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Yura Mamyrin
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details
Address 9 Harford Street,
London
E14PQ
Telephone 0796 248 9872
0789 434 6969
e-mail yura@yura.net
Nationality British
Professional Experience
June 2007 - March 2008 Mfuse Ltd - Java Developer
Mfuse is the leading expert in mobile-enabling technology including all types of applications and websites designed to be viewed on mobile phones.
Building Midlets that communicate with a server applications running on JBoss that in turn communicated with APIs of companies such as Ladbrokes, GTech, 888.com
Building from scratch of a fully customisable component user interface for Java Mobile Edition, that supported all the components that are available in Swing, but is a lot more lightweight and simple to create themes for, but can also be extended for any desired behaviour, look or animation, to run on Java enabled mobile phones. This was used for creating all the new midlets for the entire company. Also took part in a huge amount of bug fixig to do with all parts of the system.
Technologies Used:
J2ME, J2EE, JBoss, EJB, WebWorks/Struts2, WURFL/WALL, J2ME-Polish, SOAP, Ant, Ivy, Gaming(openbet, Oxi, Fog) and others
July 2006 - June 2007 Game Account Global Limited - Java Developer
GameAccount is a online skill gaming company that markets its games to companies like William Hill, Paddy Power, SkyBet.
Building and maintaining the web customer services application, this allowed the customer services people to perform all kind of tasks from crediting accounts, monitoring who was on the site, what games were being played, viewing game history for each game and tournament, approving deposits being made, performing withdrawals for the players. The system also monitored all the sites activity to try and detect fraud or money laundry and shut down accounts when it was detected. Also there was a graphical editor for all the site messages, and news articles, and allowed them to be translated by the translators. I was the only person working on this project.
Technologies Used:
Front end was designed with html, css, javascript, ajax & swing applets. Back end was jsps, servlets, Struts ,tiles, JDBC all running in JBoss and the applets connected to quickserver.
April 2006 – July 2006 Queen Mary, University of London
Java Developer, making swing and very graphical applet games for the CS4FUN university website. About 5 full games made in total. Games can be found on the http://www.cs4fn.org website.
Nov 2005 – April 2006 G.F.P. Services
Website design and customer relations. Very graphical websites made using Paint Shop Pro, css and html to work on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Konqueror/KHTML
Jan 2000 – Dec 2003 Infomax Ltd (part time)
Network and computer set up and maintenance.
July 2002 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Network Support and computer hardware configuration and set-up.
Other short term contract work includes:
Website design (about 15 websites made)
Graphics design & video editing
Hardware set-up & network set-up
Technical Skills
Programming and mark-up languages:
java J2 SE/EE/ME 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 (Swing/AWT)- 7 years
c++ (also wxWidgets & QT) - 1 year
DHTML/XHTML/CSS/XML - 6 years
javascript/ajax - 3 years
Applications:
Open Office.org - 6 years
Paint Shop Pro - 6 years
Ulead MediaStudio Pro - 3 years
Cool Edit Pro - 1 year
Operating systems:
BeOS - 5 years
Unix/Linux - 5 years
MS Windows (also cygwin) - 8 years
Computer Hardware:
PC (Intel/x86) – 6 years
UML – 2 years
Projects
These are the projects I do in my spare time.
Java programs:
Risk game http://jrisk.sf.net/ (Mature 5 year old project still under development)
The most popular opensource Risk game on the internet! over a thousand downloads every day!
Risk is a Java version of the classic RISK board game, with 2 full Swing interfaces, 3D view, 2 modes of network play, single player mode, hotseat, map editor, simple map format, translation tool, applet mode and many other features.
Rescue! Max game http://rescue.sf.net/ (Beta version available)
Lobby Project http://sourceforge.net/projects/lobby/
Yura's Image Viewer (http://yura.net/hell/programs.htm)
c++ programs:
Yura's Image Processor (http://yura.net/hell/programs.htm)
Education
2002 – 2005 Queen Mary, University of London:
Computer Science Degree: 2:1
Computer Science Project, mark: 88%
Software Engineering, coursework mark: 82%
Computer Graphics, coursework mark: 90%
C++ for Image Processing, coursework mark: 92.5%
Network Systems Architecture, coursework mark: 90%
Project leader for all group projects during university.
2000 – 2002 Mill Hill School:
A-Levels: Mathematics, Physics, Biology, IT.
Additional information
I really enjoy being part of a team, and work very well in one. I am very organised and self motivated and can keep to deadlines.
At my university I was involved in the role playing society. I was also a very active member of the physics society (Psi-Star) and I won the best student one year. I was a member of the rowing team of the university, and also made a promotion video for them.
Outside of university I really enjoy skiing and live music.
I am fluent in Russian.
References available on request.