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Nick Tsamoudakis

Nick Tsamoudakis

IT Management
Rocklin,California

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English
Native or Bilingual
Greek
Professional Working

Summary

Seasoned IT Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and delivering project successes. Experienced leader and program manager with over 25 years experience. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Received 2021 NEC Corporate Sasaki Award of Excellence - Awarded for Innovating Business Support and Professional Services Delivery.
  • Annually generate and deliver over $20 Million of IT products, Professional Services, and managed service solutions.

Skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Customer Engagement
  • Field Operations
  • Proposal Creation
  • Technical Documentation
  • Positive Reinforcement Strategies
  • Strategic Planning
  • Project Documentation
  • Product Development

Work History

Senior Manager IT Division

NEC
Rocklin, CA
09.2003 - Current

Product Engineering / Professional Services / Product Support
• Oversee global teams of product and support engineers in Americas, EMEA, and Asia.
• Report directly to VP and global leaders to transfer knowledge, build confidence, enable stakeholder decisions.
• Developed strategic alliances with third parties to enhance service delivery.
• Oversaw special projects to architect and implement solutions for banking and government agencies.
• Developed multiple business partnerships for integration of NEC products into holistic solutions and OEM resale.
• Created, from the ground up, Professional Services and Managed Services offerings related to integration and management of IT datacenter servers, storage, backup, disaster recover, AWS / Azure BaaS and SaaS solutions.
• Develop strategies and new initiatives to advance organizational and technical level of departments, and products.
• Created Customer Support centers in the US. Developed support methodologies and processes for L1-L3 24/7 Helpdesk and Contact Center based on ITIL best practices.
• Lead development meetings with various product management groups. Provide detailed customer and market technical enhancement requirements.
• Establish and secure budgets for departments and projects.
• Managed delivery time, budget, and resource allocations to ensure successful project completion. Maintained above 100% KPI rating for Professional Services delivery.
• Generated revenue growth of 400% in US and EMEA markets for enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity products and services.
• Created training and certification programs for resellers, integrators, and customers.
• Implement customer satisfaction surveys to gather feedback for continuous departmental improvements. scores by 40%. Maintain above 100% of KPI scores including response time and resolution scores.

IT Manager

Toshiba
Irvine, CA
07.1998 - 09.2003

• Oversee all internal IT operations for internal users and corporate data centers.
• Architect and implement corporate datacenter servers, storage, network, backups, disaster recovery, and telecommunications.
• Developed proprietary software and scripting for automation of many IT functions, migrations, and monitoring.
• Implemented new corporate WAN connecting field offices and providing remote secure connectivity for remote users.
• Developed corporate IT security policies and procedures.
• Guided organizational technology strategy and roadmaps. Oversaw equipment rollouts and installations.
• Led technology selection and rollout, focusing on organizational planning, provider contracts and supplier service-level agreements.
• Negotiated contracts with voice and data providers and reduced telecom expenditures by 30%.
• Improved overall user satisfaction of IT score by 80% by improving processes, developing self-service Helpdesk portal for knowledge base and providing ongoing user training.

Certification

  • VMware Infrastructure
  • Certified vCenter Operations Manager
  • VMware Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware Certified U.S. Federal Specialization
  • VMware Certified Desktop Virtualization Technical Sales
  • Certified Red Hat Technician, RedHat Inc. - # 603005096392568
  • NEC 64bit Processing Engineer
  • NEC SAN Storage Engineer
  • NEC Grid Storage Engineer
  • NEC Fault Tolerant Server Engineer
  • Six Sigma Project Management Training
  • HIK Systems, Video Surveillance Solutions Architect

Education

Associate of Arts - Multimedia Communications

Masters Institute
Santa Clara, CA
08.1992 - 08.1994

Hobbies & Interests

Creating devices and programs for automation and games with microcontrollers. Graphic arts design and editing for DIY hobbies. Enjoy practicing bad guitar playing.

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