Kostas Konstantinidis

Current

• Business Systems Analyst at AIFS (UK) Inc.

Past

• IT Project Manager at Flair Flooring Supplies Ltd.
• Systems Analyst/Developer at UMIST
• Network Administrator at UMIST

• Labs student assistant at The American College of Greece
• Lance corporal at Greek Army (Artillery division)

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Education

• The University of Manchester
• The American College of Greece (Deree College)

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Kostas Konstantinidis’s Experience

• Business Systems Analyst

  AIFS (UK) Inc.

  (Privately Held; Education Management industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Providing systems analysis and business consultancy services to the Camp America and Finance divisions of AIFS (UK).
  
  Has completed a variety of projects including a Business Process Review (BPR) and the implementation of a financial system which integrates to a back-end accounting system.
  
  All conducted in a Prince 2 environment.

• IT Project Manager

  Flair Flooring Supplies Ltd.

  (Wholesale industry)

  December 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  Promoted from IT Support Specialist, dealt with and completed successfully a variety of roles and projects ranging from Infrastructure to company-wide systems applications.

• Systems Analyst/Developer

  UMIST

  (Higher Education industry)

  January 2004 — August 2004 (8 months)

  Part of MSc. Dissertation.
  
  Development of an E-Commerce ‘sports match-making’ dynamic website for the students of the new (joint) University of Manchester in co-operation with the Directorate of Sports of the University of Manchester and the Trading Services Department of UMIST.
  
  •Steps undertaken: Feasibility; Analysis; Design; Implementation.
  •Implementation method: Rapid Application Development with Prototyping
  •Feasibility and Analysis conducted with Management interviews and a web survey on 366 students.
  •Design realised in UML.
  •Implementation using SQL server and ASP.NET.

• Network Administrator

  UMIST

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2004 — July 2004 (7 months)

  First line network support and member of the ‘Ethernet Team’ board for UMIST halls of residence. Responsible for a hall housing about 70 students.

• Labs student assistant

  The American College of Greece

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  December 2001 — August 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  Training and support for students of the university.

• Lance corporal

  Greek Army (Artillery division)

  (Military industry)

  March 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Production of daily work schedules for 30 soldiers; Office assistant and network administrator for the ‘Training and Operations office’ of the regiment; Car driver and PA of Lieutenant-General Douvas Nikolaos (last Greek Army Chief of Staff).
  
  Honourably promoted to ‘Lance Corporal’ from the rank of Private for exemplary service.

Kostas Konstantinidis’s Education

• The University of Manchester

  MSc , Information Systems Engineering , 2003 — 2004

• The American College of Greece (Deree College)

  BSc , Business Administration and Computer Information Systems , 1997 — 2003

Additional Information

Kostas Konstantinidis’s Interests:

I have a range of extracurricular activities but my biggest loves are: Music (keyboards; guitar and drums); Sports (2003 best graduating athlete of the ‘American College of Greece’; captain of its football team; member of the UMIST football team; green belt in Tae Kwon Do; gym) and Motorbikes (owner of a motorbike in Greece).

Kostas Konstantinidis’s Groups:

BCS, IEEE, ACM

•    UMIST Alumni

Kostas Konstantinidis’s Honors:

•Best Accounts/IT departmental colleague for year 2006-2007
•Received a ‘Well Done’ for scheme on new colleague inductions (proposed new colleagues be given an induction week with all departments thus getting a better understanding of the business and lowering inter-departmental barriers)
•Honourably promoted to ‘Lance Corporal’ from the rank of Private for exemplary service
•Have received twice letter of High Academic Standing from the Dean (Dean’s List).

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