Hi all,
My name is Athanasios (Sakis for short) Samaras and I have some experience in the field of sales and marketing. Actually for a long time I was either employed as a Sales or a Marketing person.
My communication carrier starts back in 1990 and up to about 2 years ago - since then I am fully employed as the Supporter/Developer/Technical support/Technical writer and any other IT related occupation you can imagine by a small company - depending on the company size, my duties include anything from writing code and technical documentation to final presentations to potential customers in various countries.
At some point that I was employed by a US company I was sent to Jakarda in order to "perform" a presentation - I actually live in Greece most of the time - to both Management and -at second stage - technical staff.
A brief CV of my involvement with marketing contains a few years working in Marketing Group of Thermi project (smart homes and remote monitoring - internal project of Greek telecom) where I was involved in all marketing aspects from Business Plan to presentation and leaflets, working as a "Project Engineer" on behalf of Open Connection for a large Document Management Project in UK (again the end client was a Telecom) where I was responsible for coordination and documentation of the project as well as the development of a methodology for similar projects, some other smaller scale activities such as Business Plans for small and very small companies, or local sales to Greece.
Last 2 projects involved the design, implementation and productization of an e-service delivery platform and a PDA based e-service platform both targeted to Tourism industry where as soon as I got some one to take over the development from my hands, I was re-assigned to marketing (again from BP to pricing to packaging to leaflets and communication plans).
Finally my weaknesses: well, I tend to write and talk, but you can see that for yourself.
Well if I can be of any use, please let me know.
Sakis Samaras
PS
I also participate in the Doc translation team for Greek language and occasionally write at wikipedia.