Personal Information

Name ARISTOS MANOLARAKIS
Address: PETROPOULAKI 19, AG. NIKOLAOS ACHARNON 10445, ATHENS,GREECE
Telephones +30-2108541158 (home) / +30-6944456620 (mobile)
E-mail amanolar@panafonet.gr (personal/permanent)
Aristos.Manolarakis@vodafone.com (work)
Nationality Greek



Work Experience

• Dates 01/09/2003 – to date
• Name and address of employer VODAFONE-PANAFONE, “Hellenic telecommunications company S.A.”,
44 Kifissias Ave., 151 25 Marousi, Athens, Greece
• Type of business or sector Telecommunications Company (Network & IT Operations)
• Occupation or position held Junior MTX Engineer
• Main activities and responsibilities Respond to alarms and solve technical faults, giving priority to faults directly affecting customers. Liaise with network maintenance engineers to minimize network down time. Follow up faults with international link suppliers. Carry out routine maintenance tasks (e.g. systems tests and backups). Execute relevant tasks for network expansions and enhancements. Currently monitoring international connections and roaming problems for the Athens’ Olympic Games.

• Dates 02/1999 – 07/1999 (6 months)
• Name and address of employer Department of Electronics, TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HERAKLION, Branch of Chania, Romanou 1, Chalepa, 73133, Chania, Greece.
• Type of business or sector Network Operation Center
• Occupation or position held Trainee
• Main activities and responsibilities Compulsory practical training as part of my engineer degree. Main tasks consisted of working on computer network expansion, network maintenance and users support. Helped designing the Department of Electronics’ Internet site and participated to the network’s administration.

• Dates 1996 (1 month), 1997 (1 month)
• Name and address of employer AMSTEL BEER ATHENIAN BREWERY S.A. , 107 Kifissou Ave. , 12241 Aigaleo, Athens, Greece
• Type of business or sector Factory
• Occupation or position held Fixed-term position in the factory’s Electronics Department.
• Main activities and responsibilities Duties involved maintaining electronic and electrical systems, PLC programming and installation of software packages.

Education

• Dates 1999-2000
• Name & type of organization providing education Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, U. K.
• Principal subjects covered Data & multimedia communications, cellular radio & computer networks, telephone technology, client server in Java, corporate policy, managerial concepts.
Dissertation title: “A reference receiver for differential GPS corrections”.
• Title of qualification awarded Master of Science (MSc) in Communication Systems

• Dates 1995 -1999
• Name & type of organization providing education Department of Electronics, Technological Educational Institute of Heraklion, Branch of Chania, Greece
• Principal subjects covered Computer networks, fiber communications, automatic control systems, electronic circuit construction, microwaves, antennas & radio transmitters, radar technologies, audio & visual systems.
• Title of qualification awarded Greek equivalent to U. K.’s Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Engineering.

Personal Skills & Competences

Languages
GREEK Mother tongue
ENGLISH Very good
FRENCH Basic (currently undertaking private lessons 4 hours/week).
Awarded “Diplôme d’études en langue Française – niveau 1” (05/2004).

Organizational & Managerial Skills
Developed such skills whilst fulfilling my military obligations as a Greek army officer (21 months). Was responsible for 20 men and the army camp’s supplies.

Technical Skills & Competences
Professional use of softwares for systems supervision and troubleshooting: Access 7 (Agilent Technologies), Genesys (GIS solutions), Siebel (Siebel Systems Inc.), Business of Object (Business Objects S.A.).

Proficient user of Microsoft Windows NT Server, Microsoft Front Page 2000, Microsoft Project, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, Abode Photoshop 5.0, Norton PC Anywhere v.8, Protel Altium 99.
Participated to the following training seminars:
2004 Access 7 Roaming Management System (training by INTRACON S.A., 6 h),
APG 40 Operation & Maintenance (training by ERICSSON,18 h),
Number Portability Service (training by VODAFONE GR, 6 h),
UTRAN Introduction (training by SIEMENS I & C Training Institute, 24 h),
2003 Trainings by EUROCOM EXPERTISE (S.A.) for ERICSSON’S AXE 10:
Hardware Maintenance in GSM (54 h),
O&M Operation & Handling in GSM (30 h),
O&M Platform in GSM (54 h),
ERICSSON’S AXE 10 Survey (12 h).

1999 Computer architecture & structure (Technological Education Institute of Heraklion, 30 h)
Trained in blind typing
Taught computer use to school teachers (Technological Educational Institute of Heraklion ) 10 hours and in private lessons aprx. 30 hours.

Miscellaneous

Full clean driving license (car owner).
Member of my University’s basketball team (Technological Educational Institute of Heraklion, 1996-1999). Currently playing with friends.