Professional
I am a technology consultant and information systems engineer based in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece. I offer advice to companies regarding their information architecture, and contract software projects. I lead teams of developers through the entire life-cycle of technology projects, including maintenance.
I provide value to organizations by bringing extensive practical experience coupled with a portfolio of successful projects, a worldwide personal network of professionals in a diverse set of software-related fields, and a thorough understanding of global developments in technology along with comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the Greek technology sector and corresponding markets.
My roles have ranged from researcher to software engineer to technology entrepreneur. I have successfully led and mentored teams of developers, as well as transitioned companies from technology capability to end product. I am a strong technical writer and presenter, capable of communicating with both engineering and business audiences.
Software Engineering
I am interested in contracting development of software tools and infrastructure for Internet applications, web services, and application servers.
I design software which aims to be reliable, fault tolerant, scalable, and easy to maintain. I help my clients avoid costly, inflexible, vendor-specific lock-in, as well as ensure they utilize open standards and established web services effectively and economically.
Collaboration
I am co-founder of Synergy Group, a partnership of engineers and scientists. Our specialties are information architecture, software engineering, scientific computing, and complex systems analysis.
We have experience in fields such as astrophysics, bioinformatics, social sciences, military strategy analysis, bayesian inference, machine learning, statistics, computational mathematics, agent-based systems, and distributed systems.
Consulting Services
I can help you detect and avoid vendor lock-in and costly enterprise ‘solutions’, and coach you on how to effectively select appropriate technology vendors for your particular business needs. This includes evaluation of proprietary vendors who provide platforms and management systems, as well as open software integrators who select technologies on your behalf.
I can help you evaluate engineering practices and technology selection, perform code reviews, coach senior engineers on challenging technical fields, and coach management for effective workflows particular to running a technology company. I can assist you on recruiting, interviewing, and planning human resources for teams of engineers, including employee retention strategies.
I can offer insight into the practicalities of the Greek information technology market, cultural differentiators from Western markets, and important pitfalls specific to doing high tech business in Greece. I can also supply introductions and networking.
I can assist you in idea generation, business planning, market analysis, and help you understand the transition from an idea and an informal team to a structured, productive business environment. I can also provide introductions and networking.
I can help you understand open source and legal considerations of intellectual property. I can work with your senior management, lawyers, and engineers to help you maximize your benefit from open source technology while avoiding common pitfalls.
I welcome opportunities to talk about technology, investing, and strategy to your employees, management, clients or students. I can assist you in lecture and seminar preparation for intensive courses such as executive MBA programs.
Activities
I have worked on various projects with large media organizations, as well as various independent content creators, designers, artists, e-commerce retailers, scientists, legal professionals, and politicians, helping them realize personalized technology and web presence solutions. Following are some of the long-term roles I’ve held.
2011 I am currently working on several web projects with other entrepreneurs and freelance developers, aiming to launch this year.
2009 – 2010 Technical Director at Piece of Cake: as an external contractor to my client, I led a team of developers responsible for creating web services technologies and software for content delivery, portals, search engine optimization, e-commerce, and mobile content. My role included completion of various software projects, technology and know-how transfer to my client’s associates and employees, and the establishment of a company-wide collaboration workflow for future software projects.
2005 – 2008 Computer Science Researcher, AETHER Consortium, Imperial College London: Research in self-adaptive embedded technologies for pervasive computing architectures. European Commission (EC) integrated project through the Distributed Software Engineering Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. My research focused on concurrency and message passing, scheduling and fairness, and programming language design and virtual machine implementations.
Affiliations
I am a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Imperial Entrepreneurs, the Imperial College Alumni Association, the University of Sussex Alumni Association, and the Anatolia College Alumni Association (SAAK).