The document provides a summary of Mikhail Tchernychev's career and qualifications. It outlines over 30 years of experience in software engineering, ranging from mainframe computers to modern platforms like Windows, Linux, Android, and embedded devices. It details his professional experience developing software for geophysical data acquisition and processing. It also lists his open source contributions and publications in the field of geophysics.

1. MIKHAIL TCHERNYCHEV
San Jose, CA, 95139 • (408) 463-8392 •mikhail_tchernychev@yahoo.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE
I am software Engineer with 30+ year experience ranging from main computer frames to modern Windows / Linux PCs, Android
and embedded devices. I developed complete complex multi-threaded user applications from top to bottom, including algorithms,
data handling and processing,GUI, presentation and documentation. Excellent communication skills and ability to work under
pressure in remote arears in closed teams. Open Source Community contributions in C/C++ and Python.
CORE COMPETENCIES
 Linear Algebra, Calculus, Computational
Methods and Physics.
 C/C++, Fortran, Python, Java, Schema
 Linux / Windows / Android / embedded
development tools and GUI toolkits.
 Linux and Windows installation and
administration.
 Embedded: Texas Instruments Tiva C series
with CSS and RTOS.
 Visual Studio C++ with MFC
 Multi-thread programing (Windows and
POSIX)
 GPS and Geographical Information Systems
(GIS) data processing and mapping.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Geometrics Inc, San Jose, CA
Senior Software Engineer, Apr 1998 – present
 Developed and maintained company magnetometer data acquisition and processing software, including algorithm
development, coding, debugging,manual writing and releasing.
 Created data processing techniques to allow cost reduction in hardware to match and outperform competitor’s more complex
and expensive systems.
 Created new data processing methods and software to process data recorded with company instruments over marine HVDC
cables and UXO (Unexploded Ordinance) objects,successfully competing with third party expensive commercial
applications.
 Participated in numerous field projects, including these with UC Davis, NASA and USGS.
 Published numerous papers and presented at geophysicalconferences.
Hamburg University, Institute of Geophysics, Hamburg, Germany
Software Engineer, Sept 1994 – March 1998
 Created unique Linux software to record and process data recorded during harbor UXO survey with objective to locate WWII
UXO.
 Created in-house mission critical Marine Seismic Software to control air guns.
 Wrote software for geological Gravity and Magnetic data interpretation, with features not available in commercial packages.
 Presented at the geophysicalconferences.
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Leading programmer, 1989-1995
 Numerical modeling of the processes in the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
 Radio waves propagation
 Radio tomography of ionosphere
OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
 MagPick: Magnetometer data processing software. http://sourceforge.net/projects/magpick/
 Data inversion library via non-linear optimization https://github.com/mikhailtchernychev/maginvlib
 Latitude / Longitude grid lines plugin for QGIS (qgis.org), in Python.https://github.com/mikhailtchernychev/latlongrid

2. EDUCATION
Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Physics, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Master in Geophysics, January 1986
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
 Linux / Unix / Cygwin shell scripting
 Valgrind debugger
 Code Blocks IDE (C::B) Linux / Windows
 wxWidgets GUI toolkit (Windows / Linux)
 LUA scripting embedding
 Basic Qt, Qt Creator, Qt Designer and Qt bindings for Python
 Inno Setup installer for Windows, with Pascal scripting.
 Perl Regular Expressions (PCRE) library.
 BSD TCP/IP UDP sockets,CURL and Mozilla network libraries.
AWARDS
NASA Group Achievement Award to Surprise Valley UAV Team, for outstanding achievement in fields of geology, aviation, and
remote sensing,by using unmanned aircraft for magnetometer surveys of crustal faults and fractures. Washington DC,
07/18/2013.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 M. Tchernychev,D.D. Snyder. Open source magnetic inversion programming framework and its practical applications. Jr. of
Appl. Geop. 61 (2007) p. 184–193
 Tchernychev,M., Johnston,J., Johnson,R. 2009. Transverse Total Magnetic Field Gradiometer Marine Survey in Hawaii:
The Quasi-Analytic Signal Approach and Multi-Channel Total Field dipole modeling. SAGEEP proceedings, Fort Worth, TX
 Tchernychev,M., Johnston,R., Kulpa, J., 2013. Using A Transverse Marine Gradiometer (TVG) as submarine pipeline
location tool. Oceans'13 MTS/IEEE San-Diego Conference
 Tchernychev,M., Johnston,J., Johnson,R. 2009. Multiple Magnetometer Sensor Arrays and their Applications in Marine
Environmental Surveys.Ocean News & Technology, May 2014