Curriculum Vitae of Nikolay Chankov

Personal information

Name: Nikolay Chankov
Address: bl 340A, apt 25,
Atanas Kirchev Str,
1330, Sofia, Bulgaria
Telephones: Mobile: +359 (0) 887 753631
Landline: +359 (0) 2 8200142
E-Mail: nik@chankov.net
Web Site: http://nik.chankov.net
Nationality: Bulgarian
Date of birth: 29 December 1975
Gender: Male

Employment Information

Desired employment / Occupational field

Desired positions

Senior Software Architect
Development Team Leader
Business Analyst
Project Manager

Desired field

Financial or Banking Sector
Software industry

Work experience

Forsyth Partners Ltd.

Dates

February 2002 - October 2007

Position Held

Senior Software Architect & Software Development Team Leader

Activities & Responsibilities

Leading company's software development team of 7-10 members. Working simultaneously on multiple projects , defining priorities and responsibilities of every member of the team. Interfacing directly with QA Team and End users from Financial departments. Main role in planning, design, implementation, integration and maintenance of all in-house systems of the company including:

Management Information system (MIS)
Trail & Commission
Placement Fee system
Research Back-Office
Company Website
Research Distribution Front-End
Forsyth-OBSR Research Distribution System
B2B systems with Skandia Italy, BNL, ING and Financial Express

Name of employer

Forsyth Partners Ltd.

Location

Sofia, Bulgaria / Croydon, United Kingdom

Web Site

www.forsythpartners.com

Type of business or sector

Global Asset Management, Investment Banking, Finance

Information services PLC.

Dates: December 1999 - February 2002
Position Held: Software Architect
Activities & Responsibilities: Leading a team of 5 developers, working on a pilot project for PKI Implementation for e-Government and Public register. The systems also provides a front-end interface allow citizens to interact with the public administration. Participating as developer in On-line Tax registrations & Tax declarations and VAT Register projects. Creating complete visual concept of Ministry of Finance and Tax Administration web sites.
Name of employer: Information services PLC.
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Web Site: www.is-bg.net
Type of business or sector: IT company of Ministry of Finance and Tax Administration, E-Government.

B.A.M.F.

Dates: July 1997 – December 1999
Position Held: Software Developer
Activities & Responsibilities: Building Information Portal for Finance and Management, Creating web site for Association's Magazine – “Business Spectrum”. Creating Association's Members websites. Implementation of Linux under Power PC processor server and Lotus Domino Server.
Name of employer: BAMF - Bulgarian Association of Management and Finance
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Type of business or sector: Finance, Management, Research and Publishing

Education Information

Education and training

Master Degree

Dates: 2001
Title of qualification awarded: Master Degree
Subject: Corporate Finance
Organisation: UNWE - University of National and World Economy
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Bachelor Degree

Dates: 1996 - 2000
Title of qualification awarded: Bachelor Degree
Subject: Statistics and Econometrics
Organisation: UNWE - University of National and World Economy
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Certificates and Courses

On-line Certificates

www.brainbench.com ID: 362910

Programmer Analyst/Aptitude
PHP programmer
Flash MX
HTML Dev

Other

Principles of Application & Infrastructure Development (by Microsoft Technical Education Center)
AIX System Administration (IBM) 9/2000
Certified Account Specialist (Nortel Networks) 7/1999

Other Information

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

Bulgarian

Other languages

English – Fluent
Russian – Working level

Social skills & competences

Team player. Extrovert, open-minded and used to socialize with people with different cultures, backgrounds and languages. Experience of international business relations – trips to London (UK) and Dubai (UAE) on regular basis.

Organisational skills

Team management, appraisal, mentoring. Experience with multi-skill, multi-location, multi-language teams. A typical team contains developers, database administrators, designers, QA and technical writers.

Technical & Analytical skills

Business analysis and problem solving skills. Strong knowledge of system design, programming and database design.

Computer skills

System Design: UML, SW life cycle management, Rational Rose
Programming Languages: PHP, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript, XML, Shell Script
Database: SQL, PL-SQL, Oracle, MySql, MS Access
Frameworks: AdoDB, Pear, CakePHP, PhpDBForm, PHP OpenBiz, Smarty, Seagul, Zend Framework
Report Tools: Eclipse BIRT, Jasper Reports, FOP, JPGraph
Web Servers: Apache, Microsoft IIS, Netscape Enterprise Server
Operating systems: UNIX (Aix, Linux), MS Windows (NT/2000/XP)

Hobbies & Projects

Active contributor to few main Open source systems: Tiki-Wiki, PHPOpenBiz, PHPDBForm, CakePHP, Developer of various Modules for Joomla CMS.

Recent Projects

Project Tracker

Description:: Municipality Project Tracking / ERP Application
Role:: Design, Implementation

Health Promoting

Description:: Information Site
Role:: Design, Implementation
Site:: hph.ncphp.government.bg

FoodSafety Bulgaria

Description:: Building Training Database based Frontend (for Joomla CMS) + Backend Modiules
Role:: Design, Database Design, Development

Eurografica CRM

Description:: CRM & ERP Solution for Typographic Company
Role:: Design, Database Design, Development

Aqua Trinity

Description:: Company Web site
Role:: Design, Implementation
Site:: aquatrinity.com

References

Lorenzo Conti

Company:: Forsyth Partners Ltd.
Position:: IT R&D Manager
Phone:: +44 (0)20 8133 1637
E-mail:: contil@gmail.com
Type of reference:: Professional

Krum Hadjigeorgiev

Company:: Melon Technologies Inc.
Position:: Business Development Director
Phone:: +359 (0) 888 338642
E-mail:: krum.hadjigeorgiev@melontech.com krum.hadjigeorgiev@melontech.com
Type of reference:: Professional

Ivo Stefanov

Company:: Onboard Ltd.
Position:: CEO
Phone:: +496990736690
E-mail:: ivo@onboardstore.com
Type of reference:: Professional