Maria Koutsikou

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Freiberuflich, Programmer and Web Developer, Freelance Company
Athens, Greece

Skills

C
Java
PHP
SQL
MySQL
HTML5
SCSS
Sass
Apache
Wordpress
Eclipse Java IDE
ANDROID STUDIO
PhpMyAdmin
UNIX
Axure
IPLOTZ
Salesforce
Jira
Nagios
Python
CSS

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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