Curriculum Vitae


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Personal Information

First Name: Maria
Family Name: Topalidou
Date of Birth: 19/07/78
Nationality: Hellenic
Marital Status: Married
Home address: 49 Brokoumi Street
67100 Xanthi
Greece
Telephone: 0030-(2)541-78787
E-mail Address: mtopalid@ceti.gr
Driving Licence: European Driving licence since 25/08/98

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Education - Studies

1993-19961st Senior High School of Xanthi, Certificate Grade 17.5/20
1996-1999 B.Eng. (Honours) in Engineering With Industrial Management, School of Integrated Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Liverpool
1999-2000 MSc in Advanced Manufacturing Systems & Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Liverpool.
2000-2001 MSc in Medical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Liverpool.

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Qualifications

1992Certificat de Langue Francaise (23/06/92)
1992 First Certificate in English, University of Cambridge (December 1992)
1993 Certificat Pratique de Langue Française, Université de Paris - Sorbonne (Octobre 1993)
1999 Life Support 1 and Bronze Medallion (Life- Saving Qualification since 10/12/99)

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Work Experience

02/07/99 - 11/09/99Contract with National Enterprise of Electricity in Greece (Training Engineer in the Technical Department and Database Developer).
14/02/00 - 04/09/00 IT Consultant for Cross-Huller (a UK based division of Thyssen Production Systems - machine tool company in Merseyside which is ISO9001 Aproved). Development of an Internet based Quality, Environmental & Health and Safety system and an on-line database for non conformances.
04/10/00 - 14/07/01 IT Consultant for Fletcher Mc Neill Inc, Web page development.
01/10/01 - Now CETI Cultural and Educational Technology Institute, Xanthi, Greece, Project Management/Research support.

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Teaching Experience

29/11/02 – 10/12/02Training Educator of SME’S IT Consultants for the EU Project "Action 2 Assisting SME's to Go Digital"/ Eastern Macedonia and Thrace District.
01/01/03 - 31/12/07 SME’S IT Consultant for the EU Project "Action 2, Assisting SME's to Go Digital"/ Eastern Macedonia and Thrace District.

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Proffessional Memberships

Member of the Greek National Technical Chamber (Since 8/11/2002).

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Committee Memberships

20/03/03 – 31/12/05Member of SESY (Coordinating committee of supporting consultants of Infosociety) of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace District.
12/05/03 – 19/05/03 Evaluator of IST FP6 Call 1 for the European Commission, Cultural Heritage, Brussels.

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Research Project Experience

18/01/02-18/07/05"Assisting SME's to Go Digital"/ Action 2/ Eastern Macedonia and Thrace District, 3rd Community Support Framework. Project Manager.
01/02/03-01/05/05 E-QUALity, 3rd Community Support Framework.Project Manager.
30/04/03-30/04/05 Multimine, 3rd Community Support Framework. Project Manager.
01/07/03-31/12/05 Integrated System of Music Tools and Music portal, 3rd Community Support Framework.Project Manager.
01/12/03-30/11/05 E-Learning Land- An Integrated Virtual Environment for Supporting On-Line Learning Communities, Community Support Framework.Project Manager.
01/11/03-30/04/06 Farmbroker- Integrated support system for brokerage proceedings through e-business in cattle-breeding. 3rd Community Support Framework. Project manager.
27/05/04-28/02/05 Digitech III, Study on 3-D Digitisation technologies, 3rd Community Support Framework. Definition of best practice for cultural object’s digitisation.

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Languages

Greek:Native Language
English: Advanced (Teaching licence from the Ministry of Education)
French: Advanced

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Computer Literacy

Web design & Development HTML, MS Front Page, Dreamweaver (Cross Huller Co UK, Fletcher Mc Neill Inc)
Database Development MS Access (Cross Huller Co UK, Fletcher Mc Neill Inc)
Programming, Robot Programming Altera MaxPlus II, Fortran 90, Java, Assembly, VALL II
Graphics Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro
3D Design, Design Unigraphics 15.02, AutoCAD (3D Design Training course)
Handling Literacy MS Office, MS Project

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Practice Courses

28/04/98 - 01/05/98"CRAC Insight into Management Course". A course of business-related exercises and simulations, which encourage a deeper understanding of the nature of managerial jobs, the decision-making process and the skills required. Awarded a management diploma.
16/06/97 - 04/07/97 "Workshop Practice Course".Successfully completed in Halton College in Widnes in which engineering skills like welding, soldering, drilling, milling, assembly, fitting, robotics, hydraulics, pneumatics were practiced.
22/05/00 - 26/05/00 "CAD Computer Aided Design".A full-time 3D Design training course using Unigraphics Software V15.02.
24/11/03 - 03/12/03 "Pattern Recognition, Data Extraction and Mutimedia Retrieval (Multimine)". Full-time seminar containing a theoretical part on Mutimedia data mining and a practical part on Multimedia context search.

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Interests and Activities

Swimming: Gold medal (100m free-style) and brass medal (50m free-style) from regional competitions, Gold (100m free-style), Brass (50m free-style) from club competitions
Tennis: Participated in several regional and club competitions
Life-saving: Life Support 1 and Bronze Medallion (Life- Saving Qualification since 10/12/99)
Soccer: Member of Xanthi's Wommens Soccer Team Q.O.T

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