Anastassios Evangelou

Service Manager for large ICT Projects

Responsible for a set of solutions mainly servicing the financial sector. My initial task was to deliver a number of mission critical projects (optimising and accelerating business processes for banks and insurance companies) contributing the implementation teams, either as a part of the analysis group or as a PM. As per my "on-the-field" experience with specific platforms of the world's most known software vendors (i.e. EMC Documentum - Enterprise Content Management, IBM WebSphere ILOG - Business Rules Management, etc.), I was engaged in the sales promotion and pre-sales support of these vendor's products as a Solution Manager.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Mobile Applications
• Electronic Invoicing
• eCTD Management (a group of pharmaceutical industry solutions related with the electronic submission of common technical documents).

Over the last year in Unisystems, I was assigned to the analysis, design and implementation of a corporate mission task to deliver a software tool for internal use (Cloud Asset Management & Solution Offering Calculator), in order to enhance cloud sales across all Unisystem' s available solutions.

Responsibilities Summary:

• Solution / Product Management (Pre-sales / Sales, Campaign, Vendor Relationship Management, Sales Forecasting & Reporting Activities)
• New Business Development (Market & Competition Analysis, Cloud Modelling & Pricing)
• Sales Training (Communicating the portfolio of solutions to Unisystem's Sales Force)
• Sales Enhancements (Automated Sales Offering Calculator development with rich TCO capabilities, Development of a CRM Interface for internal use using the existing-out of the box functionality provided by Microsoft Exchange Server)

During the years I 've worked for Unisystems S.A. I have promoted the solutions I was responsible for, to a total of 300+ enterprises.

Delivered / participated in a number of projects related with the Financial Market (i.e. Contract & Claims Management - METLIFE ALICO A.I.G., ING. / Requirements gathering process, RFD write-up, UI Design & Testing for EFG Eurobank's E.D.D.I.E Loan Origination System).

Datablue is IBM's one out of two added-value distributors for Greece. Entitled to sell IBM's software the company is focused on specific software brands.  It maintains in-depth knowledge and expertise to successfully consult or deliver projects integrating such technologies & services.

Engaged in the promotion of middleware products within the following IBM brands:

• IBM DB2 - Information Management & Business Intelligence
• IBM Websphere - Transaction Management & Interaction

Main Responsibilities: Pre-sales / Sales, Campaign, Sales Forecasting & Reporting Activities mostly related with the financial sector.

One of the first incubators in Greece back in 2000, iCube was mainly focusing the technology arena. Their offering consisted of a partial / full funding plus all hosting facilities to support the incorporation of new technology ideas.

Within the incubator's framework, I have joined a software development group aimed to support the newly incubated enterprises and deliver a new set of customised solutions to the market. Among them a set of Business Process Re-engineering tools (i.e. IDS-Scheer BPR Suite), an internally developed BPM solution, an e-Learning platform and more.

Main Responsibilities: Pre-Sales / Sales Activities for the Enterprise Market.

Assigned with the task of starting up a new company related with the stock-exchange market, providing all the required operational infrastructure (i.e. Offices setup, Computer Room & Communications setup, Stock-Market software, etc.).

Responsibilities Summary:

• Operations Management
• IT Infrastructure & Communication Support
• Maintenance & Support of Trading S/W (Telerate, Reuters)
• Staff Recruitment & Training
• Reporting & Statistics

HFC Ltd. (held by one of the largest audio equipment distributors in Greece) mission was to promote and deploy high-end audio equipment for medium domestic to large-scale corporate installations. Assigned with the task of promoting such type of solutions, I' ve had the opportunity to offer products and services to a large number of consumers and enterprises.

Responsibilities Summary:

• Operations Management (Store & Product Management, etc.)
• Business Development (Promote HFC's Products & Solutions)
• Distribution Channel Management (Maintain a channel of 10 resellers while expanding the existing partner network)

Responsible for transforming a small line of business held by an advertisement company (Dot & Dash S.A.) to a new enterprise schema, enhancing their core activities with better logistics-warehouse management and IT infrastructure, in order to address a larger market share. Furthermore, I was assigned with the development & implementation of a new marketing approach plan to motivate the existing customer base with special offers and incentives (e.g. introduction of a special bonus club coupon rewarding customer loyalty), while expanding the existing customer network.

Responsibilities Summary:

• Operations Management & Support
• IT Infrastructure & Application Support
• Warehouse Setup
• Staff Recruitment & Training
• Marketing & New Business Development

S/W Development for the Hellenic Air Force Computer Centre during my military services. I 've had the opportunity to develop applications for the Ministry of Defence on a large mainframe system (Concurrent Technologies) running OS/32.

During the same period and given the world's universally accepted OS's (DOS) weaknesses back then, I was self-assigned with the task of developing a set of support tools for developers to enhance significantly the software development procedure. These tools were widely accepted by the software developers community.

Engaged in the development of large-scale Payroll & Accounting Systems-Heavily experienced in RMS Cobol and C programming on UNIX System III (Convergent Technologies-CTIX).

My primary effort was the development of ‘in house' commercial applications. Indicative areas of development include:

• Customer Management
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Invoicing / Billing
• Cash-flow Management
• Financial statements
• Cost Accounting
• Municipal rolls and records for more than 40 customers, mainly companies of Public Sector and Local Authorities.

As an instructor in Computer Science - Integrated Mediterranean Programs subsidised by the E.U.

As an instructor in Computer Science - Integrated Mediterranean Programs subsidised by the E.U.

Engaged in the development of commercial software - Heavily experienced in Turbo Pascal programming in Microsoft DOS. Indicative areas of development include:

• Order Management
• Inventory Management
• Warehouse Management
• Payroll
• Budgeting