Christos Panagiotou, IT Manager

Christos Panagiotou

IT Manager

Almi Tankers SA

Location
Greece
Education
Master's degree, Information & Telecommunication Technologies
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

IT Manager at Almi Tankers SA
  • Greece
  • My current job since November 2011

- Provide the company with expert opinions on new and emerging technologies that might become useful for doing business
- Recommend purchases of technology that will increase business efficiency, save money and facilitate corporate expansion
- Manage a company's help desk operations
- Oversee a staff of computer scientists, developers, engineers, systems administrators and technical analysts
- Recruit and train technology employees and work with human resources staff on personnel issues
- Communicate with other departments in the company about business needs
- Provide beneficial technology solutions.
- Create IT policies that support the efforts of other departments within the company
- Have authority for large-scale technology projects and assure their completion on time, according to budget and at the expected quality level
- Draft or create a company's technology budget, direct purchasing of systems
- Oversee the monitoring and maintenance of IT assets across the company
- Plan the lifespans of all the companies' technologies, including anticipated upgrades and replacements.
- Coordinate efforts with facilities management staff on the provision and maintenance of sites where technology is deployed
- Endeavor to make technology and systems available around the clock, and establish disaster recovery or contingency plans to assure business continuity
- Hire contractors and outsourcers when necessary to assure the company has all of the best-of-breed technologies and services at its disposal

IT Engineer at Euronav
  • Greece
  • February 2006 to October 2010

IT/network administrator
Job description: IT maintenance of the Greek branch office (servers, workstations) as well as the IT support (24/7, on-site) of 30 vessels (SUEZMAX, VLCC). Special responsibilities: Exchange server administrator, BES administrator, terminal server administrator.

IT Helpdesk at Intrasoft-Intl SA
  • Greece
  • October 2004 to January 2006

First and second level support on day-to-day IT issues.

Junior Application Consultant at Singular Logic(ex Logic DIS SA)
  • Greece
  • January 2003 to September 2004

On-site or through phone after sales support on company’s software products.

Education

Master's degree, Information & Telecommunication Technologies
  • at Athens Information Technology
  • September 2012

A survey of Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation algorithms in EPONs and simulation examples in OPNET.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems
  • at American College of Greece
  • May 2005

Bachelor Degree of Science in Business Administration

Specialties & Skills

Blackberry Enterprise Server
Exchange Server
Windows Servers
Cisco Routers
ALGORITHMS
BACKUP EXEC
BLACKBERRY
Microsoft SQL
Microsoft ISA
Virtualization

Languages

English
Expert
German
Beginner
Greek
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL® v3 Foundation Examination (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Valid Until:
March 2013
Configuring, Managing and Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
BCSA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2009
Valid Until:
December 2009
Athens International Forum on Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
May 2008
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2005
Valid Until:
October 2006