Charis Louca
Address:
** ********* ******* ******, **** 201,
Nationality:
Cypriot
Lakatamia 2312, Nicosia, Cyprus
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Email:
*****.*****@*****.***
CAREER SUMMARY
TSYS International
Programmer Analyst Senior
2014 – Present
Responsible for developing enhancements and supporting the company’s multi-threaded/multi-process credit and debit card real-time Authorization System, that has to respond to requests within ~200 milliseconds
Providing on-site/off-site support and technical training to international clients (Europe, Middle East, Asia, Central and Latin America regions)
Configure and troubleshoot the system’s cryptographic properties (Encryption keys for credit card validations, such as PIN/PVV/CVV/Chip data validations etc.
Technical specifications documents write-up of new enhancements
Technologies used:
-Application: C/C++ on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5/6/7 (using eclipse IDE)
-Database: Oracle RDBMS 9i/10g/11g/12c
-Thick clients: using Vb.NET on Windows XP/7/Server 2008 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/2005/2010/2015 IDE)
-Continuous integration using Atlassian’s bamboo
-Version control using svn subversion
-Issue tracking using Atlassian’s jira
-External libraries integration such as:
1. gSoap for Web Services invocation from within C/C++ code
2. IBM Websphere library for communication to IBM WebSphere queue servers
-Agile methodology
TSYS International
Programmer Analyst II
2011 – 2014
Responsible for developing enhancements and supporting the company’s multi-threaded/multi-process credit and debit card real-time Authorization System, that has to respond to requests within ~200 milliseconds
Providing on-site/off-site support to international clients (Europe, Middle East, Asia)
Technical specifications documents write-up of new enhancements
Technologies used:
Application: C/C++ on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5/6/7 (using eclipse IDE)
Database: Oracle RDBMS 9i/10g/11g/12c
Thick clients: using Vb.NET on Windows XP/7/Server 2008 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/2005/2010/2015 IDE)
Version control using svn subversion
4th GL Prodata Ltd, Member of the Louis Organisation
Software Developer
2009 – 2011
Responsible for the transition to a new platform and enhancement of the Stock Inventory system, the Point of Sales system and the Vessel Consumption & Cost system of the Organization
-Working with PROGRESS language and database, web front end interface, based on HTML generated by PROGRESS software on Windows XP
SM & CX Logisoft Computer Systems Ltd
Junior Software Developer
2008 – 2009
Responsible for the transition to a new platform and enhancement of the Time & Attendance System and the implementation of the Company’s Back-up System
-Working with Visual Fox Pro and Microsoft Office 2003 on Windows XP
Ministry of Defence
Software Developer
2007 – 2008
Part-time employment for enhancing and maintaining the budget monitoring and weapons ordering maintenance system
-Working with vb.NET on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows XP
Ministry of Defence
Software Developer
2006 – 2007
Participated as part of a university project in the development of a budget monitoring and weapons ordering maintenance system
-Working with vb.NET on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows XP
ARMY DUTY
Fulfilled mandatory 25 months' service in the National Guard of Cyprus, having the rank of the Sergeant
2002 – 2004
EDUCATION
University of Cyprus
MSc Master in Computer Science GPA: 7.13 / 10
2008 – 2011
University of Cyprus
BSc in Computer Science GPA: 7.48 / 10
2004 – 2008
St Nicholas High School
High School Diploma GPA: 18.9 / 20
1999 – 2002
PERSONALITY
Communicative, perfectionist, challenge taker, problem solver, organized, responsible, loyal, team player, with positive mentality, always striving for improvement and able to work under pressure
INTERESTS
Football, tennis, jogging, video games, travelling, comics, movies, and music
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Competent computer knowledge of:
oComputer Languages: C/C++, PL/SQL, Java, C# (.NET), Visual Basic (.NET), Visual Fox Pro, PROGRESS, HTML
oComputer Packages: Oracle 9i/10g/11g/12c RDBMS, MySQL, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003/2005/2008/2010, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office 2003
oOperating Systems: Red Hat Linux Enterprise 2/4/5/6/7, Unix, Windows XP/7/Server 2008
Excellent command of Greek and English languages
References available upon request.