Mickey Panayiotakis

Current

• afloat at 38º53.68'N 076º31.33'W
• Prestidigitator and Partner at Infamia Global Technologies
• IT lead at Grassroots.org

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Past

• Advisor at OpenHosting
• Director, network engineering at NTT/Verio
• Manager, Network Engineering at Verio

• Technical manager at Internet Interstate

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Education

• The George Washington University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Summary

Senior Director tested in building and maintaining high-availability networks. A business- and people-oriented attitude of breaking barriers and enabling communication flow. Extensive experience in managing change and increasing profitability through consolidating resources, building efficiency, maximizing retention.
Consulting available on network infrastracture, architecture, emergency management. Project management experience and technical team building experience.

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Specialties:

Building and managing IP networks and Data Centers, project management, telecomunications, emergency management and disaster recovery, network consolidation. Also building communications and information sharing.
Consulting for national companies in building their network management team and sharing information. Also consulting on emergency and disaster management. Experienced project manager.

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Experience

• afloat

  38º53.68'N 076º31.33'W

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year )

• Prestidigitator and Partner

  Infamia Global Technologies

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

• IT lead

  Grassroots.org

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

• Advisor

  OpenHosting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

• Director, network engineering

  NTT/Verio

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years )

  Managed network hardware and facilities availability and installation for the U.S. East coast. Network and facilities infrastructure included hundreds of items worth over $2 million.
  • Maintained 100% network availability from Rochester, NY to Miami, FL, at times through adverse conditions.
  • Instituted local contracts as necessary in areas where national contracts performed inadequately (in response to a site outage). Increased reliability by ensuring regular maintenance on all systems. Negotiated pricing structure consistent with former national contracts, while improving service. The site has not experienced an outage since this was implemented.
  • Accounted for $2.5 mil in missing equipment.
  • Consolidated data centers using long distance, multi-channel telephone circuits.

• Manager, Network Engineering

  Verio

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Responsible for the integration, maintenance, and consolidation of three different networks during the company’s merger into Verio.
  • Facilitated the formation of a coherent team comprised of employees from three different companies.
  • Standardized the best practices and procedures of these companies, both for network and for servers.
  • Consolidated over 20 data centers in the Washington, DC area to two, saving money and increasing reliability.
  • Collaborated with other teams in building new data centers, specifically on rack design layout, structured cable plant design, and power and AC requirements.
  • Mentored Customer Care team to support over 75,000 customers through migration to Verio’s support center.
  • Earned new responsibilities outside the mid-Atlantic area, including managing a new data center in Newark, NJ.

• Technical manager

  Internet Interstate

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

  The second employee of this startup, and first one to make it for more than two months. Responsible for everything not requiring the President or Vice President. Internet Interstate provided Internet access and website hosting solutions to the DC area.
  • Engineered a growing network within a shoe-string budget.
  • Performed day to day maintenance of systems and routers.
  • Managed relationships with telephone companies.
  • Oversaw the build-out of the data center in a new office.
  • and implemented an overnight move of the network into the new data center.

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Education

• The George Washington University

  Computer Science, English 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Interests:

technology, sailing, outdoors, photography, environment

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Groups:

yes.

•    Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN)
•    Grassroots.org
•    Africa Rural Connect
•    Verio Alumni

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Honors:

In the news…
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3277.html
http://www.idealware.org/articles/fgt_project_management.php

Ernesto and I also give a workshop on IT Essentials for small businesses, at the DC SBA. Presentation should be linked on my profile, or go to scoredc.org to sign up.

Mickey Panayiotakis’s Contact Settings

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