Nikos Liakis Email & Phone Number

Athens, Greece

Involved in the following projects:> 2024 – current Deputy Delivery Manager for CHPQA Gov.Uk (London)In charge of a 20 persons team for the development of the CHPQA DESNZ gov.uk application, following the Uk GDS (Design thinking) standards. > 2021 – 2023 ITSM, Project Manager for eu-LISA TEF (Strasbourg)With a team of 100 persons, responsible for the high-level design and architecture of eu-LISA TEF systems, assisting the Agency in process definition, planning, quality assurance and integration support, training and support for the transition to the operations of these systems. > 2019 – 2021 Team Leader, Business Analyst for the Uk-ETS Gov.Uk (London)In charge of the “UK Emissions Trading Registry” DESNZ application, with a 10 persons team, that manages the UK emissions and keeps track of the UK allowances, following the Uk GDS (Design thinking) standards.My Roles & Responsibilities• Communication, coordination, organisation of project, technical and analysis meetings. Active participation in the Analysis and the finalisation of the requirements, the production of functional and technical specifications, the definition of the systems architecture, the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using RUP tools. Risk and Configuration management• Responsible for the overall control, monitor, consolidation and delivery of the eu-LISA Monthly Service Reports• Daily management of the team, budget monitoring, subcontractor management, KPI/SLA monitoring• Responsible for the review and verification of the eu-LISA KPI/SLA calculations• Assist and monitor program managers and coordinators of each eu-LISA system, on activities related to planning, release plans, roadmaps, service delivery and quality aspects• Review and quality control of contractual documents and deliverables ensuring that they are accurate, complete and compliant with the policies and procedures

Luxembourg

Involved in the following project:

At Digit C Luxembourg

In charge of infrastructure and development projects for EC DIGIT.C3 under the OASIS-II framework contract that manage the Commission's Data-Centre of 10.000+ servers. My Roles & Responsibilities• Communication, coordination, organisation of technical meetings with the different EC operational teams• Active participation in the Analysis and the finalisation of the requirements• Holding the daily Scrum meetings with the teams. Daily management of the architecture and development teams• Planning and management of infrastructural cross projects (Linux, Windows, VMWare, Backup & Storage, CRS)Used: HP SMT suite, Ms-Project server, Ms-Office, Ms-Visio, Ms-SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum, PM2

Athens, Greece

Offered consulting services. Multiple missions including:- analysis on the integration the recent EMIR (European Market Infrastructure) regulation and submit the necessary files to REGIS-TR, for an international EU fund (J2EE project).- ANDROID, PHP, MySQL, Joomla, Java, J2EE, JSP developments.and:

Brussels Area, Belgium

Business Analysis and Application Design for the new internet and mobile (iOS, Android and Windows) banking platform for the BNP Paribas Fortis brands, for business and private clients. This Easy-Web-Banking platform offers functionalities for consulting and managing (current, saving, investing) accounts, (credit, debit, prepaid) cards, (SEPA, Swift) payments, loans and insurances.My Roles & Responsibilities• Communication, coordination, organisation of analysis and technical meetings, with the marketing teams and the other operational teams of BNP-Fortis, for the creation of feasibility studies and the finalisation of requirements, on the various functionalities to be added in the new Easy-Web-Banking platform• Production of functional and technical specifications, the definition of the systems architecture, the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using IBM Rational Software Architect v7.5 and ARIS Express v2.4• Active participation in the daily Scrum meetings with the development teamUsed: IBM Rational Software Architect v7.5, ARIS Express v2.4, HP SMT suite, Ms Office, Ms Visio, JIRA, Scrum.

Athens, Greece

Key person of the team that prepared and successfully obtained the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 certification for Intrasoft International.Responsible on the following Intrasoft International's projects:- ICISNet ERP (2012 - 2013)- OHIM (2010 - 2012), - SYMMETRY ERP (DG EAC, 2005 - 2010),- e-FAUDIT (DG Agriculture, 2001 - 2005), - FISH (DG Mare, 2001 - 2005),A description of these projects follows:

Athens, Greece

ICISnet is a modern customs system for the Greek Customs implementing EU and national regulations. The Financing module (FIN) is a core module of the ICISNet system, monitoring all financial transactions and allowing communication of ICISNet with banks (via the DIAS platform) and other Greek national systems; was developed following a RUP like methodology.My Roles & Responsibilities- coordination, organisation of technical meetings and reporting to the customer, for the analysis and the evaluation of the FIN module. Maintaining the Configuration Management Plan and procedures and responsible of the Release Management process- the finalisation of the requirements, the production of functional and technical specifications (including Activity Diagrams and Use-Cases), the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using RUP tools and PowerDesigner- the analysis, development and implementation of correcting issues.- the implementation of a release management procedure, the creation of the delivery artifacts (code / db scripts / release notes) and for the delivery and the installation of the releases and patches to the client- Elaboration of the internal II budget, resource planning, monitoring and control, using SAP- Drafting the migration plan, creating the migration scripts. Participating in the preparation of the development and testing environment for hosting the application- Analyse and creating scripts and a customised automatic procedure for communicating with the DIAS platform and integrating the daily banking transactionsUsed: Oracle RDBMS 10g , IAS 10g, Oracle Forms & Report server, Sybase PowerDesigner 15.0, RUP, HTML, XML, J2EE, Quest TOAD 7.6, Ms Project, Jira, SVN

Alicante, Spain

The objective of the project was to provide services of software maintenance for the Office For Harmonisation Of The Internal Market (OHIM), based in Alicante, Spain. The contract concerned a large number of applications supporting the proper functioning of OHIM and involved more than 120 software engineers, in three geographical locations (Alicante, Athens and Bucharest).My Roles & Responsibilities- Preparation of the offers for the Specific Agreements and the Service Level Agreements- Elaboration of the internal II budget, resource planning, monitoring and control, using SAP- Daily management of development and maintenance activities of the 50 person Athens team, following the Scrum methodology. Coordination of the development and test teams towards the release schedules. Responsible for the implementation of a release management procedure- Leading the Analysis of the related applications. the finalisation of the requirements, the production of functional and technical specifications, the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using RUP tools and PowerDesigner- Responsible of the team maintaining the development and testing environments in II premises, each one hosting more than 80 application servers, more than 30 databases and toolsUsed: Informix 10.0.FC10, Oracle 10g, Sybase PowerDesigner 15.0, Hudson, Nagios, Wiki, Scrum, J2EE, JSP, Quest TOAD 7.6, JUnit, JMeter, FileNET P8 and FileNET IMS, MS Project , JIRA, Remedy, Apache Ant, SVN, Nexus Maven repository

Dg Eac, Brussels, Belgium

The SYMMETRY system facilitates the de-centralised management of EU-funded educational programmes (i.e. Socrates, Leonardo, Media, etc) that DG EAC manages through a number of National Agencies. The Financing module (FIN), is the core module of the system, monitoring all financial transactions and allowing communication with the European Commission’s main financial system (ABAC). My Roles & Responsibilities- Acted as the Team Leader of the FIN module. Elaboration of the internal II budget, resource planning, monitoring and control- Communication, coordination, organisation of technical meetings and reporting to the customer, at the DG-EAC premises in Brussels. Maintaining the Configuration Management Plan and procedures and responsible of the Release Management process- Active participation in the finalisation of the requirements, the production of functional and technical specifications (including Activity Diagrams and Use-Cases), the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using RUP tools and Platinum ERWin- Daily management of a 5 person development team. Personally involved in the development of the most demanding components. Responsible for the implementation of a release management procedure, the coordination of the development and test teams towards the release schedules and the creation of the delivery artifacts (code / db scripts / release notes)Used: Oracle RDBMS 10g/9i , IAS, Report server, Oracle Workflow, LDAP, Platinum ER Win, UML, J2EE, JSP, Java Beans, J-Builder, Eclipse, Apache Maven, HTML, XML, XML SPY, Quest TOAD, MS Project , JIRA

Dg Agriculture & Dg Mare, Brussels, Belgium

The mission of the e-FAUDIT system is to cover the needs and the obligations relating to the declaration of intervention expenditure on public storage by the EU Member States. The FISH project (DG-MARE) was an ensemble of internet client-server applications using Oracle databases, ColdFusion interactive web pages, J2EE technologies and the Business Objects reporting tool. My Roles & Responsibilities• Active participation in the finalisation of the requirements, the production of functional and technical specifications, the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using RUP tools and Platinum ER Win• Defining the systems architecture and participating in the preparation of the development and testing environments• Daily management of a 12 person team, in three geographical locations (Brussels, Luxemburg and Athens). Drafting the migration plan, creating the migration scripts, defining the system architecture and participating in the preparation of the development and testing environment for hosting of these applications• Personally involved in the development. Responsible for the implementation of a release management procedure, for the coordination of the development and test teams towards the release schedules, for the creation of the delivery artifacts (code / db scripts / release notes) and for the delivery and the installation of the releases and patches to the client• Analyse, creating and maintaining scripts and procedures to automate daily repetitive tasks for extracting, transforming, migrating and integrating data from various sources• Preparation of the offers for the Specific Agreements. Subcontractor contract management, follow-up monitoring and controlUsed: Oracle RDBMS 10g/9i, Report server, LDAP, ColdFusion MX Application Server, ColdFusion 6, J2EE, JSP, HTML, Platinum ER Win, RUP methodology, Quest TOAD, Business Objects, MS Project , JIRA, CVS

Athens, Greece

- responsible for the OTENET project concerning an internet-usage client-server billing management application, developed on a Microsoft environment, which was implemented in the framework of the modernisation of the Greek Telecommunications (OTE). - responsible for the Port of Piraeus (OLP) project. The delivered application consisted of a Billing-MIS system developed by Intrasoft on an Oracle platform and the “Container Terminal and Yard Operations” solution by NAVIS (at Oakland, California, US). Responsible on receiving, adapting, and integrating the NAVIS solution with the Intrasoft’s core system, to the port of Piraeus.My Roles & Responsibilities- Communication, coordination, organisation of technical meetings and reporting to the customer and with NAVIS, at Oakland, California, US- Finalisation of the requirements, the production of functional and technical specifications, the production of the conceptual, logical and physical data models, using PowerDesigner- Personally involved in the development of the more “critical and difficult parts”. In charge of creating the development and testing environments, of installing, configure and managing the Ms-SQL, Oracle servers, of the implementation of a release management procedure, of the creation of the delivery artifacts (code / db scripts / release notes)- Analyse, creating and maintaining scripts and procedures to automate daily repetitive tasks for extracting, transforming, migrating and integrating data from various sources. Management and maintenance of the OTENET Data-CentreUsed: Windows NT, Microsoft ASP, Ms-SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase PowerDesigner, MS Office Tools, MS Project, Ms Visual Studio (Visual Basic), HTML, SSL, CGI and DLL scripts, TOAD, Crystal Reports, Borland’s Paradox, Container Terminal and Yard Operations solution by NAVIS

F-75019 Paris, France

Internal software development for FTD, a main company in Paris having 250 minitel sites. The aim of the project was to implement internet services in the company (from scratch) and to move some minitel sites in the internet world. All sites were interactive (job publications, advertisements, announcements, internet chat services, etc) monitored for billing and statistics purposes. Microsoft platform was used.My Roles & Responsibilities- Communication, coordination, and organisation of technical meetings aiming at defining the company’s strategy- Communication with clients and organisation of technical meetings and implementation of interactive client internet sites. Analysis, definition of requirements and the production of functional and technical specifications- Management of the development team (5 persons).- Actively involved with the development of applications using Ms-Visual Studio (Asp, VB, VJ, CGI) and Ms-SQL Server procedures. In charge of creating the development and testing environments, of the implementation of a release management procedure, of the creation of the delivery artifacts (code / db scripts / release notes)- Negotiation with the telecom companies in order to lease bandwidth and servers at USA- Installation and administration of the company’s and the clients’ internet sites (www), mail server, proxy server, DNS. Administration of the local FTD.FR network (10 WinNT servers, 5 NOVELL servers, 1 Unix server, 100 PC, Cisco routers, 10 leased lines). Management and maintenance of the FTD Data-Centre- Creating Unix scripts and customised custom procedures for the automatic update of the clients’ internet sites and databases from ASCII export filesUsed: Windows NT, Microsoft ASP, Ms-SQL Server, Sybase PowerDesigner, Post.Office, Ms Visual Studio (Visual Basic, Visual Java, ASP), HTML, SSL, CGI and DLL scripts, MS Office Tools, MS Project

F-75019 Paris, France

Business Soft Services was a Software House in Paris. There were multiple assignments, as a Project Leader or Senior Analyst, most of them in the clients’ premises. There were assignments for the French public sector (Conseil d'Etat, Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Ville de Paris) and the private sector, included: - Management of Sales Teams and Marketing applications (Oracle, Borland’s Paradox & Delphi). - Reporting and Statistics applications (Oracle & Sybase, Borland’s Paradox, AS/400 - SAP). - Application to update the Sales Sybase Database with ASCII files in C. - Management and Statistical client-server application, in Borland’s Delphi.Roles & Responsibilities- Management of 3-5 person teams- Development of proposals for implementations- Production of specifications and designs- Development of client-server applications related to the clients’ billing databases- Beta-testing using various tools (Sybase, Paradox, Ms Access, Delphi)Used: Oracle, Ms-SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, Interbase, Paradox, Ms Access, Delphi, C++ Builder, Powerbuilder, Business Object reports, ER Win, WindowsNT, Novell, Unix

Athens, Greece

SYSTEMS Ltd was a company in Athens, Greece, specialised in the development of billing systems covering logistics, management of salesman and clients, warehouses management, treasury management, invoicing and cost estimate applications. The applications, under SCO Unix and Xenix systems, used Oracle or Informix databases, Informix 4GL screens and reports and COBOL programs. For Analysis purposes, the AMC-Designer tool was used.My Roles & Responsibilities- Analysis and development of client-server applications according to the clients’ requirements- Client support- Installation of Unix/Xenix systems, Network Administrator, MaintenanceUsed: SCO-UNIX, TCP/IP & NFS, Micro Focus COBOL, Oracle, Informix

Msc From The Department Of Physics

Deug On Sciences Level; Transferred To University Of Athens.

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