
Head of Development at FxPro Financial Services Ltd
Cyprus

Head of Development at FxPro Financial Services Ltd
Cyprus
- experienced Linux system administrator (Red Hat / Fedora)
- experienced server-side web developer (PHP / Perl / MySQL)
- experienced team leader (hiring and firing / training / coordination and planning)
- experienced blogger (content management / community building / moderation / CMS tuning)
- experienced Internet user (data mining / research / web publishing / automation)
Red Hat, Fedora, Linux, open source software, social media, social networks, blogging, data aggregation, RSS, XML, Perl, PHP, Python, MySQL, technical support, consulting, web development, process automation, team leading, management
(Financial Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
(FxPro Financial Services Ltd is previously known as EuroOrient Securities and Financial Services Ltd)
IT and project management, coordinating development efforts for several corporate web sites, CRM system, Intranet, and such.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Consulting regarding any technology related issues, assistance in development of key components of the company's platform, system administration assistance.
(Financial Services industry)
May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)
Improving development process and infrastructure (version control, bug tracking, documentation, testing, deploying, training), re-organization and re-write of existing projects with migration to LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), improving integration with existing company and industry systems.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )
System administration of two Linux servers - one is an office infrastructure and development server, while another one is a production server which hosts about 2,000 domains (a mix of web, ftp, email, and shell accounts).
Infrastructure setup and maintenance - ticketing system/issue tracking, Subversion server, documentation, monitoring, etc.
Design and implementation of our application platform - CMS with modules for real estate property management, products, polls, newsletters, etc. Implementated with a LAMP stack.
Senior technical position in the company - participation in hiring/firing process, staff trainings, definition of technical directions, tools, techniques, etc.
(Internet industry)
November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)
Development of Intranet tools (task management, knowledge base, email interfaces). Feasibility study and pilot project for web development as a business direction. Feasibility study and pilot project for outsourcing technology jobs.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)
PrimeTel Ltd. is a daughter company of Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.
Provided second level support to company's clients in the Network Operations Center. Was responsible for backup. Was responsible for maintaining and improving company's intranet website with a number of tools for NOC (schedule generation, knowledge base, password management, user management, etc).
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
September 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Thunderworx Ltd. is a daughter company of Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.
Was responsible for backup. Introduced LDAP into company's infrastructure. Developed, deployed, and supported an intranet website (Perl, MySQL, LDAP) with a number of tools for Network Operations Center. Participated in organization of Network Operations Center. Provided second level support to company's clients. Participated in migration of company's infrastructure from Microsoft platform to Linux/OSS platform.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2000 — September 2003 (2 years 11 months)
Participated in most of company's technological prorjects. Provided technical support for company employees. Designed and implemented backup strategy. Did a lot of advocacy and consulting for Linux and Open Source Software.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — November 2000 (6 months)
Managed a small team of web developers and system administrators. Did strategic planning and development for company growth. Provided training in Internet technologies to company employees.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 1999 — June 2000 (9 months)
Built web services company infrastructure from ground up. Provided technical support to company users. Provided analysis and project design for cutomer projects. Did a lot of web programming in Perl. Supported Sybase ASE and programmed for it.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 1999 — October 1999 (7 months)
Maintained two small LANs, provided technical support to users, managed about 5 servers (web, mail, ftp, dns, file and print). Provided training for web programmers and web designers on current Internet trends and technologies. Managed website optimization and searc engine promotion (SEO).
B.Sc. , Computer Science , 1996 — 2001
I am three courses short of completing my Bachelor's Degree: Physics II, Linear Algebra, and Artificial Intelligence.
web development, software engineering, web 2.0, social media, blogging, photography, social networks, search engine optimization, SEO, web promotion, web standards, open source software, Linux, WordPress, programming, system administration, linux, technology, driving
Red Hat Certified Linux Engineer (RHCE, Red Hat), 2001
Red Hat Linux administration (Brainbench) , 2000
Unix administrator (Brainbench), 1999
Linux administrator (Brainbench, 1999)
Windows 95 administrator (Brainbench), 1999
Internet security specialist (Brainbench), 1999
Internet security specialist (Tekmetrics), 1999
Project manager (Brainbench), 1999
HTML programmer (Brainbench), 1999
Diploma in Computer Science (Intercollege), 1999