My First Day in California Monday, June 29, 2009 Driving into California was nothing short of a surreal experience. After every turn, I-10 rewards you with fantastic panoramic landscapes. The best of them all, by far, is "The Field of Green Energy." I saw mountains and plains, filled with thousands and thousands of white beautiful wind propellers. I could not help but to gaze at the wonders of human technology. Was I driving into California? Or had I just arrived on red Martian desert, where I was witnessing the dawn of a new age where humans and planets are able to, at last, coexist together peacefully? Most of the propellers were turning, and that felt good. I also wondered about the ones that didn't (there were at least one in almost every row). I was so impressed by the Wind Energy Gatherers that it was almost hard to concentrate on driving. Yet, as you enter California, the billboards welcome you with pictures of people who had died while driving and talking on their cell phones (I could not tell if those were pictures of their corpses, or pictures of them while they were still alive; I could only tell that the pictures looked quite grim and reddish). Point in case. I was in awe of the mighty 16-lane highways, the boisterous California drivers and their fancy tinted and durable cars (no, my old 88 Civic wouldn't have done here... California highways definitely do require fresh shocks, strong CV joints and, above all, excellent brakes). Unless you wish to rattle around for a while, that is. I did witness and nearly became part of a small accident (which had previously never happened to me, the obviously uninitiated Kentucky driver). Suddenly, all the cars in front of me in all 6 lanes stopped aburptly. One of the cars ended up perpendicular to the road and partly on the shoulder. I could not see any visible damage. Nobody even came out of their cars. They just all hesitated for about 10 seconds and then everybody (including the perpendicular car), just kept driving. In other words, there is no stupidity here. Obviously, we can see that only the strongest "make it" here. Also, it appears as if even the most menial positions in society are filled with well spoken and articulate people, the kind you might discuss deep subjects with. I heard there are lots of crooks here (all the people who want me to pay them money to promote my music, so far, have been from California). But it's so hard to tell who's who. Oh well, it's just my first day in California. One thing is clear: I am in for something interesting here! 0 comments | Leave a Comment "Hotel California" - The Cheapest Motel to Welcome You to The Sunny State of California Monday, June 29, 2009 As you drive into California on I-10 (a popular route for much of the country wishing to avoid the border craziness down south), you will pass an agricultural checkpoint. Just beyond the checkpoint, if you happen to be looking to stay in a motel, but do not wish to pay a premium California price, you have an amazing opportunity. Immediately exit into the city of Blythe, on the right. There, on the main strip (E. Hobsonway Street), you will find, the true, as described in a good old Eagles song, "Hotel California." You will find it by the name of "Desert Winds Motel." Anything else in the neighborhood will cost you at least $60, this one cost me a friendly U.S. $27. My upstairs suite was clean, and with a fantastic view of a classic California landscape through the bathroom window. The furniture was also of excellent quality! I must admit I never opened the drawers, though, to see what it is in them. I now regret that I did not, though, because I feel I might have found a treasure in one of them. The room also served as an excellent temporary recording studio for the night (Thanks to my Tascam DP-004, I can now work on my recordings anywhere I go). In that room, vocals sounded surprisingly smooth and clear through Tascam Pocketstudio's built-in condenser mics. I think I might actually keep most of these takes for the final decent recording of my new upcoming song. If you're going to California, you must stop at Desert Winds Motel! 0 comments | Leave a Comment Kreuger to Offshore Deli Sandwich Making to India Wednesday, May 13, 2009 In an effort to cut costs, Kreuger Co., a major food retailer in the U.S., has begun putting into effect its plans to outsource its Deli functions to India. Starting Monday, June 1st 2009, all of Kreuger's Deli sandwiches will be manufactured in India. A giant Deli sandwich factory has been constructed on the shores of the Brahmaputra river. The factory consists of several large complexes. One for ham, one for pepperoni, one for bread, and various others. There is, however, no roast beef facility (roast beef will be shipped in from neighboring Pakistan). Deli sandwiches will be manufactured and packaged at the site and then shipped by specially modified refrigerator airplanes. "The opening of the Deli sandwich factory here in Brahmaputra delta area carries a great promise of economic development to this region," Kreuger's VP of Deli, Bakery and Seafood services commented, "and we are also proud to announce that we have longer term plans that will eventually allow us to offshore not only the production, but also the consumption of Deli sandwiches." 0 comments | Leave a Comment Next Page

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Music Videos I Have Made

"Rain" Music Video:

"Still Roaming" Live With a Drum Machine (Aug 2008):

"Time" Live With a Drum Machine (Aug 2008):

"Sabrina" Live With a Drum Machine (Aug 2008):

"Rain" Live with a Drum Machine (Aug 2008):

Crazy Jam With Rich and Bear (Aug 2008):

Dimitri's Music Store

You can download full MP3 versions of any of my songs instantly after you complete a Paypal payment (you don't need to have a Paypal account; all you need is a credit card). As soon as you complete the payment, you will be able to download the songs (even if your payment is pending approval). Thank you for your support and enjoy the music!

Select	Preview	Track Name	Price
		Rain	U.S. $0.99
		Army of Ants	U.S. $0.99
		Someone	U.S. $0.99
		Sabrina.mp3	U.S. $0.99
		Could It Be	U.S. $0.99
		Still Roaming	U.S. $0.99
		Long Time Ago	U.S. $0.99
		When I Paint My Life To You	U.S. $0.99
		Let's Just Be Friends	U.S. $0.99
		Time	U.S. $0.99
		Break Down The Wall	U.S. $0.99
		Mrs. Good Neighbor	U.S. $0.99
		Star	U.S. $0.79

About Me

I am a musician, a thinker and a computer programmer. I live in Lexington, KY USA.

I was always fond of catchy melodies and sentimental musical expression. I started writing music on my computer when I was 14. Like most teenagers, I fell hopelessly in love a couple of times, and at the age of 16 I bought an electric guitar out of an almost unbearable necessity to express myself. At 21 I pulled myself together and released an album of 10 of my best songs at the time. And even though it was praised by many, it wasn't quite "rock", and it didn't sound "edgy" and "cool." So I gave up on promoting it. I tried to add more distorted guitar and heavy drums to my music. I tried to force myself to write about things other than love. But in the end, I always found myself back in the grips of melody and feelings.

To add to my troubles, shortly before the album was finished, I suffereed a work inury that has left my hands in pain and me unable to play any instrument. I was in despair and convinced that I would never be able to play music again. But through careful exercise, things got better. Then I discovered Bachata (traditional music from Dominican Republic) and my life changed again. Bachata helped me realize that even in today's world, music doesn't necessarily have to be distorted and loud in order to find a way to the audience. I was free to create again.

Around age 23 I decided that in order to fully understand music, I must study music formally and learn the piano. I followed through by taking several music theory courses in college. Now, besides guitar, keyboard and drums, my instruments of choice include accordion, trumpet, bongos and balalaika. My new and old music is now available for instant streaming and download at here!

My Resume

Summary

Seven years of professional experience in Web and Application development. My areas of expertise are:

Object-oriented (OODP) design, development and maintenance of back-end data export, import, data archiving and business process automation client-server applications that are parts of multi-tier multi-terabyte online data retrieval systems (websites that allow users to search for, view and edit millions of documents).

Development and maintenance of the front-end function of websites: search, security, user interface, billing, etc.

I have been programming since age 12 and I have either professional experience with or exposure to most popular software development tools and concepts on the Windows platform. I have a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and I am very accustomed to working with business personnel and developing and modifying software based on customer specifications.

Skills

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS

Programming Languages: C#/VB .NET (1+ yr professional), Delphi (6+ yrs professional), Microsoft Visual C++ (since age 16, non-professional), C++/C (since age 13, non-professional), VBScript (6+ yrs professional), JavaScript (6+ yrs professional), ASP .NET (1+ yr professional), Classic ASP (6+ yrs professional), SQL (7+ yrs professional), Pascal, Clipper/FoxPro (since age 12, non-professional)

Development Environments: Visual Studio.NET 2003 / 2005 (1 yr professional), Borland Delphi 5.0 / 7.0 (6 yrs professional), Visual C++ 6.0 (since age 16, non-professional), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (6 yrs professional) / 2005 (1 yr professional)

Technologies: XML, HTML (7+ yrs professional)

Work Experience

Affiliated Computer Services, Lexington, KY 5/2001 – Present Systems Development Specialist (worked full-time while enrolled in the university part-time or full-time)

Responsibilities:

As part of a team, I have developed and maintained bug-free, secure and efficient websites that allow customers to access terabytes of stored information with a regular load of over a thousand simultaneous users. The websites were initially created with classic ASP and JavaScript, and later using ASP.NET (C#/VB .NET) and JavaScript and used Microsoft SQL Server as the backend.

Closely involved in development, maintenance and improvements of various features of a web stored image retrieval system, such as search, security, user interface, and billing.

I am very familiar with the development life-cycle of a critical business website. I am used to working with a change control management system. I have set up and worked in many testing and staging environments, developed test/rollout scripts and implemented them. I have also participated in development of a custom change control and task/ticket tracking system.

Experienced in working with massive amounts of text data in XML and in SQL server. I have designed and supported Microsoft SQL Server databases with tables that contain over a hundred million records. I have written and maintained SQL stored procedures for various essential performance-conscious functions of websites such as data search and data updates.

Designed, developed and maintained critical and reliable workflow applications that are currently used to import, maintain and archive data in massive multi-terabyte image retrieval systems using C# .NET, Borland Delphi and Microsoft SQL Server. Most of the applications I have created or worked on are object-oriented and many of them are multi-threaded. I have extensive experience in tracking terabytes of graphical images and other binary data and storing/retrieving it to/from drive arrays, CD's, DVD's and optical platters.

Responsible for several successful large-scale data conversions (data imports and exports) of millions of documents. My responsibilities included the following:

Designing, writing, testing and running software that performed the conversion

Estimating time needed to write software that will perform the conversion

Estimating time needed to perform the conversion and ensuring that the conversion was 100% successful and on time.

The input data for each conversion usually consisted of millions of documents and was comprised of terabytes of data. The output consisted of a series of ZIP files of a predetermined size that contained the XML index data files and image data files. My applications had to ensure that every single incoming document was accounted for. The applications had to be designed well as to be easily modifiable, in case an unspecified variation in the input format was encountered in the middle of a conversion, or customer requirements suddenly changed (which happened often). The applications had to be very reliable (they ran for extended periods of time without human supervision) and flexible enough to allow them to be quickly modified to perform an import of data that is different, but similar in structure. I have implemented these types of projects initially in Delphi, and later in C# .NET.

Designed and maintained a large-scale DVD data archival system that interfaces with a commercial DVD replicator solution. The application keeps track of a multitude of web image retrieval systems and archives all the incoming images to DVD discs. The image retrieval systems vary in their design and database structure and contained terabytes of images each. The application takes advantage of the multi-threaded approach to centralize the configuration and control of archiving of all various image retrieval systems and to provide superior performance compared to a pre-existing legacy single-threaded, multiple-instance solution. The application is run by production personnel and has a rather sophisticated object-oriented user interface to allow for easy configuration with regards to all the various image retrieval systems. This application runs for extended periods of time without human supervision and is 100% reliable (no image could ever be allowed to go un-archived without proper reporting, even in an event of a hardware or power failure). This project was implemented in Delphi.

Designed and maintained an “offline request” client that transferred data from DVD and optical platter jukeboxes to hard disk space for temporary availability at the requests of users that were submitted via the web or by email. This application also had a rather sophisticated and efficient UI, and had to interface with various types of media Jukeboxes. This project was implemented in Delphi.

Designed and implemented various other back-end and business process applications in Delphi and C# .NET.

I am very accustomed to working with business personnel and developing and modifying software based on customer specifications.

Education

8/2002 – 5/2008 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing degree with Departmental Honors
Minor in Music Theory and History
Cumulative GPA: 3.35

Languages

Spanish (Conversational)

Russian (Fluent - Full Knowledge)

English (Fluent – Full Knowledge)

Additional Info

I am skilled in C++ (it is my favorite programming language), but I have never used it professionally.

Recently, I have designed and programmed an online blog with a built-in music store in ASP.NET C# for my own personal website, http://www.dimitrilozovoy.com. As a hobby, I am currently developing a C++ application that performs musical theoretical analysis and OpenGL graphical visualization of musical MIDI data.

My Contact Info

My email address is

My phone number is (859) 420-2351.

Please call me or email me if you are interested in booking me. I am based in Lexington, KY USA, but I am willing to travel a few hours' distance. At this moment I am ready to provide your venue with an hour's worth of original songs (ones on this website and much more!). I create a full sound with my electric guitar, sometimes a keyboard and a very expensive and carefully-programmed drum machine. For a preview of what I do please see live videos in the "Music Videos" section. I look forward to working with you!

http://www.myspace.com/dimitrilozovoy