IT Manager
Hellenic Aerospace Industry SA
Total years of experience :30 years, 10 Months
Manage a team of Project Managers, Systems Engineers, and Application Analysts/Programmers in the deployment of business enterprise systems and applications.
Provide leadership, training, opportunities of growth and technical direction for team members.
Multidisciplinary project/program management of cross-functional company projects.
Responsible for the design, procurement, installation and operation of the company’s Servers, Networks, PBXs as well as the Office Automation Environment (Desktop applications, Intranet/Internet)
Budget preparation, project allocation, monitoring, controlling and measurement of effectiveness.
Support of internal and external statutory audits.
Successful implementation of complex IT projects including Information Security, CRM implementation, HW and SW inventory, IT Helpdesk and Citrix Thin Client solution.
IT Strategic plan development and capacity management.
Advisory role in business systems integration and business process reengineering/optimization (BPR).
IT systems architecture (high-level blueprinting) and strategic planning (roadmap definition).
RFQ/RFI coordination.
Planning and reporting for IT projects.
Project Manager for the Management Information System (MIS) of Greek Ministry of Press.
Influencing key decision makers of the public and private sector to favour Info-Quest’s Integrated solutions.
Strengthening business development relations with large customers and members of the Info Society.
Evaluated a large number of technical proposals for the public sector.
Coordination of System Engineers with main objective to support the pre-sales activities.
Presales technical guidance to large account customers and partners. Work closely with account managers to provide input and implement their account plans.
Planning and participation in account calls and events as necessary to promote sales and deployments of Microsoft solutions.
Knowledge transfer to Microsoft partners to advance their technical readiness, and help them to understand the benefits of Microsoft’s solutions over the competitors.
Articulate Microsoft solutions to customers and partners, share knowledge and best practices within the Greek IT community to advance the sales of Microsoft products and technologies.
Design and implementation of large scale and complex Data Warehouse projects including business intelligence solutions for large customers on the private and public sector.
Demonstration and presentation of demos and content as a technical or marketing speaker on large MS events for new MS products and solutions.
Establish, maintain and develop strong relations with strategic decision makers of the public and private sector.
Strengthening business development skills with large customers and partners.
Proposal of new business opportunities, technology frame-work and new business collaboration partnerships.
Mentored and trained new hires.
Tracing the technical specs for the large bids of the public sector and influenced the large Greek ISV’s on their technical proposals.
Author of a large number of successful reports, proposals, RFP’s, white papers and case studies.
Design and development of a Radiology Mail Module for the Esprit project PARCS (Parallel Archiving Communication System) running on Windows 95 environment
Introduction and implementation of enhancements on the visualisation software of the widely-accepted OSIRIS visualisation package.
Member of a 5 persons team responsible for the analysis, design, and implementation of the VAT system of Greece using the IEF Case Tool.
Member of a 3 persons team responsible for the design and implementation of the 3-Tier Architecture of TAXIS (Taxation Information System) project using the Tuxedo System Tool.
Project management lead for a number of successful IT projects on the public sector.
Development and modelling of Computer Vision algorithms to detect internal defects encountered in metals for an EEC (European Economic Community) project.
Analysis of pattern recognition methods to classify metal defects, and implementation of solutions in C.
Development and modelling of a multi-destination packet radio protocols for the U.S. Army CECOM.
Designing of the Generic Generator Model (GGM), a flexible packet generator which controls simulation variables at runtime and provides support for a multi-network interface, and the Scheduler, which provides dynamic runtime support for changes in network traffic.
Master Thesis Title: Parallel Programming Paradigms