Kostas Varnavopoulos

Managing Director IDEOLI EUROPE @ Ideoli Group, Inc. | Lighting Specialists

About

Multilingual and innovative professional with a wealth of technical experience. Rooted in industry achievements, a creative individual that is renowned for expertise on many creative and technical fields.

Country

Greece

City

Marousi

Industry

Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing

Skill

Television, Video, Broadcast, Post Production, Video Editing, Broadcast Television, Video Production, Director, Non Linear Editor, Broadcast Industry Journalist, Avid Editor, Promotions producer, Mac Automation Expert, Compressionist, New Media, Digital Media, HD, Digital Video, Editing, Television Production

Experience

Managing Director IDEOLI EUROPE

Ideoli Group, Inc. | Lighting Specialists

2021-12 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Europe

Video Content Producer

Ideoli Group, Inc. | Lighting Specialists

2019-6 - 2021-12 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Athens, Greece

Videographer

FOODURISMO

2017-3 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

Greece

Creating food / drink content from pre production, to filming to post production

Owner

Videomag.eu

2002-10 - 2023-7 · 20 yrs 10 mos

Europe

• Technical lead on fully automated weather infochannel “Weather TV” offering updated weather bulletins 24/7 • Designed and implemented technical backend of the system (data manipulation, CMS, hardware installation and optimization, backup solutions, scheduling, automation etc) • Implemented broadcast for TV, web, and digital signage systems run by Cloud Media • Led the technical integration of a fully automated weather bulletin delivered daily to regional TV stations and newsit.gr news portal

Freelance Video Editor

Videoworkz

2001-2 - 2021-12 · 20 yrs 11 mos

Worldwide

Offering video editing services worldwide on a freelance basis (TV commercials,corporate videos, news stories, music videos, TV shows, short feature films, documentaries)

Trailers Department

Antenna Group

2001-9 - 2019-5 · 17 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for preparing, editing and grading various TV programming for Antenna Pay TV channels • Engaging with stakeholders and managing broadcasting/video editing projects across multiple platforms • Oversaw edits and conceptualised new formats for a growing market within production • Contributed to production that had a significant impact on the popularity, success and longevity of programs • Productions include Music shows, Cinema related shows, and children original programming etc • Creating in-house commercials for Antenna PAY TV clients and editing ad hoc projects • Focusing on subscription based channels broadcast around the world and creating content for output • Repurposing material for the channels’ websites and producing various radio spots

Partner, CTO

Cloud Media

2009 - 2013-5 · 4 yrs

Chief Editor Video Department

Smart Press

2001 - 2009-10 · 8 yrs

Chief editor at AVPRO printed magazine, covering the video part of the magazine from the first till the last issue

Sound engineer

Antenna Group

1991-9 - 2000-4 · 8 yrs 8 mos

* On Air audio mixing at Antenna TV’s on air news studio. * Audio mixing for Antenna News bulletins * Music Editing for news stories

TV directing instructor

European Center for Children Television

1997 - 1998 · 1 yr

Municipality of Agioi Anargyroi & Kalamaria, Thessaloniki

• TV directing instructor at European Children Television Center, funded by the European Commission • “Audiovisual Expression Lab” organized respectively by the Municipality of Agoi Anargyroi and Kalamaria, Thessaloniki and European Center for Children Television

TV Director

Melina Project; Education and Culture

1996 - 1997 · 1 yr

Member of "Media Literacy and use of Media in Education" studying group, part of “Melina Project; Education and Culture” The purpose of this group was to study how Media Literacy could be included as a lesson in primary schools