and didn't enjoy playing with the neighborhood children as well. It was much more interesting with my brother and, later, his friends, who, for not so obvious reasons, didn't mind.

If I were to remember some interesting events in my early life, I would first say that they were generally caused by my curiosity. For example, many children disassemble their new toys or even try to taste them. One time I had ended up with my cheek pierced by the axis of a new toy helicopter. Another of my favorite activities was escaping the parents' watchful eye and going to explore the world. And once, I have brought home some little girl and said that she's good and would live with us. Unfortunately, I don't remember now what came out of it.

School

My childhood was pretty joyful and careless, I would say, until I went to school No. 136, where it became even more joyful and careless. It hadn't, however, stopped me from becoming one of the best pupils till I have left that school. The same time I have started playing tennis, but, unfortunately, had not succeeded much due to my laziness. Nevertheless, now I enjoy playing it, although this doesn't happen too often. I have met my first real friends at that school, though it is now that I understand it, not then. Today we meet occasionally, but just for saying hello.

It was year 2000 when my family moved in the center of the city. I had to choose my new school then. The choice was between No.9, where I had disliked the principal from the first sight, No.1 with the same problem, and No.2, where my father once studied, and which I eventually chose. The years I have spent in that school are, perhaps, most unforgettable in my life. And it is still not uncommon for us classmates to gather somewhere and talk about "good old times". It is also this school where I met my best friend.

There I have started to think about my life and how to change it, though not always successfully. It is also one very sad story that happened to me, and, although I wouldn't tell it, I'd say that it had changed me and much. This school has made me a philologist — I had won numerous English language contests and was even offered to enter DonNU without passing the exams. However, something went terribly wrong inside my head, and I chose to study telecommunications in DonNTU. I still can't readily motivate this decision, but looking back over all these years, I can at least say that they have not been in vain. It was also quite surprising for me to successfully pass the rating tests, and, by the beginning of summer 2003, I could proudly consider myself a university student.

University

The university has definitely brought some fresh experience. First, it is the study. Endless lectures, sleepless nights, running after teachers in the last day before the exam, and much, much more. Sometimes it was unbearably hard, sometimes — unbearably easy, but either way, I hope that it hasn't gone without a trace. Second, the university offers a brilliant opportunity to prove your independence. Whatever tough situation you happen to be in, it is all up to you. This is open to doubt for some students, as well as for some teachers, but I have always, and successfully, tried to solve all my problems in a proper way, not without the help of my friends, of course. And the last, but not, in any way, least, are the new friends and acquaintances and all the numerous activities, among them hiking in Crimea and organizing an independent theater festival.

When it was time for me to choose the scientific advisor, I ran into a problem that most of the masters' works are devoted to the design of telecommunications networks, the thing I was never excited about. This fact caused me to appeal to V.V.Paslyon, and to work with him for some time, studying the issues of trajectory information processing. However, after some time, I have lost my interest in this, and, since it was noone to choose from, joined A.G.Vorontsov team along with my friends. Though it first seemed kind of uncomfortable for me to work with a teacher who once gave me a "3" on the exam, I had reconsidered in time, and now I am even glad for that opportunity.

At the present time I am working on the design of a programmable UHF PLL synthesizer.

What next?

It would be nice to phinish my thesis. And successfully uphold it, eventually. I am also seriously thinking about a photo exhibition, but no sooner that I come out with an idea for it. Then visit Caucasus and see the ocean. To be continued...