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Dimitris Vorisis

Agile project manager

46years • Torreguadiaro

Summary

I have worked in multiple facets of technology, focusing on team, project and program management in new product development, in the areas of R&D, B2B and B2C and in complex technological environments from near real-time systems to high volume transaction platforms. I have thorough experience of co-located and geographically distributed cross functional teams and I have managed technology programs of up to 150 engineers in 5 global locations. I have experience in phase-gate project management, agile project and program management and agile transformation

Skills

Agile Project Managementprogram managementNew Product DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureGlobal TeamsAgile TransformationB2CB2BNPD

Experiences

Agile project manager

09-2016 - NowIT developmentLead cross-functional teams in Gibraltar and Portugal, that operate in a disciplined agile environment and work autonomously in separate product areas to deliver business changes to the sportsbook platform focusing on furthering business process automation, enhancing user experience or delivering new product offerings in the market. Notable achievements: ▪ Executed the agile transformation of the teams, building practices for iterative analysis, planning and roadmap definition according to the principles of design thinking. ▪ Coached the teams to complement solution designs with operational considerations by introducing concepts of A.T.A.M. and adopt industry standards for the definition of system-quality attributes according to ISO/IEC 9126, reducing TCO and OPEX. ▪ Defined cross-functional test practices in line with the distributed IT governance mandate the company has adopted to optimize recovery times from failures, increase rate of change and decrease the cost of software maintenance ▪ Enhanced DevOps practices and optimized the time to recover from failures through continuous monitoring, enhancement of monitoring with business related KPIs, shortening feedback loops to business departments and teams ▪ Reduced delivery risk via efficient use of canary releases and feature toggles as a means to separate software delivery from feature release ▪ Managed 3rd party integrations with external providers as projects require ▪ Led the activities of integrating the office in Portugal with the home office in Gibraltar in process around personnel training, appraisal and strategic objective alignment

Senior IT project manager

03-2015 - 08-2016 IT developmentLed cross-functional teams in Germany and Slovenia, engaged or designed in RFP activities and authored technical contracts to support the company’s efforts in platform modernization and delivery of global mobility and fleet management solutions. Notable achievements: ▪ Identified and mitigated poor practices in problem management and request fulfilment after thorough data analysis, by setting the first set of KPIs for monitoring organizational performance that led to reduction of the total number of aging tickets ▪ Designed and led RFPs for platform modernization and subsequently worked with external agile practitioners and legal consultants to design the first agile fixed price contract the company granted ▪ Identified the need to design solutions as bundles of software and human services and worked with the director of mobility consulting to design the service delivery streams according to ITIL bibliography and the subsequent maintenance and operations contracts governing Sixt’s internal organizations and the external supplier for Global Reporting. ▪ Conducted architectural review of the Global Reporting product and secured the company from a 300,000 euro of unnecessary costs stemming from poor supplier design and license violations of the QlikView platform

R&D Program Manager

06-2008 - 02-2015 Infra / Networks / TelecomLed a global team of five R&D project leaders residing in Germany, Austria and Greece, coordinated the activities of the development teams distributed in Brazil, USA, Germany, Greece and Canada as projects require, technically led the OEM partnership between IBM and Siemens Enterprise Communications, following the global PLM process, collaborated with the global teams of product management, legal, marketing, services, procurement and export control to deliver products to the global market. Notable achievements: ▪ designed the transformation from waterfall to agile program management, and defined forward looking KPIs for organizational performance, stability and risk management ▪ led the realization of the first version of the Circuit SaaS product, spanning 150 engineers and 5 global locations and collaborated with the global executive team for the global product launch ▪ designed and oversaw the implementation and the re-organization of vulnerability and open-source management practices in engineering in order to increase efficiency and information clarity ▪ facilitated the integration of Cycos GMBH with Unify’s product lifecycle and global project management processes and practices ▪ Participated in the consulting team designing the technical migration of Siemens AG’s infrastructure and contributed specifically in the federation requirements between Lync and XMPP based platforms ▪ Coordinated with IBM and Unify export control personnel, the activities to export Unify’s products (part of the OEM partnership with IBM) in compliance with the US Bureau of Industry and Security regulations

Technical Manager

05-2007 - 06-2008 IT developmentContributed in requirements analysis, prepared effort estimation and work breakdown structure, performed code review, contributed in the design specification and in the implementation of fixed price projects. Notable achievements: ▪ Designed and implemented the core i18n and authorization and authentication mechanisms for a CMS application for Siemens Building Technologies ▪ Coached the consulting team to deliver the technical training for ECDC(www.ecdc.europa.eu) as part of the organization’s transformation of their data collection and validation application (http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/activities/surveillance/tessy/pages/tessy.aspx)

Senior engineer R&

03-2004 - 04-2007 Infra / Networks / TelecomContributed in requirements analysis, prepared effort estimation and work breakdown structure, performed code review, contributed in the design specification, the implementation and integration testing, managed the releases and supported the ITU/ETSI product variant, collaborated with the global vendor support team.

Education & training

University of Kent

2000 - 2001 Canterbury, KentInfra / Networks / Telecom, IT development, IT development

University Of Piraeus

1995 - 2000 Pireas, Greece, PireasInfra / Networks / Telecom, IT development, IT development

My soft skills

Communicating
Thorough
Team player
Responsive

Languages spoken

  • English

    Native language

  • Greek

    Native language

  • German

    Intermediate

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