Sergey Barabanov

Experience

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  XEMO Telecom

  May 1994 - Jul 1995

  Engineer of telecommunication

  Installation and maintenance of AT&T PABX systems. Design, installation and support of SCSs AT&T Systimax

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  Impromat Victoria

  Oct 1995 - Oct 1996

  Engineer of telecom systems

  Design, installation and maintenance of Lucent PABX systems and Systimax Structured Cabling Systems.

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  S_V_R

  Oct 1996 - Sept 1999

  Engineer of SCS and PABX installation

  Design, installation and maintenance of Lucent PABX systems and Systimax SCS.

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  BP Fuels LLC

  Oct 1999 - Sept 2001

  System Analyst

  Support of on-site computer system. Implementation and on-going maintenance of Cardex system, Back-Head office data bases. Responsible for operation on-site Retail program of the network of BP branded 2 DOFO service stations and shops in Ukraine.

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  Ukrainian Automotive Corporation

  Oct 2001 - Oct 2002

  System Analyst

  Support on-site retail managing system. Implementation and on-going maintenance of petrol card system, Back and Head Office databases. Responsible for operation of two service stations in Kiev and computer network for Petrol Department.

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  Metro Cash and Carry Ukraine

  Nov 2002 - Dec 2010

  Coordination of new store opening team. Deployment and support of LAN/WAN infrastructure for Metro C&C Ukraine and Real,- UA Support of LAN/WAN infrastructure in Head Office and stores. Administration of server and client environment. Supervision of IT infrastructure in HQ and stores. Participation in new stores construction process, particularly IT infrastructure preparation and implementation.

  • IT Infrastructure Manager

    Oct 2004 - Dec 2010

  • Systems Engineer

    Nov 2002 - Oct 2004
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  MGI METRO Group Information Technology Ukraine LLC

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

  IT Infrastructure Manager
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  EPAM Systems

  Dec 2010 - now

  Head of Continued Delivery and Cloud Services Unit with the size of 150 engineers. The unit consists of: 1. DevOps engineers2. Go Lang developers3. SalesForce developers4. Architects5. Project and Delivery Managers6. Support EngineersResponsible for day-to-day operation of the unit. Including hiring, onboarding, motivation, promotion, education and growth of engineers. In charge of unit's KPIs: P&L, attrition, headcount growth. Build up management hierarchy and set up efficient vertical and horizontal communication channels. Work with the management of projects and help them to staff positions, resolve issues related to engineers from the unit.Drive internal company initiatives and engage subordinates in these processes. Among these initiatives are: -DevOps University - DevOps practica company-wide initiative for engineer's education.-Managed Services - an initiative for a move from staff augmentation to a service-based approach.-Initiation and growth of cloud-related solutions like Go language and SalesForce, Project/Delivery Managers pool.-Manage projects that are in the scope of responsibilities of Cloud and DevOps practice. Show less Project nature is full cycle product development of solution based on Hyper-converged Infrastructure.Challenges:- Onboard the product from the previous vendor, assess architecture, the current state of development- Initiate the project and rump it up with highly qualified core team capable to start development- Resume product development- Prepare holistic architecture vision and get client’s agreement with new approach- redesign the product according to new architectureResponsibilities: Organizational Efforts: Selection and establishment of development methodology, maintain required processes and procedures, buildup of organizational structure, organize workspace and environment, project tools selection, control of project’s KPIs, P&L.Planning and production: roadmap preparation and implementation control, quarterly planning and negotiation on the scope with the client, monitor of the performance and the load of the team, issues identification and corrective actions implementation, organization of regular and ad-hoc activities for project team including scrum rituals etc. Strategic planning and seeking of new opportunities. Risk control. People Management: define job descriptions, search, interviewing, selection, offering, onboarding and offboarding of project members, cooperation with TA, HRBP, RMs, TLs. Conflict and escalations resolution. Help engineers with their professional growth and education. Motivation. Reporting and audit: regular reports to the customer and company management, internal and external audit, time reporting control, demo organization. Show less Consultancy within the Global Containerization Initiative of a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Responsibilities: - Team organization, setup of working environment, tools - Liaising with customers' technical services to get all required accesses and accounts for the project team - Creation of a high-level project plan and getting customer acceptance - Setup Scrum process and maintain required tools and services - Establishing reporting and regular progress meetings with stakeholders on the customer and EPAM sides - Organization of meetings and questionary sessions with customer representatives Show less Migration of big US sports news company's AEM system together with side applications and supporting services from RackSpace to AWS. Project team consisted of 8 analysts: 1 PM, 1 AEM architect, 1 AWS Architect, 5 DevOps engineers. Responsibilities are:- General supervision of the project- Project paperwork and organization: company's tools organization, analysts' assignment and time tracking, organization of regular team's activities.- Scope and terms control: project plan preparation with WBS, milestones and deliverables, control over project timeframes and in time deliverables completion, team workload and task distribution- Communications and Customer management: relationships with customer, organization and maintenance of communication channels, regular meetings and sessions with customer's representatives, negotiations with the customer on disputable cases- Reporting: daily progress reports for the customer, weekly status calls, backlog lists composition and management, regular notification of Account Manager about the progress and issues. Show less Wholly responsible for ProdOps Operations throughout the duration of every shift. Work with the Team Managers to ensure all ProdOps teams are working and communicating to full potential. Ensure timely and accurate data is captured to provide quality Incident Management and post mortem reviews. Coordinating ProdOps major incidents. Relocate work priorities as and when required. Review and validate all new processes and tasks to be transitioned into ProdOps. Resource management - work with Team Managers to ensure all functional areas are fully manned. Ensuring audit and regulatory standards are adhered. Incident, Problem and Change Management (IPC) coverage during weekends and holidays –particularly major incident handling. Participation in Change Advisory Boards (CAB). Regional BCM coordinator for ProdOps Kiev team. Show less

  • Resource Manager for CD&CS DevOps Unit

    Apr 2016 - now

  • Delivery Manager

    Aug 2016 - Aug 2022

  • Project Coordinator

    Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Project Manager of AEM migration to AWS

    Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

  • Citrix Team Leader on IB project

    Nov 2012 - Apr 2016

  • Head of FICC Technology unit on IB project

    Nov 2012 - Apr 2016

  • Resource Manager of ProdOps unit on Investment Bank project

    Dec 2010 - Nov 2012

  • ProdOps Operations Manager for Large Investment Bank

    Dec 2010 - Nov 2012
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  Barclays Investment Bank

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2016

  IB Citrix Team Lead

  Responsible for people management and organization of working process including hiring and new joiners adaptation, personal development, trainings, motivation and retention, performance management, compensation, time reporting, team building. In charge of project health, particularly GM, attrition and utilization.Manage geographically divided team which supports Citrix environment for Investment Banking business stream. Responsible for overall service stability, operability, support, continual improvement, customer communications and reporting, new application onboarding, research and development, activities planning and strategic development of service, new joiners hiring and onboarding, team members regular performance review.Drive improving/expansion and R&D projects. Namely:1. New WebInterface deployment and change of DR model2. Set up new farm based on Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2, migration of 64bit compatible applications from old farm to the new one.3. Numerous projects for new applications onboarding.4. Different infrastructure related small projects: ie6 to ie8 update on all Win2003 servers, Citrix FP7 upgrade on 4.5 farms, CyberArk security model implementation, virtualization of all physical hosts in the estate.5. Drive initiative for handover of L1 support activities to Shared L1 team.6. Implementation of Knowledge Management process.7. Project initiation and planning for Citrix XenApp 7.6 farm and FrontStore interface deployment and migration of applications from 4.5 and 6.5 farms. Show less