Experience

Talentia Software

• France
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior HCM Consultant

  • May 2017 - Present



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Release Manager - Vodafone Greece

  • Feb 2015 - Jul 2016

  Responsible for the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating, monitoring and enforcing release management processes and policies to all IT environments (CRM, Billing, Provisioning, ERP, BI etc). Responsible to deploy releases into production, across Vodafone Greece, for multiple applications and various systems, ensuring consistency in policies and operational procedures, release integration testing and production validation. Working collaboratively with all participants in software development projects and supportive to developers and testers as they set up their development and test environments. Handling successfully large offshore teams, from feasibility, design and build phases to SAT, UAT and deployment phases. Main activities: Release Planning and Scope (Release Calendar, Application Matrix, Impact Assessment, Change Management) Release Progress Monitoring (Progress meetings, Review Project Status, risks and issues, test progress and defects status) Test Environment Planning and Governance (Oversee and facilitate Configuration Management process, control Code Base per system, oversee and control Code Merge plans and deployments) Release Deployment Management (Deliver deployment KITs, report and monitor regression and sanity testing, prepare high-level deployment schedule, coordinate production deployment support) Release Post Deployment Management (Monitor and report post release production Tickets, prepare release closure reports, KPIs and lessons learnt) The Release Management responsibilities also include working closely with the IT release managers, interfacing and communicating with Vendors, Test Managers, Dev Managers, IT Ops and the PMO on a daily basis and provide reporting as well as meeting updates to the Senior IT Management like the CIO, CTO and business management. Show less



Vodafone

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• • May 2003 - Apr 2014

  Responsible to coordinate and support all the phases of the HR Information Systems’ life cycle, including user requirements, analysis, process reengineering, business transformation, review and approval of system specifications, project monitoring, HR’s resources coordination during implementation, testing and acceptance, business transformation, system monitoring and auditing.Main Activities/ProjectsLegacy ERP (SAP ECC 6.0) (Main modules: Resourcing, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Training & Development, Compensation Management, Benefits Management, Payroll, Time Management & Evaluation, Employee Relations)Global ERP (SAP) (Main modules: Personnel Administration, Time & Attendance, Performance Review, SAP Netweaver Portal for ESS and MSS)Supportive applications/systems (e-Payslips, e-Certificates, Total Reward Statements, workflows, etc.) Show less

• • Apr 1999 - Apr 2003

  Responsible of the MIS & Network Information Systems team of software engineers and developers for the analysis, design, implementation and support of MIS applications using client/server and web based technologies.Consultancy for the analysis, design, implementation and rollout of international projects:• Libertel (Maastricht, Holland): Management Customer Base Information System• Vodacom (Cape Town, South Africa): Management Network Information System• Vizzavi Europe (London, UK): Management Customer Base Information System• Orascom (Cairo, Egypt): MIS with KPIs, Data Warehouse, Benchmarking and Auditing Functionalities Show less



Atypon

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 1998 - Mar 1999

  Working as external partner of Atypon Systems, founded at Palo Alto, which was specialising at electronic publishing, I was involved in the development of information retrieval systems for the production of SGML documents from scientific articles, published in medical journals, and their electronic publishing in HTML format. The development tools were yacc, lex and C, under Linux operating system for the construction of a complex parsing system. Working as external partner of Atypon Systems, founded at Palo Alto, which was specialising at electronic publishing, I was involved in the development of information retrieval systems for the production of SGML documents from scientific articles, published in medical journals, and their electronic publishing in HTML format. The development tools were yacc, lex and C, under Linux operating system for the construction of a complex parsing system.



Advanced Services Group (ASG Ltd)

• Athens, Greece

• Business Analyst and Software Engineer

  • Jan 1994 - Dec 1997

  Project RETEX (European Community Program - Ministry of National Economy) Participation in the analysis of the business procedures, the user requirements, the design and implementation of client server applications using INFORMIX OnLine RDBMS over UNIX operating system and LAN (TCP/IP) network and GUPTA SQLWindows for the front-end. The database design included stored procedures and triggers, referential integrity constraints, binary large objects data types (blobs) for the storing of unstructured information. My responsibilities in ASG also included analysis of business procedures and structures for public organizations, form/report design, composition and submission of proposals for tenders, evaluation of business plans, composition of projects specifications and progress reports, documentation and user manuals for applications. Show less