I have been a Senior Lecturer at UeL since October 2001. Previously I have taught on a part-time basis in a number of Higher Education Colleges both in London and my native Greece. Before commiting to a full time adventure in academia I have worked for manufacturing organizations both in Greece and the UK for nine years in total, utilising both my engineering and computing skills. My most challenging role at UeL so far has been that of taking the BSc (Hons) Computer Games programme off the ground. I have been the programme leader since its launch in 2003 up to the summer of 2006 when the first cohort of students graduated. I have working relationships with staff at the Agricultural University of Athens and the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece and have over the past four years been frequently invited to deliver specialist seminars at these institutions.

• Programme Leader: MSc Information Technology
• MSc Business Information Systems
• MSc Technology Management
• Academic Link tutor - DEI, Thessaloniki, Greece

I have considerable experience in managing both research and implementation projects within the tough reality of the manufacturing world. In 2001 I was awarded the prestigious Fellowship in Manufacturing Management at Cranfield University. While at Cranfield I had developed my new passion for virtual enterprises and the e-world. This combined with my project management experience led to the theme of my doctoral research at the University of Abertay Dundee. My research interests focus on virtual enetrprises and include: project management and project estimation of Value Added Communities, E-Government and its role in E-Democracy, E-Readiness and its impact on Knowledge Management, Evaluation of Information Systems, and most recently management and evaluation of Computer Games Development projects.

Teaching:

Programme:

• MSc Business Information Systems
• MSc Information Technology
• MSc technology Management
• BSc (Hons) Computer Games
• BA (Hons) Business Studies

Module:

• IMM002 Project Management
• SDM007 Database Systems
• CNM015 MSc Dissertation
• IM2010 Technology and Knowledge Management
• IM2073 Project Management 2
• IM1072 Project Management

Savvas I, Pimenidis E, Sideridis A. (2006) e-Identification for e-Government: a Review of Implementation Status in the European Union, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Global e-Security, ICGeS06, 20-22 April 2006, University of East London, London, UK.

Pimenidis E. (2006) Controlling the Internet – a test-case for e-Democracy, in Proceedings of the 2nd E-Democracy National Conference with International Participation, 16-17 March 2006, Athens Bar Association and the Scientific Council for the Information Society, Athens, Greece.

Savvas I, Pimenidis E, Sideridis A. (2006) E government status in EU: A review across governance models, in Proceedings of the 2nd E-Democracy National Conference with International Participation, 16-17 March 2006, Athens Bar Association and the Scientific Council for the Information Society, Athens, Greece.

Pimendis E., Bolissian J., Iliadis L., Andreopoulou Z. (2006) E-Readiness or Digital Exclusion – Evaluating a Country’s Status, in Proceedings of the 2nd E-Democracy National Conference with International Participation, 16-17 March 2006, Athens Bar Association and the Scientific Council for the Information Society, Athens, Greece.

Pimenidis E. Miller C.J. (2005) Risk and E-Business Development Projects: in Search of a New

Metric, in Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference E-Commerce 2005, 15-17 December 2005, Porto, Portugal, pp. 303-311.

Andreopoulou Z.S., Kokkinakis A.K., Pimenidis E. (2005) Strategies for the promotion of fisheries products using telematic services over the Internet, 2nd Hellenic Hydrobiology and Fisheries Conference “Challenges and Opportunities in the Marketing and the Technologies of Fisheries Products”, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, 13-14 May 2005 (in Greek).

Andreopoulou Z, Pimenidis E, Vassiliadou S, Sofios S (2005) Digitized Public Services: Assessing E-Government Readiness in Forest Services, in proceedings National Conference of the Hellenic Society of Systemic Studies, Tripoli 12-14 May 2005, "Knowledge Management and Governing Systems".

Pimenidis E., Iliadis L, Jakankhani H (2005) E-Learning in the work-places in the Rural Sector of northeastern Greece, Operational Research – An International Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Special issue: “Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment”,   pp. 35-47.

Pimenidis E, Andreopoulou Z, Vasileiadou S. (2004) E-Services: Initiatives and Perspectives for Sustainable Development, in Proceedings of the 6th Panhellenic Conference on Environment: Sustainable Development and Environment, 9-12 December 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece, Association of Greek Physicists and the School of Technology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (in Greek), pp. 23-26.

Pimenidis E., Miller C. J., MacEachen C. F. (2004) Identifying Risk for e-Business Development, in proceedings of the European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE2004), 11-12 November 2004, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 349-358.

Pimenidis E., Bolissian J. (2004) Value Added Communities and their Impact on rural Areas in Greece, in proceedings of the International  Conference on Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA2004), 18-20 March 2004, Co-organised by the Hellenic Association for ICT in Agriculture Food and Environment, Aristotle University and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, vol. 2, pp 119-125.

Jahankhani H, Iliadis L., Pimenidis E. (2004) E-Learning in the work-places in the Rural Sector of northeastern Greece, in proceedings of the International  Conference on Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA2004), 18-20 March 2004, Co-organised by the Hellenic Association for ICT in Agriculture Food and Environment, Aristotle University and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, vol. 1, pp 137-144.

Martin S., Bolissian J. M., Pimenidis E. (2003) A framework for the evaluation of Business multimedia products, Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, vol. 7, issue 3. 

Pimenidis E., Iliadis L. (2003) E-collaboration in the rural Areas, in proceedings of the itafe’03 – International Congress on Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and Environment, 7 – 10 October 2003, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Pimenidis E. (2003) Assessing the Impact of the Digital Divide, in Proceedings of the 1st E-Democracy National Conference with International Participation, 25-26 September 2003 , Athens Bar Association and the Scientific Council for the Information Society, Athens, Greece.

Jahanhakani H., Pimenidis E., Kadiri (2003) Evaluation of the impact of Internet law on society, in proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation, 25-26 September 2003, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain, pp. 349-358.

Martin S., Bolissian J. M., Pimenidis E. (2003) PURE and SIMPLE: A framework for the evaluation of multimedia products, in proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation, 25-26 September 2003, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain, pp. 431-440.

Iliadis L., Pimenidis E. (2003) A framework for e-collaboration on forest protection, in Vacik H. et al [eds.]: Decision support for multiple purpose forestry. A transdisciplinary conference on the development and application of decision support tools for forest management, April 23-25, 2003, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, CD-Rom Proceedings, p. 1021-9.

Pimenidis E., Bolissian J. M.(2003) E-economy the new globalization force, in proceedings of the UKAIS2003 conference, 9-11 April 2003, University of Warwick, UK.

Pimenidis E., Miller C. J., MacEachen C. F. (2002) A New Look at Project Estimation for E-Business, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC2002), Singapore.

Pimenidis E, Iliadis L (2000) Strategic Approach to e-business, Scientific Review, School of Forestry, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. (in Greek, with Abstract in English)

Professional Memberships:

• Fellow, Manufacturing Management, Cranfield University          
• Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece
• Member of the British Computer Society
• Member of the IEEE Computer Society
• Member of the Greek Computer Society

Conference Committee memberships:

• 2nd International  Conference on Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA2004), 18-20 March 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• The 12th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE 2005), 29-30 September 2005, Turku, Finland.
• 2nd International Conference on Global E-Security, ICGeS06, 20-22 April 2006, London, UK.
• 3rd International Conference on Information Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenvironment and Food Technology (HAICTA 2006), 20-23 September 2006, Volos, Greece. 
• The 13th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE 2006), 28-29 September 2006, Genoa, Italy.
• 1st International Conference on Sustainable Management and Development of Mountainous and Island Areas, 29 September – 1 October 2006, Naxos Island, Greece 

Reviewer:

• Book reviewer, IT Now (Computer Bulletin previously) British Computer Society      2000-Present
• Paper reviewer for the journal of Environmental Modelling and Software, Elsevier    2003-2004
• Paper reviewer for the journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Elsevier   2006
• Paper Reviewer for the eGovernment Workshop 2006 (eGov06), Brunel University,  2006