Nick Panagos Email & Phone Number

Oftringen, AG, CH

Switzerland

• Hired to transform the IT Project Management discipline in Omya IT: setup the PMO Office from scratch, create a PPM system in ServiceNow and a 3-year strategy to add Enterprise PMO capabilities & drive digital.
• Develop a new operational paradigm for the Project & Portfolio Management discipline
• Use a “best of breed” approach to mold a new Project & Portfolio Governance model
• Align the legacy processes and integrate the former IT and Business Process portfolios
• Optimize the combined portfolio’s project mix according to strategies & digital transformation priority areas
• Extend the PMO integration efforts to the 2 other PMO groups in Omya, to establish an E-PMO with a new operational paradigm that will accelerate the digital transformation and provide Management with actionable.

• Independent Contractor, various projects. Major projects:¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
• UBS: PM for a Global Unified Communications (Skype for Business) project. Job description below
• Liberty Global: PM for a Core Network separation & LAN Interoperability project, in 4 EU countriesProject Management & Consulting:¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
• End-to-end Program Management, Project Management & Delivery Leadership
• Standard Project Lifecycle Management and Portfoliomanagement, from incubation to delivery
• Digital Transformation, disruptive implementations, user onboarding and UX

Athens, Greece

• I managed a team of 15 Analytics Consultants who delivered enterprise projects on the SAS platform. Scope of work:
• PMO: developed a new PMI-based delivery model, setup the PMO & consolidated the pipeline
• PM: managed the delivery team, appointed team leads, drove the pipeline, grew PM Governance
• Solutions: Analytics, BI, Data Quality & Integration, Risk & Compliance, Fraud, Financials, GDPR
• Reporting: P&L, budget, status & project lifecycle, issues/risks, WIP, backlog, utilization, forecasts
• Business Development: Built strategic partnerships & strategies, to drive the SAS sales pipeline

Zürich Area, Switzerland

WWT contracted me to manage the Microsoft Skype for Business 2015 project in Switzerland, with deployment responsibilities for 80,000 users globally. This is UBS’s new collaboration platform for telephony, conferencing, mobility, IM & video. The solution included Edge, and integration with 3rd party systems (Vantage, Verba, Proteus, UM and SCOM). Scope: ⇨.

Athens, Greece

• Hired with an executive mandate to reorganize the team of 13 PMs & Provisioners who delivered all corporate projects. Conducted a top-down review; recruited new staff, promoted key PMs and delegated PMO roles to them.
• Departmental strategy: executed a new delivery model based on PMI & Agile PM best practices
• Delivery oversight: led the PMO and the PM’s who delivered all Enterprise and SME projects
• Orchestration: promoted teamwork & aligned the internal teams, to ensure coordination
• Client relations: engaged client C-levels as an escalation point & trusted technology advisor
• Solutions: Cloud, UC/Skype, Voice & Data services over FO/ME or EFM/SHDSL, MPLS, ADSL (xDSL)

Athens, Greece

• ⇨ Public Sector Services Engagement Manager (Leader). Scope of work:
• Dotted-line to the Central/Eastern Europe leader, tasked with developing our services portfolio
• Planned & executed the Greek sub's first midterm (3-Yr) Public Sector Services Business Plan
• Managed all local services opportunities and maintained CRM forecast/pipeline information
• Promoted Government Solution Sets (National Gateways, Security & Defence apps, E-id’s) ⇨ Project Manager for large accounts. Scope of work:
• Project Management oversight of turn-key projects in Banking, Telecom & Public Safety areas

Athens, Greece

• Sales lead for key Ministries (Defense, Public Order, Justice, Mercantile Marine, Labor, Development, Press, Aegean, Transport & Communications, Environment & Public Works), and Parliament. Scope of work:
• Maintained strategic account plans by Ministry, forecasts, pipeline, and CRM information
• Building Customer Facing relationships with government elites & influencers, IT teams, etc.
• Drove the sales effort by coordinating our pre-sales team, bidding partners and the clients
• Built a Lifecycle Model to track RFP progress according to Government procurement phasesMajor Achievement:¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Part of Microsoft’s first “Global Public Safety & National Security” team, who created the.

Athens, Greece

• Contracted by Boartes to lead the multinational group of consultants who oversaw the IT Components (Command Decision Support, LAN/WAN) of the C4i Security Systems project, and the PMO interface to the Olympic Games.
• Consulting/liaison role across all project phases (specification, negotiations, award, delivery)
• System Design/Compliance Reviews and System Acceptance Tests
• PMO: Performance, Schedule, Issue/Risk Monitoring, and Status Report presentations
• Client/Vendor liaison with direct reporting lines to Athens 2004, ministerial and supplier leaders
• Directly contracted to the Deputy Minister of Public Order, for post-Olympics project tasksMajor Achievement:¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯Negotiated an €8 million supplier concession, driven by a technical re-design yielding.

Athens, Greece

• IT Solutions division - Scope of work:
• Project Management, with focus on requirement analysis, for Design & Specification projects
• Integrated C4i Security Systems
• Business Intelligence solutions

Athens, Greece

• E&IT (Emerging & Integrating Technologies) division - Scope of work:
• IT Project Management (Process Consulting, Integration)
• QMS (Quality Standards & Quality Measurement Systems)

Athens, Greece

• Managed IT systems (after the PW-C&L merger I shared this post with the C&L IT Manager). Scope:
• System Admin & Helpdesk
• Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery) planning
• Security& Assurance Reviews

Athens, Greece

• Scope of work:
• Solution Selling, to Enterprise Clients on the IBM platform
• Business Development and proposal writing

Greater New York City Area

Known as "Chemical Bank" at the time. Bank Teller, Private Banking.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-chief of the “University Magazine”, and Vice-President of the University's Hellenic-American Club.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration - Marketing, 3.6

Activities and Societies: Member of the Photography Club. Honor Role & Dean’s List

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

Activities and Societies: Varsity Track & Field, and Cross-Country team.