THEODOROS PITIKARIS

OBJECTIVE

AG. PANTWN 5 ARTEMIS ATTIKI 1099 GREECE

THODORIS@PITIKARIS.EU (030) 6973-216559

I have built on my academic background in business management related areas by acquiring invaluable handson professional experience whilst working as IT Project Manager in various IT Projects.

I look forward to expanding on the aforementioned abilities in a fast-moving and competitive environment. Moreover, I would deem it highly effective for my professional development to be able to face challenges that would enable me to apply the excellent problem-solving abilities that education at Surrey University has endowed me with.

Lastly I judge it essential to be able to work in a network of inter-personal relations, promoting efficiency, best practices, and collaboration with colleagues as this enables us to take the optimal advantage of each others skills, interchange ideas, and motivate each other thus achieving maximum efficiency as a team.

In conclusion, I find it fulfilling to lead other people in a way that encourages them to organize their skills and qualities in order to achieve their personal goals - and through them - success in the global group scopes.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, European University Institute (2012-2016)In Law and IT European University Institute (EUI) Economics, Law, History and Civilization, Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy Law, Bachelor of Laws(October 2010 June 2013) University of London (External Program) , London UK Areas of Concentration: Studies focused in Common Law, Commercial Law, Criminal Law Management and Finance of Telecommunication Networks, Master of Science October 2008 April 2011 University of Athens, Athens, Greece GPA 8.2/10 Areas of Concentration: Studies focused in application IT project management, technical planning, business case analysis, mobile networks, security, and marketing. Thesis: Cloud Computing : Transforming business and IT Models Computing Information Technology, Bachelor of Science(October 2004 June 2006) University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK GPA 67% 2:1 Upper Areas of Concentration: Specialized in Human Interface Design and Computer Networking areas with Management and Marketing, web technology, simulation, Software Engineering, Contributed to team projects to create simulated real-world applications. Served as Teaching Assistant for disabled students (UniS Mentoring Scheme). Final Year Project: Organize unstructured data using Neural Networks Knowledge Management

Skills Project Management (8 years) Human Resources & Mentoring (5 years) Quality Assurance (2 years) Market Research (2 years) Scientific Research (6 years) Consulting (10 years ) IT Strategy (12 years Business Strategy (2 years ) Business Intelligence (3 years ) E-government Services Organizations Transformation via Technology Change Management Oracle/Mysql DBA Linux /Solaris Sys Admin Network Manager PHP HTML/FLASH Java Perl/Bash Scripting MYSQL, Firebird, Oracle DBA Virtualization Windows System Administration Cisco ( 9 years ) Cisco Voip IT Infrastructure

Bachelor of ourism Business Administration (February 1997 November 2001) Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion , Crete, Greece GPA 7.1/10 Areas of Concentration: Business Administration, Accounting, Logistics, Catering, F&B, Public Relations, Marketing, Economics, Human Resources Management, e-commerce Final year Thesis: E- commerce in Tourism Industry

support (13 years) Microsoft Office Social Marketing Certifications CCNA Linux SysAdm

WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance Journalist-market analyst Enimerosi Newspaper, Corfu, Greece (December 2010-present)

Languages English Greek Basic Italian

Description: Analyze market trends (economical, financial, technological) and populate issues

Technology Change PM (March 2011 present) Karafli LTD Software house Athens, Greece, Description: Manage the software transition from Cobol platform to Java platform For the proprietary the GAS and service stations, accounting & management software. Senior Syste Manager IT PM University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (October 2010 Present)

Description: Perform Network and Server Management for the Central University Service and interaction to the Internet. Assisted with critical system outages, software upgrades, MySQL & MSSQL DB Installation/Administration and capacity planning. Project Manager for the Implementation of Private Cloud system and migration of departmental services to Virtual Machines. Backup/Restore Maintenance

IT Consultant -System Integrator (September 2009 September 2010) TEKAT LTD, Potamou 22, Korydalos , Greece Description: Set prototype and best practices guidelines for the migration of a chain of Gas/Service stations (500) from a legacy manual system to an Automated/Computerized Management System in accordance to new tax legislation in Greece. In more details my duties were to: 1. Contribute in project planning 2. Manage resources and deliverables timetable. 3.End-to-end communication 4.Communicate the concept of the project to team members 5. End user support policy supervision. 6.Crisis Management & Emergency planning 7.Progress reporting and financial analysis 8.Deal with security issues 9.Training of staff for in-house implementation /support 10. Change Management (transition procedure planning and implementation

International Relationship Manager (March 2009 September 2009) & E-commerce Team Leader TEKAT LTD, Potamou 22, Korydalos , Greece Description: International Relations Manager: Negotiate the new Supply Agreement for the area of South and South east Europe (legal status and finance details) Safe Web PM (September 2008 March 2009) Union of Municipalities of Lasithi, Ag. Nikolaos, Crete, Greece Description: Project Manager for the Safe Web campaign for increasing awareness between minors and parents/educators. Project Planning and fund raising supervision. Human Resources Management. Educational Material overview. Acted as middleman between client and technical Team. Project Manager (May 2008 - September 2008 ) Neoanalysis LTD, Athens, Attika, Greece Description: Greek Open University Portal for Web Resources classification and evaluation. Project Scheduling, team builder, business case assessment, optimization, time maintenance, project constraints, crisis & conflict management. Quality Assurance Agent E2000 LTD, Mavilis str, Attika, Greece (June 2007 May 2008)

Description: Quality Assurance agent for the project of National Digital Libraries of Hellenic Ministry of Education. Include the entire software development process, which includes processes such as requirements definition, software design, knowledge organization, and retrieval process, coding, source code control, code reviews, change management, configuration management, testing, release management, and product integration. User interface evaluation and performance testing, retrieval relevantly benchmarking Systems Administrator, I/T Specialist (June 2006 June 2007) Hellenic Air force, Hellenic Air Force Headquarters, Athens Description: Performed software and system and network support for the HAFs Internal central network. Assisted with critical system outages, software upgrades, and security framework planning, IDS overview, Cisco IOS upgrades. Coordinated with military executive officers, software development experts, security department, help desks, and data source teams in a 24x7 availability environment. Support tasks involved work with Solaris 9, Widows 2000 Server, PKI infrastructure, Oracle DB. Visiting Researcher (February 2006 May 2006) Center for Technological Research Heraklion, Crete, Greece Description: E-government and e-security consultant for local and central government bodies. Project manager for EGovernment services quality assurance on a project for the county of Lasithi. User requirement gathering, resource planning, evaluation report productions, client and supplier middleman. Performed acceptance tests .

Network Advisor, I/T Specialist (February 2005 January 2006) University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK Description: Worked on the team that supported the Universitys internal network. Created support framework for the Student and Academic Staff Help Desk in order to simplify the procedure. Enhanced internal security/end user data protection framework. University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete,Greece (December 2001 August 2004) I/T Specialist - Visiting Faculty Description: Primary technical contact for critical issues regarding networking and internet services. Served as team leader. Tasks included resolving technical failures in a timely manner, automating spam and virus/content filtering, and providing technical expertise for VoIP and network capacity expansions. Prepared technical training and process documentation for team to aid with day-to-day support issues. In-depth knowledge of AIX systems, Solaris, Oracle databases required. Lecturer in computing.: Introduction to programming in Java, and Network designs STSnet s.a ISP , Heraklion, Crete,Greece(June 1999 June 2001) I/T Specialist- I/T Project Manager Description: Chief Network engineer. Tasks included resolving technical failures in a timely manner, automating spam and virus/content filtering, DNS services, ADSL/Wi-Fi network designer and project manager, VoIP services, testing internet interconnection (BGP routing), network security audit. Trainees mentoring including technical training. In-depth knowledge of Solaris, Linux Cisco IOS, and Oracle databases required.

Technological Educational Institute of Crete , Heraklion, Crete, Greece (May 1997 I/T Specialist- I/T Project Manager - Researcher Description:

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Unix System manager with responsibilities including kernel updates, mail services, DNS Services. E-Services project manager for external clients (private and public sector) including provision of the Internet Services, planning, assembling implementation team, reporting, and client technical team contact point. Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Lab in the Field of Neural Networks.

Publication
1. 2. T. Pitikaris, Linux in new Economy , 1st Linux Fest, TEI of Crete,2001 T.Pitikaris, I.Tsagatakis, M.Nikitakis, G.Papadourakis, Digital Libraries: information retrieval with neural network , 2nd Internation Conference for NHIBE, Santorini, TEI of Crete, 2002 T.Pitikaris, S. Thanasoulas , Open Source scenarios for Business and Science ,2nd Linux Festival, University of Crete,2003 T.Pitikaris, G. Papadourakis , M. Nikitakis Information Literacy ,TEI of Larissa, 2004 (http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/48335379?access_key=key-x0qv0rmvp4ljdsfejxl)

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T.Pitikaris,N.Carrera Networking in the 21st century the implications of web based social networks and personal data protection 5thConference for Management Science, Economic University of Athens,2007 (http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/48338115?access_key=keypk7i2uuhr09d4j3r7zd) A.Dalianis,T.Pitikaris A low tax movement , Onned economic policy managment, 2010 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/55314671/lowtax-1?secret_password=v4ip5x2wflg291c4z7i) A.Dallianis, T.Pitikaris,N.Kanelos,N.Carrera Doing business in Greece 8thConference for Management Science, Economic University of Athens,2011

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(http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/55240181?access_key=key-24qyoc3aeuikg8qfn4wv)

ACTIVITIES & AWARDS

Journalism Market analyst for the local Newspaper of Enimerosi (www.enimerosi.com) Member, University of Surrey BareFact University Press, 2005-2006 Volunteering Volunteer, Mentor for disabled students at University of Surrey Volunteer, Olympic Games Athens 2004

Memberships Member, Hellenic Taekwondo Association Heraklion Branch , 2007 Member, University of Surrey Taekwondo Society, 2004-2006 Mentor, Hellenic Blood Donor Association, 2001Awards Hellenic State Scholarship Body MSc scholar 2008-2010 Artificial Intelligence Group TEI of Crete Best Associate Award 2008-2010 Foundation of Research and Technology Heraklion - Scholar 2001-2001 Ministry of Education Best Student Award 1997,1998

References
Available upon request