Konstantinos Liakos Email & Phone Number

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Greece

Athens,Greece

Athens, Greece

I was a senior Project Manager, reporting to the Athens’ office GM and Global CIO of the company, responsible for the implementation of the CIO strategy, and the management of the mGage Athens office budget. Accomplishments include:• Slashed hosting costs, reducing EU hosting locations by 80%, achieving a 22% hosting cost reduction in US as a result of contractual renegotiations. Annual savings of over $1M, while ensuring service continuation.• Successfully assisted the CIO on contract and cost management of TSA/RTSA due diligence process between mGage and Velti following the transfer of the latter’s assets to mGage in January 2014 and lead contract transfer ownership to mGage.• Launched the first global security assessment for mGage; maintained/managed corporate IT security policies; managed third party security assessments; proposed DDoS strategy to safeguard business operations.• Negotiated global IT contracts reducing expenses by over $3M, streamlining cash flow management.• Successfully managed the mGage Athens office budget, with OpEx savings of 17% ($0.8M).• Actively supported sales team on various RFPs, RFIs and customer presentations.• Assisted the CIO on CEO, COO and board meeting presentations.• Coordinated risk management assessment for advertising platforms.• Coordinated implementation of BCP/DRP plans.

Athens, Greece

I was Head of IT Project Management Office, leading a team of 4, reporting to the Global CIO of the company, responsible for the implementation of strategic IT decisions & maintenance of IT and telecom assets. During that time I:• Lead IT project management effort emphasizing on service/systems integration as per acquisitions held and datacentre consolidation within budget and time.• Managed the global IT budget ($10M- $20M) with annual savings up to 40%.• Rationalized the hosting expenses with OpEx savings of $6M. Emphasis placed on datacentre decommissioning, cloud cost management and service consolidation.• Assisted the CIO on board presentations.• Assisted on SOX compliance and IT security process improvement as per NASDAQ listing requirements.• Contributed on various RFP, RFI sales opportunities.• Implemented the global IT contract management system.• Reduced acquisitioned companies expenses by over 50% as per vendor management policies implemented.• Implemented report automation through SharePoint and Qlikview.

I was leading a team emphasizing on both business and technical support requirements, reporting to the Director of Operations & Maintenance. During my employment as Senior Manager I:• Provided consistent analysis on departmental budget requirements.• Managed production environment and configuration support of advertisement and loyalty platforms including DBMS administration.• Managed global infrastructure requirements.• Assisted the sales teams on public/private sector proposals.• Designed/Implemented global 24x7/365 distributed monitoring solution based on Nagios.• Assisted on IT & QA support process improvement.• Replaced the IT Operations manager, due to maternity leave, improving customer satisfaction, internal coordination and talent recognition.

I was a technical leader, supporting major telecommunication & advertising projects. Main duties included customer support (incl. off-business customer support), application/DBMS support and configuration, presales/aftersales support and SLA management

was responsible for the support & maintenance of major customers, supporting presales activities and ISO-9001 certification requirements

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

bioinformatics, GA, computing, distributed applications, image processingDevelopment of object-oriented database and Java interfaces for community use and access.Development of Genetic Algorithms (GA) for bio image processing

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Warden Member of the Heriot-Watt volley ball team Lab Assistant Thesis entitled “Efficient Access to Distributed.

Master Of Science (Msc), Distributed And Multimedia Information Systems, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Member of the Heriot-Watt volley ball team MSc dissertation entitled “Using XML and CORBA to Support.

Diploma, Informatics, Very Good

Activities and Societies: Student representative during the 1st year of my studies Member of the football team Various courses &.