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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