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Geneva, Switzerland

Within the Platform Enginnering team, working on migrating custom solutions to an Istio service mesh on AWS EKS. As the Product Manager driving requirements analysis and interfacing with other Cloud Enginnering team as well as the end users, our devoloper community to define platform features. Current activities are focused on migrating services from ECS to EKS, prepare an Ambassador based Edge infrastructure, introducing new Sprinboot services and supporting the evaluation of Backstage as the platform mamanagement plane solution

Athens, Greece

As the coordinator of all IT and telecommunications activities, completed the initial systems rollout and implemented operations and maintenance procedures. Currently providing on-going support.

Offering advanced engineering and operations support.

Managed a smooth transition process with the workforce , business partners and clients, that ensured business continuity during ownership and management changesDirected technical operations and provided advanced engineering support Planned and executed the move of the entire technical infrastructure to new facilities with minimal impact to services. The move included six large antennas, specialized satellite platforms and supporting systems that connect more than 5000 satellite terminals

Support of the internal IT environment and of EBS client needs for infrastructure and security solutions. Currently completing the virtualization of the environment on a Fedora KVM based solution. Virtual host services include DNS, LDAP, Samba, RDBMS, Asterisk VoIP PBX, and IPSEC remote access

Provided planning and implementation services for the overhaul of the entire IT infrastructure including workstations, servers and networking.

Provided IT advice and solutions to various organizations including: Greek Standards Organization (ΕΛΟΤ), RAYCAP SA (telecom & energy passive components manufacturer), Athens Electric Bus Operating company (ΗΛΠΑΠ), Northstar Investments SA (financial services firm), George Frangos Representations SA (imaging products & services provider), First Regional Health System of Attica (public body for management of public & private health care resources).

Coordinated the company’s establishment and initial installationManaged the installation of the first major asset, a complete Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite central station (hub) Specified, purchased and deployed the necessary systems for providing Internet connectivity to customersDirected all technical and operational matters and supported Sales and Finance

Managed a 10 member team and directed operations to ensure network connectivity, performance and securityProvided support for satellite launch and station-keeping operationsInterfaced with the rest of the Organization to support their networking requirements and advise of new possibilities and opportunities as the networking infrastructure evolvedPlanned and executed seamless major upgrades that included vendor and technology changesCoordinated IT security activities

As the lead developer of a three member team, implemented software for a Multimedia Networking project for delivering video, voice, still images and data on a single high speed network that was installed at the George Washington University Medical Center in March 1994 for a teleradiology application

Master Of Science, Electrical Enginnering

Bsc (5-Year Degree), Electrical Engineering