Dimitris Gkikakis

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About me
Major Accounts Manager at Fortinet
Education
- University of Piraeus
  2010 - 2012
  Master's degree Digital Systems Security with distinction
  M. Sc. Thesis: "Privacy Techniques in Fourth Generation Heterogeneous Networks"
- University of Piraeus
  2006 - 2010
  Bachelor's degree Digital Systems
  Bachelor's thesis: "Digital Authentication on the Web"Evaluating authentication processes of governmental and industrial web services in Greece
Experience
- NOOSE EXTRAORDINARY MARKETING SERVICES
  Jun 2008 - Dec 2011
  Promoter
- 01 PLIROFORIKI SA
  Oct 2008 - Feb 2009
  Instructor in ICT & ICT Security
  Teaching parents, whose children attend secondary school, about Networks, Internet and Safer Internet
- Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
  Sept 2011 - Dec 2011
  Team leader in Cyber Defense exercise of Hellenic Army
  Leader of department "Digital Systems" (University of Piraeus) in the Cyber Defense exercise.Moreover, Creating/Responding Incidents, producing documentation and communicating with the Hellenic Army
- Hellenic National Defence College (as part of military obligations)
  Mar 2012 - Nov 2012
  Systems Administrator Assistant
  Windows Server 2003, Moodle, OpenVpn, IPFire, etc administration and users troubleshooting
- TUV Hellas
  Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
  Trainee in an ISO 27001 audit
- Byte Computer S.A.
  Jul 2013 - Aug 2017
  Building and maintaining long – lasting relationships, trusted advisor, ensure successful delivery of solutions, negotiation, exceed sales target Transforming business needs to technology, maintaining network of key contacts, managingproposals preparation, presenting proposals, account management. IT solutions covered: Virtualization, backup, Disaster Sites, Wired and Wireless Networking, Next Generation Firewalls, Digital Signatures, IP telephony, Collaboration Software.
  - Account Manager
    Jan 2014 - Aug 2017
  - Technical Sales Engineer
    Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
- Odyssey CS
  Sept 2017 - Jul 2018
  Account Manager
  Building relationships to expand company's market position and achieve financial growth
- Dell Technologies
  Aug 2018 - Mar 2023
  Account Executive
  Managing strategic Enterprise Customers, achieving high revenue growth every Financial Year. Areas: IT Transformation, Workforce Transformation, Data Protection, Cyber Resilience🏆🏅One of the top 6 Account Executives in EMEA for 2021 based on customers’ NPS in Sales & Account Relationship Category🏅SEE Game Changer 2020🏅President Club 2020
- Fortinet
  Apr 2023 - now
  Major Accounts Manager
  Managing strategic Enterprise Customers, achieving higher than 70% YoY growth. Areas: Cyber Security, SASE, Secure Networking
Licenses & Certifications
- Intensive Programme on Information and Communication Technologies Security (IPICS)
  Academic summer school co-organized by partner Universities from nine European countries
- ISO 27001:2005 INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ISMS) AUDITOR
  IRCA
- IT Project management
  Vellum Global Educational Services
- Threat Intelligence Exchange
  McAfee
  Sept 2017
- Cloud Identity Manager
  McAfee
  Sept 2017
- Data Loss Prevention (Sales)
  McAfee
  Sept 2017
- Endpoint Encryption (Sales)
  McAfee
  Sept 2017
- Check Point Certified Sales Representative
  Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.
  Sept 2017
- Advanced Threat Defense (ATD)
  McAfee
  Sept 2017
- VSP - MBL (Mobility Management 2017)
  VMware
  Sept 2017