Contact Information

Ilya Baimetov
phone:              (cell) +1 (703) 340-9505
e-mail:              ilya.baimetov@hotmail.com

Objective

Product Manager responsible for an innovative product or product line.

Education

1988 – 1994 student at MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), Department of Applied Mathematics

1994 received a Master Degree in Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies from MIPT

1996-1998 Computer Science Ph.D. student at MIPT, Department of Computer Systems. Research interests included OO programming languages, compilers and runtime environments; operating systems; distributed systems and asynchronous communication.

Professional experience

January 2006 – present, Parallels(Renton, WA, USA)

Director of Product Management, Cloud Computing

·         June 2013 – now – Director of Product Management, Cloud Computing. Defining vision, strategy, product roadmap for the next 18-24 months, high-level feature set, licensing terms, pricing and partnership targets for Parallels CMP (cloud management platform) a.k.a. Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure (PACI) – http://www.parallels.com/products/iaas/. PACI includes orchestration and billing engines, provider and customer control panels, proprietary Parallels container virtualization technology and Parallels distributed storage technology. PACI enables hosting service providers to deliver IaaS to their customers.

·         2012 - 2013 – Director of Product Management, Cloud Computing. Focal Point - an all-in-one instantly-ready solution for small (<20 employees) businesses that combines web presence, phone, e-mail, calendar, contact management in one easy to use yet extensible application. FocalPoint tailors user experience based on the NAICS category of the business - including auto-generated web site, typical business workflows such as scheduling appointments and communicating with clients as well as the list of recommendations that constantly guide the user and suggest what to do next.>

·         2011-2012 – CEO Technology Advisor. Helping CEO define strategic technological directions and themes for Parallels. Special projects aimed at stating company-wide initiatives – tech support data analysis, customer data analysis, mobile and social initiatives, cross-function data-driven sync-ups, etc.

·         2009-2010 – Director of Program Management for Parallels Automation product line, overseeing implementation of APS 1.2 in PA and design of APS 2.0. APS 2.0 is the foundation of the future PA product line – Parallels high-end cloud service delivery platform, and a complete solution for a cloud service provider.

·         2007-2011 – Director of Program Management, APS (Application Packaging Standard) initiative. APS is a standard for application cloud provisioning that covers packaging, provisioning, management and integration of cloud services and SaaS applications. APS is designed to address requirements of computing paradigms, such as complete operations automation. Responsible for designing and shipping APS versions 0.9 through 1.2, as well as designing 2.0.
APS have been launched by 20+ hosting providers, including 1&1 and Media Temple. Just with 1&1, 30% of new shared-hosting customers use Click-n-Build. Overall, more than a million instances of APS applications are in use. More information about APS at http://apsstandard.org.

·         2006-2007 – Senior Product Manager for Server Virtualization. Evangelism of container-based virtualization via customer meetings, conferences, blog. Defining product features for enterprise and cloud computing markets.
Started working on Open Fusion (internal initiative to transform products into platforms), launched Parallels Technical Network http://www.parallels.com/ptn/. Part of Open Fusion later transformed into APS.

 

March 2003 – January 2006, Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA, U.S.A.).

Program Manager, Manageability Practices Team

·         Requirements and design of the Visual Studio integrated dev tools for handling management aspects of Windows components and apps. Goal – reduce complexity and effort to write manageable Windows applications. Main features include

o        Declarative management of group policies, events and performance counters

o        Formalized models for application configuration, health and operations

o        Automatic generation of manifests, Health Models and MOM management packs

·         Requirements and design of quantitative metrics for measuring manageability of Windows components. The goal was to design metrics for assessing build-to-build, milestone-by-milestone and version-to-version improvements. Required data is collected by analyzing manageability deliverables and source code, conducting user studies and surveys, as well as targeted instrumentation of Windows components for collecting data from customer sites.

·         Collaborated with 50+ Windows component teams to help them with doing the work required by Manageability basic. 90% of my teams received Green grade in the first post-restart LH basic review (April’05).

·         Design and project management for web-based application and SQL-based back-end for submitting, viewing and reporting/trending Manageability grades across all Windows teams.

·         Requirements, design and implementation of tools for creating Admin Tasks and Health models.

·         Wrote V1 of Windows Manageability Cookbook

·         Designed content structure and wrote parts of V2 of Windows Manageability Cookbook.

Windows Manageability Cookbook – prescriptive guidance for iterative model-based approach to developing manageable Windows software. Cookbook is a major component of Longhorn Manageability Basic, helping Windows teams understand why and how they should approach manageability issues and problems in their products. Cookbook is a result of extensive cross-group collaboration with various manageability technology teams in Windows Core, Windows Management Infrastructure Group and Windows and Enterprise Management Division – SMI, GP, WMI, WMX, MSH, MOM, etc.

 

July 2001 – March 2003, Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA, U.S.A.).

Program Manager, bCentral Appointment Manager Service, later MS CRM Service Scheduling

Appointment Manager – on-line scheduling system for small businesses.

Responsibilities included:

·         domain model of business appointment scheduling

·         design of the scheduling engine

·         security

·         collaboration with other teams

·         integration with other products and resellers

Worked on 3 releases:

1.Net (July 2001 - October 2001)

·         Requirements and design for integration with bCentral billing, provisioning and authentication.

Nirvana (October 2001 – May 2002)

·         Improving scalability and performance (10x improvement achieved with minor code changes)

·         Design of the integration component to enable integration with billing/provisioning systems of resellers.

·         Requirements and design of the printable schedule views.

Sundial (May 2002 – March 2003)

·         Overall architecture and design of the service scheduling engine – the core component that manages resources, their schedules and availability. My work was foundation both for massively scalable architecture of hosted service (not implemented) and service scheduling module of MS CRM.

·         Cross-group collaboration with other MS teams that work on massively scalable n-tier services and scheduling problems - MSN User Profile Services, Hailstorm, Project, Exchange, MS Research.

This work on the scheduling engine generated two patents: “Method and apparatus for scheduling” and “Calendar Rule Definition, Ranking, and Expansion”.

 

June 1999 – July 2001, InfraTel (San Francisco, USA; Moscow, Russia), currently MightyCall.

Co-founder, Software Architect, CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) platform and applications.

·         Requirements, architecture and project management for Infra 2000 (PC-based CTI Application Server)

·         Design and prototype implementation of Infra ASP - hosted unified messaging/collaboration solution for ISPs/ASPs.

 

May 1998 – May 1999, Genesys Labs (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)

Software Development Manager

·         Design and implementation of COM-based distributed CTI platform and applications.

 

August 1996 – May 1998, Genesys Labs (Moscow, Russia)

Software Development Manager

·         Design and implementation of COM-based distributed CTI platform and applications.

 

1995 – 1996, Creative Solutions (Autodesk affiliate), Moscow, Russia

Senior Software Engineer

·         Design and implementation of algorithms for graph tracing, triangulation and surface reconstruction for the core component of the AutoCAD Map (early GIS application from Autodesk).

 

1994 – 1996, Institute of Information Systems, Moscow, Russia

Project Manager

·         Requirements and design for hospital information system including patient registration and asset management

Principal Engineer

·         Implementation of several system integration projects based on DEC Alpha hardware and software

 

1994, Pick Systems Labs, Moscow, Russia

Senior Software Engineer

·         Design and implementation of GraPICK 2.0 (visual app builder for PICK DBMS)

 

1992 – 1994, Inzer, formerly SteeplerSoft, Moscow, Russia

Senior Software Engineer

·         Design and implementation of embedded DSL scripting language for Windows applications including compiler, debugger, virtual machine, embeddable development environment

·         Design and implementation of terminal emulator

 

1989 – 1992, Computer Science Center, MIPT, Moscow, Russia

Senior Software Engineer, Project Lead

·         Design and implementation of OO 2.5-D game/animation platform, including OO script language and compiler, run-time OO environment, 2.5-D visualization engine, design studio.

·         Implementation of GUI framework for DOS

·         C compiler, interpreters and runtimes for “small languages” and DSLs.

Additional activities

Teaching and mentoring at MIPT:

·         1994-1998 – Teaching assistant. Courses system programming and OS architecture and design to the graduate students of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics programs with UNIX and Windows NT as case studies.

·         2004-2006 – Research coordinator. Helped get Microsoft Research grants and provided guidance for several student research projects that used Rotor – an open source version of CLR.

·         Since 2010 – Course on Product Management at MIPT and for the graduate students of Computer Science program. Workshops on Product Management at startup incubators and mentoring startups on Product Management.

 

Patents

USPTO patent application #???, “Lightweight Virtual Machines and Increasing Density of Virtual Machines in a Computer System”

USPTO patent application #20060167725, “Method and apparatus for scheduling”

USPTO patent application #20060149609, “Calendar Rule Definition, Ranking, and Expansion”

Several more patents filed at Parallels related to hypervisor virtualization and APS 2.0 (cloud application provisioning and integration)