Senior Management Advisor
Planet S.A.
Total years of experience :39 years, 1 Months
Provides Management & IT Consulting Services to international projects:
• Project “NBG Malta e-Banking System Implementation”, Project Director
• Project “NBG Cyprus Switching Outsourcing”, Project Director
• Project “IFRS 9” for the NBG National Bank of Greece Group Subsidiaries (Romaneasca, Stopanska, Vojvodjanska, NBG Cyprus, NBG Albania, NBG Egypt, NBG Malta, UBB and NBG UK) in collaboration with Deloitte, Project Director.
• Project “NBG UK e-Banking System Implementation”, Project Director
• Project “Development of Information & Communications Technologies Strategy”, Attica Bank Group, Project Director.
• Project “Strengthening human resources management capacities in the Lebanese Public Sector”. Senior expert in Organizational and IT area.
• Project “Technical Assistance services to National Bank of Greece Group - IT General Direction”, (IBM, Accenture and Planet). In charge of the Business Analysis team which is allocated to the following subprojects: new Card Management System, new Imports/Exports System, Data Warehousing implementations, Alternative Channels Implementations, SAP reporting tools, Corporate & Retail Loans.
In charge of:
• Second Level Audit & Compliance recommendarions’ review in respect with the operational model of the Bank and the Regulatory Authorities (ECB, Bank of Greece).
• Monitoring, Control & Coordination of the recommendations’ implementation plans in respect with the Bank IT Strategic Projects.
In charge of all Banking operations which are fully centralized and organized in the following Divisions:
- Banking Operations’ IT Support Division
Peripheral Applications, Workflow Applications, Document Management, Scanning Units, Archiving, Help Desk.
- Financial Markets Support Division
Treasury activities support (BO Treasury), Treasury activities’ monitoring (Middle office Treasury), Securities.
- Trade Finance & Payments’ Division
International Relations, Correspondent Banking, Interbanking Agreements, Trade Finance, Payment Systems, SWIFT, Funds Transfers.
- Centralised Network Operations’ Division
Loans Units (Corporate Loans, Housing Loans, Consumer Loans, Loans’ restructuring, Non Performing Loans), Collaterals Management, Letters of Guarranties, Cards' Management, Clearing houses, Cash Management.
- Private Banking Operations' Division
Private Banking activities support (Private Banking Back Office, Middle Office).
The Banking Operations structure was the outcome of a 2 years large scale Centralisation program (2009-2010). This program under my supervision reorganized the Operational model of the Bank and all Banking operations were fully centralized.
Director of Projects & Organisation Division. The main activities of the Division:
- Process modelling/improvement in respect with the Societe Generale standards.
- Centralised management of IT systems requirements (Business Analysis team).
- Project Management coordination of all Bank’s projects
- Internal Consulting Services
The division was in charge of the Geniki Transformation Program to Societe Generale’s Banking Model. A two years (2004-2006) large scale reorganisation Program with more than 60 projects grouped into 9 subprogrammes and 250 persons as project teams.
• 2003 - 2004, Director of Modernisation and Organisation Division.
The Division has been fully reorganised with the establishment of 5 Units (IT automation, Process Modelling, Business Analysis, Internal Consulting, Project Office)
In charge of:
• Set up & Monitoring of operational risk data base and reports
• Set up & Monitoring of Procedures’ Permanent Supervision
• Preparation of Disaster Recovery Plans / Contingency Plans
In charge of:
• Audit plans' preparation of audit plans using Risk Management approach (Risk assessments)
• Audit missions
• Monitoring of audit recommentations’ implementation.
1992 - 1999, Worked in Management and IT Consulting Area, level Senior Manager (1998) and the position of the Deputy Manager of Methods and Systems. Participation in the following projects:
Coordinated Projects in Banking Sector, Public Sector re-organisations, International projects (Tacis, Phare) in Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Azerbajdzan), IT operations standardisation and IT security.
Greece
• Kanon: Set of standards and Methods for the IT Project Management of the public sector, Greek Ministry of Public Management and Decentralisation, 1999
• Lending process reorganisation and creation of Credit Approval Centers (in collaboration with McKinsey & Company), National Bank of Greece, 1998.
• Development of an Integrated Information System for the B’ Community Support Framework, the Cohesion Fund, the Program of Public Investments and the Program of Private Investments, Greek Ministry of National Economy, 1997
• Project Management of the Integrated Information System implementation, Greek Public Pension fund 1996
European Union / International
• Reform of the Moldovan Social Protection System with a particular attention to the Pension System, DG I (Tacis project), 1996.
• Tourism Development in Bulgaria: Institutional Strengthening and Enterprise Development, DG I (Phare project), 1995-1997.
• Support to the Employment Services of Azerbaijdzan DG I (Tacis project), 1995.
• BROOM Banking Process Reengineering through Object-Oriented Modelling, DG III (Esprit project), 1995.
• Computerisation Programme of the General Customs Administration of Romania, DG I (Phare project), 1994.
• Organisation and strengthening of the Employment Services of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Moldova DG I (Tacis project), 1993.
Community Support Framework
In Charge of the IT Systems’ design, development, implementation for the following projects (1992 - 1999):
• Programme Management Services for INTERREG (Development of Border Regions), Greek Ministry of National Ecomony.
• Consultancy Services for the Support of the Implementation of the MENTOR Programme, Greek Industrial Development Bank.
• Programme Management Services for the TELEMATIQUE Programme, Greek Ministry of National Economy.
• Operational Programme of Research and Technology (OPRT/Community Support Framework (CSF), Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology.
• Programme Management Services to the Operational Programme "Railways", Greek Ministry of Public Transportations.
• Programme Management Services for the Industry Programme, Greek Ministry of Industry.
1986 - 1992, Worked in Management and IT Consulting Area, level Senior Consultant (1989).
Participation in the following projects:
• “ITHACA” Integrated Toolkit for Highly Advanced Computer Applications, DG III (Esprit project), 1990-1992.
• "KWICK": Knowledge Workers Intelligently Collecting & Consulting Knowledge, DG III (Esprit project), 1989-1990.
• A Management System for the Integated Mediterranean programmes of Greece, Ministry of National Economy 1988-1989.
• Decentralized decision support systems for the Local Gonverment authorities, Greek Ministry of National Economy 1987
• Mathematical models for energy, macroeconomic and environmental impact analysis, DG-XII and the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, 1986.
Worked in IT Department as Application Programmer performing multiobjective interactive programming on the Electricity subsystem of the Greek Energy system, 1985.
Developed a second generation Knowledge based system "EVE: EValuator Expert" which played the role of a demonstrator in the project “ITHACA” Integrated Toolkit for Highly Advanced Computer Applications, DG III (Esprit project), 1990-1992.
➢ Bachelor Degree 1986: Software Engineer, NTUA
