Michael Phitides Email & Phone Number

Limassol, Limassol (Lemesos), Cyprus

Head of Global Partnerships, Product Owners, Digital Marketing, Content, PR & Events, Competitive and Marketing Intelligence and Marketing Operations

Limassol, Limassol (Lemesos), Cyprus

Limassol, Limassol (Lemesos), Cyprus

• Collect data on competitors’ tactics, market conditions and consumer demographics.
• Closely monitor the financial markets and fintech industry.
• Create a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the business.
• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities.
• Validating and Verifying Requirements – Making sure that the requirements map to the business need being addressed, and that they meet with relevant quality standards.
• Identify and prioritize pain points of new products and or solutions.

Cyprus

- Recruit a strong team of SCRUM Masters, Product Owners and Designers. - Improve and establish a new SDLC (Agile SCRUM Transformation), providing training and ongoing coaching around Agile Ceremonies, planning, writing of user stories, acceptance criteria, edge-cases, UAT cases etc.- Introduce and maintain company roadmap, product design, product.

Limassol

- Work closely with counterparts in PMO to align on the vision, program backlog, define and prioritize the roadmap according to business value and stakeholder input. Group stories into epics, identify product release content and timeline.- Liaise with end users/stakeholders (both internal and external) to gather requirements, compose user stories.

Larnaca

- Lead Product and Project Management Offices, overseeing Market and Product Intelligence efforts; run competitor analysis, established company’s VMOSA – Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategy and Action Plans. - Set and validate roadmap, Business’s product planning and execution. - Innovate, plan and gather requirements. Evolve the product lines..

Cyprus

- Lead the start-up of the Cypriot franchise. Responsible for the smooth daily operation of the company; including overseeing operations and the work of executives. - Designed and project managed business strategies, plans and procedures. Training of sales and marketing personnel. - Assisting the CEO in fundraising ventures, participate in expansion.

- Managed team of business analysts, software architects, developers and QA engineers through planning, designing, developing, and launching efficient business, financial, and operations systems in support of core organizational functions and business processes using Agile SCRUM methodologies.

• A very enjoyable role which involved the undertaking and successful management of large projects (one of which was awarded as Equanet’s Project of the Year in 2012). Innovative and creative ideas initiated another.
• Ensuring compatibility and interoperability of any proposed solution with existing in-house computing systems.
• Undertaking analysis and process definition using structured techniques and diagramming.
• Developing and maintaining an effective working relationship with the Business to understand, interpret and document business processes.
• Facilitating workshops and post implementation reviews.
• Formulating test scenarios, plans and involvement in User Acceptance Testing.

United Kingdom

• Communication & Training:
• Mentoring junior staff members by providing appropriate documentation and hands-on training and demonstrations to increase their technical skills.
• Utilising resources from various teams within the technology department (and across the business) ensuring effective communication between departments.Technical:
• Ongoing 2nd line support and maintenance of the end users’ technical environment, ensuring high availability and resiliency.
• Project Management of small to medium system upgrades, from the stage of analysis throughout their implementation and ongoing support.
• Production of low level SQL scripts and queries used in reporting and database maintenance.

United Kingdom

• Communication & Training:
• Training and mentoring of junior IT staff members in the support of existing systems.
• Creation of business Communication including Analytical reports.Technical:
• Provision of technical support documentation and training to all departments of the business, on the effective and efficient use of the IT Systems.

United Kingdom

Ongoing support and maintenance of the end users technical environment, ensuring high availability and resiliency.

Cyprus

Joined the Air force as part of the compulsory military Cypriot service and following rigorous competency examinations, was selected amongst the top 2% who were immediately promoted to Sergeants. Field responsibilities included the management charge of a 15 member air-defence team, the maintenance and security of missiles, guns and ammunition as well as.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (Cspo) Training

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Student Ambassador, Information's Systems School Student Representative, Business School Student Representative

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