Christos Savvides

Curriculum vitae
March 2015

PERSONAL DETAILS

ADDRESS Rue Du Grand Duc 2, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium

TEL +32 048 7126518
EMAIL chrisavv@gmail.com
NATIONALITY Cypriot
DATE OF BIRTH th
11 October 1982
MARITAL STATUS Single

PROFILE

Engineer/IT consultant with client-based working experience in major

telecommunication companies (Vodafone, OTE, Wind and NetOne) and
currently European Institutions.
Experienced with J2EE, SOA architecture, OSB, BPEL, Weblogic and RHEL
servers (installation and administrator).
Team player, optimistic, communicative and proactive person.

HIGHER EDUCATION

2008-2010 National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Electrical and Computer

Engineering Dept., M.S. Techno-Economic Systems (MBA)
Overall Grade: 8.24 out of 10

National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Diploma in Electrical and

2002-2007 Computer Engineering (5-year program):
Overall Grade: 7.42 out of 10.
▪ Diploma Thesis: Interoperability in Health Department Design and
develop an Interoperability Information System (Java, JSF, ADF, Oracle
10g).
Grade: 10 out of 10

WORK EXPERIENCE

06/2014 - current Senior IT Consultant - European Parliament - DG COMM

 Development and evolutive maintenance of Download Centre

website
 Installation, Configuration and administration of CoManSys (contact
management system for EPIOs)
 Installation and Configuration of eGrants project
 Monitoring, Updates Installation of numerous Red Hat Enterprise
Edition servers.
 production of technical documentation
 implementation of new system modules, including technical
analysis and design
(Java, PHP, HTML, Tomcat, MySQL, RHEL, Python, JSP)
 01/2012 - 06/2014 Development of software for management - European Commission - DG
Education and Culture.

 development of J2EE applications with Spring framework

 analysis of user requirements, design and development of
applications based on analysis and design documentation
 development and maintenance of an existing codebase of XSLT
transformations
 development of electronic forms and evolutive maintenance of
existing codebase (user interface design targeting general public)
 development, corrective and evolutive maintenance of all
supportive subsystems, including development of Adobe LiveCycle
workflows, Adobe LiveCycle modules
 technical delivery assessment and technical testing
 implementation of new system modules, including technical
analysis and design
 production of technical documentation

(J2EE, Spring, Maven, JavaScript, XSLT, Python, Adobe LiveCycle Designer

and workbench.)

Consultant Professional Services, Cognity S.A., Greece

11/2007 – 12/2011

 CMS Decommissioning Vodafone S.A., Greece

03/2011 –
Project involves the upgrade and enhancement of existing J2EE
12/2012
projects to OSB and BPEL flows. (Oracle Service Bus, BPEL, XSLT,
XQuery, Weblogic Server, J2EE)
 Wholesale Leased Lines, OTE S.A., Greece Wholesale
01/2011 –
03/2011
Leased Lines (W-LL) IT System, is a front-end platform as part of
OTE’s existing W-CRM systems, that enables overall management of
wholesale leased lines services and communication between OTE
and Other License Operators . (Java, J2EE, Hibernate, JSP, JSF,
HTML,CSS, AspectJ)
 Vodafone Fixed Acceleration Program (FAP), Vodafone S.A., Greece
09/2010 -
It is the Vodafone solution in Fixed Telephony and Internet Access
01/2011
market in cooperation with HOL. The project includes the build of
all integrations between Vodafone’s internal systems and HOL
systems, managing customers’ requests and provisioning flows.
(Oracle Service Bus, BPEL, Weblogic Server, J2EE, XSLT, XQuery)
03/2009 -
 OTE - shop Design and Implementation, OTE S.A., Greece e-
09/2010
Shop was hosted on the Elastic Path 6.1 platform, which was
customized in an extent to support the complex products and
services of OTE S.A. (Java, Spring, Velocity, JavaScript, HTML,CSS,
JBoss)

09/2008 -  Weblogic BEA Cluster Applications Upgrade, WIND, Greece

03/2009 Project involved the setup and configuration of a Weblogic
Integration version 9.2 clustered systems and the subsequent
movement to it of all applications that resided in the old Weblogic
Integration 8.1 standalone system. The project had to keep
compatibility with the 8.1 web services so that clients did not
perform any implementation.(Java, J2EE, Weblogic)
 11/2007 -  Order Management with BEA Integration, NETONE, Greece
05/2008 Project included Order Management for a fixed line provider along
with all middleware implementation for streamlining Order
Processing in all relevant systems.(Java, J2EE, Bea Weblogic, Siebel)

09/2007 – 11/2007 Web Developer , Simplex Software, Cyprus

 Design and Implementation of Hiperfomance consulting LTD
website.
 Design and Implementation of Neon Phaliron Restaurant website.

03/2007 – 09/2007 Software Developer, Telecommunications Laboratory, National Technical

University of Athens, Greece
 Participate in the design and development of an interoperability
information system in the field of health.

OTHER ACTIVITIES
2000-2002 Cyprus National Guard:
Compulsory twenty six months military service. In-service training leading to
the rank of second lieutenant.

OTHER SKILLS

LANGUAGES English: Fluent

Greek: Native Language

PROGRAMMING SKILLS
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Very good knowledge: J2EE (JMS, JNDI, Connection pools, JDBC,
Transaction Management), BEA Weblogic Server, Web Services, HTML, CSS,
XML, XSD, SQL, OSB, Eclipse, Javascript, Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Good knowledge: C, Oracle 10g, JavaScript, Spring Framework, JSP,JSF,
AspectJ, Hibernate, BPEL, Adobe LiveCycle Server
Fair knowledge: PL SQL, JDeveloper, Netbeans

Travelling, Swimming, Running