Zisis Katmeridis

A multi-skilled technologist who ensures that the respective business, application, data and technology perspectives are in line with the organisation's technology and governance strategies, policies and standards. I have a proven track record of leading cloud transformation projects and teams to successfully deliver solutions, fully audited with security and risk assessments. Looking for an opportunity to continue my professional development in a similar role within an established company in exchange of hard work and commitment.

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                                             

EDUCATION

 IBM Blockchain cert

 CISSP cert

 GCP cert

 Azure cert

 AWS training

 Prince 2 Agile Cert

 ITIL V4 Foundation Cert

 Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt) Cert

 Master's degree - Applied Computer Science - University of Macedonia of Thessaloniki (Greece)

 TOEFL, GRE- ETS 

 Bachelor’s Degree – Applied Economics - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)