Constantine Gerakaris Email & Phone Number

Athens, Attiki, Greece

As a Graphics Design Specialist, I manage the implementation and guidelines enforcement of the various Graphic Designs for the following brands: AndaSeat, Alienware, Anker, Reccodo, APC, Asus, Dell, Epson, Gigabyte, Huawei, Kingston, Kyocera, Legrand, Lenovo, Lexmark, Microsoft, MSI, Oktabit, Seagate and Yealink.The A-brands that I manage in my everyday work is mainly Dell and Lenovo. The Graphics Designs that I synthesize for these brands consist of: Facebook posts, Website banners and landing pages, Business cards, Name holders, Google banners, In-store leaflets-booklets-wobblers, Roll-up banners, Coupons, Graphics for Storefronts-Booths-Stages, Newsletters as well as Video editing. The Dell Exclusive Stores are located in Athens and Thessaloniki respectively and the Lenovo Official Store is located in Athens.Online portfolio is available upon request.

Greece

Using Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop, I designed the UI and graphics of the online store of Dell Exclusive Store (www.exclusivestores.gr/dell). I learned HTML, CSS & Bootstrap to complete the project and I used metadata and various other techniques to boost the visibility of the site in Google search. I maintained and upgraded the site till March 2024 till it got replaced along all of the other sites of the company.

Greece

As a Product Manager in the Software Department of Oktabit S.A. I am responsible for the effective representation of the Microsoft, ESET and Panda brands in the Greek market. My duties include:• Analysis of the Greek market trends and creation of weekly, monthly and yearly reports for accurate and safe product forecasting.• Presales consulting for the Partner Network concerning Microsoft, ESET and Panda licensing solutions and increase of revenue via cross-sell or up-sell opportunities.• Financial management of each transaction with the suppliers or the customers, using the Microsoft Navision ERP.• Creation of quarterly reports and quotations of renewal opportunities for the Partner Network.• Monthly meetings with the company’s major accounts.• Partner support in both licensing and technical issues.• Constant communication with the representatives of the Microsoft, ESET and Panda Corporations for strategic planning and other issues.• Quarterly training of the Sales team with the latest product and technologies available.• Creation of campaigns and ads in cooperation with the MarCom Department.The brands which I have been assigned and managed are as follows:MicrosoftESETSymantec / NortonPanda SecurityWebsensePC ToolsSophosLogitech

As a Project Manager in the Localization Services Department of Archetypon S.A. I was responsible for the leading, the direction and the organizational management of several localization projects undertaken by Archetypon S.A. on behalf of the European Parliament. My duties included:• Administration of projects for three leading localization companies, Archetypon LV, Archetypon LT, IOLAR S.A. located in Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia respectively.• Creation of schedule and responsible for maintaining all scheduled projects and deadlines based on the European Parliament instructions.• Financial management of each project using the BabylonOne localization management system.• Monitoring of project progress.• Verification that all information provided for each project by the European Parliament is adhered to.• Company support in both procedural and technical issues.• Constant communication with the representatives of the European Parliament for project specific issues.The languages which I had been assigned and managed are as follows:Source Languages: English, French, German.Target Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovenian.

As a Software Engineer I had worked on several Microsoft and IBM / Lotus products having the following duties:• Troubleshooting and fixing of software technical problems.• Communicating with the Project Manager or the corresponding customer contacts on issues arising in the course of engineering bug fixing.• Occasionally undertook the maintenance of build kits, the execution of pre-build checks, build engineering and build verification of localized version of software products.• Sending regular status reports as specified by the corresponding project plans to both the Archetypon Project Manager and the customer contacts.The list of projects I had been assigned to include the following:Applications: Microsoft Office 2003 Microsoft Visio 2003 IBM / Lotus Notes 2003 IBM / Lotus Sametime

As a Software Tester I had worked on several Microsoft products with the following duties:• Analysis and implementation of the test scenarios.• Extended research for software technical, linguistic and cosmetic problems.• Recording of the problems in a database.• Providing possible solutions if applicable.The list of projects I had been assigned to include the following:Applications: Microsoft .NET Server Microsoft Back Office Server (BOS Server) Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) Microsoft Windows XP Professional & Home Microsoft Office XP Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1)