Greece
Over 15 years’ experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of varying sizes and complex IT projects. Ability to build strong relationships with all stakeholders and to turn proposals into reality. Successful in management roles that demand rigor, a high level of drive and dedication and a focus on delivering business outcomes through the use of global recognized methodologies and standards. Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project initiation/proposals, project delivery, business liaison / stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out / handover.
Accountable to lead PMO department and overall management of FDH portfolio of large strategic projects. Responsibilities: • Leading a senior project management team with overall responsibility in large and strategic projects. • Responsible to build and maintain the Project Management Framework for proper execution of projects based on recognized project management methodologies. • Executive Management Reporting • Portfolio Risk Analysis • Program/Project Management on strategic projects.
As a member of a senior project management team engaged as a program/ project manager in a number of large scale projects related with core banking IT financial services. Accountable to provide high quality project management consulting services for a number of FDH strategic initiatives in the local and global market. Specialized in the delivery of large scale migration projects of securitized portfolios on behalf of global investment funds with multi million euros revenue for FDH and Customers. Responsible for : • Managing large scales internal teams and external vendors for the execution of all project lifecycle phases (Developers, Business Analysts, Testers, IT Operations, Legal, Procurement etc.) • Driving the Business and Technical requirements specification analysis involving all relevant departments and ensuring technical feasibility and resource availability • Evaluating and tracking project’s progressive elaboration through a solid and approved project plan. • Ensuring the on-time and on-budget delivery of projects with very strict deadlines with high customer revenue impact. • Fully understanding of executive management reporting needs, client and vendor relationships. • Ensuring that all departments involved in the project operate as a united team and understand their responsibilities in the project. • Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
Involved directly with the major activities of the large enterprise sales segment. Accountable to provide project management consulting services for the majority of the assigned projects of DELL direct model (200 direct large accounts) with overall budget from 150.000 € up to 2 million euros. For proper management and delivery of all services in respect with the triple constraint of time, cost and quality Dell has integrated the global recognized standard of PMI as part of the Global PMO organizational structure and methodology (Dell Project Management Framework – DPMF-PMI aligned). Responsible for : • Coordination of Dell resources and external vendors for proper delivery and execution of all project lifecycle phases. • Participating in definition of project specifications and client requirements • Managing project progress through a detailed project plan • On-time and on-budget delivery of projects according project technical requirements and customer expectations • Reporting, horizontal and vertical escalating to management as needed • Managing account relationships according account management strategy • Stakeholder management (internal , external) • Detailed project documentation
Involved directly with the major activities of the informational department, specifically regarding the areas of: • Project management in public and private sector projects Responsible for managing complex informational projects in the public sector of 100.000 € up to 1.500.000 € budget. In the majority all these projects were funded by the Central Governmental Operational Programme “Information Society” (European Peripheral Fund). Managing these projects were applied basic principles of globally recognized standards for project management like PMI standard (official ANSI standard) and PRINCE2 standard of Office of Government Commerce in UK. • Preparation-documentation and follow up of significant bids in public sector (presales). Actively participating in company’s presales team with major contribution in preparing state of the art technical solutions based on top IT infrastructure and software vendors like HP, DELL, IBM, ORACLE, MICROSOFT technologies and products. • Advising on project implementation methodologies throughout the proposal.Acquiring offers from subcontractors and vendors for budgeting purposes and determining final price for the bid. Final checking of the proposal document prior to submission • Quality assurance policy on informatics department processes. Advising, creating, establishing and revising processes for the optimization of the operational procedures of the informatics department