George Partasides

Email: gpartasides@hotmail.com, gpartasides@yahoo.com
CELL: 357 99 344066 , Web page:  http://partasides.da.ru

EDUCATION                       

· University at Buffalo, The State University of New York                                   September 2004

GPA: 3.6/4.0

Master of Science Electrical Engineering

      Awarded with Teaching Assistantship for both years (2002-2004)

· University at Buffalo, The State University of New York                                             June 2002

GPA: 3.6/4.0

Attained the Dean’s Honor List for outstanding performance (twice)

Automatically Admitted for Graduate Studies at UB

Awarded with SEAS Senior Scholar for spring 2001-2002

· Higher Technical Institute of Cyprus     (HTI)                                                                                 June 1998

Scholarship for the undergraduate studies.

Department of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering diploma.

· High School "Ethnomartyras Kyprianou" of Cyprus.                                                                    June 1995

GPA obtained: 3.44/4.0. Focused in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science

Military Service:                                                                                                                                August 2000

· Served in the Army for twenty-six months.

· Attended the school of officers in Herakleon (Crete) and graduated as a second lieutenant.

Training:                                                                                                                                               1995 - 1998

· Employed by Word Processing Company (WPC) and IBM computers, Trained on Installations and upgrades, Networks and Troubleshooting. Focus on Communication software and Microsoft Package.

· Employed by "Eracleous LTD" - Electrical Installation, worked as an assistant and supervisor.

RELEVANT COURSES / PROJECTS / PUBLICATIONS

· Graduate of Edward Language School London (UK)                                                            September 1995

· Diploma of Troubleshooting in Electronics                                                                                      June 1998

· Project made: Constructed an (ISA) Interface card controlling external devices.                       June 1998

· Attend Unix Administrator workshop at University of Buffalo.                                                July 2001

· Journal paper in Proceedings IEEE, CCECE 2004-CCGEI 2004 Niagara Falls: Scalable video transmission over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless channels              May 2004

· Thesis: Multi-user Wireless video transmission over GMC-CDMA channels September 2004

WORK EXPERIENCE                                                                                                                       

· Minister of Industrial Operations (Ministry of Commerce,

       Industry and Tourism)                                                                                             October – November 2004

· Electrical Consultant at Mouzouras & Associates                                                          July 2004  - December 2004

· Web designer and maintenance  at Fillmore College, NY, USA                                June 2003 – July 2004

· Teaching Assistant in Electrical Engineering at SUNY Buffalo                           August 2002 – June 2004

· System (Unix) administrator at CIT of University at Buffalo                           May 2001 – August 2002

· Fundraising for SUNY at Buffalo, Calling centre South Campus.                                       February 2001

· Employed by "TIRKAS-PLIROFORIKI" – Computer Installations and upgrades.  

        Troubleshooting on personal computers and Network. Provide customer support.                   June 1998

·    Employed by Compaq - Computer systems, worked in Hardware andd Software               

       Department as an assistant. Focus on Windows 95, 98, Nt.4.0.                            .                          June 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS/ ACTIVITIES

· Volunteer in graduation of 2001 class and for Orientation at University of Buffalo                 July 2001

· Volunteer in International student Orientation at UB                                                                   August 2001

· Volunteer in Preview day at UB (twice)

· Active Member of Hellenic-Association at UB                                                                     

· Participate as a group-leader at IFM's camp in Austria                                                                     July 2000

· Participate in Seminal of Mediation in Strasburg (France)                                                              April 2000

· Participate in Seminal of Child Abuse in Budapest                                                                September 1999

· Participate in Conference at Belgium representing CERA, of IFM-SEI,                             

        regarding the international camping in Budapest.                                                                            April 1999

SPECIAL SKILLS

· Numerical Programming in Fortran, Basic, Pascal.

· Matlab , Mathcad, Maple. 

· Object oriented programming with JAVA 1,1 & 1,2, Perl.

· Software development using Visual Basic, on Microsoft Windows Platforms. 

· Experienced of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Visio and HTML.

· Secure Documentation - CVS.

· Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, DOS, MS Windows Server 2003, MAC OS X.

· Editors: VI, Emacs, pico.

· Working experience on troubleshooting on computer hardware.  

· Sound Editing: Sound Forge, Cool Edit, Wave Lab, Cakewalk.

· Image Processing: Paint Shop Pro, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop.

· Video Processing: H.261, H.26L, MPEG-4.

· SA tasks: Remedy, Restores(TSM), Nameservice, Software Installation (UNIX), Apache, Firewalls,   Synchronize , Rack Setup, Boot halt machine, shell scripts, system logs, kill start process, Linux & Solaris.

· Connectivity Tools: SSH (tunnel), PGP, Citrix, Xwin32.

· Software: Electronic Workbench 5.0, PSPIECE, TraxMaker, CircuitMaker, Autocad.

· Experienced in design electronic circuits.