George Katsouris

About George Katsouris

Highly accomplished executive with a distinguished 18-year career leading the architectural design, deployment, integration, and support of enterprise solutions aligned with evolving business, financial, and market demands globally.Strong innovation, transformation, and automation leadership. Skilled in building, optimizing, and expanding enterprise operations, infrastructures, services, teams, and processes that have reduced costs, enabled growth, and enhanced service delivery.Provide vision and dedicated leadership for key technologies, including network infrastructure, messaging, security, remote access, backup, storage, routing/switching, and disaster recovery / business continuity with strong ROI and TCO.Natural communication and team leader with proven ability to motivate, energize and lead to success. Strength in establishing synergy between business, teams and partners to support strategic objectives across complex environments.Core CompetenciesStrategic Business & Operational Planning — Technology Needs Assessments & Solutions — Budgetary Planning & ControlProject Planning & Management — Solutions Design, Testing & Delivery — Processes, Procedures & Standards DesignData Center, Network Operations Center & Service Center Build Out, Integration, Standardization & Globalization Contract Negotiations & Vendor Relations — ITIL Delivery Best Practices — Team Development & Leadership

Experience

1. Vice President of Global Infrastructure Services

   Coty

   Oct 2012 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Accountability for infrastructure services, such as, data center operations, servers, storage, networkservices, application support, end user computing, help desk, business operations (including ITIL), geographic IT support teams, and other technology platforms shared across the global organization- Lead and enable a culture of excellence that drives efficiency, productivity, quality, and customerservice through automation, use of new technologies and new service models- Partner closely with outsourcing partners to better deliver global IT services and process capabilities- Work closely with members of the IT leadership team in shaping strategy and executing tactics for Coty’s IT delivery model- Further develop process improvement efforts through the implementation of ITIL Services- Lead, develop and mentor a global organization responsible for the delivery and support of infrastructure services- Provide leadership and coordination of the organization\'s overall business plans, processes and practices, while building and sustaining relationships with the IT team- The strategic and tactical management of the company’s data assets, the evolution of the IT organization service catalog, and ensuring the application systems on the corporate computing platforms are operating efficiently and effectively.

Education

• Ramapo College of New Jersey

  Bachelor's degree

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Consumer Products
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Integration
• Demand Planning
• Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Itil
• Process Improvement
• Project Management
• IT Management