ATHANASIA XAGKONI
Ipsilantou, Athens 695-***-****
************@*****.**
CAREER SUMMARY
M.Eng., MBA, Tech Savy
§ I have over 6 years of management experience in tech projects of the public sector, both as a public sector employee as well as a consultant. Recognized for strong skills in business development processes within various markets.
§ Ambitious, diplomatic, with a firm sense of responsibility and a very strong team player with a passion to progress the company and team that I consist part of. Autonomously drive projects and accountable for project success.
§ Through years of research and study of complex phenomena in a diverse background, I have developed an intrinsic interest in everything that includes sales, numbers, data, innovation and strategy.
§ I am eager to learn and a fast learner. I stay well-organized, focused and determined. Complex analysis, problem solving and integrative thinking are amongst my strong assets. Goal oriented and customer satisfaction oriented.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
§ Weka
§ TOVEK / Anaconda
§ SPSS
§ Matlab/Mathematica
§ R
§ Data Modelling
§ Python (intermediate)
§ Tableau
§ GRI certified
§ Salesforce Certified
§ Google Maps Premium Cert.
§ Google AdWords Cert.
§ Greek OpenSource mem.
§ PMI member
§ Ass. Greek Scientists mem.
§ Deloitte Advisory Board
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
National Documentation Center 09.2022 – present
Consultant
Lead Data Scientist / Senior Software Engineer
• PM of the design and development of the data warehouse for the organization of total cost 3.5 thousand euro. Participation in Data modelling (taxonomy, etc), lead delivery of on-premises migration, design data-based services that enable the Ministry of Digitalization tech agenda.
• Leading a team of 7 software engineers and data scientists of the organization; train and mentor them. Management of stakeholders and partners for project implementation. Provide guidance on project delivery approach, communication plans. Design systems architecture jobs by combining available tools, resources and knowledge.
• Designing the lead account strategy in generating and developing business opportunities for the Metrics/Statistics pillar of the organization. Participate in proposal writing and develop tender documents. Deloitte 08.2021 – 09.2022
Consultant
Core Business Operations; Operations Manager; Public Sector Projects
• Operations Manager for 1555 project; Restructuring Greek Ministry of Labor by transforming organization’s capabilities with cutting-edge cloud, cognitive, data, and other advanced solutions. Coordinated the migration 2/2
and unification of social security institutions by utilizing business process management techniques. Suggested the suitable infrastructure software and analytical tools.
• Technical consultant for AADE (Independent Authority for Public Revenue) BI platform design.
• Participated in proposals submission for Recovery and Resilience Facility, while working with procurement, legal, and business teams for project design.
• Member of Deloitte Advisory Board for Consulting Group. Hellenic Competition Commission 01.2020 – 08.2021
BI Consultant/Data Scientist
IT department contractor; responsible for data related projects.
• Created KPIs and business processes for employees. This resulted in o distribution of bonuses.
o restructure of the Commission organogram.
o reduction the average duration of a case from 6 years to 2,5 years Automized processes and made procedures operational with business terms.
• Investigating large commercial and legal agreements and working closely with procurement for handlin tender documents. Complying with the regulations on European level of European Competition Commission.
• Effectively monitor project and program implementation for creation of dashboards at the forefront of the investigation of the Covid-19 crisis. Responsible for data analysis for the study of excess pricing in healthcare material and food, deal with project research. Initiated the creation of screening tools for economists. Results and expertise shared with competition commissions of South Africa and Brazil.
• Part of the team for the formation of a sandbox for sustainability of Greek companies with adjusting legal and business terms.
Apopsis/SMRC 06.2016 – 10.2018
Consulting company of 10 people
Consultant
Technology consultant. Google Premium Maps Consultant and responsible for WBS of Horizon, Interreg and numerous municipal projects. Submission of technical and economic studies.
• Worked with sales engineers and customer’s technical leads for numerous companies nationally and internationally. Submitted proposals and action plans for funding of the packages for startups.
• Responsible for sector studies; Market Research; Data manager and data security responsible.
• Expert for Council of Europe project. Created the ELoGE matrix, that then copied and implemented in Portugal and Bulgaria.
• Coordination of European Projects (Horizon, Interreg). Offerial 09.2014 – 06.2015
Travel tech startup
Data Scientist
Data mining; Analysis of complex data and parametrization of algorithms.
• Data mining, clustering and segmentation/correlation of data. Forecasting analysis. Helped in the increase of 20% of sales across portfolio of the company. Achieved fundraising from Piraeus bank. EDUCATION
International MBA, Management of Technology 09.2020 – 12.2021 Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens 3/2
Sustainability and Circular Economy Club deputy coordinator M.Eng., Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences 10.2005 – 05.2012 National Technical University of Athens, Athens
Twice Thomaidio Awarded, Plasma School scholar, Job-Fair Athens board and Fundraising supervisor CERN intern/scholar, ESA-ESAC intern/scholar
TRAININGS
Short-term course Management, Hellenic Open University, Greece Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business Seminar, Union of Hellenic Chambers, Greece Digital Talents Academy, Google, Greece
Innovation and Design Thinking in Mobile Applications and Services, AUEB-ELTRUN, Greece Data Science and IoT, Erasmus+ Co-funded Programme, Online LANGUAGES
Greek(Native), English(Fluent), French(Good), German(Good), Russian(Basic) PUBLICATIONS / LITERATURE WRITINGS
F. Zimmermann, M. Giovannozzi, A. Xagkoni, “Interaction of Macro-Particles with LHC proton beam”, Proceedings of IPAC ’10, Kyoto, Japan (2010)
K. Hizanidis, A. Xagkoni, ‘Neutron Stars Magneto-Hydro-dynamics’, Plasma School ’10, Volos, Greece (2011) String Theory Compactification, Springer. Lecture notes written by M.Grana, H.Triendle, A. Xagkoni.