Evgeny Shebanin - IT Professional

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• Evgeny Shebanin
• IT Professional

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Evgeny Shebanin

• It has never been as hard to summarize a
  freelancer portfolio as in the case of our
  freelancer of the week Evgeny Shebanin. Born in
  Russia but living in Finland, the IT-professional
  combines several freelancer roles in only one
  person Database architect, business analyst and
  software developer. In our interview, the
  multi-talent talks about the challenges of being
  self-employed and encourages other freelancers to
  extend their portfolios for better chances in the
  IT-job marked. We warmly welcome Evgeny Shebanin!

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Evgeny Shebanin

• 1) First off, can you tell us a bit about
  yourself?
• I am a native Russian who has resided at Finland
  already 10 years. Im an IT professional with 16
  years of versatile experience in project work, so
  far I have been employed in business analyst, DB
  architect and SW development roles. My primary
  technology is ORACLE, added with working
  knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL. Since summer
  2014, I had my full-time project assignment which
  is expiring soon in autumn 2014 and I therefore
  turned into freelancing activities.

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• 2) If you would search for your profile on
  Google, which are the three keywords you would
  type in the search bar?
• Skills process and system definition, system
  design, system implementation.
• Technologies Oracle, scripting languages (Perl,
  Javascript), Qlikview.
• Characteristics ability to capture experience
  and re-use it, pro-activity, high communication
  and coaching capacity.

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• 3) What was your inspiration and when did you
  actually decide to become a freelancer?
• My project experience covers business analyst,
  architect and SW developer roles. I have been
  challenged in finding a proper balance and an
  option to blend all my experience in one project
  assignment. It is kind of a role which does not
  normally appear in large system implementations.

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• 3) What was your inspiration and when did you
  actually decide to become a freelancer? (contd)
• The second challenge was to balance my work
  assignments i.e. to try taking tasks of various
  scopes and deadlines - aiming to secure job
  stability in current economy challenges. Since
  then, I started promotion and profiling myself on
  multiple freelancing sites, took an exciting
  opportunity to be Database architect for SaaS
  solution for construction industry. My
  freelancing has been a part-time activity
  supporting full-time project work at CGI Finland

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• 4) What kind of services have your clients asked
  you to provide?
• Business analyst work, ORACLE technology
  consultancy and back-end architecture tasks.

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• 5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to
  provide skills that you dont possess?
• From time to time, I recognize a need and start
  hiring campaigns to sign a freelancer with
  complimentary DBA expertise. The occasions are
  not more than one time per year. Normally, I am
  successful to allocate appropriate skills among
  my partner network.

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• 6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that
  are interested in your services?
• I actively use a selection of freelancing sites
  where freelancermap.com goes first for long-time
  assignments with high demand for business domain
  and technology knowledge and second goes
  Odesk.com where I could pick up single-time tasks
  with short implementation cycle. Occasionally I
  set e-mail campaigns to my partners if they are
  in demand of business analyst or SW architect.

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• 7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us
  a little bit about your experience with our
  IT-network?
• I have been impressed with the variety of IT
  expertise and high demand of qualified IT
  professionals which freelancermap.com has been
  supporting. There are two actual suggestions
  where the first one will be to encourage
  recruiters to provide more details at job
  postings and the second one will be to work out
  common format for job enquiry (the current state
  is that different recruiters ask slightly
  different details).

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• 7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us
  a little bit about your experience with our
  IT-network? (contd)
• And even at my very short stint with
  freelancermap.com, I have been already approached
  with a number of respectable IT recruiting
  agencies promoting challenging positions in BI
  projects.

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• 8) How do you set yourself apart from your
  competitors? What makes you special?
• It is my aspiration to put forward a complex
  proposal for IT project needs - I can easily
  blend roles of system analyst with relevant
  industry insight, back-end architect and SW
  developer. This makes my offering valuable across
  all project life-cycle and reinforces
  collaboration competence level and collaboration
  efficiency inside project team. When promoting my
  profile against competitors I put broad industry
  insight and wide-scoped competence capacity as my
  value proposition.

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• 9) What are the top three books, blogs or
  magazines you read to stay up to date in the
  IT-market?
• As my educational background is mathematics I
  enjoy reading what mathematicians think about
  ways of our day-to-day life, developing
  socialization and the way we communicate with
  each other. This helps in balancing systematic
  approach, communication technics and fun in
  everyday work occasions.

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• 10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like
  to tell our readers?
• Try to present multiple technology profiles and
  multiple services you are aiming to provide. This
  will increase your chances and will assure
  employers and headhunters that you would be
  definitely valuable technology asset.

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