
Maria Koutsikou
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Timeline
Professional experience for Maria Koutsikou
- Current 9 years and 4 months, since Apr 2016
Programmer and Web Developer
Freelance Company
Ghostwriter on small coding projects using C, JAVA, JDBC, Python (Pharmacy Customer Loyalty Scheme, Basic image manipulation). Web developer/designer on small to medium projects (Homewares e-shop, Film industry websites, NGO websites).
- 4 years and 6 months, Oct 2011 - Mar 2016
Web Manager
British Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures
Designed, developed, maintained organisation website (Drupal, Wordpress, CSS, Sass, Scss, PHP) Managed special projects and updates to the organization's web presence. Directly communicated with high-level people in government roles for various projects' needs.
- 1 year, Aug 2010 - Jul 2011
E-commerce Development Manager
Biglight
Worked within the Strategy & Development Team reporting directly to CEO, managing medium to large scale e-commerce projects (budget £4 million / Team size: 15-20). Responsible for strategic planning (client acquisition and relationship maintenance). Provided e-commerce production support: e-commerce consulting (producing wireframes, functional specification documents, manuals) project resource management
- 1 year and 5 months, Oct 2008 - Feb 2010
Project Manager
Ampheon Ltd
Managed web development projects from start to completion (Team size: 15 - 20) Responsible for liaising with clients to achieve end goal Responsible for internal and external resource control Responsible for producing wireframes, functional specification documents and manuals Responsible for overseeing QA testing
- 8 months, Mar 2008 - Oct 2008
Manager of Operations & Support
Upstream Systems
Managed first and second tier support teams in the telecommunications sector (Team size: 10) Responsible for recruiting, training, coaching and disciplining team members. Designed and rolled-out processes for optimum operation Oversaw system monitoring and responsible for issue escalation (Nagios) Responsible for creating incident reports and raising and monitoring JIRA tickets
- 1 year and 6 months, Oct 2006 - Mar 2008
EMEA Support Technical Team Lead
mBlox
Responsible for first and second tier support (team size: 10) Troubleshooting client networking connections and other telecommunication technical issues. Monitoring the production network, providing fault management and producing root cause analysis documents (Nagios, Salesforce) Developed and run a project for SIM card resource management. Ran technical training seminars for team members.
- 4 years and 9 months, Oct 2000 - Jun 2005
Lecturer & Seminar Leader
University of East Anglia
Designed projects and taught postgraduate and undergraduate computer science courses including: Systems Analysis (SSADM, JSD,OOA) Database Systems, Database Manipulation, Data Mining, Fundamentals of Information Systems, Research Methods, Information Technology Tools, C, C++, JAVA, SQL, JDBC, and HTML.
Educational background for Maria Koutsikou
- 4 years and 9 months, Oct 2000 - Jun 2005
Research on Computational Techniques for Chromosomal Phylogenetic Estimation
University of East Anglia
Designed and developed a computational model of genome evolution of a variety of species using mathematical algorithms, data structures and heuristic methods.
- 9 months, Oct 1999 - Jun 2000
Computer Science
University of East Anglia
Dissertation: Discovering Weather Patterns for Europe Using Data Mining Techniques
- 2 years and 9 months, Oct 1996 - Jun 1999
English Literature
University of Wales, Lampeter
Studied British & American Literature, Art History, British & Australian Film, Anglo Saxon translations and Creative Writing.
Languages
English
First language
Greek
Fluent
German
Basic
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