Vakhtang Mosidze

Technical Skills:

• Day-to-day control over IT development tasks execution, including planning, status updates, and decision assistance
• Participation in building CI/CD processes and managing releases

Leadership Skills:

• Management, supervision, and mentoring of team of DevOps and developers
• Developed 2-week HR on-boarding process workflow from hire to production release
• Set up process for collaboration and regular meetings between internal teams
• Successfully ran several internal projects

Impact:

• Built process workflow from scratch
• Mentored and coached team
• Improved on-boarding process for new employees
• Increased collaboration and communication between internal teams
• Successfully delivered several internal projects
• Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety
• Developed and implemented strategic project plans to meet business objectives
• Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management
• Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement
• Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed
• Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts
• Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers

Cloud Engineering Skills:

• Implemented deployment strategies using container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Maintained metrics visibility using Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors.
• Developed continuous improvements and implemented solutions to existing infrastructure, tools, and processes.
• Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Skills:

• Provided engineering support from code delivery until retirement of application.
• Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.

Research and Evaluation Skills:

• Investigated new and emerging software applications to select and implement administrative information systems.

Impact:

• Improved cloud infrastructure performance and reliability
• Reduced costs and downtime
• Enhanced security and compliance
• Accelerated software development and delivery
• Improved visibility and monitoring of applications and infrastructure
• Selected and implemented best administrative information systems for organization
• Applied automated testing solutions for unit, integration and system testing
• Provided engineering support from code delivery until retirement of application
• Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure
• Tuned systems to boost performance
• Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions
• Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes
• Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects
• Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology
• Investigated new and emerging software applications to select and implement administrative information systems

Technical Skills:

• VMware infrastructure maintenance
• Server administration and support
• Customer protection, log tracing, and incident response
• Anti-spam

Innovation:

• Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues.
• Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
• HIDS solution deployment
• Zabbix total monitoring deployment
• Server centralized management

Impact:

• Provided fully customized monitoring solution that significantly improved incident reaction time
• Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues
• Worked with users to determine areas of technology in need of improved usability
• Standardized job tasks and trained junior team members on industry best practices and standards
• Delivered Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for problem identification, diagnosis and issue resolution
• Contributed to development, administration and testing of disaster recovery plans
• Performed software installations and upgrades to UNIX or Windows operating systems
• Created nightly jobs for database backups

Technical Skills:

• Daily maintenance of CDN for video delivery
• Tuning and support of different streaming solutions
• Care on data security and integrity

Innovation:

• Design and integration of network and server monitoring on ELK and Zabbix platforms
• HIDS integration
• Vulnerability scanning automation
• Creation, running, and maintenance of cryptocurrency mining farm with 1500+ mining facilities

Impact:

• Developed and implemented new integrated server monitoring platform
• Centralized firewall management, improving security and efficiency
• Reduced server resource usage by 30%, saving costs and improving performance
• Reduced number of attacks, improving security and reliability
• Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers
• Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability
• Designed and implemented system security and data assurance
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility
• Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines
• Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time
• Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation
• Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts

Technical Skills:

• Daily maintenance of CDN for video delivery
• Tuning and support of different streaming solutions
• Care on data security and integrity

Innovation:

• Design and integration of network and server monitoring on ELK and Zabbix platforms
• HIDS integration
• Vulnerability scanning automation
• Creation, running, and maintenance of cryptocurrency mining farm with 1500+ mining facilities

Impact:

• Developed and implemented new integrated server monitoring platform
• Centralized firewall management, improving security and efficiency
• Reduced server resource usage by 30%, saving costs and improving performance
• Reduced number of attacks, improving security and reliability
• Worked with stakeholders to determine implementation and integration of system-oriented projects
• Managed key information technology and compliance programs for proactive risk management
• Analyzed security logs to determine and alleviate network threats
• Developed IT policies to comply with applicable laws
• Performed cost-benefit and ROI analyses for proposed systems

Business Skills:

• Contract management
• Team building
• Staff management
• Company development
• Building and managing R&D teams
• Planning business development for new products

Technical Skills:

• Developing cloud CCTV solutions
• Developing multi-communication cloud platforms
• Developing home automation and protection modular systems

Operational Skills:

• Monitored office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
• Managed daily operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity.
• Assisted with sales and marketing strategies to foster achievement of revenue goals.

Impact:

• Improved business processes and efficiency
• Increased revenue and profitability
• Developed and launched new products
• Built and managed high-performing team
• Fostered positive and productive work environment
• Trained personnel in equipment maintenance and enforced participation in exercises focused on developing key skills
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement
• Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements
• Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members

Technical Skills:

• Security systems planning and installation (CCTV, fire prevention, alarm, AVL, radio, satellite)
• Network security (leak and DDoS protection and prevention, penetration testing)
• Consulting and training on security for offices, buildings, and houses
• Management of engineering and installer departments

Impact:

• Improved security for banks, government buildings, and other high-value targets
• Reduced number of network security breaches and DDoS attacks
• Helped customers to improve security of their offices, buildings, and homes
• Increased efficiency and effectiveness of engineering and installer departments
• Managed budget implementations, employee evaluations, and contract details
• Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development
• Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time
• Drove year-over-year business growth while leading operations, strategic vision, and long-range planning
• Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members
• Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization
• Launched staff engagement, gender diversity and cultural programs in addition to robust reporting tool that increased operational quality

IT Skills:

• Server administration (Linux)
• Billing server administration (Linux)
• Routing administration (Cisco hardware)
• Web server administration
• Dial-up modem pool maintenance
• Leased line installation (including wiring)

Innovation:

• VoIP service development (Vocaltec/Dialogic, and H.232 protocol)
• Pre-payment scratch card service implementation
• Fax-over-IP service development and operation

Impact:

• Expanded company's service offerings to include VoIP and Fax-over-IP
• Increased revenue and profitability
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
• Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware.
• Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis.

IT Skills:

• LAN administration
• Medical projects technical support
• Medical equipment repair
• Computer hardware/software maintenance
• Client/server database development on Ms Access
• LAN infrastructure
• PBX infrastructure
• Internet access to LAN
• Website development

Innovation:

• Developed client/server database solution for hospital
• Implemented 10BaseT network with limited intent access for certain users
• Provided all users with modern patient database solution and centralized phone communication

Impact:

• Improved efficiency and accuracy of medical records management
• Increased security of hospital's IT systems
• Improved patient experience by providing centralized phone communication and modern patient database solution
• Created remote service interaction scenario manuals, defining appropriate triage and response policies for common ticket types.
• Identified computer hardware and network system issues, performing troubleshooting techniques for remediation.
• Managed life cycle replacement of hardware and software.