Stathis Askaridis


Senior Consultant / FileMaker Developer

Profile

Experienced workplace innovation consultant specializing in finance, data management and business transformation. A blend of managing my family multi national business, database development, providing complex business solutions, deep knowledge of business specifics across various industries


Work Experience


Founder & CEO
Pineapple | 2019 - Present
  • Built a FileMaker consultancy firm from ground up
  • Signed global clients from UK, USA, UAE, Luxembourg and Australlia
Senior FileMaker Developer
We Know Data | 2021 - Present | Contract
  • Project Lead of FileMaker projects
  • Technical FileMaker Lead
Senior Consultant
SICOA | 2019 - 2021 | Contract
  • Analysis of clients‘ requirements, business innovation consultancy
  • Development and implementation of complex business solutions for various industries in FileMaker
  • Design of streamline processes in compliance with international business norms and accounting standards
  • Deep understanding of customers’ business and root cause of issues
CEO / CFO
Askaridis Group | 2011 - 2018 | Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy
  • General management of the family business
  • Design & deployment of business infrastructure in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy
  • Development and maintenance of centralized accounting and tax systems
  • International accounting, costs and process optimization
Associate Sales Manager
FABIO RUSCONI | 2008 - 2011 | ITALY
  • Sales representative in Greece
  • Customer relations
  • Business & brand development

Other Experience


Keynote Speaker

Devcon

  • Presented a Keynote of topic “Integrating FileMaker solutions with 3rd party systems”

Education


MSc Applied Accounting & Auditing

University of Macedonia | 2014 - 2016 | Greece

  • Developed a “robot” for master's Thesis in Microsoft Excel, using VBA, to fetch all data for MSc in Applied Accounting & Auditing Thesis statement. The .xslm file created could generate automated financial statement analysis for 207 companies, after implementing data mining method

BSc Accounting & Finance

University of Macedonia | 2006 - 2014 | Greece

  • Created custom Matlab software, which generates Technical Analysis indexes for stocks

Programming, Languages & Technologies


Technologies

FileMaker

Full stack development in FileMaker, including Windows, Mac, iOS applications & Rest API infrastructure

Zapier, Claris Connect, n8n, Make (formerly Integromat)

Workflow design using leading API platform

Wordpress / WooCommerce

Website / e-commerce development, including API integrations with FileMaker for automated CM

Programming Languages

  • SQL, VBA
  • HTML, XML, JSON
  • cURL
  • JavaScript

Skills & Industries


Skills

  • Database Architecture
  • Technical lead
  • Project lead & management
  • Data mining
  • Business solution architecture
  • Complex problem solving
  • Workplace Innovation
  • Decision making with accountabilities

Industries

  • Retail
  • Wholesale
  • Maritime
  • Property Management
  • Asset Management
  • Chemicals
  • Academics
  • Publishing
  • Fund Management

Languages


  • Greek - Native
  • English – C2 (Michigan Language Assessment)
  • Italian – B2 (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)