Konstantinos A. Nedas Email & Phone Number

Keysborough, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Athens, Greece

Consulting services to private firms, NGOs and public agencies, including the development, management, and implementation of geographic information systems, web services, software applications and spatial databases. Emphasis on projects aiming for a niche in the marketplace. Assistance in strategic decision-making through GIS analysis, formation of product development strategies, evaluation of partnering options, and preparation of grants and technical proposals for large geoinformatics and IT… Show more Consulting services to private firms, NGOs and public agencies, including the development, management, and implementation of geographic information systems, web services, software applications and spatial databases. Emphasis on projects aiming for a niche in the marketplace. Assistance in strategic decision-making through GIS analysis, formation of product development strategies, evaluation of partnering options, and preparation of grants and technical proposals for large geoinformatics and IT projects.Representative projects:■ Tech advisor to EU-funded geospatial startup CoMpi. Designed platform architecture and assisted in obtaining funding from EU Commission’s acclaimed Horizon SME instrument (<9% of projects funded).■ Senior GIS developer for Planetek Hellas in cutting-edge EU eENVplus project (eEnvironmental services for advanced applications within INSPIRE). Extended official EU Geoportal to support extra functionality.■ Lead GIS engineer in consortium of technical advisors to Greek Government for project HELIOS, a national-scale renewable-energy program, aiming to revitalize the economy through export of solar energy. Implemented advanced multi-criteria GIS analysis and coded a sophisticated Python application to retrieve optimal locations for photovoltaic parks throughout program’s projected life cycle. Show less

Athens, Greece

Implementation strategy and coordination for the enactment, development and operation of the Greek National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and the application of EU Directive 2/2007/EC (INSPIRE) in Greece. Creation of new organizational structures, technical tools, and processes to facilitate SDI development. Support in strategic planning, remodeling of operations and workflows, and personnel training. Contribution to organization’s other major geoinformatics projects and initiatives… Show more Implementation strategy and coordination for the enactment, development and operation of the Greek National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and the application of EU Directive 2/2007/EC (INSPIRE) in Greece. Creation of new organizational structures, technical tools, and processes to facilitate SDI development. Support in strategic planning, remodeling of operations and workflows, and personnel training. Contribution to organization’s other major geoinformatics projects and initiatives. Authoring, editing and reviewing of tenders and specifications. Representation of organization in national and international meetings, forums, and committees.■ Spearheaded SDI’s development and operations at all levels (technical, administrative, legal). Co-authored founding law of the Greek SDI, which also transposed EU INSPIRE Directive into Greek legislation.■ Coordinated 400+ public agencies in first official recording of Greek government’s geospatial data and services, including 3000+ entries. Coded auxiliary applications automating metadata collection and updates.■ Visionary team leader of geoinformatics department, fostering a highly productive environment. Personally recruited, coached, and supervised internal task-force of 4-8 people, providing IT and SDI support to network of 2,500+ civil servants. Introduced tools and streamlined procedures to accommodate enormous surge in workload despite 50% cutback in staffing.■ Appointed as national representative to EU Union INSPIRE Committee. Handled communications with international and EU agencies and organizations.■ Core contributor to the restructuring and modernization of the Organization. Re-established vision statement, planned structure and operations of new geoinformatics department, and co-authored strategic business plan. Contributed significant increase in agency’s throughput and activity despite severe budget reductions. Board decisions in 2010-12 increased 50% compared to previous period (2007-09). Show less

Athens, Greece

Strategic planning, legislation-writing, supervision and coordination of the Geoinformatics, Urban Planning, and Cadastral sectors of the Ministry. Implementation of internal GIS projects. Policy formulation for geospatial data sharing and reuse. Facilitation of negotiations and agreements with other Ministries, government agencies, and foreign organizations. Introduction of new geoinformatics tools in public administration. Participation in numerous committees and working groups.■… Show more Strategic planning, legislation-writing, supervision and coordination of the Geoinformatics, Urban Planning, and Cadastral sectors of the Ministry. Implementation of internal GIS projects. Policy formulation for geospatial data sharing and reuse. Facilitation of negotiations and agreements with other Ministries, government agencies, and foreign organizations. Introduction of new geoinformatics tools in public administration. Participation in numerous committees and working groups.■ Engineered—in house—from ground national-scale GIS projects for the Ministry, including the geocoding of the alphanumeric database of Technical Chamber of Greece on constructions that violated building permits, the Greek small wetlands GIS (collaboration with WWF), and the large-scale orthophotos of Attica.■ Conceptualized and authored first Greek official licensing framework for geospatial data sharing and reuse, approved by the National Geoinformation Committee. Yielded approximately €20 million in direct government savings through enforcement of reuse policies, elimination of overlapping procurements and successful mediation for open access to 200+ public datasets, hosted on governmental geoportal.■ Organized and coordinated two mass educational campaigns on Geoinformatics for entire public sector. Primary speaker/presenter in over 50 stakeholder consultation sessions and information campaigns.■ Strategic planning and policy formulation for accelerating development and optimizing structure of the National Cadastre in Greece.■ Successfully arbitrated long-standing disputes in complex multilateral negotiations among government officials and stakeholder agencies. Repeatedly brought divergent interests to successful resolutions, facilitated consensus building, and minimized conflicts.■ Member of the National Geoinformation Committee and the Committee of the Ministry of Environment for the implementation of Electronic Governance. Show less

Thessaloniki, Greece

Professional engineering and GIS consulting services. Management and execution of diverse projects and tasks, such as small and large survey projects, research on property issues and disputes, GIS applications, road and traffic junction design, urban planning and cadastral applications. Supervision and coordination of employees.

Thessaloniki, Greece

Teaching of course “Geoinformatics II” to first-year university students of the Surveying Engineering Department. Delivery of lectures, design of course layout and exercises, supervising and grading of exams.■ Doubled class attendance and final exam success rate compared to previous years through intensive mentoring of students.

Orono, Maine, United States

Graduate Research Assistant in Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering of the University of Maine, a member of the National USA Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIS). Conduct of original research and participation in international research teams and working groups. Dissemination of results to wider scientific community through presentations, posters, reports, and publications in peer-reviewed journals. Received advanced courses in Geographic Information… Show more Graduate Research Assistant in Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering of the University of Maine, a member of the National USA Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIS). Conduct of original research and participation in international research teams and working groups. Dissemination of results to wider scientific community through presentations, posters, reports, and publications in peer-reviewed journals. Received advanced courses in Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Analysis, and Spatial Statistics.■ Contributed scientific insights, novel algorithms, and comprehensive methodologies in the fields of semantic information retrieval from spatial databases, semantically-driven data integration and ontology-matching, qualitative spatial representations and reasoning, and the semantic web.■ Conceived and implemented cognitively-plausible, comprehensive, and formally sound computational framework for smart similarity retrieval and ranking of information from structured data repositories during course of Ph.D. research.■ Invited to review papers submitted in prominent international journals and conference proceedings. Show less

Orono, Maine, United States

Research and development of location-aware intelligent applications. Requirements analysis and conceptual design of novel user interfaces. Programming of tools for integration and aggregation of geospatial data. Design, implementation, and management of geospatial databases.■ Designed first version of user interface for company’s flagship product.■ Improved codebase of flagship product.

Thessaloniki, Greece

Development and maintenance of the website of the department of Rural and Surveying Engineering. Setup, maintenance and administration of web infrastructure, including supporting software and hardware (web and ftp server, security firewalls, and a server operating system). Production of multimedia material.■ Production of first official website of the department using current state of art technologies (CSS, JavaScript, VBA).

Ph.D., Spatial Information Science And Engineering, Major Gpa: 3.95/4.0

Dissertation topic: “Semantic Similarity of Spatial Scenes.” Advisor: Max J. Egenhofer

Dipl.-Ing., Surveying Engineering

Thesis topic: “Designing and Construction of a new Web Site for the Department of Surveying Engineering of the Aristotle University.