Summary (Digital Marketing Professional Technologist, , Advertisting, Branding and more, βιογραφικό, βιογραφικό σημείωμα, GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης)

Inspired by creativity, fresh ideas and running….GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης

Digital marketing professional with experience in account management in Mobile Marketing & Advertising industry. Managing cross-functional teams and client relationship to deliver multiple digital campaigns that include enterprise websites, mobile applications, messaging services and multi-channel programs.

Passionate about the mobile space with enthusiasm for marketing innovation (GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης).

Key Skills

× Project Planning & Management	× Brand awareness & engagement	× Client Communication
× Account Management	× Digital Marketing & advertising	× Team building & leadership
× Mobile Marketing	× Digital Strategies	× Personal & Business Branding

Professional Experience (GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης)

07/2016 – today OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens – Customer Engagement & Digital Creative Agency

Account Director

Manage and deliver infrastructure projects
Specialized in mobile applications, portals, websites & brand localization.

09/2014 – 07/2016 OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens – Customer Engagement & Digital Creative Agency

Account Manager

Drive account activity to plan, deliver and execute digital marketing campaigns/projects
Collaborate with Strategic Planning, Creative, Production and Media teams.
Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a digital project and scope.
Gather and organize information to plan advertising campaigns.
Confer with clients to provide marketing or technical advice
Prepare budgets and submit estimates for program costs as part of campaign plan development.
Coordinate with the media team to disseminate advertising.
Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas or products (GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης)

02/2014 – 09/2014 mGage LLC – Global mobile marketing & mCRM Company

Technical Account Manager – Client Services Manager

Maintain regular communication with assigned customer groups and carriers.
Manage onboarding messaging process and carrier relationship in US region.
Developing & maintaining in-depth understanding of mobile industry trends
Contribute to business development and roadmap (OTT, MMS etc.)
Collaborate with customers to analyze information, business needs and functional requirements
Establish and maintain key technical/business contacts

06/2011 – 02/2014 Velti S.A – Global provider of mobile marketing & advertising technology solutions (GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης)

Project Manager

Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams to plan, deliver and execute mobile marketing campaigns (mWeb, SMS, m-commerce, Coupons, Ads etc.)
Leading customer acquisition and leads strategies in m-commerce campaigns for retail clients
Collect business & functional requirements and create project plans
Controlling and monitoring project budget and cash flow
Presales support – Optimization and feasibility study
Execute, monitor and optimize mobile acquisition & retention strategies on mobile
Managing accounts in the US & Western Europe region
Client Communication & Account management – 1^st point of contact

06/2010 – 06/2011 Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality control of mobile marketing & advertising services (mWeb, sms, campaigns etc)
Organize campaign activities via mobile platforms and configure test plans and UAT
Collaborate with product team to improve loyalty, messaging and mobile marketing platforms

11/2008 – 06/2010 Atos Origin Hellas – Information technologies & services

Application Specialist Engineer

Installation, implementation & integration for Information Communication Technology(ICT) services.
Support services related to applications systems (investigation, analysis & documentation).
Business analysis, integration, software testing, UA testing(UAT) and test plan documentation.

09/2007- 11/2008 Vending Land – Company specialized in vending solutions, importing & allocating vending machines in public places (GEORGE ARGYRAKIS Γιώργος Αργυράκης).

Part-time IT Consultant & Administrator

Organized and administered local network and IT solutions (web page & support)

05/2008 – 11/2008 Centre Of Informatics & Support Of Greek Army – Hellenic Army General Stuff – Division of Research & Informatics

IT specialist – Network administrator

Configuring and troubleshooting desktops, laptops and servers
Install, configure, and maintain network services, equipment and devices.
Managing and monitoring back-up and disaster recovery operations

01/2006 – 07/2006 Hellenic Post Office(ELTA) – State-owned provider of postal services

IT department

Registered letters data entry and inspection

10/2003 – 12/2003 Greek Ministry of National Education & Religious Affairs, Programme: “Society of

information, training of teachers in the new technologies”

Educational assistant in international programmes (96 hours)

Teaching the main components of PC (web browsing and MS Office tools)

06/2001 – 10/2001 Aegean-Cronus Airlines – Airline Company

Revenue office – IT department

Office employee

03/2008 – 11/2011 Away.gr – Greek Technological and media property

Telecom editor

Education

2006 – 2007 University of Edinburgh

School of Engineering and Electronics- Institute of Digital Communications (IDCOM)

Master (MSc) in Signal Processing and Communications, granted Scholarship from Engineering and Physical Science Research Council-University of Edinburgh
Thesis: Pattern Recognition: On speech modelling & processing

2001 – 2006 National Kapodistrian University of Athens

Bachelor (BSc) in Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Specialized in Telecommunications and digital signal processing (DSP), Grade 7.86 out of 10
Thesis: Focused on MIMO and OFDM wireless transmission techniques

Computer Skills

Excellent knowledge in MS Windows OS, MS SharePoint, MS office tools, JIRA, Harvest, Confluence
Expert in Matlab, experienced in OS Unix and Linux, HTML/HTML5, CSS, and photo editing tool Photoshop

Seminars, workshops and Conferences

2016 – Athens #Digitized16 Digital Design Conference

2014 – Online “An Introduction to Marketing” – Wharton University of Pennsylvania – Coursera

2012 – Athens Tools & Techniques of Project Management – Hellenic American Union and Business Management Consultants – 16 hours of Professional Development Units(PDUs) – PMP

2010 – Athens IT Service Management Conference: “Implementing IT Service Management with measurable success” – itSMF Hellas

2009 – Athens Solaris 10 OS- Sun Microsystems: SA-100: Unix Essentials Featuring The Solaris 10 OS

2008 – Athens Oracle Database 10g: Administrator Workshop I, Oraclej Developer 10g: Build Applications using ADF,Oracle 10g: Portal – BPEL

2007 – Athens 9^thConference “The streets for Digital Greece”–Ministry of Economy&Special Secretariat of Digital Plan

2005 – Athens Pan-Hellenic Conference “Education in Informatics”- Hellenic Scientific Union of Computer Technologies & Communications in Education – Kapodistrian University of Athens

2005 – Athens 7^th Conference “info-com-Voice Era” – Greek Ministry Of Communications And Transportations – IEEE and GSA

2004 – Korinthos 4^th Pan-Hellenic Conference with international participations “Information and Communication Technologies in education”-National University of Peloponisos

2003 – Athens Participation in meeting “Development in Technologies and Telecommunication networks for reducing the costs” – Student Greek Festival 2003

Languages

Fluency in written and oral English (Cambridge Proficiency in English)

Related Interests

Blogging about tech & marketing @ http://george-argyrakis.gr/blog/, about running @ http://running-scenes.gr/
Contributed editor in mobile marketing and advertising site: mobilemarketingstand.com
Member of non-profit cultural and sport society “Antiparos En Plo”

Hobbies

Running, Marathon runner(Rome 11’,Athens 11’, 12’, 15’,Barcelona 12’, Thessaloniki 13’,Florence 13’), Blogging

Mathematic literature and philosophy, photography (portofolio: www.flickr.com/photos/ibisblog/