Greater Boston
My parents are both US Chess Champions. Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov and Woman International Master Esther Epstein. Both on Wikipedia. Both decorated competitors who spent their lives mastering strategic thinking and performing under pressure. I arrived in Boston from Russia at age 9, their son. And I was the shyest person in every room I entered. I wouldn't raise my hand in class. When I became a software engineer, I wouldn't even pick up the phone. If you'd asked me to stand in front of a room and present my work, I would have walked out. Two parents who competed on world stages. And their son: head down, invisible, hoping nobody noticed him. Then my friend Vlad gave me a book for my birthday. I read it in three days. Then 300 more. Something started shifting not overnight, but one small action at a time. In 2007, I stood on a conference stage for the first time. My hands were shaking. But I did it. That moment compounded into everything that followed: → 75+ industry conferences attended → 50+ speaking engagements → 100+ networking events across more than a dozen cities → 7 books published → 350+ training videos created → 100+ professionals mentored My parents taught me mastery is never an accident. Every grandmaster was once a beginner who refused to stay one. The same is true for career visibility. The professionals I meet today are where I was twenty years ago brilliant at their work, completely invisible in their careers, keeping their heads down hoping the right person eventually notices. That is not a strategy. That is a waiting game. And most people wait their entire career. I am not a traditional coach. I am a mentor who has lived this transformation personally and I care about your growth the way my parents cared about their craft: with patience, precision, and a genuine investment in seeing you win. The Invisible to Visible is the monthly mentorship community I built for professionals done waiting to be noticed. Not a content library. Not a motivational space. A structured system with real accountability and real career outcomes. If you are shy, reserved, or simply stuck you are exactly who I built this for. Because I was you. And I know what it takes to climb. 📌 Join: https://www.skool.com/invisible-to-visible-1870 Click Contact Info -> Linktree -> Invisible to Visible Community (to avoid the copy and paste above) Direct link in the Featured section.
DOORS support and DXL scripting
DOORS Support and DXL scripting for a myriad of projects
• Applications lead overseeing the use of DOORS Next Generation and Rational Quality Manager, and supporting the engineering teams. • Creator and maintainer of a set of Confluence pages on the use and administration of the Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) tools • Active participant in weekly Agile team meetings and user of JIRA
Technical Lead overseeing the implementation of Requirements Management and the use of the entire Engineering Lifecycle Management software suite from IBM. Part of the System Engineering team supporting the complete product lifecycle for software and hardware.
Applications lead overseeing the use of DOORS Next Generation, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Publishing Engine, Document Builder, Jazz Reporting Service, Global Configuration Management and supporting the engineering teams.
Applications lead overseeing the use of DOORS Next Generation, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Publishing Engine, Document Builder, Jazz Reporting Service, Global Configuration Management and supporting the engineering teams.