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Overseeing all operational aspects of company strategy. Safeguard and augment the efficiency of the company’s operations to facilitate accelerating development and long-term success. Devise strategies for ensuring the growth of programs enterprise-wide, and implement process improvements to maximize output and minimize costs. Analyze current operational processes and performance, recommending solutions for improvement where necessary

Responsible for developing and implementing information security program, which includes procedures and policies designed to protect enterprise communications, systems and assets from both internal and external threats.

Architected an Azure PaaS and SaaS highly available and scalable environment, allowing business to build systems using latest GDPR, SSO and Security best practices in the field of Finance, data capture, full invoice recognition (including all lines of the invoice) and insert them to the backend systems without any sort of training.

Greece

Accountable for managing the delivery of critical projects, and providing managerial support for most of the projects conducted by the company. Also responsible for providing monthly financial and technical updates of any known issues/risks to Senior Manager.Responsible for leading and managing a project team in auditing and implementing improvements to all the IT software and procedures from the front end to network security. Also involved in managing, planning, scheduling & reporting on project activities.Achievements:• Architect 99.99% availability environments.• Creating Auto Provisioning mechanism for new services with dynamic scale-out and scale-up procedures.• Resolve complex problems, quickly diagnosing and identifying issues and determining the proper resolutions with outstanding increase in operation efficiency.• Manage large scale cloud, virtual and physical systems, network and software deployment projects for client companies with full oversight for architect, development, deployment and production.• Plan, develop and deploy change management initiatives for technical implementation including productivity software, cloud, virtual and physical systems, technical application and hardware release.

Greece

Advising several companies in Textile, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) Software and Building Materials sectors. Engagements included:● Textile companies: Information Technology (IT) and Business Advisor. Consulted with top textile companies to identify operational cost drivers and increase efficiency resulting in cost reductions of ~1.4M€ per year.● Retail company: Information Technology (IT) Advisor. Implemented new network and part of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for retail company improving customer transaction to inventory systems decreasing downtime by 60%.● Pharmaceutical / Healthcare Company: Information Technology (IT) and Cloud Advisor. Designed and implemented the complete front-end, virtualize the back-end with VMWare. Design a Cloud Infrastructure with PaaS, SaaS and deploy selected services.● Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software House: Business Process Advisor. Designed an order procurement system for an Enterprise resource planning (ERP) Software company resulting in significant efficiencies and a better user experience.● Building Materials: Information Technology (IT) Advisor.Troubleshoot a variety of operational and Information Technology (IT) system issues.● Consultancy Company: Architect and Implement Virtualization infrastructure both frond-end and back-end with HA/DR. Architect and Implement Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud solutions with full HA/DR and Elastic specifications. Creating ROIs with TCO/TBO analysis, targeting for reduction up to 80% in Operations, Procurement, Hardware & Software costs.

Athens, Greece

Responsible for the overall IT operation of the group and responsible for the revise of the business procedures.Responsibilities included: ● Incorporated new technologies. ● Redesigning the backbone of all computers, internet and LANs.● Revising business processes and procedures. ● Select and implement of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.● Business analysis, design and create a new Business Intelligence (BI) system using QlikView.● Create multiple Management Information System (MIS) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).● Virtualize the local infrastructure using VMWare and Hyper-V.● Build HA and DR system for the company.● Secure the entire organization with Firewalls, VPNs, HSRP and SSO.● Create and maintain a realtime on-line MS-SQL infrastructure with 15 MS SQL Servers, connecting company headquarters and 12 branches for the new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). system.

Greece

Reported directly to the CEO and partnered with the management team to set new strategy and lead the Group wide Information Technology (IT) Department during a period of rapid Group wide growth. Directed the Information Technology (IT) team and several service providers. Supported over 800 Fanco employees in Greece, the Balkans and Turkey in several retail outlets, warehouse facilities and factories. Responsibilities included: ● Design and implementation of the ERP and MRP II systems for the Group of companies. ● Providing the management team with real time reporting through MIS. ● Running the Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). ● Coordination and quality control of the external Logistics providers. ● Incorporating new technologies, including production, within our companies. ● Responsible for all the Information Technology (IT) related procurement (Hardware, Software, and Security Systems). ● Responsible for all infrastructure including desktop and server. Achievements: ● Provided Information Technology (IT) and production system leadership that lead to a 40% capability increase.● Design and implement JIT Production for selected factory codes.● Redesign and implement industrial costing through MRP II. ● Implemented a new computer security system for the corporate and retail units increasing system accuracy and employee tracking.● Designed and lead the implementation of a new production unit for FANWARE Inc. supporting a new 10M € business.● Designed and lead the system implementation of a Group wide physical space consolidation.

Greece

Reported directly to the CEO and partnered with the management team to set new strategy and lead the Group wide IT Department during a period of rapid Group wide growth. Directed the IT team and several service providers.

Greece

Responsible for several projects and Information Technology (IT) operations that implemented changes in the Information Technology (IT) for four Group companies.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Mba, 92% | Gpa 3.62 | Graduate With Honors

Programming / Analyst

Diploma In Electronics, Specialized In Automation