WORK HISTORY
Inmarsat Global
London March 2019 – Present
Service Assurance Systems – Director of Architecture
- Developing the Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Transformation Strategy.
- Lead digital and data transformation for all business needs.
- Strategic design for data modelling and data governance.
- Multi-cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) hybrid projects design and implementation for Data Lakes, Real-Time Analytics, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Governance and Security.
- Assisting in aligning business and enterprise initiatives with the Enterprise Architecture.
- Lead cloud transformation on AWS and GCP and create data pipelines for client services.
- Auditing compliance within the Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Serving as advisor to senior business management on business and information integration strategies
- Manage 38 Architects, Engineers and Network Specialists.
- Security policies creation and implementation for infrastructure and services and governance policies implementation.
- Risk assessments for all shot-term projects and each phase of long-term projects.
- Influencing business strategy on 6 different data analytics platforms, cutting cost by 60% while improving overall end user (internal and external) performance by 45%, embedding data quality processes. Average project size of 25M GBP, total 210M.
- Consolidation and improvement of Data Platforms and infusion of Machine learning tools.
- Translating or mapping business strategy into information strategy
- Support corporate Maritime and Aviation clients for data, safety and assurance services.
- Understanding technology product and vendor strategies, products, and customer preferences
- Security practices improvement and risk assessments that improved processes and brought business value.
- Understanding, modelling, and representing the organizations business requirements in a human consumable manner, as it relates to strategy.
- Design strategy for machine learning in real-time data analytics platform.
- Endorse continuous improvement of all employees with training on cutting edge technologies, acting as mentor and recommending learning content for team development.
University College London Hospitals Trust
London February 2018 – March 2019
Technical Solutions Architect – Sr Manager
- Design, implementation and delivery of the technical transformation and End User devices transition to a unified Electronics Health Records (EHR), with rationalization of 114 apps to EPIC platform , using HL7 and FHIR.
- Audit, maintain and harden a 12.000+ devices infrastructure, supporting 25.000 end users.
- Maintain/develop servers and services.
- Responsible for software installation, cybersecurity, maintenance and repair.
- Lead hybrid cloud transformation on AWS and Azure and manage 46 engineers and 78 administrators.
- Developing new auditing and hardening software.
- Design a cloud and hybrid strategy for the organization with Citrix, AWS and Azure (AD and SSO).
- Designing the strategy for information and data governance.
- Security and risk assessments for all phases of projects and governance policies implementation.
- Continuous service improvement with adoption of DevOps practices and CI/CD.
- Having strong IT, commercial, planning and budgeting skills.
- Maintain documentation regarding users, services and systems.
- Writing documentation for DPA2018 (GDPR) procedures and IG security.
- Having excellent time management, confidentiality and communication skills.
- Delivered projects before deadline using less than 60% of the budget, total budget managed 163M GBP.
ICICI Bank
London August 2016- February 2018
EMEA Technical Architect – Sr Manager
- Support 4000+ users in 3 countries (9 branches) in everyday tasks, including Treasury department.
- Manage a global team of 54 engineers and administrators.
- Develop and maintain payment servers and services.
- Responsible for hardware and software installation, maintenance and automation.
- Performing routine audits of systems and software, along with hardening and security perimeter.
- Developing & maintaining the company IT strategy, complying with GDPR.
- Developing a cloud strategy on AWS and GCP.
- Strategic design for data modelling and data governance.
- Continuous service improvement, DevOPS practices, CI/CD and InfoSec preparation for GDPR.
- Having strong IT, commercial, planning and budgeting skills.
- Securing systems and network perimeters, creation and implementation of security policies.
- Risk assessments for all systems and infrastructure architecture projects.
- Decrease IT infrastructure running costs by 35% by improving usage processes.
- Writing documentation for ICT procedures, security and disaster recovery.
- Deliver projects before deadline with less than 70% of the budget, total budget managed 3M GBP
- Managing the internal & hosted network infrastructure including firewalls, servers, switches and telephony.
- Create and improve Business Continuity Plan.
Dianysma Interactive MSP
Greece January 2015 – June 2016
IT Manager - CTO
- Managing a team of 45+ administrative and technical staff to support organisations of up to 2000+ users per client from banking, insurance, academic, law and healthcare sectors.
- Enhancing customer products in Banking, Fintech, Insurance, Retail and Telecoms.
- Improving the IT budgets and expenditure on hardware and software, cutting costs without affecting quality of service, by 35%.
- Developing & maintaining the company IT systems, software and databases.
- Developing cloud strategy for clients, with hybrid infrastructure on Azure, AWS and GCP.
- Responsible for the recruitment and training of new staff.
- Writing documentation for ICT procedures, security and disaster recovery.
- Performing routine audits of systems and software.
- Continuous service improvement, DevOPS practices, CI/CD.
- Reporting to the CEO for client projects up to 2M each, total 14M.
- Develop and Implement web and mobile solutions for internal usage and clients, including banking and insurance applications.
- Create and improve Business Continuity Plans.
Studio Plus MSP
Greece November 2011- December 2014
IT Manager - CTO
- Managing a team of 26 administrative and technical staff to support 1400+ users from corporate clients.
- Enhancing customer products in Banking, Fintech, Insurance and Telecoms.
- Helped establish new processes and procedures on responding to various security incidents, significantly increasing response time and improving overall customer service.
- Troubleshoot issues as well as supported Exchange, Active Directory, and VOIP.
- Expanded Help Desk service to support remote offices in MA, CT, and CA.
- Placed emphasis on network security, make certain computer systems were 98% DoD compliant.
- Develop and Implement web and mobile solutions for internal usage and clients, including banking applications.
- Managing projects of a total of 9M.
Digitec MSP
Greece March 2007-November 2011
Senior IT Analyst, Developer
- Writing, testing, and de-bugging software.
- Software performance testing on customer sites.
- Taking the lead in cross-functional teams to plan and execute IT projects.
- Acting as a first and second line of support to customers.
- Breaking down systems into small manageable parts.
Computer Praxis S.A
Greece September 2002 - December 2006
IT Support Analyst, Database Developer, Consultant
Librocom S.A.
Greece December 2001 - June 2002
IT System Engineer – Consultant
