My Work Biography Programming has been my passion since 1986. My first computer was a programmable calculator “Электроника B3-34”. I started to learn Algol, then Focal at the house computer “БК-0010”. In 1987 I entered Riga Institute of Civil Aviation (Riga Aviation University) and graduated from in 1992. Major: computer complexes, systems and networks. During training I tried to “try out” all the computers, which I could fined at the institute: System / 360, the PDP-11, by Wang in 2200, IBM PC. I learned programming languages: PL/1, Fortran, C/C++, Pascal/Turbo Pascal, several dialects of BASIC, Assembler i8080 and DEC. I started earning money by programming. My graduation project: training simulators of logic chips operation and CPUs DEC and i8080. After graduation I returned to Rostov-on-Don, worked on positions from the programmer to the head of the IT department. More mastered Pascal/Turbo Pascal/Delphi. I also taught at a college. At the end of the 90s I opened the Internet for myself. I learned website design, HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, then PHP 5.x. I set up a small web-studio. From 2002 I started working in the support and development of ERP system 1C:Enterprise (www.1c.ru/eng/title.htm). I mastered the development of a platform version 7.7 and then 8.2. In 2005 I became interested in Free Software. I started using Linux, first as a user and later as an administrator and programmer. In 2007 I became interested in Java. I mastered the basics of the development on the Java ME/SE. I made a project “jBible” in Java for mobile phones. In 2010 I took part in a project “Free Software for Schools” (ALTLinux). In this regard, for more than a year I was a maintainer of BASIC256 package in repository ALTLinux. I deepened my knowledge in C/C++, Git, and Linux. Now I'm working as a lead developer for the holding company “Azov-Don Shipping Company”. Resently I have been actively improving my skills in C/C++/C#, Java, , PHP, learn Python and modern web-technologies.

Artem goes home Friday, February 6th was a great day. We took our newborn son Artem (and his mom, of course) from the hospital. Relatives came: my mother, my wife's mother, my sister and her husband with their son, and my wife's brother. Nikita, our oldest son, filmed everything on video. The day before, at home, I did a complete cleaning and assembled baby cot. And assembled without instructions, they were not in any box, no internet (this is Russia, baby :). It was not difficult, but with the assembly of the pendulum had to exert all their ingenuity.

My new stage of learning English started yesterday Last week I received my order - «English for beginner» from ESCC (European School for Correspondence Courses). 20 magazines with 40 lessons + 20 audio CD mp3 in box. I need to study it (read, write, listen and speak), 1 magazine for the month and do homework online. But I try to study 2 magazines for the month. In addition, I will read (and listen) the book «The Cat in Boots», adapted for beginner. And continue to look a regular partner for a small talk in a text chat.

My answers for serios questions Samantha from Baltimore asked me two good questions. 1. Why did you decide to learn English? There are several reasons. Firstly, in the past and the year before I went abroad (the Czech Republic) and realized that it is necessary to know the language to fully communicate with people. Secondly, I have friends, the Americans and the British, and I want to communicate with them without interpreters and Google translator. Third, I am a programmer. English language for 20 years I have "before your eyes." It is time to learn to speak it. 2. How many years have you been studying? I started studying English seriously newly. Last year I have been studying English for two months, using the self-tutorials. Then I took a short break. This year I returned to the study of English.