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Professional Services

I provide a comprehensive list of services that I can personally deliver or coordinate through a skilled team I work closely with. Your challenge is my solution. I thrive on tackling complex tasks and the journey that comes with them. My strengths lie in organization and management. The services cover a wide spectrum, including Information Technology and Compliance, Analog and Digital Communication, General Construction and Craftsmanship, Personal and Physical Security, as well as the modification of motor vehicles for Search and Rescue and other specialized purposes.

Knowledge Base

In this section, I aim to convey my hands-on experiences. These are real battlefield stories, accounts of encountering technological and tactical challenges, and the innovative solutions that were devised to overcome them.

CTO’s notes. 2024 Chapter Two – Project management.

29JanuaryasmirnovPersonal Blogagile, competition, delivery, leadership, market, project management

Last week, a routine house errand lit a light bulb over my head, drawing a striking parallel between someone’s behavior and the prevalent trend in project management across the organizations I’ve interacted with over the last decade or so. The First Thought: Let me start with a confession – I’m an observer. I absorb the

Custom SaaS Developers

29NovemberasmirnovPersonal Blogclickbait, custom, developers, humor, marketing, SaaS, solicitors

I planned to write up an article about cold calls and solicitation by outsourcing (augmented resources) agencies, but one of the cases topped the list, and I had to make a separate post on it. One such email message reached me via a business account. Among a typical sales pitch and a bundle of keywords

DaVinci Resolve 18.2.3 on Fedora 39

14NovemberasmirnovKnowledge Basedavinci, fedora, fedora 38, fedora 39, libgdk, libgdk_pixbuf, libglib, resolve

Recently Fedora community released a new version of their Desktop edition – Fedora 39. After awaiting a whole week I ran an OS update and upgraded my video editing rig from Fedora 38 to Fedora 39. Today, starting up my latest version of DaVinci Resolve I ran into this: This is not the same issue

Halloween

31OctoberasmirnovPersonal Blogfamily, halloween, leadership

Daily, we engage in conversations about the journey of a leader. We maintain the mindset of lifelong learners, constantly seeking growth opportunities. We approach challenges with a creative spirit, striving to achieve more with fewer resources, all while prioritizing environmental sustainability and revenue enhancement. Yet, amidst these considerations, we must pause and reflect that we

Value one. Legacy industry evolution.

22OctoberasmirnovPersonal Blogcarsales, cloud, ecommerce, evolution, features, legacy, SaaS, vehiko

Let me tell you a story. The year was 2007, and as the President of the #DeepCity (The reference is the “DEEP TOWN,” a SciFi virtual reality city), we pioneered private cloud hosting. The company started and succeeded in private cloud and managed services long before the sharks of the red ocean swam into the market. The

AN EMAIL AND CALL FROM A RECRUITER.

22OctoberasmirnovPersonal Blogghiring, information security, recruitment, scam

While this might be a dead piece of meat, I wanted to share the experience and warned everyone once again – be careful about the information you release during the job search process. As professional job market slows down more and more recruitment scam comes out again. While this might be a dead piece of

WINDOWS STORAGE MANAGER – PARAMETER IS INCORRECT

22OctoberasmirnovKnowledge Basecitrix, citrix xen, citrix xenserver, cloud, copy, drive, image, kvm, machine, migrate, migration, move, ovirt, storage, virtual, virtual drive, virtual machine, vm, xen, xenserver

As part of private cloud organisation serving small to mid size businesses with various security and compliance demands I was involved in the project building completely new cloud environment, considering technologies of 2016, and streamline the migration of the clients from the original Citrix Xen 6.5 cloud into the new solution based on oVirt and KVM.

ACCESS TO REMOTE CONSOLE (ILO) ON GENERATION 5 (G5) HP SERVERS

22OctoberasmirnovKnowledge Basedl360, dl360g5, drivers, firmware, hp, ilo, ilo2, keyboard, keys, manage, P400, proliant, sas, update

Let me tell you a story, More than 10 years ago a lot of enterprise organizations invested in HP hardware, better known as ProLiant servers. Generation 5 of those amazing machines are EOL so is their support.The problem is that the time have moved on and technology have moved up. Current versions of Java, .NET, Active

ZFS LOOSE POOL AFTER SERVER REBOOT (CENTOS)

22OctoberasmirnovKnowledge Basecentos, import, pool, zfs

Problem: Today I want to share something really quickly with you. If you are trying to build a storage using ZFSONLINUX and CentOS 7.2 and up, then you will experience a problem, when the server reboots, ZFS loses the pool. You can always import zfs pool manually or script it, but it is a hustle.