Experience

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  International life

  Mar 1999 - Jan 2000

  It support engineer

  International Life is a life insurance company, member of the International Life Group of insurance companies. I was a member of the company's IT support team. I was acting as the intermediate between my employer and an external contractor who implemented a Point-of-Sale application in Java and DB2. As a Java Developer, I was delivering the requirement specifications to the contractor, testing the application and implementing minor fixes or features. As a Junior DBA I was also performing maintenance tasks at the database. Show less

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  Decision systems integration

  Nov 2000 - Sept 2002

  Junior it engineer

  I was initially hired for the position of Junior IT Engineer and one year later, I was promoted to Software Engineer at Decision Systems Integration (DSI). For 2 years, I was a member of the development team for front-office trading applications, implemented mainly with XML, Java and Oracle technologies. I also used these technologies to integrate CRM systems, built on PeopleSoft’s platform, with our clients’ legacy and back-end systems.

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  Info-quest

  Nov 2003 - Aug 2005

  Software engineer

  During my time in DSI I was involved in the design and development of various proprietary products, internal projects and a number of projects for clients in the retail banking and the financial sector. I also gave frequent presentations on new technologies, as part of my team’s internal training program. By the time I left the company to join the army, I was leading a team of 5 developers on a CRM project.

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  Hellenic army

  Aug 2005 - Aug 2006

  Programmer/analyst

  During my military service in Greece, I joined the IT Corps that was responsible for the development and support of all the in-house military systems. For the last 6 months of my service, I was working as an Oracle developer and DBA in a department within the Ministry of Defense.

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  Nds

  Oct 2006 - Feb 2007

  Application developer

  This 4-month contract was for NDS, a company that provides technology solutions to broadcasters and network TV operators. I was involved in a Document Management project that was deployed across two countries (UK and Israel), extending the product and developing custom applications in Java to integrate it with other systems.

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  Sapient

  Apr 2007 - Jun 2007

  C#/.net developer

  I was briefly employed by Sapient, a global IT consulting agency, to work on a new and entirely re-designed website for the British Department of Health. This very high-profile website [http://www.nhs.uk] was launched successfully in June 2007. As a member of a large development team, I was working as a .NET/C# and SharePoint Developer.

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  Morgan stanley

  Sept 2007 - Mar 2016

  In 2013 I moved to Morgan Stanley’s Regulatory Reporting group in London as the Technical Delivery Manager for a Basel III capital adequacy project and the IT System Owner of the resulting product. I run the development team and was responsible for interfacing with the business, translating requirements into tasks, managing the delivery and communicating risks and status to all the stakeholders. The project involved complex hedging algorithms to calculate the bank's residual exposure to other financial institutions using an in-memory database. Throughout 2014-2015 I was based in Morgan Stanley's Shanghai office as the Development Manager of a regulatory reporting application, focusing on the maintenance and renovation of its calculation engine and turning the application into a global platform. I also lead the strategic migration of our data platform in order to increase the capacity and performance of our plant and leverage next generation features, such as bi-temporality and columnar in-memory tables. Show less As a VP in the Technology and Data Division at Morgan Stanley I had a double role as a Production Manager and a System Owner in Cash Management Technology. I was responsible for risk, support and change management across the plant, as well as the owner of two IT systems in the Funding and Forecasting space. I was the Technical Delivery Manager for all software projects on these two systems, involving a geographically distributed team of 7-10 software engineers and the off-shore operations support team. Show less

  • Technical Manager, Regulatory Reporting

    May 2013 - Mar 2016

  • Technical Manager, Cash Management

    Jan 2011 - Apr 2013

  • Software Engineer, Treasury

    Sept 2007 - Dec 2010
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  Epam systems

  Mar 2016 - now

  In my role as a Delivery Manager in EPAM I was responsible for the successful end-to-end solution delivery to my customers. I set up the process governance and the delivery model, and saw that they are followed and improved throughout the project. I managed the customers' expectations and relationships with EPAM, address their issues, identified and managed their risks. I helped staff the delivery teams, optimise resource utilisation and ensured that the projects complete on time, on scope and on budget. As a Delivery Manager at EPAM, I worked with clients in the telecommunications and entertainment industries, on projects that span a variety of technology platforms, including eCommerce (AEM, hybris), Cloud (AWS, Terraform, Docker), Business Intelligence (Talend, MicroStrategy, Domo) and enterprise application development (Java, .NET, JavaScript). I set up projects using a variety of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), employing different operating models (managed delivery, managed capacity, full augmentation, code contribution). Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Delivery Manager

    Mar 2016 - Dec 2019