Freelance web developer: A bit more about me

My name is Nikita Shakhrai and I'm freelance web programmer, currently the developer of a few of big ongoing client's web projects and the lead programmer of the CF-Works these days.

I am Russian and live in Russia, in suburb of the big Saint-Petersburg city.

Originally I got Master's Degree in economics but never worked as economist in fact. During the first year of my career I took programming courses on object-oriented programming (C++ and Java) for one year and once completed, joined the PC service department of the same organization.

I started my programmer's work in 1998 as LAN / system administrator and FoxPro programmer in Regional Department of State Tax Inspection near my home when arrived back from military service for a fixed period. Then I was working as database / GUI programmer in a few organizations and software firms with FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, Oracle, PowerBuilder, Oracle Pro* C, Informix, finally ColdFusion untill got remote full-time ColdFusion job in Enhanced Technologies Inc. in March 2002 by chance and discovered how small our world in fact is.