Argyrios Tzakas

Argyrios Tzakas, FRM

Business and Data Analyst at Barclays Capital

May 2011 - August 2011

● Analysis of End-of-Day downstream feeds for risk and P&L reporting ● Modeling of equity derivative instruments ● Definition of functional and technical specifications ● Generating source-to-target data mapping document for ETL processes ● Implementing data quality and validation rules in a data warehouse

Build and Release Manager at Burberry

January 2011 - April 2011

● Producing VBA-coded spreadsheets for reporting and assessing progress to senior management ● Responsible for triaging defects and disseminating the work to the development team ● Issuing and maintaining the release schedule ● Facilitated agile development process ● Facilitated regular scrum meetings including daily stand-ups, sprint and release planning sessions, retrospectives ● Maintaining issue tracking system (TRAC) and version control system (Subversion) ● Providing regular updates on progress to the project manager ● Documented various IT processes that were formally undocumented and misunderstood ● Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, along with the lead BA, to ensure project delivery within the required standards and timeline

Computer Analyst/Programmer at Hellenic Army

August 2009 - September 2010

● Maintaining and supporting the IT and Network infrastructure at the III Support Brigade ● Responsible for the procurement, installation and operation of the CCTV surveillance infrastructure ● Installation of Active Directory services and domain management using Windows Server 2003 and XP Pro ● Providing technical support and training on Microsoft Windows and Office to military personnel

Project Engineer at Eurotherm

September 2007 - June 2009

● Design and delivery of industrial automation projects in the heat-treatment and oil and gas industries ● Development of software application for network-enabled process automation controllers ● Producing technical documentation (Functional requirements/Test Specifications, Technical Manuals and Bill of Materials), as well as project-related documentation (spreadsheets, presentations, status updates) ● Configuration of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) ● Performing system integration and factory acceptance testing ● Assisting the Project Manager in preparing project plans and schedules ● Fault finding and repair

Business Analyst at Barclays Corporate

September 2011

● Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting the requirements for over 100 line-of-business applications ● Working as a liaison among business stakeholders to analyze business problems and information needs ● Developing functional requirements, RAID logs, Current Status Analysis reports and test cases ● Managing User Acceptance Testing activities ● Developed and maintained relational database in MS Access to store and report business IT assets ● Performing data analysis and data mining with MS Excel, using Pivot Tables and data manipulation routines ● Assisting the project manager in managing IT infrastructure deployment to 12000 international users across 14 locations

Imperial College London

2006 – 2007

Aristoteleion Panepistimion Thessalonikis

2000 – 2006

Deutsche Schule Thessaloniki

1994 – 2000

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