# Kimon Charalambous **Manager, Technology Strategy and Advisory** — London, United Kingdom > Product Manager with seven years' experience shipping software in regulated, consumer, and enterprise environments. Currently coaching large product organisations on how to operate at scale. Career Archetype: **All-Terrain Summiteer** (HB-DX) — One of the first All-Terrain Summiteers on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kimon-charalambous-025916138 ## Experience ### Manager, Technology Strategy and Advisory, Accenture (2021-10 – 2025-11) Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Programme Manager and PMO Lead on an EU Deforestation Regulation programme for a global packaging company, protecting the client from non-compliance fines up to 4% of global turnover. Structured delivery across five workstreams with no industry benchmark available. Designed governance for 80+ FTE cross-functional programme, ran Accenture's PMO across multiple contracts totalling £8m+ in revenue, and managed financials, resourcing, and Statements of Work. ### Consultant, Concentra Analytics (2021-04 – 2021-10) Greater London, England, United Kingdom ### Intermediate Business Analyst, Entelect Software (2019-08 – 2021-04) Johannesburg Metropolitan Area · Progressed through multiple roles supporting mining and financial services clients. As Product Owner for a COVID-19 contact-tracing platform at Anglo American, owned roadmap and prioritisation for a solution deployed across 6 mine sites and 30,000+ employees using smartwatch Bluetooth pings. Worked with Global Health to define contact thresholds and response protocols, ran a design sprint with 30+ global stakeholders to set MVP scope, then shipped to production iteratively. Earlier, worked as Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master on a 3D visualisation and cloud-based storage solution, owning the metadata management framework for 7 spatial data types, and as Data Business Analyst at FirstRand, developing BI proof-of-concepts using Informatica. ### Management Consultant, Africawide (2019-01 – 2019-07) Johannesburg Area, South Africa · Management Consultant working with Public Sector and Education Clients. - Process Mapping and Requirements Planning for a Remote Monitoring system - Market Analysis for a Decentralised Tutoring Call Center - Feasibility Analysis for projects in multiple industries:: Telecommunications, Healthcare (FMCG) and Digital Debt Collection. - Member of the Internal Wellness Committee as well as Branding Committee which oversaw the full company rebrand at the beginning of 2019. ### Graduate Management Consultant, Redflank (2018-03 – 2018-09) City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa · Graduate management Consultant working with Public Sector Clients. - Advised commercial launch of an award-winning product (Hotspot Geyser Add On) - Assisted client with development of business plan, marketing strategy, market research and financial modelling - Ran financial modelling workshops with e-level clients and owned financial modelling for the project - Reporting and interviews for Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluations projects - Facilitated discussion and presented on Internal Strategic Model implementation at annual strategy day. ### Intern, Decision Inc. (2017-06 – 2017-07) Johannesburg Area, South Africa · Management Consulting Intern in the Advanced Analytics team taking on the role of an intern Data Scientist. Concerned with data management and forecasting. Practical experience in Microsoft SQL as well as R, in regards to programming, as well as learning Microsoft Power BI and developing my skills in more advanced levels of Microsoft Excel. ## Education ### Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Economics, Nelson Mandela University (2017-01 – 2017-01) Bachelor of Commerce Honours: Economics ### Summer scholarship program, University of Cyprus (2016-01 – 2016-01) Greek language, Cypriot history and culture as well as traditional dance classes. ### Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) in Business Management, Economics, Distinction in General and Strategic Management, Nelson Mandela University (2014-01 – 2016-01) Graduated a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Business Management and Economics with distinction in General and Strategic Management in 2016. ## Skills User-centered Design, Software Product Management, Product Planning, Product Coaching, Product Owner, Facilitation, Product Management, Product Development, Greenfield Projects, Business, Agile Methodologies, MySQL, Microsoft Excel, Business Analysis, Business Strategy, Data Analysis, Business Management, Research, Strategic Planning, Report Writing, Financial Modeling, Business Planning, Business Process Management, Proposal Writing, Market Research, Management Consulting, Strategy, Business Process Mapping, Requirements Gathering, Pivot Tables, Scrum, Documentation, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Word, Informatica, SQL, Microsoft Outlook, Communication, Leadership, Written Communication, Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving, Borland Delphi, Microsoft Azure, SAFe, Product Ownership, User Testing, A/B Testing, Transformation, Coaching, Cross-functional Leadership, Salesforce, Agile Coaching, Training Design, Change Management, Scrum Master, Value-Stream Operating Model, Regulatory Compliance, Programme Management, PMO, Governance, Financial Management, Risk Management, 3D Visualisation, Cloud Storage, Metadata Management, BI, Contact Tracing ## Credentials - **Certified AI-Empowered SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager** — SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc. - **ICAgile Certified Professional** — ICAgile (issued 2023-10) - **ICAgile Certified Professional: Agile Product Ownership** — ICAgile (issued 2023-10) - **Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)** — Scrum.org (issued 2022-04) - **Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)** — IIBA (issued 2020-04) - **Exam 761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL** — Microsoft (issued 2019-11) - **Six Sigma Yellow Belt** — VMEdu Inc. (issued 2019-03) - **Speechcraft** — Toastmasters International (issued 2019-03) - **MET - Microsoft Excel - Excel on Steroids** — Sage (issued 2019-02) - **MySQL For Data Analytics and Business Intelligence** — Udemy (issued 2018-07) - **Certified SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant** — Scaled Agile, Inc. ## AI Fluency - **Claude** (https://claude.ai) - **ChatGPT** (https://chatgpt.com) --- Source: https://saywise.com/member9529 (last modified 2026-10-06T08:54:05.949Z)