Evgenios Skitsanos

Current

• CTO at Techways SA
• CEO at Skitsanos

Past

• CEO, Software and Webware applications developer at S.C. Web Atarim S.R.L.
• ActionScript Developer at Seesmic, Inc.
• Lead Developer at VocalNet Communication

• Senior Project Manager, Developer at arachnoWare Inc., United States
• Software and Webware applications developer at ITS Efficiency., Romania
• XBRL Developer at Business Assurance Professionals, Romania
• Senior Developer at Bingo Entertainment, Ltd., Cyprus
• Webware Developer at Nivo IMT, Romania
• Project Manager, Embedded Software Developer at Black Box Solutions, Ltd., Cyprus
• Software Developer at Up.co.il, Israel

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Education

• Canterbury University
• American Management and Business Administration Institute

Connections

60 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Summary

IT dedicated experiece since 1992, since 1996 in web development and web project management. From 1999 working for USA, Israeli, Cyprus, Norway and UK companies remotely and trough relocating to their offices.

IT activity mostly in applied programming with ASP/VB/VB.NET/Rapid-Q and other Basic-like syntax languages, include own compiler BLOC, XML/XSLT/XQuery, SQL, ODBC, ADO, MySQL, XMLDSO. I’m an expert in XML-driven web development with using "WDK for ASP/ASP.NET” (webware development kit for extremely fast webware deployment). Great with Adobe Flex/ActionScript and other RIA Frameworks including AJAX-ones, like Adobe Spry, YUI, Backbase and others.

I have good experience in work with Microsoft .NET Frameworks v.1.1 and 2.0 both, implemented first MembershipProvider service for .NET v.1.1 that announced by Microsoft to be included only with .NET 2.0.

Have completed few projects for serial communications and TCP/IP for Win32, implemented ActiveX/COM components for developers of VBA based applications within Microsoft Office suite.

I’m also implemented own electronic data exchange protocol based on XML for few American corporations for use in financial data transmission and synchronization.

Done many Windows Service applications, include own implementations of web server engine with scripting support, IRC server, SMTP/POP3 server, XML Data storage server.

For past 2 years completed over 200 software and webware projects with programming and design (GUI design, web design, usability and accessibility issues).

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Specialties:

Application architecture, UI Prototyping and Simulation, business development, HR management, leadership.

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Experience

• CTO

  Techways SA

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

• CEO

  Skitsanos

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1996 — Present (12 years 6 months)

• CEO, Software and Webware applications developer

  S.C. Web Atarim S.R.L.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2004 — February 2008 (4 years)

  * GIS and Object Tracking. Developing “Moving Targets Information Services System” for tracking position of all kinds of objects like vehicles, containers, persons, pets. Backbase AJAX and Microsoft VirtualEarth driven GUI for redering maps and reporting.
  * Developing and maintaining search engine solution (Crawler, Indexer, Search Engine client web application) Implemented with .Net 2.0, SQL Server 2005, AJAX, RSS.
  * Human Resources Management.
  * Project Management.
  * Customers support.
  * Web site design and development.
  * Software and Webware applications development and implementation.

• ActionScript Developer

  Seesmic, Inc.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2007 — February 2008 (4 months)

  ActionScript programming for Seesmic stand alone client and web based application.

• Lead Developer

  VocalNet Communication

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

• Senior Project Manager, Developer

  arachnoWare Inc., United States

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 7 months)

  * Developing web based multi-platform desktop workspace “Skitsanos Grafeio” based on Backbase AJAX framework and Microsoft .NET platform.
  * PMWare (http://www.pmware.info/) development, graphic user interface design, project management.
  * WDK6 Development, - Webware Development Kit for .NET and J2EE that runs on IIS/ASP.NET and Apace/Tomcat and other JSP environments.
  * Developed document crawling and indexing client/server solution with file system monitor as system-tray application.
  * XML/XSLT applications development under VB/VB.NET, RealBasic, BLOC.
  * XML DB Servers management (Berkeley DB XML, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Oracle XDB).
  * Business Development.
  * Middle level J2EE related application development

• Software and Webware applications developer

  ITS Efficiency., Romania

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

  October 2005 — May 2006 (8 months)

  * Project Management.
  * IT accounting application development and implementation
  * Document indexing and crawling client/server application development (.Net 2.0/SQL 2005)
  * Web site design and development.
  * Other Software and Webware applications development and implementation.

• XBRL Developer

  Business Assurance Professionals, Romania

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)

  May 2005 — September 2005 (5 months)

  * Sarbanes-Oxley Act Reporting Framework development,
  * Product Suite Architecture development
  * IFRS and US GAAP electronic form filling engine rogramming;
  * XBRL Manager, include web based GUI for XBRL generation.
  * XBRL repositories with multiple taxonomies
  * XBRL API development for .NET and J2EE platforms
  * J2EE Object model development with MainSoft .NET/J2EE
  * DB Modeling support on Oracle RDBMS/XDB, Berkeley DB XML (Oracle XDB 9i and 10g)
  * Code/Unit Testing.
  * Error correction, maintenance
  * Software Packaging and Deployment

• Senior Developer

  Bingo Entertainment, Ltd., Cyprus

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

  February 2003 — April 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  * Software and Webware applications development,
  * Windows Server administration,
  * Web site design, SEO and maintenance high-traffic web sites.

• Webware Developer

  Nivo IMT, Romania

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  May 2004 — January 2005 (9 months)

  * Investor Relationship Management (IRM) Webware development and implementation.
  * Support and maintenance for IRM.
  * Routine programming tasks for Nivo Help Desk.
  * Consulting in different technical, online sales and product marketing aspects.

• Project Manager, Embedded Software Developer

  Black Box Solutions, Ltd., Cyprus

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Automotive industry)

  February 2002 — February 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  * Developing high-level Webware and software products for handling serial communications and TCP/IP data transactions.
  * Made server solution, which can be used as a web hosting platform with ASP, Perl, PHP and BSP (100% VBA compatible scripting engine).
  * Custom web server development with scripting language support.
  * Vehicle Server development (http://www.rovacomlite.com/navigate.php?to=about4).
  * Vehicle Explorer Software (http://www.rovacomlite.com/navigate.php?to=about2).
  * Made XML/Database driven content management system.
  * Project management.

• Software Developer

  Up.co.il, Israel

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2001 — February 2002 (1 year)

  * Development & implementation of content management engine and hosting controller for Windows based servers.
  * Payment processing gateway development.

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Education

• Canterbury University

  1999 — 2003

• American Management and Business Administration Institute

  MBA, eCommerce, 2002 — 2002

Additional Information

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Interests:

Chinese Ink Painting, Music Composing, Mountain Bike riding

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Groups:

•    Java business technologists
•    WSG
•    Adobe Flex Developers
•    XML and Related Technologies Network
•    XBRL
•    Rich Internet Applications
•    Fans of Digsby

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Honors:

"Berkeley DB XML Innovations 2003" Contest Award

Evgenios Skitsanos’s Contact Settings

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