Nick Pavlakos
About
Nick Pavlakos is from New York City Metropolitan Area. Nick works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Information Services", "Higher Education", "International Affairs", "Accounting", "Information Technology & Services", and "Aviation & Aerospace". Nick is currently Senior Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), located in New York City Metropolitan Area. Nick also works as Chief, Global Enterprise Business Solution Services at UNDP, a job Nick has held since Mar 2018. In Nick's previous role as a Chief, Applications Support at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Nick worked in New York, NY until Mar 2018. Prior to joining United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Nick was a Associate Director at Gartner and held the position of Associate Director at New York, NY. Prior to that, Nick was a IT Director at Stanford University, based in Palo Alto, CA from Nov 2005 to Apr 2007. Nick started working as Manager at KPMG in Boston, MA in Feb 1999. From May 1995 to Jan 1999, Nick was Various at Bell Helicopter, based in Mirabel, Canada.
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Nick Pavlakos's current jobs
- Responsible for working to exceed customer expectations by enabling stakeholders capabilities and increasing cloud adoption. - Accountable for customers’ needs, their missions, how success is defined, and ensure that AWS is exceeding expectations in developing and delivering solutions. - Collaborates across roles to understand a customer’s mission objectives and define project goals. - Leads peers, small teams, or groups of teams made up of AWS members, customer Stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other third parties to create and execute a plan to achieve project goals by understanding AWS technologies, best practices, as well as the client environment. - Guides customers through their cloud journey to transform their business by leveraging AWS mechanisms to help customers envision strategic goals and requirements. - Uses agile delivery methodology by leading project teams consisting of business and technical resources while managing scope, schedule, and cost. - Uses management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans, remain sensitive to customer needs, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate.
Lead global cross-functional team responsible for leading UNDP’s digitization and modernization initiatives through deployment of cloud-based enterprise solutions from incubation through delivery. Accountable for ongoing program management delivery as well as solution portfolio performance oversight and benefits realization.
Nick Pavlakos's past jobs
Lead a team responsible for the maintenance, management, and improvement of UNDP’s global Oracle Cloud and multi-tenant on-premise PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system serving over 10,000 users in over 129 countries. Liaised with organizational senior leadership to streamline processes and maximize efficiencies. Responsible for owning vendor relationships and directing multi-million-dollar procurement efforts for software and services.
Partnered with global clients to establish strategic initiatives and managing risk for major projects ensuring technical solution alignment with corporate growth objectives. Led a team of associates responsible for Project Management Office (PMO) set up and operations. Implemented reporting tools and metrics, quality assurance controls, issue resolution systems, tracking and escalation processes to ensure projects completed in alignment with established scope.
Managed a team composed of staff and outsourcing partner personnel of delivery managers, systems analysts, database & system administrators, help desk & training analysts, and a budget manager responsible for all ERP upgrades, development, and support. Also acted as Chair of the University’s ERP Governance Group.
As a Manager, partnered with clients to architect, deploy, and support major transformational initiatives leveraging technology. Also supported practice growth by contributing to business development, sales presentations, and RFP proposal writing.
Held various Analyst positions within the Procurement, Finance, and Information Technology departments.