Executive Manager - Head of Development
National Bank of Kuwait
Total years of experience :32 years, 2 Months
- Reporting to IT Deputy Director.
- Evaluation and proposals to the upper management of new technologies and infrastructures in relation to business implementations.
- Thorough investigation and rapid prototyping of proposed subcontractors’ solutions in order to provide IT upper management, with insight and hands-on experience.
- Reporting to CIO.
- Manager of the teams responsible for the maintenance and administration of the infrastructures (RDBMS Administration, systems integration etc) of the Bank’s “peripheral systems” (all none core banking systems).
- Manager of the teams responsible for the development and maintenance of “in-house” and contracted BI applications.
- Management and coordination of contracted projects in respect to applications
- Manager of the teams responsible for the IT help desk and user support.
- Manager of the teams responsible for the maintenance and administration of the infrastructures in respect to Active Directory, collaboration platforms (eMail, Lync etc) and mobile computing (Blackberry, iPhone etc).
- Evaluation and proposals to the upper management of new technologies and infrastructures in relation to business implementations.
- I.T. representative of the Bank in Public and Private Organizations (Tiresias, Hellenic Management Association etc).
- Reporting to Deputy CIO.
- Manager of the teams responsible for the maintenance and administration of the infrastructures (RDBMS Administration, systems integration etc) of the Bank’s “peripheral systems” (all none core banking systems).
- Manager of the teams responsible for the development and maintenance of “in-house” and contracted BI applications.
- Management and coordination of contracted projects in respect to applications
- Evaluation and proposals to the upper management of new technologies and infrastructures in relation to business implementations.
- Manager of the team responsible for the development of “in-house” BI applications.
- Management and coordination of contracted projects in respect to applications under the department’s jurisdiction.
- Evaluation and proposals to the upper management of new technologies and infrastructures in relation to business implementations.
- Management and maintenance of the Data Centre Located in Athens.
- Management of all Oracle Infrastructure which covers Oracle Application Servers, Oracle Database Servers, 11i Environment Servers, OFSA Environment Servers.
- Evaluation and proposals to the upper management of new technologies and infrastructures in relation to business implementations.
- I.T. Strategic planning according to the business needs of the company and market developments.
- Implementation of software and hardware platforms selected in conformance with the business strategy.
- Creation of policies and the related processes to support the defined strategy and marketing them to the management of the company.
- Preparation of tenders, set up and participation in committees for vendor evaluation and selection.
- Supervision of a team responsible for the support of hardware and software installations including help desk.
- Lecturer in C.I.S. Department having taught, amongst other subjects, Introduction to Computer Science, Hardware and Software Concepts, Visual Basic, Oracle.
- Manager of the team responsible for providing an appropriate integrated pre-billing system for Vodafone telecom in Greece.
- Preparation and co-ordination of the company's quotations in response to tenders originating both from the public as well as from the private sector. (e.g. the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Committee, Ministry of Transportation, Vodafone, the National Bank of Greece etc. )
- Selection and integration of RDBMS Platforms, Operation Systems and hardware platforms, for the first Pan-European installation of Web-Sphere with Oracle 8.1.6 on an IBM H70-Risk system for Copeluzos Group.
- Controlling of the Project for the implementation of Lotus Notes workflow application concerning the Loans Approval Procedure for the National Bank of Greece. Liaison for senior management, reporting the progress and proposing corrective actions when necessary.
- Project management for the planning, implementation and rollout / installation of the ORAMA 2000 ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system in several organisations.
- System analysis of the companies interested in installing ERP systems.
Responsible for Applied Databases and Systems Analysis courses.
- Analysis of the S/W & H/W requirements of the Personnel Office.
- Proposing alternative solutions for the improvement of the operations of the communication centre to the commander of the unit.
- Supervision of a turnkey solution for the computerisation of the personnel office.
- Preparation, Implementation and Testing of the software and hardware infrastructure necessary for the registration of the recruits.
- Responsible for the analysis of existing processes, feasibility study and proposals for the introduction of an I.T. solution for the company.
- Supervision of the implementation of the I.T. Solution for the development of microbiological examination results.
- Lab Instructor, demonstrating several of the theoretical aspects of related courses in real-life situations. Assisting and guiding students in developing projects simulating business requirements and environment.
- Administration and supervision of workshops for ORACLE, SQL Plus and SQL Forms, conducted for the M.Sc. in Information Systems Management and the Master in Business Administration.
- System analysis and S/W development of an accounting S/W package.
- Assistant to the project manager.
- Planning and implementation of PC networks (S/W and H/W).
- Implementation of a hardware and software I.T. infrastructure, for improving the operations of microbiological laboratories.
Thesis: Metadata in Tackling Big Data Variety Expected Graduation 2019
M.Sc. in Information Systems Management (with Distinction).
Computer Information Systems GPA 4/4 Management and Organisational Behaviour 3.6/4