Tryphon Georgallides

I aim at joining medium to large organizations active in the services or technology arenas. I would appreciate international environments so as to capitalize on the similar aspect of my professional experience. I would favor positions which emphasize on IT infrastructure and integration project management.

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11/07-     Orange Business Services, France Telecom           Geneva, Switzerland

Senior Solution Architect, ITS

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1/06 -  10/07 Orange Business Services , France Telecom  Geneva, Switzerland

Project Manager

Manage the implementation of technology specific components of customer solutions associated with large service delivery projects. Projects deployed in largely multinational environments and include IP telephony, Call Center infrastructure, back-end systems integration, telecom backbone infrastructure and network security infrastructures.

Milestones:

Managed world-wide project deployments for IP telephony solutions based on Cisco CCM., Call Center solutions based on Cisco IPCC infrastructures, National Operator backbone infrastructures, Complex Integration Solutions, Business Application Management and Managed Internet Security solutions. Managed the deployment of history's 1st 10Gbps backbone in Africa

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9/05 - 12/05 Reuters SA                                         Geneva, Switzerland

Consultant

Infrastructure inventory and logging for the Internet and Network Services division
Best practices consulting for data center management
Disaster recovery procedures on a per application and system basis
Technical writing 

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9/04  - 8/05 Orange Communications                    Bussigny, Switzerland

Senior Consultant

IT Architecture and Data Modeling
Modeling of the complete Customer Services business processes, systems and infrastructure of a large mobile telecom operator.
UML/RUP Business Modeling 

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11/02 - 6/03 Ascom PLC AG                                 Lausanne, Switzerland

Project Manager, Consultant

Consulting services to PLC customers
Project Management responsibilities including budgeting, technical follow-up and organization in international environments.

Milestones:

Managed large scale deployment projects comprising more than 2000 nodes in several European countries such as Portugal, Scotland and Switzerland.

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11/00 - 10/02 Hewlett-Packard                                      Athens, Greece

Project Manager, HP Consulting

Responsible for E-Services and ITSM related projects within Hewlett-Packard Consulting. Activities included project management, proposal and test-validation procedure developments, bid management and test management.

Milestones:

Successfully managed a project team composed of 15 members over a period of 9 months to develop and deploy an Internet Portal comprising both hardware and software platforms.

Large scale systems and network management infrastructures deployment for mobile telecom operators.

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9/98 - 10/00 Société Générale de Surveillance        Geneva, Switzerland

Project Manager, Governmental Contracts Division

Responsible for planning, deploying and maintaining Lotus Notes based, business critical applications connecting more than 80 sites world wide over the corporate WAN.

4/97 - 8/98 Corporate Platform Standards Architecture Engineer

System Platforms Architect, Corporate Information Systems and Telecommunications Department

Responsible for designing a worldwide systems architecture concept. Responsibilities included the definition, implementation and maintenance of a corporate-wide systems architecture concept, ensuring the deployment of future-proof and secure corporate information systems.

Milestones:

Design of a company-wide set of IT platform standards.

Successful deployment of a world-wide distributed application and its corresponding 3x8 support structure.

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5/94 - 2/97 Texas Instruments Inc.                              Vidy, Switzerland

Technical/Pre-Sales Consultant, Software Engineering Department

Responsible for installing, configuring and deploying the Composer (IEF) CASE tool (now marketed by Computer Associates under the name CoolGen). Provided prospect customers, end users and developers with technical consulting services relative to enterprise wide environments. Deployed and benchmarked distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. Deployed web-based multi-tiered applications. Webmaster of Intranet servers.

Milestones:

Demonstrated product functionality for the executive board of the Zurich Insurance group.

Was dispatched to the company headquarters in Dallas, TX to assist the development of the latest product version.

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9/92 - 4/94 Union Bank of Switzerland                  Lausanne, Switzerland

Systems Engineer, Advanced Software development Department

Responsible for the administration and management of a complex network composed of Sun, DEC/Ultrix, VMS and NeXT workstations and servers used to develop Neural Networks adaptative software able to successfully predict FOREX rates in timeframes up to a month. In charge of the implementation, deployment and user support of banking applications targeting the bank's back-office.

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2/91 - 8/92 M.I.T. S.A.                                          Lausanne, Switzerland

Systems/Support Engineer, Customer Support Department

In charge of installing, supporting and maintaining banking applications and systems. System environments included Data General AOS/VS, DG/UX and Digital Equipment Corporation VMS.

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3/90-12/90 Aster S.à.R.L.                                                   Paris, France

Systems Developer

Implementation of RDB applications under XENIX.

I've had the opportunity to lead projects and manage environments in the following sectors and industries:

• Banking including UBS, Credit Suisse, ABN/Amro, ING and Unicible for systems management, banking applications and development platforms

• Inspection services at Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) for platform standards definition and implementation as well as large scale deployments

• Telecommunications including Orange Communications, Telecom Italia Mobile and Ascom for systems and network management, business analysis and technical architecture

• Governmental Services such as the Swiss Federal Justice department and the Swiss Federal Defense department for business process reengineering and large scale deployments

• Public Services such as the Swiss Railways for application development platforms

• TV Broadcasting such as Antenna TV for Internet Portal development and deployment

1984 - 1989 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Engineering Degree in Micro-engineering

Micro-engineering department

UNIX and Windows platforms specialist.

¨         Computing Environments:

DEC running ULTRIX, OSF1, Digital Unix and VMS. SUN under SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.x. IBM RISC 6000 workstations running AIX and PC clients and servers running Windows or OS/2. HP running HP-UX. Silicon Graphics under IRIX. Data General MV series running AOS/VS and AViiON series running DG/UX. Novell NetWare 3.1x. Proficient in UNIX shell scripting. Excellent knowledge and experience in distributed, multi-tiered applications, their implementation and deployment in heterogeneous environments and the relative integration issues.

HP OpenView (OVO) implementation and operation experience in both Windows and UNIX environments.

¨         EAI and Middleware Platforms

Vitria BusinessWare V.4 and BEA Tuxedo.

¨         Networking Technologies:

TCP/IP, HTTP, Novell-NetWare, DECNET, SNA/RJE, X25. Cisco router configuration and operation experience as well as WAN/LAN setup and operation knowledge. RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, EGP, BGP-4, routing protocols.

¨         IT Architecture:

ITIL certification. UML and RUP IT and Business Modeling. Very good knowledge of the MEGA Business Process Analysis and Enterprise Architecture tools

¨         Databases:

Excellent knowledge of Oracle RDBMS including installation configuration and optimization on UNIX and Windows environments. Very good knowledge of MS-SQLServer, SYBASE and Informix.

¨         Internet Technologies:

Software: Very good HTML/CGI knowledge. Good PERL, VBScript, Java in addition to client and server-side JavaScript experience. Proficient user of the Composer (IEF) CASE Tool and of its satellite products. WebTrends/NetIQ analysis series.

Servers: Very good knowledge of the Microsoft IIS and Apache web servers.

Platforms: Experienced in Vignette with some BroadVision skills. Proficient in web site log and referrer analysis as well as the related marketing and promotional issues.

¨         Project Management:

HP FocusPM and Synergy methodologies.

Children:           2, Philip and Paul

Date of birth:    06.06.1964

Nationality:        Swiss and British

Fluent in Greek, French and English. Fair knowledge of Italian and basic German knowledge.

Author and webmaster of the www.rallycars.com Internet site counting more than 3,000,000 monthly hits and an average of over 450,000 monthly page views.