Mike Athanasopoulos

Current

Director Information Technology at CZ Group Inc

Past

Manger IT at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Manager Systems Services at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Lead Network and Systems Engineer at Dickinson Direct Marketing

TSA at Boston College

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Education

Northeastern University
Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Mike Athanasopoulos’s Summary

Senior Information Technology professional with over 17 years of leadership and management experience.
Strong, goal-oriented leader with proven ability to develop, manage and motivate team members to achieve business and personal objectives. Demonstrated expertise managing projects of all sizes, and coordinating resources and cross-functional teams at the local, regional and global level. Excellent analytical, design and problem solving skills; customer-focused, performance driven and passionate about achieving and maintaining high quality standards. Accomplished leader with a record of creating fully aligned teams, technologies, and processes that deliver superior service to the company, its customers, and stakeholders. Hands-on experience leading teams of 19 individuals, supporting multi-site operations, and delivering mission critical services.

Mike Athanasopoulos’s Specialties:

Implemented a highly secured environment that fully supports 21 CFR part 11 for exchanging large volumes of clinical trial data as well as regulatory and safety data among partners, investigators and regulatory agencies.
• Led and supported Electronic Data Capture studies in Eastern Europe for VX-950, VX-770 and VX-702. Trained 40 CRO’s and investigators through an autonomous environment.
• Managed and maintained the entire Global Lotus Notes network infrastructure for 1300+ user community

Mike Athanasopoulos’s Experience

Director Information Technology

CZ Group Inc

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Manger IT

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

(Public Company; VRTX; Pharmaceuticals industry)

May 1999 — 2008 (9 years)
Manager Systems Services

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

(Public Company; VRTX; Pharmaceuticals industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years)
Lead Network and Systems Engineer

Dickinson Direct Marketing

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)

Led a team of two engineers and maintain a 300- user network.
•Performed several high-visibility infrastructure projects including the installation of a new Human Resources software, ADP payroll system, new server room design and remote access for e-mail and network resources.
•Developed advanced back-up and recovery procedures.
•Managed the migration process of Novell to Windows NT for all systems in the factory and sales environments; participated in the service development of a VPN solution and mobile computing services; conducted client refresh of hardware software.
•Maintained voice and data networking systems, including company PBX/Phone system, LAN, Internet connectivity, Dial-up Remote Access, VPN and other physical communications systems.
• Developed and maintained a support schedule that ensured all factory systems operated as needed in a dynamic 24 x 365 environment.
TSA

Boston College

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)