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Sander Soots

Cell: +372 5454-7678
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Home: Vene 12a-4, Tallinn, Harjumaa,10123, ET

I am an energetic young professional, seeking a career that fits my professional skills and personality. I'm looking for place to learn and develop my skills even further (PS: I'm swift learner). Area of interest covers R&D, NUI & RIA.

Professional Experience

LLC Attido Estonia .NET Software Developer - Tallinn - 2011-...

  • Working in a SCRUM-based development environment
  • Project managment, consultion, testing
  • Programming in ASP.NET (Web Forms & MVC), Classic ASP, PHP
  • Microsoft SQL - SSRS, SSAS, SSIS
  • Projects worked on: Minirent;

NPO MUG Estonia Member of Board, Chairman - Tallinn - 2009-2012

  • Leading coordinator of MUG Estonia in Tallinn and Tartu departments
  • Organizing social events, including seminars and campus events
  • Communication with members, partners and friend organizations
  • Representing in INETA, GITCA, UGGS & European Youth Forum

LLC Developers Team Trainee - Tallinn - 2010-2011

  • Programming in ASP.NET (Web Forms & MVC), Classic ASP, PHP
  • Microsoft SQL - SSRS, SSAS, SSIS

LLC OK Interactive Technician - Tallinn - 2010

  • Domain registrations (FRED), communication with Estonian Internet Foundation
  • Customer support, server maintenance with DirectAdmin
  • Creating and maintaining technical documentation
Skills

As user

Windows, OS X, Linux, Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, SharePoint;

As developer

(X)HTML, HTML5, CSS2/CSS3, XML, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX, JSON, PHP, Asembler, Reverse engineering (IDA PRO), C#, VB.Net, VB6, ASP.NET (Web Forms & MVC), Classic ASP, NHibernate & Entity Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone, SQL (OldSQL, NoSQL & NewSQL), Windows Azure, general knowledge about programming paradigms, methodology and database design, experience with TFS, JIRA, Confluence, SVN & GIT;

As administrator

Advanced knowlege in Windows Server 2008 R2, Sharepoint 2010, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008R2 (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS). General knowlege in Mac OS X & UNIX. Experience in shared web-hosting (cPanel/Plesk/DirectAdmin) maintenance;

Soft skills
Experience in organizing events and giving presentations in front of a large audience. Independent, willing to take the initiative, likes to take responsibility, team-oriented and can integrate well. Responds well to healthy competition.
Education

Tallinn Polytechnic School2007-...

Computers and computer networks;
Professional qualification acquired: Information Technology Specialist II EUCIP qualification (2011)

Language skills
  • Estonian - native language
  • English - very high degree of fluency both written and spoken
  • Russian - high degree of fluency both written and spoken
  • Finnish - low degree of fluency spoken
Training

Microsoft TechDay's Finland 2012

  • Developing Windows 8 Applications, Designing apps with Metro principles and Windows personality;
  • Developing Windows Phone Applications, Location-Based Services, Application architecture with MVVM, Camera and Imaging APIs;
  • Developing hybrid applications using the Windows Azure Platform;

Microsoft TechDay Tallinn 2011

  • Optimizing ASP.NET application performance, software architecture, SQL Server Denali, leveraging Windows Azure in your Application, Kinect Development;

Microsoft TechEd Europe 2010

  • Premier technical education event providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services;

LTD BCS Koolitus 2010

Patrick Van Der Pijl 2010

  • Formulating a new business model strategy, finding strengths and weaknesses of a bussiness model;

Aivar Haller 2010

  • Reality, change management and cooperation between different people;
  • Goals, relations and motivation;

Kristjan Otsmann 2010

  • Taking control of calendar, setting realistic and specific goals and achieving them;
Interests
Cinema, literature, music, oriental cultures, photography, politics, psychology, sailing, swimming, traveling;
Certificates
EUCIP Core Level Certificate
Windows 7, Configuring
Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator
Silverlight 4, Development
Designing and Developing Windows Phone Applications
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring
Honors and awards
2009-2011 - Microsoft Student Partner Lead
2009-2011 - Mozilla Student Partner
2008 - BattleIT - Best blog in category "IT and Technology"
Extracurricular activities
  • Volunteer work and community service – NPO MUG Estonia - Leading coordinator of MUG Estonia in Tallinn and Tartu departments, tutoring and mentoring, community fund-raising, lobbing in European Union Social Fund, organizing social events, including seminars and campus events.
  • Student government – Active member of council in Tallinn Polytechnic School.
Forums
I’m active in biggest Estonian IT forum called HinnaVaatlus where I moderate and answer questions mainly in Microsoft related questions.
Blogs
I love to blog and have written articles since 2007 when blogosphere in Estonia was just starting. Today I have a blog with strong readership, contracts with PR agencies in technology field and BattleIT is also in AAA list of Estonian technology blogs.
I’m also a Columnist at local magazine “ArvutiMaailm”. Published articles are bellow but not limited to:
  • TechEd Europe 2010 Overview
  • Software development for Windows Phone
  • Windows versus Linux in business environment
References
Andres Sirel, LLC Microsoft Estonia, andres.sirel [at] microsoft.com, +372 5284222
Mihkel Sirel, Skype Technologies S.A., mihkel.sirel [at] skype.net, +372 5105501
Andrus Kaurson, LLC Attido Estonia, andrus [at] attido.com, +372 5010916
Gunnar Peipmann, LLC Developers Team, gunnar [at] dt.ee, +372 53345656
Lauri Ilison, LLC OK Interactive, lauri [at] okia.ee, +372 5111003
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