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I was born in the Soviet Union 45 years ago. After college
I've spent two years in the Soviet Army, but I was discharged to
the new country - Ukraine.
I've married my school girlfriend: when we met I was 16 years
old, she was 14. Our son is now 24 years old.
After a few years of a job as a computer engineer I've founded
my own consulting company and moved to the software business. We
created applications for bookkeeping and accounting, for retailers
and manufacturing companies. Most of my clients was liquor
producers and sellers.
The computer programmer job in Ukraine was complicated
because we did not have any documentation and was not able to
contact any of customer support. Most of hardware was in bad
condition and self made.
All of my relatives moved to Israel or United States, we were
last who decided to relocate. In July of 2000, fifteen years ago,
we moved to Chicago, Illinois. For a year I worked for a
minimum wage during night in Russian restaurant and Ukrainian
bakery and study English in college during day. My wife left me
before I was able to find a good job. I was hired by fiber optic
manufacturing company as a hardware technician but in a few months
moved to IT department.
In 2002 I've married second time and was ready for the stable
life, but dot com collapsed and my employer moved to China. I moved
to California: my pregnant wife made me do so. One year we lived in
mother in law's house and I worked as a security officer (this is
not in my resume). It was the hardest year in my life!
I've pick up a few short term contracts as a programmer thru
Craigslist, then a permanent position in UPS. In 2006, 3 months
after my son was born, UPS moved us to headquarter in
Atlanta. After 3 years I left UPS for a much better pay, but in a
few months my new employer moved to Florida - I was not able to
accept a relocation offer because my wife was pregnant with
our third child and I was not able to sell a house.
Last 5 years I worked mostly as a contractor for the US
government and big corporations. Two months ago I was hired by
..... I hope this position will be permanent or for the really long
time. Now I have five kids and need stability!
