Pournaras Efthymios P. Curriculum Vitae, as in December 29, 2017

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

• AGE: 36

• MARITAL STATUS: Single

• ARMY DUTIES: Completed

• ADDRESS: Athens, Greece (GR)

• WORK PHONE NUMBER: +30-210 -3328246

• MOBILE PHONE NUMBER: +30-6946-068696

• E-MAIL:

PERSONAL: epournaras@icloud.com

RESEARCH: mpournaras@econ.uoa.gr

PROFESSIONAL: poyrnaras.eythymios@nbg.gr

• URLS :

PERSONAL: http://users.uoa.gr/~mpournaras

RESEARCH: www.iasa.gr/magnetLAB/magnetLAB.html

• SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA:

TWITTER: Makis_Pournaras

LINKED_IN: efthymios-pournaras

CURRENT POSITION:

• WORK: Team Leader in Retail Credit Model Risk

NBG Group Risk Management - Model Validation Unit

National Bank of Greece S.A.

Accountant Level: A’ (since 01.07.2015)

• STUDIES: UADPhilEcon Doctoral Program in Economics

Department of Economics

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

ASSOCIATIONS:

• Elected member of the Board of Directors of SEPETE

(“Executive & Professional Employees Association of

National Bank of Greece”)

1st term: 2013-2016 – Member

2nd term: 2016-2019 – Member & Curator PR (Public

Relations)

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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

• 2012, Certificate in Institutional and Regulatory

Framework of Capital Markets, Exams date: 08.11.2014

Bank of Greece, Certificate No.: 16172

• 2014, Cambridge International Certificate in Financial

English (ICFE) | Level CEFR: C1 & UK NQF: 2 | Exams

date: 07.07.2013

• 2014, Investment Knowledge Certificate (Level A1)

Exams date: 10.05.2014, Bank of Greece.

Code: 10111040

• 2013, Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC)

Higher | Level CEFR: C1 & UK NQF: 2 | Exams date:

16.11.2013

• 2012, Insurance Mediation Services Certificate (Level A)

Exams date: 23.09.2012, Bank of Greece.

Certificate No.: 100031751

STUDIES & LANGUAGES:

• 2012-2013, Researcher Level B’

Group: “Greek Financial Crisis Exit Plan” Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

• 2011, MSc Diploma in the field of Bioinformatics, Sector

of Cell Biology & Biophysics, Department of Biology,

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Grade “Fairly Good”

• 2006, BSc Diploma in Physic, Department of Physics,

Sector of Nuclear & Particles’ Physics, National &

Kapodistrian University of Athens. Grade “Fairly Good”

• Fundamental Informatique Computer Science Knowledge

Certification (Spreadsheets, Word Processors, Presentation,

Internet) by UoA/Department of Physics upon Presidential

decree 44/2005, article 27, paragraph 1.

• 1996-1999, Giagtzion-Delmouzion High School of

Amfissa. Graduate Grade: 19/20, Characterization:

Excellent

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• GREEK: Native Language

• ENGLISH:

5. Cambridge International Certificate in Financial

English (ICFE) | Level CEFR: C1 & UK NQF: 2

Verification codes available upon request https://verifier.cambridgeenglish.org

4. Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC)

Higher | Level CEFR: C1 & UK NQF: 2

Verification codes available upon request https://verifier.cambridgeenglish.org

3. English Language Sufficiency from the Greek

Ministry of Education

2. Michigan Proficiency (ECPE) - C2/Γ2

1. Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) - B2 (Lower)

• FRENCH: Speaking and understanding a little

• ITALIAN: Understanding a little

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS WITH CERTIFICATE:

• "Credit Risk Scorecards: Development and

Implementation”. Business-focused course which provides

the necessary knowledge to plan, develop, implement, and

maintain risk scorecards in-house. Provided by SAS

Training / SAS Middle-East, Dubai-UAE. Nov 2016 (16

hours)

• "Crisis Management - CRIS”. Familiarization with crisis

management practices in the workplace. Provided by the

Centre of Continuing Education & Training / University of

Athens. April 2014 (5 hours)

• “Implementing Total Quality Tools in Educational

Organizations-ISO". Program: “Evaluation & Quality

Assurance in Education”. Provided by the Centre of

Continuing Education & Training / University of Athens.

March 2014 - April 2014 (20 hours)

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• “English for International Business Communication”

3 months’ courses in Hellenic American Union

Level: C1 | Oct - Dec 2013 | Financial Support: NBG

• “Evaluation of Educational Activities of Innovation &

Entrepreneurship”. Program: “Evaluation & Quality

Assurance in Education”. Provided by the Centre of

Continuing Education & Training / University of Athens.

May 2013-June 2013 (20 hours)

KNOWLEDGE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE:

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and

fast typing ability

• Scientific applications development in National

Instruments LabVIEW

• HTML and web page designing

• Photo procession (Photoshop, KPT Bryce, Poser e.t.c.)

• Extensive Programming Skills in: Quick Basic 7.0,

Visual

Basic 6.0, C, Turbo C, Visual Studio .NET 2003, PERL

and Objective-C for iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad)

• Embedded programming for Microsoft Pocket PC 2003

based handheld devices in Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 or

Visual Studio .NET 2003 with Pocket PC 2003 SDK

• Operating systems: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, Linux and

Cygwin Linux Emulator for Windows

• ASP .NET programming

• PHP programming

• GEANT4 Emulation Software for particles’ motion

through matter

• AIRES Air Showers’ Simulation program for cosmic ray

data analysis

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RESEARCH ACTIVITY:

• Member of the Bioinformatics Laboratory of Professor

S.J. Hamodrakas, Sector of Cellular Biology & Biophysics,

Faculty of Biology – University of Athens. 2007-2012

• Member of IASA~magnetLAB group, of the Institute of

Accelerating Systems & Applications since 2002.

Specialization on Magnetic Field Mapping based on Hall

and NMR phenomena. Development of automated device

and several software research computer applications. Visit

web site at: http://www.iasa.gr/magnetLAB/magnetLAB.html

• Provide software help to the Air-Showers Simulation

group of the University of Athens, which uses AIRES.

• Support to the upper-level physics laboratory of Professor

Paul Debevec, Loomis Laboratories – Department of

Physics in University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign for

the creation of a magnetic field mapper.

• Support to the team of Professor Marcos Nogueira

Martin, in the Physics Institute of University of Sao Paolo,

with magnetic field visualising software.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• National Bank of Greece S.A.

Megaron Voulis (Greek Parliament’s) Branch (054)

Mortgages (Housing Loans) and Premium Banking Officer

(Feb 2008 – Sept 2015)

• Work adviser in the Avgoulea-Linardatou Private Modern

Junior High School, 3rd Class, Lesson: “Vocational

Guidance”. National Bank of Greece participation in the

Program of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV)

and Junior Achievement – Greece (SEN).

Seminars: 12.2012 - 04.2013

• Work adviser in the 4th Junior High School

of Vyronas-Attika, 3rd Class, Lesson: “Vocational Guidance”. National Bank of Greece participation in the

Program of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV)

and Junior Achievement – Greece (SEN). Two months

seminars. Academic year 2011-2012

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• “Scientific Collaborator” in the Interactive

Exposition of Physics, Modern Technology & Biology of

Eugenides Foundation (educational institution beneficial to

the public) for two(02) years (Nov.2007 to Sept. 2009).

• Spring 2007-Autumn 2007, Cash machine operator in the

“EKEMS” Unit of Army Supplies & Secretary in the Office

of Human Resources.

• Spring 2004, work in Institute of Accelerating Systems &

Applications for the improvement of the MFM Mapper’s

cooling system through software adjustments

• “How to” consultant and software reviews writer for the

“Computer for all” magazine, Compupress Publications.

• Spring 2006, “Next2U” helpdesk agent in the Call Centre

of OTENET WWW networking company for 2.5 months.

SEMINARS:

• House Loans (Mortgages)

On-line seminar by NBG Group

On-line exams: 2011 Success: 90/100

• Investment Services/Selected Topics in Capital Market

On-line seminar by NBG Group

On-line exams: 25/07/2010 Success: 100/100

• Anti-Money Laundering On-line seminar by NBG Group

On-line exams: 27/03/2009 Success: 73/100

• House Loans I & II, 2009 by NBG Group.

• Fundamental Banking Operations, 2008 by NBG Group.

• NCSR Demokritos Summer School 2006.

• NCSR Demokritos Summer School 2005. Lectures on

Theoretical and experimental Nuclear Physics, Computer

data analysis and biology applications.

http://www.demokritos.gr/

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PUBLISHED WORK:

• Efthymios P. Pournaras, Vassiliki A. Iconomidou, Nikolaos

Panousis and Stavros J. Hamodrakas , “Calculation of the

Mean Packing Density for each of the 20 common amino

acid residues on a 30% non-redundant set of

transmembrane proteins”, Proceedings of HSCB 4th

Conference, 18-20 Dec 2009, NHRF, Athens. Also at: https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/1320561

• Efthymios P. Pournaras, Andreas Karabarbounis,

Constantinos N. Papanicolas and Efstathios Stiliaris, “The

IASA Magnetic Field Mapping (MFM) Project”,

proceedings of EPAC 2006, Edinburgh Scotland.

Participation with conference’s student grand. Paper:

WEPLS068 at: http://oraweb.cern.ch/pls/epac06/toc.htm

• Efthymios P. Pournaras, “Design & Development of

automatic Magnetic Field Mapping Device”, Diploma

(Senior) Thesis. University of Athens & Institute of

Accelerating Systems & Applications, May 2004.

DEVELOPED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS & WEB SITES:

• “auper” application for the 3D reconstruction of protein

molecules based on crystallographic data of PDB. Runs on

iOS platform (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) (Under

Construction)

• “amyl_3D” – Proteins’ model reconstruction software,

with the ability to mark high packing density areas and

amyloid prone regions, which are responsible for amyloid

fibrils’ formation that cause neurodegenerative diseases.

• “MFM, Magnetic Field Mapping Manager, Version

1.0.0” for DOS operating system. Software which

controls the automatic device of IASA making use of

GPIB bus and scientific instruments

• “Transform 2.0”, Utility which converts the MFM

protocol magnetic field data files to MFF, MFT ASCII

data type files, ready to be loaded in MathCAD, Excel

e.t.c. (Windows)

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• “RaceTRACK Version 1.0.1”, magnetic field

visualising application which produces 2D contour

plots, 3D plots, correction operations and the ability of

charged particle’s motion emulation in the mapped

magnetic field. Contains build-in 3D machine

(Windows).

• “ΘΑΛΗΣ Version 1.0.0”, Under construction

application which reconstructs the magnetic field lines

of a magnetic field - which was scanned in 2D slices –

in 3D space (Windows).

• “PHP Script Builder Version 1.0.0”, Under Development.

Application which provides an intergraded environment to

easily build PHP web scripts.

• HTML based Library database application for my

personal library

• Help in the creation of the web material of the Cosmic-

Ray group of University of Athens.

• Creation of the IASA~magnetLAB web site

HONOURS & AWARDS:

• 1993-1999, Papyruses of excellent progress for every

high school years

• 2 times awarded by the “Salona” foundation for the

progress in high school.

• 1997, Ministry of Defence and National Department of

Weather Forecasting prize and papyrus for the thesis of

water preciousness for human life.

• 1998, “Euroscola” program award and participation in

educational seminar concerning the structure and way

of working of the European Parliament, in Strasburg

France.

• 1997, Greek Computers’ Science Olympic Games

Award by the Greek Organization of Software and

Hardware Scientists (EPY).

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• 10 years “Petros Markidis” Scholarship award, until the

rank of University studies.

• 2006, Student grand for participation to the 10th Particle

Accelerator Conference, in Edinburgh UK, June 26-30.

• 2006, Honor of Best Fighter during the army duties in the

Army Base of Avlona (Base’s Daily Command: 16 Dec

2006)

HOBBIES & INTERESTS:

• History of Art

• Painting (water colours, charcoal, pencil, ink).

Artwork samples at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/efthymiospournaras/

Awards:

1) PALSO Award for the best artwork at

the area of Fokida,

2) Giagtzion-Delmouzion High

School Award for the best card-type artwork for

Christmas

• Chess (Winner of the chess competition of the

Library of Amfissa 1996)

• Comics story writing and illustrations design

• Computer programming

• Digital photo procession

• Interior and exterior design

• Gymnastics, Fitness, Kick-boxing

• Writing

• Healthy cooking

• Cinema