Software Office
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
Nikitas Skembris
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Iasonos Maratou 2, 15773 Athens (Greece)
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Sex Male Date of birth 10 January 1984 Nationality Greek
WORK EXPERIENCE
Systems Administrator, IT Support
May 2013–Present
I am currently doing system administration and web performance optimisation work for a few regular
clients, remotely.
Consultancy & Dev Ops
December 2012–February 2013
EveryPay, Athens (Greece)
I was hired short-term to provide guidance on creating the development and production infrastructure,
assessing and balancing the requirements for security, performance, reliability, ease of use and saving
on costs. I also:
Prototyped a production setup that offered hardware fail-over and network redundancy capabilities
Organized the development and testing systems, allowing secure, controlled access to the internal
network and a standardized development environment
Developed a tool, based on Mercurial and Phing, that automates the deployment process
Staff member in the Office of Research & Informatics
May 2012–November 2012
National Guard, Kos (Greece)
During my mandatory military conscription service, I served in the Office of Research & Informatics of
the 80th National Guard Higher Command, where I was tasked to suggest and implement
technologies that would improve the security, reliability and performance of the local network
infrastructure. My work also involved:
Restricting the operations that can be performed from each user account or workstation
Adding strong, transparent encryption to certain storage devices in which there was not
Improving the Access Policy rules and Procedures
Systems Administrator and IT Support
2010–March 2012
Prince Oliver, Athens (Greece)
I worked in Prince Oliver as a member of a small team (2-3 people), getting involved in a wide range
of tasks, including:
Network Maintenance & Optimization
Systems Administration (in Windows, Linux and FreeBSD systems)
Assembling computers and diagnosing Hardware problems
Developing various web-based applications
Customizing the ERP software to the company's needs
Building SQL queries to generate statistic reports from the data of the ERP
Automating various routine operations
Providing support to non-technical users for day-to-day operations
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Curriculum Vitae Nikitas Skembris
Freelance IT Professional
2005–2009
I worked as a freelancer. Most of my work involved:
Setting, customizing and supporting Workstation and Server hardware and software
Designing and implementing small-to-medium scale IP networks
Optimizing the performance of Web Applications
Auditing the security of Networks and Systems
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BSc in Political Science and History EQF level 6
Panteion University, Athens
www.panteion.gr
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Greek
Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
C2 C2 C2 C1 C2
English
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, CEFR C2
Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Communication skills During my time in Prince Oliver and the Army, I had to provide technical support over the phone, email
or directly on a daily basis for tasks ranging from general OS usage to the use of the ERP or the use
of Office Applications, so I am quite accustomed to guiding and explaining things to non-technical
users.
Computer skills Hardware: Assembling computers, identifying and replacing faulty parts
Common Office software: Word/Excel/Access/Powerpoint
Systems Administration: GNU/Linux (Slackware, Gentoo, RedHat/CentOS, ArchLinux, Debian),
FreeBSD and Windows Operating Systems
Designing and Implementing secure IP Networks based on Ethernet and WiFi
Installing and customizing numerous Network Service software, including: Postfix, Dovecot,
Apache, Nginx, Varnish, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BIND, PowerDNS, NFS, Samba, OpenSSH, NTPd,
Squid, Rsyslog
Relational Databases: SQL
Firewalls and Traffic Control: Iptables, Iproute2, PF
Virtualization: Vmware ESXI, Microsoft HyperV, Linux KVM, Linux Vserver, OpenVZ, FreeBSD
Jails
Various high-level programming tools/languages, most notably: Python, Ruby, PHP and BASH
(Note: I don't consider myself a Software Developer, but I am able to develop small applications
that automate routine tasks or import/export/analyse/present data in helpful ways)
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