Panagiotis Avgoustis Email & Phone Number

Athens, Greece

Aisle Ahead is the first to provide grocery retailers with an e-commerce and shopping trip planning platform that’s customized in its entirety, allowing each retailer to effectively compete and differentiate. The platform cultivates consumer connections and empowers the grocery shopping experiences by understanding each shopper and their intent, from simply planning a shopping trip to online ordering. With an auxiliary consumer channel through BigOven, an award-winning recipe app with commercial kitchen APIs, Aisle Ahead extends capabilities that enable grocers, brands, and smart kitchen manufacturers to uniquely connect with consumers and influence decisions through content.

Greece

PEC Enterprises S.A was founded in Athens in 2001. With great experience in the IT solutions sector as well as knowledge of the IT market in Greece the company provides cost-effective manning to software development teams and collaboration with major banking institutions in Greece. A Mobile App development team has also been setup which created successful mobile apps for Android and iOS. A Big Data team is working on Predictive Analytics projects.

Greece; United Kingdom

Youtravel.com is an online resort accommodation provider with 120 employees, revenues of over 100M Euros. It is specialising in 3*, 4* and 5* properties in the Southern Mediterranean and the Middle East and expanding into other geographies. On April 1st 2012 the FTI Group acquired 85% of the shares of Youtravel.• Responsible for all aspects of the IT function (infrastructure, planning, implementation and maintenance) including managing and guiding the IT team. • Accountable for the performance of the back-office, online reservation systems and XML feeds.• Successfully planned and delivered agreed development projects on time and on budget, including liaising with external development providers. • Monitored and ensured the robustness, high performance, 365x24x7 availability and saleability of all in-house, collocated and hosted systems amongst the various data centers.• Successfully re-designed the infrastructure architecture for peak performance while the capacity and security was upgraded.• Business intelligence tools were put into place for better monitoring greater understanding and decision making in terms of sales performance.Under my leadership and guidance all software modules were reviewed, corrected and augmented thus reaching a more than 92% faults reduction. With thorough market analysis and affective commercial negotiations I reduced by 45% the data center’s operational (hosting & support) expenses.

Greece

QBIX LTD is an IT company specializing in several service sectors. QBIX offers a very rich selection of services for software development and IT consulting.• Provided MIS solutions using Qlikview, database management software; web development and integration; custom software solutions; manufacturing and production solutions; and video surveillance solutions, including all encoding, decoding capturing, cross-platform development, application porting, file conversion and filtering, IT consulting and support.

Greece

Sigma securities, which was later acquired by Piraeus bank, was a large brokerage house. Due to the nature of on-line trading which is highly dynamic and fast moving, it was imperative to be accurate, fast acting, highly efficient and responsive.• Developed and managed effective organisational structure and procedures.• Monitored and coordinated business plan development, annual budget and financial data control.• Oversaw the daily operation including designing future enhancements for internet trading service (Sigma Online, Sigma-E-Broker) and managing internet customer relationships.• Guided the Internet Trading Team• Accountable for a start up call centre, which promoted the SigmaWap Service and associated products.• Designed, implemented and supervised the company’s web site.• Implemented new product development including SigmaWAP with the cooperation of Telestet Hellas (service for stock transactions using mobile telephony and WAP) and SIGMAnalysis (service with financial information for investors through web interface).Internet trading revenue was tripled.

Greece

• Responsible for the maximised utilisation of existing workflow applications. • Accountable for the introduction, design, implementation, and maintenance of intranet based applications by applying appropriate methods, techniques, and processes.• Prepared documentation for all developed applications following the life cycle model.• Implemented security in workflow applications and automated work flow procedures.• Designed and implemented company wide Intranet standards, and infrastructure.

Greece

• Researched, evaluated and recommended new development and productivity enhancement tools, new products and technologies.• Evaluated helpdesk and knowledge base systems for in-house and external company use, in order to enhance productivity, accuracy and timely delivery of information in an effective manner.• Completed case and feasibility study for proposal of installation of virtual private network with various services to be used by company customers.• Evaluated several electronic commerce systems including electronic payment systems.• Developed, installed and administered company procedures and software development methodology help system for company employees using web browsers.• Provided analysis of existing systems and methodologies and recommendations for changes and additions in order to obtain peak productivity.• Implemented training of information technology personnel for new technologies and working environments including networks, TCP/IP, Windows 95, and mail.• Designed and implemented company-wide backup/restore procedures