Yovko Lambrev
Personal information
Date of Birth: 8th May 1974
Place of Birth: Europe/Bulgaria/Plovdiv
Nationality: Bulgarian
Marital status: Single
Summary of qualifications
Introduction to ORACLE 8i administration course (September 1999 – Fadata & HebrosBank Plovdiv)
Introduction to CISCO routers configuration course (December 1999 – ACT Sofia & HebrosBank Plovdiv)
Introduction to 3Com switches, VPNs and VLANs (March 2000 – Paraflow & HebrosBank Plovdiv)
2152 MOC – Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server (February 2001 – ITCE Sofia)
2153 MOC – Implementing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure (March 2001 – ITCE Sofia)
AU16 – AIX V4 Advanced System Administration (May 2001 – IBM Bulgaria – Sofia)
1572 MOC – Implementing and Administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 (July 2001 – ITCE Sofia)
2154 MOC – Implementing and Administering MS Windows 2000 Directory Services (November 2002 – ITCE Sofia)
A4914EBX – Services Business @ IBM (April 2004 – IBM EMEA Austria)
ETHAXM – Ethical Hacking Methodology (May 2004 – IBM Germany – Stuttgart)
A76927 – IT Security Methodology (June 2004 – IBM Germany – Mannheim)
BRCS01 – Introduction to Business Resilience and Continuity Services (July 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
ITA01 – The IT Architect: An Introduction (July 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
SE135001 – xSeries 1350 Cluster Hardware Maintenance Training for ITS (August 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
PM54D – Project Management Orientation (PMTO) (September 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
WBT6010B – Information Technology Process Model ITPM (September 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
WBT4004B – Decision Making (September 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
ITA05 – Foundation of the IT Architect Profession (September 2004 – IBM – eLearning)
ITSPROBX – IBM Global Services Method for ITS professionals (September 2004 – IBM Croatia – Zagreb)
A4889 – IBM Global Services Method Architectural Thinking (October 2004 – IBM Slovakia – Bratislava)
OMWS3BX-9URL Operational Modeling Workshop (January 2005 – IBM Czech Republic – Prague)
ENTARCBX Enterprise Architecture (February 2005 – IBM Slovenia – Ljubljana – Bled)
A5054-9VQD Introduction to Operation Research (May 2005 – IBM Poland – Warsaw)
A5039-5ZLR Rapid Infrastructure Design Method Training (May 2005 – IBM Poland – Warsaw)
Certificates
IBM Certified Storage Sales (26 November 2009)
IBM IT Architect Accelerator Program (27 September 2004 – 8 June 2005)
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (31 May 2001)
AIX Advanced System Administration AU16 2001-175
Brainbench Certified Internet Professional (BCIP) Linux web-administrator
Brainbench Certified Internet Professional (BCIP) UNIX web-administrator
Brainbench Computer Fundamentals (Master)
Brainbench Internet Concepts (Master)
Brainbench TCP/IP Administration (Master)
Brainbench Networking Concepts
Brainbench Linux Administration (General)
Brainbench UNIX Administration (General)
Brainbench HTML 3.2
Brainbench HTML 4.0
Brainbench Apache 1.3.12 Administrator
At the end of April 2001 – Caldera Systems Inc. (now SCO) recognizes my project “Linux center” (now part of www.bgit.net) as a Caldera Authorized Partner (CAP) – the highest level in the Caldera Partner Program and I was very proud of it. Now my CAP certificate has been returned to SCO because of stupid SCO’s lawsuit against IBM and open source idea I decided not to be a Caldera Authorised Partner anymore!
Education
1992 – 1997 Technical University – Sofia, Plovdiv branch
M. Sc., Engineer, Graduate degree
Subject: Communication technics and technologies
Specialty: Optical and mobile communications
1988 – 1992 Exemplary Mathematical Secondary School Plovdiv
Subject: Mathematics
Specialty: Mathematics & Management
Career history
IBM Bulgaria (October 2006 – current)
Systems & Technology Group
Storage Brand Manager
IBM Bulgaria (Feb 2004 – October 2006)
IGS/ITS IT Architect & Consultant
IBM Security and Privacy Consulting Practice
Enterprise IT, Network and Solution Architecture
Ethical hacking, IT & Network Security services
OpenIntegra PLC (June 2003 – Jan 2004)
Co-founder and CEO
Linux & Open source solutions
Business development
IBM Bulgaria (April 2003 – June 2003)
Internal IT & Security
Account management, Lotus Notes Support
Physical and office security, IT & Network security
Siemens I&C – Bulgaria (December 2001 – April 2003)
System administrator
Windows NT/2000 system administration and LAN administration
Implementing and Administering MS Windows 2000 Active Directory structure
MS Exchange 5.5 & Sendmail mail structure
Communications management and maintenance
Squid proxy web-access control and security
Building and administering dynamic content based Intranet (MySQL + PHP)
Various business specific applications support
HebrosBank – Head Office (September 1999 – December 2001)
System and Network administrator (System manager)
Linux/UNIX/WindowsNT/2000 system and network administration and management, integration with Novell Netware
CISCO routers administration, LAN and WAN administration
Application development for monitoring and global network management, various tools for web-monitoring and administration
Mail(SMTP/POP3/IMAP), web, DHCP, DNS and FTP servers administration
IP over X.25 network support, Transcend & HP OpenView
Firewalls (incl. ipchains, iptables and MS ISA server), network security
PostgreSQL & Oracle 8i DB administration
MS Windows 2000 domain, Active Directory & MS Exchange 2000 administration
BalkanSys J.S.Co. (May 1999 – September 1999)
System and Network administrator
Linux system administration, System and network integration
Web server administration, Corporate LAN designing
Web based e-commerce development, Web-design
Triton Technologies S.B.Co. (August 1998 – May 1999)
Technical expert and office manager
Technical, hardware and software support
Office management, Accounting
Dealer responsibilities
LAN management and web-site support
Web-development
Skills summary
Operating systems and GUIs such as Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, Solaris), Mac OS X, FreeBSD, DOS, Windows 3.x/9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, QNX, BeOS, PalmOS, Personal Netware
Cisco IOS, Networking protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX
Proxy servers, SMTP/POP3/IMAP-mail (Sendmail, Postfix, MS Exchange 5.5 & 2000), web (Apache, IIS), FTP, DNS, DHCP servers administration, Internet servers
Cisco and 3Com routers and 3Com switches and switching hubs, VLANs, VPNs
Transcend & HP OpenView network monitoring and management, IBM Tivoli Management
Enterprise datacenters, SAN, NAS and storage subsystems planing and design
Enterprise IT Architectures and Design
Programming: Perl, GAWK, Pascal, C, PHP, Java, Basic (incl. Applesoft Basic), Assemblers, shell programming, UNIX programming environment, PalmOS software development
Web-development: HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CGI, XML, web publishing and design, WAP(WML) application development
Databases: Client-server relational, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle 8i & DB2)
Various scientific, office and other applications
System integration, e-commerce, e-bussines development
Hybrid networking and OS environment (Windows + UNIX + Novell + PDAs) Various computer hardware and periphery (basicly PC and RISC based)
Valid and clean driver license
Completed military service
Publications
June 1997 Science release
“Influence of The Bit Error Ratio on the Frame Format in Communication Protocols Design for an Infrared Diffusive Channel”
May 1997 Diploma thesis
“High-Speed Diffuse Infrared Wireless LAN – Design of Data Link Layer Protocol”
Uncountable web-publications and papers.
Additional professional activities
I am founder and president of Open Projects Foundation. I am also ex-member of Free Software Association – Bulgaria management board, contributing member of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), member of Internet Society (ISOC) and member and founder of ARIT – IT Development Associaton (ITDA). I am a member of The Bulgarian President’s Nominee Committee for the John Atanasoff Award.
I am one of the founders and an author of Open Culture – Bulgaria, which was the first web milestone for the Free Culture and Creative Commons art in Bulgaria.
I am the founder and the author of the “Linux center” (http://linux.gyuvet.ch) – one of the most popular Bulgarian Linux web-sites. Now part of www.bgIT.net
I supported MandrakeSoft (now Mandriva) for several years to translate Mandrake (Mandriva) Linux (HardDrake) in Bulgarian language and Bulgarian versions of X Multimedia System (XMMS) and MRTG.
Languages
English (very good written & almost fluent spoken)
Russian (good)
Bulgarian (native)