John Prappas

 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.