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Mikhail Kandalov

Moscow Moscow, Russia

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  • Looking For: System / Network Administrator, IT Project Manager

  • Occupation: IT and Math

  • Degree: Bachelor's Degree

  • Career Level: Experienced

  • Languages: English, Russian

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Skills:team leading, it management, web technology, it transformation, networking, encryption, financial forecasting, datacenter, SOX, risk management, virtualization, routing, telecommunication, PII, SAN, database, php, vmware, scrum, cisco, ccna, hardware, linux, mysql, apache, iis


Experiences:

IT Director 01/2017 - current
WPP Group, Moscow, Moscow Russia
Industry: Advertisement
IT Director for 2 companies (about 120 users). Acting as CIO/CTO. All IT Services delivering management. Team leading, mentoring, teaching, tech analytics
Responsible for all IT services delivered to 2 WPP Group companies: Young and Rubicam LLC and Landor LLC. - IT team management - Partners and suppliers list support - Telecommunication services - Network - Peripherals - User support management - Server room and equipment - Financial forecasting - Reporting - Audits (SOX, BITC, PII) - Risk management and assessment - Software licensing - IT Transformation--
Project Group Leader 03/2015 - 01/2017
IBM EEA, Moscow, Russia
Industry: IT
Achievements: - IT services unification - All desk phones moved to the cloud for all companies (IP telephony). One Provider working through the virtual voice system. - Server processes optimization (services, processes, software etc.), virtualization with VMWare (vCenter clusters) - Servers infrastructure preparation for the migration to the IBM data centers - Creation of IT ticketing system through the SeviceNow portal (management based on SLAs) - Creation of KPI scoring system for employees Main achievement: after the optimization IT costs were reduced (30%)
Falcon project group leader for Russia. The main task of the project is to achieve 30% less spends on IT for one of the biggest media group WPP. This is a worldwide project. According to the plan all server infrastructure and staff to be moved to IBM with creation of centralized IT support service for WPP companies (IBM@WPP). Premises: IT Transformation process management for Russia (6 companies, 11 specialists). Preliminary analysis of IT infrastructure of the companies for further services unification. Process: I used Scrum methodology for the process management. Worked as a Scrum-master to organize interaction between team members from IBM and WPP (client), sprints planning, backlog creation and supervising with priority management, reporting for client and the Head office.--
CTO 09/2004 - 03/2015
Young and Rubicam LLC, Moscow, Russia
Industry: Advertisement
Achievements: - IT department creation from the scratch - LAN recreation based on CCNA knowledge - Backup policy, IT equipment policy, - Licensing of all software (Microsoft, Adobe, etc.) - Risk Assessment, BCP, DRP plans
Responsibilities: - IT team leading - Budgeting (Capex management) - IT infrastructure management in order to meet SOX Audits requirements and WPP IT Policies - Business processes transformation - Information security - Data transferring between company group's offices - Internal IT rules and policies management (SOX&BITC) Y&R (Young &Rubicam) is a member of WPP Group - more than 170 offices across the world. Headquarters office is in New-York (USA). Wunderman has more than 60 offices across the world. 100+ employees in Moscow's office. Clients: Ford, Microsoft, Colgate, Danone, Porsche, Philip Morris, etc. IT department: 3 employees. IT structure: - Active Directory. - Microsoft Office365 mailing system integrated into the global system as a tenant. VPN: Connection to the global IT hub using Cisco VPN. Finances: Cartesis finance system support Local tasks: - All office IT equipment (printing, cabling, desk and mobile phones, servers etc.) - VMWare 5.5 cluster with connection via iSCSI to local storage systems (HP DataStorage, Infortrend SAN) - Backup system connected to local JBOT system and Tape Recorders (IBM and HP) - 1C Enterprise 8.3 Finance system via 1C servers and SQL Server 2012. - Security: physical (Bolid physical security managed by Orion software), IP Cameras (24pcs) managed by Milestone Express package (MS SQL database and 16TB hard drives array) - IT ticketing system - Time management software - Polycom video conferencing units--
Web Studio Leader 09/2003 - 09/2004
Wunderman, Moscow, Russia
Industry: Advertisement
Achievements: New team management methodology introduction (Agile)
Responsibilities: - Web projects management with a team of 7 members (designers, coders, DB specialists) - Projects presentations creation and presenting them to clients - Budgeting - Reporting Clients: - Ford Global and Local - Land Rover Russia - Miele - Colgate - Dekra others--

Education:

Vladimir State University 09/1993 - 06/1998
Vladimir, Vladimir Region, Russia
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Informatics
Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Honours & Pass


Institute of Management Problems 09/1998 - 05/2002
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Degree: Master's Degree
Major:Programming
Full-time Post Graduate Course, Fuzzy logic

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