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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Theofanis Giotis becomes PMF Correspondent in Greece
Mr. Theofanis C. Giotis, MSc, MCT, PMP has joined PMForum.org as an International Correspondent in Greece. Mr. Giotis is also Chief Executive Officer of ITEC Total Solutions SA, an Information Technology Solutions company founded in 1988. He is also a managing director and Chief Technology Officer of ITEC Training Services SA, an Information Technology, Project Management and Management Training company founded in 1995.
Mr. Giotis holds a Masters of Science (MSc) degree in Management (Operational Research) from the University of Lancaster, England and a Bachelors (BA) degree in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece. He also holds a Computer Programming and Systems Analysis Certificates from ACE College in Athens. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Project and Program Management.
Theofanis has twenty (20) years of experience in Management, Finance, Information Technology, Security and Project Management in a variety of technical and executive positions. From 1987 until today he gained tremendous experience in the field of Information Technology (more than 18.000 consulting and training hours) in hundreds of Greek and multinational companies and organizations. He has envisioned, planned, designed and implemented Information Technology projects with €10.000.000 worth of hands-on project experience, for various Greek and multinational companies including Athens International Airport, Citibank, Commercial Bank of Greece, Eurostar, Greek Telecommunications Organization (OTE), Katselis, Ledra Marriott, Novabank, Siemens, Spot Thompson, TITAN Cement Company, TVX Hellas, Unilever and others.
As a systems analyst and programmer, envisioned, planned, designed, developed and implemented tens of applications (2-tier and 3-tier) in many different programming languages (Cobol, DBase III/IV, Clipper, Visual Basic, Access, Excel VBA, SQL Server etc) and systems for Greek and multinational companies.
Committed to continuous professional education and learning, related to both hard and soft skills, Mr. Giotis has attended more than 80 one-week seminars/workshops since 1992, on such subjects as E-Commerce; E-Learning; E-Mail; Internet; Leadership; Management; Networking; Operating Systems; Programming Languages; Project Management; RDBMS; and Sales.
Since 1995, he has also successfully passed more than 80 professional examinations and acquired the following certifications: CompTIA IT Project+; Project Management Professional (PMP); E-Learning Facilitator, The Training Clinic; Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Practitioner & Trainer; Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Master Trainer; Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA); CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+); Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA); Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet; Microsoft Sales Specialist (MSS); Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD); Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet; Certified Technical Trainer (CTT); Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE); Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT); and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).
Since 1988 Mr. Giotis has attended more than 100 conferences & Tech Days all over the World, in the following fields: E-Learning; Information Technology; Management; Marketing; Operational Research; Project Management; Sales; and Telecommunications. He has made presentations on such topics as Information Technology; Project Management; Operational Research; Management; and Sales. During the last 3 years, he has commented on Information Technology issues on Greek Television as a Subject Matter Expert (SME). He also writes articles for Project Management in several Greek professional magazines, (the only columns for Project Management in Greece), including NetWeek; HRProfessional; and ChannelPartner.
Theofanis has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) since 2003. A member, co-founder & steering committee representative of the PMI-Greece Chapter, he is also a member of PMI’s Information Systems Specific Interest Group (SIG), Education & Training SIG, Troubled Projects SIG and PMI Frankfurt Chapter. Theofanis has served in a number of volunteer positions within PMI over the last four years, including Greek PMI Chapter Representative and OPM3® 2008 Update Project Team Volunteer. He is currently a participant in PMI’s Leadership Institute Masters Class OF 2007 and a registered speaker in the PMI® Speaker ClearingHouse.
Mr. Giotis has also been a member of the Greek Computer Society (EPY) since 1988 (member of the Training and Public relation committee); Greek Operational Research Society (E.E.E.E.) since 1988; Economic Chamber of Greece (O.E.E.) since; Hellenic Management Association (EEDE) since 2000; The Hellenic Institute of Information Management (EIP); The Institute of Human Resources Management (IMAD); American Management Association (AMACOM) since 2004; ISACA since 2005; IEEE since 2004; and Rotary International since 2001.
According to Wikipedia, Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece and the birthplace of democracy. Named after goddess Athena, Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world with a recorded history of at least 3,000 years. Today, the Greek capital is a bustling and cosmopolitan metropolis with an urban population of 3.1 million people and a metro population of 3.7 million people. The Athens metropolitan area is the centre of economic, financial, industrial, cultural and political life in Greece. The city is also rapidly becoming a leading business centre in the European Union.
Ancient Athens was a powerful city-state and a renowned center of learning, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European Continent. The classical era heritage is still evident in the city, portrayed through a number of ancient monuments and artworks, the most famous of all being the Parthenon on the Acropolis, standing as an epic landmark of western civilization. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896 and in 2004 it welcomed the Summer Olympics back home with great success.
Athens has been a popular destination for travellers since antiquity. Over the past decade, the infrastructure and social amenities of Athens have been radically improved, in part due to the 2004 Olympic Games. The Greek state, aided by the E.U., has poured money into major infrastructure projects such as the new, state-of-the-art "Eleftherios Venizelos" International Airport, the massive expansion of the Metro system, and the new Attiki Odos motorway. Home to a vast number of 5 and 4 star hotels, the city is currently the 6th most visited capital in Europe.
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in south-eastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula. It is bordered by Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the north and by Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both, parts of the eastern Mediterranean basin, feature a vast number of islands. Greece lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is heir to the heritages of classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule.
Regarded as the cradle of western civilization and being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, western literature, political science, major scientific principles, and drama, Greece has a particularly long and eventful history and a cultural heritage considerably influential in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Today, Greece is a developed country, a member of the European Union since 1981 and a member of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union since 2001. Athens, Thessalonika, Piraeus and Patras are the country's major cities.
Greece operates on a capitalist mixed economy. The nation's main economic activity is primarily based on tourism, shipping, banking & finance, manufacturing and construction and telecommunications sectors while the country serves as the regional business hub for many of the world's major multinational companies. Greece enjoys a high standard of living, ranking 24th on the 2006 Human Development Index and 22nd on The Economist's 2005 world-wide quality-of-life index and it has an average per capita income that has been estimated at $23,518. for the year 2006. Additional information about Athens and Greece can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org, the source of the information included here.
Theofanis Giotis lives in Athens, Greece. He can be contacted at Theofanis.Giotis@ITEC.edu or Theofanis.Giotis@PMI-GREECE.org. We at PMForum.org want to welcome Theofanis to the PMF Global Correspondents Network.
On August 9, 2006, PMForum.org announced the formation of a global network of International Correspondents to provide more timely and varied project management-related news and information from around the world. More information about this program and about other international correspondents can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5. Correspondents also provide pmforum.org with local representation, and provide news and articles for publication in the PM World Today eJournal. Other experienced PM professional leaders located in major cities around the world interested in becoming an international correspondent for pmforum.org are encouraged to contact editor@pmforum.org.
Established in 1995 by the late David Curling, PMI Fellow and globally recognized professional leader based in Canada, www.pmforum.org is one of the most popular and widely known websites in the world of project management. PMForum.org is one of the world’s leading sources of project management news and information. It also produces the monthly online PM World Today where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.
Theofanis has twenty (20) years of experience in Management, Finance, Information Technology, Security and Project Management in a variety of technical and executive positions. From 1987 until today he gained tremendous experience in the field of Information Technology (more than 18.000 consulting and training hours) in hundreds of Greek and multinational companies and organizations. He has envisioned, planned, designed and implemented Information Technology projects with €10.000.000 worth of hands-on project experience, for various Greek and multinational companies including Athens International Airport, Citibank, Commercial Bank of Greece, Eurostar, Greek Telecommunications Organization (OTE), Katselis, Ledra Marriott, Novabank, Siemens, Spot Thompson, TITAN Cement Company, TVX Hellas, Unilever and others.
As a systems analyst and programmer, envisioned, planned, designed, developed and implemented tens of applications (2-tier and 3-tier) in many different programming languages (Cobol, DBase III/IV, Clipper, Visual Basic, Access, Excel VBA, SQL Server etc) and systems for Greek and multinational companies.
Committed to continuous professional education and learning, related to both hard and soft skills, Mr. Giotis has attended more than 80 one-week seminars/workshops since 1992, on such subjects as E-Commerce; E-Learning; E-Mail; Internet; Leadership; Management; Networking; Operating Systems; Programming Languages; Project Management; RDBMS; and Sales.
Since 1995, he has also successfully passed more than 80 professional examinations and acquired the following certifications: CompTIA IT Project+; Project Management Professional (PMP); E-Learning Facilitator, The Training Clinic; Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Practitioner & Trainer; Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Master Trainer; Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA); CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+); Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA); Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet; Microsoft Sales Specialist (MSS); Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD); Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet; Certified Technical Trainer (CTT); Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE); Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT); and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).
Since 1988 Mr. Giotis has attended more than 100 conferences & Tech Days all over the World, in the following fields: E-Learning; Information Technology; Management; Marketing; Operational Research; Project Management; Sales; and Telecommunications. He has made presentations on such topics as Information Technology; Project Management; Operational Research; Management; and Sales. During the last 3 years, he has commented on Information Technology issues on Greek Television as a Subject Matter Expert (SME). He also writes articles for Project Management in several Greek professional magazines, (the only columns for Project Management in Greece), including NetWeek; HRProfessional; and ChannelPartner.
Theofanis has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) since 2003. A member, co-founder & steering committee representative of the PMI-Greece Chapter, he is also a member of PMI’s Information Systems Specific Interest Group (SIG), Education & Training SIG, Troubled Projects SIG and PMI Frankfurt Chapter. Theofanis has served in a number of volunteer positions within PMI over the last four years, including Greek PMI Chapter Representative and OPM3® 2008 Update Project Team Volunteer. He is currently a participant in PMI’s Leadership Institute Masters Class OF 2007 and a registered speaker in the PMI® Speaker ClearingHouse.
Mr. Giotis has also been a member of the Greek Computer Society (EPY) since 1988 (member of the Training and Public relation committee); Greek Operational Research Society (E.E.E.E.) since 1988; Economic Chamber of Greece (O.E.E.) since; Hellenic Management Association (EEDE) since 2000; The Hellenic Institute of Information Management (EIP); The Institute of Human Resources Management (IMAD); American Management Association (AMACOM) since 2004; ISACA since 2005; IEEE since 2004; and Rotary International since 2001.
Athens has been a popular destination for travellers since antiquity. Over the past decade, the infrastructure and social amenities of Athens have been radically improved, in part due to the 2004 Olympic Games. The Greek state, aided by the E.U., has poured money into major infrastructure projects such as the new, state-of-the-art "Eleftherios Venizelos" International Airport, the massive expansion of the Metro system, and the new Attiki Odos motorway. Home to a vast number of 5 and 4 star hotels, the city is currently the 6th most visited capital in Europe.
Greece operates on a capitalist mixed economy. The nation's main economic activity is primarily based on tourism, shipping, banking & finance, manufacturing and construction and telecommunications sectors while the country serves as the regional business hub for many of the world's major multinational companies. Greece enjoys a high standard of living, ranking 24th on the 2006 Human Development Index and 22nd on The Economist's 2005 world-wide quality-of-life index and it has an average per capita income that has been estimated at $23,518. for the year 2006. Additional information about Athens and Greece can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org, the source of the information included here.
Theofanis Giotis lives in Athens, Greece. He can be contacted at Theofanis.Giotis@ITEC.edu or Theofanis.Giotis@PMI-GREECE.org. We at PMForum.org want to welcome Theofanis to the PMF Global Correspondents Network.
On August 9, 2006, PMForum.org announced the formation of a global network of International Correspondents to provide more timely and varied project management-related news and information from around the world. More information about this program and about other international correspondents can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5. Correspondents also provide pmforum.org with local representation, and provide news and articles for publication in the PM World Today eJournal. Other experienced PM professional leaders located in major cities around the world interested in becoming an international correspondent for pmforum.org are encouraged to contact editor@pmforum.org.
Established in 1995 by the late David Curling, PMI Fellow and globally recognized professional leader based in Canada, www.pmforum.org is one of the most popular and widely known websites in the world of project management. PMForum.org is one of the world’s leading sources of project management news and information. It also produces the monthly online PM World Today where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.
