Savvas Nikiforou EDUCATION M.Sc. in Computer Science (February 2002) University of South Florida, Tampa Outstanding Thesis Award
B.S. in Computer Engineering, (May 1999) University of South Florida, Tampa Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award for Computer Science and Engineering Department   Higher National Diploma in Electrical Engineering (June 1991) Higher Technical Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Officer (June 2021 — )

Information Applications Service, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

 

Systems Administrator (April 2003 – May 2021 )

Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

 

Special Collaborator (February 2002 – December 2002)

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

• Web Design and development for the National Institute for Systems Test and Productivity
• Application development and support

     

Systems Administrator (August 1999 – August 2001)

Department of Computer science, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

• Hardware and software support for Computer Science and Engineering Department
• Installation and support of SunOS, Solaris, SunPC, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Wabi, MacOS

 

Assistant Systems Administrator (January 1994 – August 1997)

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

• Application development and hardware/software support for three departments
• UNIX administration: IBM AIX, SunOS, Solaris, some experience with SGI IRIX
• Software installation and support on UNIX and DOS/Windows platforms
• Website development using PHP, CGI scripts, Java, Javascripts, and HTML-based databases
• Support of X-Windows for PCs, PCNFS, and DOS/Windows networking

 

Customer support (September 1989 – December 1993)

Z.A.S. Epsilon Computers, Nicosia, Cyprus

• Assembly of new computers
• Network installation and support of SCO UNIX and LANtastic
• Customer Support and Training

 

PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE

 

Thesis work (May 2000 – January 2002) with Outstanding Thesis Award

• Developed a knowledge acquisition intelligent agent for Clinical Trial selection at the Moffitt Cancer Center

 

Other projects

• Developed UNIX client-server applications in C
• Developed face recognition software in C
• Developed a system to calculate power consumption limits for VLSI circuits in C++
• Developed a portable device for testing telephone meters (Intel 8085 based, programmed in assembly)

SKILLS

Platforms

Sun SPARC and Ultra SPARC, IBM RISC6000, IBM PC and x86 compatibles, Apple Macintosh

 

Programming

• Languages: C/C++, Java, Ada, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, Assembly
• Operating Systems: UNIX (AIX, SunOS/Solaris, Linux), DOS, Windows 9X/NT/2000, MacOS
• Networks: TCP/IP, Windows NT, Novell, Appletalk, LANtastic
• Web: Java, JavaScript, CGI, HTML, PHP, XML, MySQL, MiniSQL
• Scripts: Shell Scripting, PHP, Perl, Tcl/TK

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