Summary (Digital Marketing Professional, 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/