george panagiotidis

Managed the rare and fragile digitisation business. # Environment : Higher Education, local-state-federal government, state libraries, cultural institutions & secondary schools. # Major achievements; Implementation of robotic hardware and post scanning quality assurance software, management of customers/staff, scheduling, design of process tracking software, management of internal R&D and participate in tender submissions. # Solution : Kirtas scanning equipment, Kirtas quality assurance software, ABBYY Finereader, MS Access Managed service desk operations. # Environment : Higher Education Consortium. # Major achievements : Managed professional staff responsible for the configuration of inter library loan software (VDX & Relais), managed several major system upgrades and subsequent testing, facilitated the business arrangements for the Relais' Australian hosted system (shifting from Canadian systems). # Software : VDX & Relais

Team member of a software service desk. # Environment : Higher Education, State Libraries and National Libraries (Aust & NZ). # Major achievements : Implemented the VDX Document Delivery system at the State Library of New South Wales, implemented first-of-its-kind VDX authentication at La Trobe University, designed and automated a system which transferred library suspension data between Australian VDX systems and the National Library of Australia, provided VDX training, participated in major software upgrades, analysed data and shared with the VDX community. Converted and prepared over a decade's worth of CAUL library statistics for the new CAUL statistics website. # Systems : VDX, MS Terminal Server, Unix, Oracle, MS Access, Apache Tomcat, SQL, Z39.50, ISO ILL

Having recently retired from state/national level motorsport competition, I took a 12 month break from my IT career and worked in the motorsport industry. I spent most of the year at race tracks across the county, working as a driving instructor for Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Holden, Ford, SAAB and Audi. In that year, I was given a rare opportunity to manage a state based motorsport team. Unlike my IT career, my responsibilities included the maintenance of safety standards for drivers and crew, risk management, driver training, chassis and engine development, race strategy, promotional activities, contractual agreements and financials. The team's rookie drivers finished 2nd and 5th in the Victorian championship, beating many established and competent drivers. I have fond memories of my sabbatical and am very grateful of the opportunities afforded to me at the time.

* Scope and develop RFQ for the selection of a CMS system * For the hosting of AG's Open Access journal "Australian Journal of Emergency Management" * Gathered requirements from internal stakeholders and held workshops to fine tune documented requirements * Developed detailed functionality requirements and wireframes * Participated on the RFQ selection panel * Provision of Business Analysis within the Knowledge Hub team * www.emknowledge.gov.au * research and advise on information management and information technology options/solutions * Accessibility, cost recovery, CMS Umbraco, web functionality improvements * Implemented the library's Discovery Layer. * Environment : Government department * Major achievements : Analysis of software/data integration options, ingestion of library and knowledge hub records. * Solution: EBSCO EDS, EBSCO + Proquest + Emerald content

* Provided copyright advice to staff and students. Participated in an internal Document Delivery review. * Environment : Higher education * Major achievements : Revamp of the local copyright website, deliver copyright training sessions, provided statistical and system analysis in an internal Document Delivery review. * Software : Drupal, VDX, Innopac Bonus, MS Excel, Ms Access

* Evaluated the library's Research Data Management system options and developed options report * Evaluated the library's Document Delivery Software options and developed best of breed solution * Project managed Talis Reading Lists LTI \ Moodle integration and back office workflow changes

Managing the talented developer and support team, enabling them to deliver short term goals and contribute to the long term vision of the Learnbook product roadmap. Learnbook is a Learning Management System built on the Moodle platform. eCreators is a full Moodle partner. The team is responsible for the delivery of Learnbook deployments, customisations, integrations and hosting. The team maintains 275 clients who provide online learning to nearly 1 million users. To meet implementation deadlines and existing client SLAs by a relatively small team, the team members are encouraged to take a high level of ownership by actively contributing to the production schedule planning. Our continuous feedback ensures our internal processes constantly evolve and improve. The high performing technical team is closely coupled with the sales and content development teams, ensuring best of breed solutions are offered to our client base. eCreators is a fast paced, young, evolving, fun environment to work in.