Christos Valanides

• Involved in "The Landmark, Nicosia" hotel renovation, member of Project Management Team.
• Responsible for documenting business processes and structuring data for designing their operations management and inventory system.
• Have been developing project planning tool based on Gantt charts, and have been enhancing it with powerful functionalities, such as task hierarchies and dependencies, dynamic team creation, and comparison of planned and actual data. Constantly working on enhancements for fully dynamic user experience.
• Have constructed several tools utilizing spreadsheets for executive team empowerment and facilitation of decision making.
• Have conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

• Managed and analyzed multiple projects mostly in business intelligence and business solutions for web, desktop, and mobile platforms, from both local and international clients.
• Demonstrated high level of initiative and creativity while tackling complex tasks.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness, team spirit and willingness to provide support and guidance whenever needed.
• Acted as team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.
• Communicated with clients for gathering understanding of their business needs, interpreted them into functional requirements, and when appropriate, suggested enhancements to clients' business processes. and generated proposal documentation.
• Analyzed functional requirements and communicated them to Development Team, while discussing feasible action plans.
• Performed unit and system testing with appropriate scenarios to assure quality of software and cross-platform compatibility.
• Trained clients on newly released software, communicated test scenarios for UAT, and discussed their feedback to pinpoint problematic areas.
• Generated needed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies when occurred and promptly addressed them for resolution.
• Project paperwork included Proposal, Requirement Definition and Analysis Document, Design Specifications Document, Process Flow Charts, Mockup Screens, State Diagrams, Gantt Charts, User Manuals and UAT Scenarios.

• Collaborated with students to complete homework assignments, identify lagging skills, and correct weaknesses.
• Provided homework assistance using specific curriculum and materials.
• Supported students with helpful study habits and exam strategies.
• Motivated students towards learning and studying to build self-confidence and reduce fear of failure.
• Leveraged technology to accelerate learning by proving students with easy-to-access information.
• Students ranged from 5yo. up to 60yo.

Provided tutoring in the following subjects:

• GCE A-Levels: Computer Science
• IELTS: Information Technology
• ECDL Modules: Standard version
• Computer Science Fundamentals and Programming via Python, C++ and online programming games from HourOfCode.com.
• Mathematics
• Educational Robotics

• Part time position in Computer Sales and Computer Services.
• Trained by Hewlett-Packard in Athens, Greece, to facilitate sales of HP computers and other devices in major electronics stores.
• Got familiar with the technologies and hardware used on end-products, and how they impact the user-experience.
• Aided in increasing brand loyalty amongst customers.

• Responsible for maintaining and updating servers and computers.
• Developed several projects involving telecommunications by applying Telescript.
• Implemented scripts for personnel to utilize during surveys.
• Assisted in development of eTelescript.