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Education
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1995. My thesis advisor was professor Aurel Lazar. From Columbia I also have an M.Phil. (1994) and M.S. (1991). I did my undergraduate studues at the National Technical University of Athens, where I received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1990.
Work Experience
I am currently the manager of the Service Engineering department at IBM Research. I joined IBM in 2003 and initially worked on large-scale application middleware with particular focus on continuous availability, on-demand resource allocation, high-performance messaging and health management. This work was included in IBM's Websphere Extended Deployment (XD). I also worked on a software-as-a-service platform targeted for next-generation strategic outsourcing services.
From 1999 to 2003 I was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Voicemate, where I defined and executed the company’s technical strategy in voice publishing and call center technologies. I specified and oversaw the development of Voicemate’s product portfolio, which included tools and infrastructure for authoring, managing, distributing and searching multimedia knowledge on fixed and mobile devices. I worked on marketing and business strategy, fundraising (Seed and Series A venture funding), and managed the company's patent portfolio. I consulted with clients primarily in the financial industry and oversaw product development through 2 major releases. During that time, I acquired some interesting skills such as media training and team building.
From 1996 to 1999 I was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Research (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories). There, I conducted research in the areas of multimedia service engineering, network and systems management, agent technologies, packet telephony, Internet routing, active networking and performance evaluation for advanced Internet services. I also participated in the team that designed the “single pipe” architecture for broadband home access that later lead to AT&T’s entry in the cable industry and the acquisitions of TCI and MediaOne. My most visible project was the Marvel distributed management platform, used to provide customer and operations management services for large-scale broadband cable access networks. Originally designed in 1996, Marvel was one of the first management platforms to leverage the power of a fully distributed Java architecture to offer network and system management services. I also worked on TOPS, a feature rich precursor to today's VoIP services, and participared in a number of other activities including the AT&T Worldnet backbone architecture.
Between 1998 and 2000 I was also an adjuct assistant professor with the department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where I tought a class on Telecommunication Networks Control and Management.
Other
I am fluent in Greek and French, and I like sports, particularly windsurfing and snowboarding. I have a 3rd degree black belt in Shotokan Karate.
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