Jan 04 - May 04:"Introduction to Cryptography & Computer Security", full course, AIT, Athens.

Oct 96 - Oct 97: "MA in Management Studies", Department of Accounting, Finance and Management - University of Essex

• With distinction
• MA dissertation title: "Environmental management in shipping companies and the ISM Code".
• Dissertation was awarded with the Blomfield Memorial (UK) award.

Oct 95 - June 96: "MSc in Telecommunications and Information Systems", Department of Electronic Systems Engineering - University of Essex

• MSc project title: "Computer simulation programme of the Interferometric technique for investigation of anomalous relation between time and frequency domain Polarisation Mode Dispersion (PMD) measurement in optical fibres".

Oct 91 - Sep 95: BSc in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Athens

• General grade: 7.86 / 10.0
• Award of a scholarship from the Foundation for the Public Welfare 'Brothers P. Bakala' (Athens)
• BSc project title: "Detection of coded modulation signals in severely distorted channels using decision feedback with noise prediction and interleaving (DFNPI) illustrated in SPW COMDISCO".

1990: Equivalent A-levels: Mathematics (19/20), Physics (14/20), Chemistry (20/20), Essay (15/20).

• English: Cambridge Proficiency in English (Grade C - 1992); Teaching licence from Ministry of Education.

• German: Grundstufe (Sept. 1999), Goethe Institut.

• French: EPFC level 3.

• Greek: native

Technical Skills

Oct 07 - Sep 08: European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

• Senior Analyst Programmer
• Development of EP's web site.
• Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, UML, MS-Project
• Methodologies: Scrum
• Application Server: JBoss
• DBMS: Oracle 10g
• CMS: Documentum

Dec 06 - Sep 07: Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A. (OTE), Athens, Greece

• Billing System IS Engineer / Project Manager
• Analysis, design, testing and project management of new services provided to customers.
• Technologies used: SQL, PL/SQL, UML, MS-Project, Oracle SOA
• Application Server: Oracle AS
• Methodologies: SOX, PMP
• DBMS: Geneva (Oracle 9i)

Jan 05 - Nov 06: WIND HELLAS, Athens, Greece

• Billing System IS Engineer / Project Manager
• Analysis, design, testing and project management of new services provided to customers.
• Technologies used: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath, Java (JSP, Servlets), UML, MS-Project
• DBMSs: BSCS 6 & IX (Oracle 8 & 9i), Software AG Tamino
• Invoicing system: iDocs

July 04 - Dec 04: CCC International

• Software Engineer
• Development of C3dQ (3D Base Management System). R&D team to migrate proprietary software to open source
• Technologies: Java, Java3D, SQL, UML
• DBMSs: MS SQL Server, Ingres II

Nov 99 - Dec 04: INTRACOM S.A., Athens, Greece

• R&D Systems Analyst, C4I Team
• Involvement in a number of EUCLID projects: RTP 6.11.1 (Information filtering and Control System), RTP 6.14 (VE for Military Decision Making), and internal projects: S.D.E.P (Command & Control Information System), iBMS (Intracom's Battle Management System), Thea (Automatic numbering system).
• Technologies used: Object Oriented Analysis and Design in UML and development in Java 2, XML, Virtual Reality (Java3D) and GIS. Extensive use of design patterns and refactorings.
• DBMSs: MS Access, MySQL, Oracle 8
• Methodologies: RUP

Oct 98 - Oct 99: Center of Computer Information Processing – Naval Training Administration Staff, Hellenic Navy, Greece

• Applications developmer in INGRES/Vision/ABF/4GL on the AIX UNIX 4.2 operating system during my national service.
• Technologies used: AIX UNIX 4.2, Perkin Elmer (OS/32) and INGRES administration.
• DBMS: Ingres II

Oct 97 - Dec 97: Municipality of Amaroussion, Athens, Greece

• Teacher to adult courses (Introduction to Computers, Windows, Word, Excel, Internet)

July 95 - Aug 95: UNISYS HELLAS, Athens, Greece

• Student engineer in the maintenance PC-lab;

Open Source Projects:

• http://jawt.tigris.org/: Java AWT graphics toolkit for applets
• http://j3dbuilder.tigris.org/: Java 3D scene builder IDE
• http://jdbcwrap.tigris.org/: JDBC wrapper

Publications^*

• Kostaras J. (2009), "Virtual Reality", EPE Newsletter, Issue 1, March-April, pp. 10-12, http://files.epe.org.gr/newsletter/001.pdf.
• Kostaras J., Detsis G., "Virtual Environments For Military Decision Making" in Cook, M. J., Noyes, J. M., & Masakowski, Y. (Eds.) (2007, May), Decision making in complex systems, Aldershot, England: Ashgate.
• "Java Web Services", e-files, Issue 6, May 2007, pp. 2-9.
• "Java Data Objects", e-files, Issue 4, February 2006, pp. 2-9.
• "Java Web Application", e-files, Issue 2, July 2005, pp. 12-18. 
• Kostaras J., Detsis G., "Virtual Environments For Military Decision Making", Human Factors of Decision Making in Complex Systems, University of Abertay Dundee, Dunblane, Scotland, 8-13 September 2003.
• Kostaras J., Detsis G., "HCI in modern BMS", Human Factors of Decision Making in Complex Systems, University of Abertay Dundee, Dunblane, Scotland, 8-13 September 2003.
• Kostaras J., Detsis G., "Next Generation Battle Management Systems - Virtual Environments For Military Decision-Making", HCII 2003, 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Crete, 22-27 June 2003.
• Kostaras J., Detsis G. Dimaki E. "HCI in modern BMS", HCII 2003, 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Crete, 22-27 June 2003.
• Detsis G., Dritsas L. and Kostaras J., "Information filtering and control for managing the information overload problem", IEE Conference & Exhibition - People in Control 2001 , 19-21June 2001.
• Detsis G., Dritsas L. and Kostaras J., "Procurement officer management information system", IEE Conference & Exhibition - People in Control 2001, 19-21 June 2001.
• "Management Teams and their effectiveness in work - Learning how to work as a team", Business Bulletin, November-December 2000.
• "Graphical User Interfaces", Nautiki Ellas, May 2001 - e-files, Issue 3, October 2005, pp. 2-4.
• "Spread Spectrum Techniques", Nautiki Ellas, December 2000.
• "Internet II", Athmonion Bima, August 2000 - Nautiki Ellas, September 2000 - Arkadologio, October 2000.
• "Geographic Information Systems - GIS", Nautiki Ellas, June 2000 - e-files, Issue 3, October 2005, pp. 13-16.
• "'New Public Management' an international phenomenon", Business Bulletin, June-August 2000 & Nautiki Ellas, January 2000.
• "Digital Telephone Exchanges and New facilities", Nautiki Ellas, February 1999.
• "Sea protection for a sustainable merchant shipping", Nautiki Ellas, January 1999.
• "The future of microprocessors", Nautiki Ellas, September 1998.
• «Environmental management in the shipping companies and the ‘International Safety Management Code’ (ISM Code)», Nautiki Epitheorisi, May-June 1998.
• "The Internet useful for merchant shipping", Greek Shipping Directory, No. 29, October 1998.
• "Internet from municipality of Amaroussion why not from municipality of Tripolis", Arkadologio, March 1998.
• «The Internet useful for merchant shipping», Oikonomikos, 16 April 1998.
• "Internet and merchant shipping", Nautiki Ellas, February 1998.
• "Computer seminars and Internet provision from municipality of Amaroussion", Athmonion Vima, 23/1/1998.
• "Internet & municipality of Amaroussion", Leoforos Themidos, January 1998.
• "Introduction to computers", Computer Seminars of Municipality of Amaroussion, October-December 1997.
• "Sustainable development as target", Oikonomikos, 24/7/1997.
• "The meaning of sustainable development and its importance for the modern business and the future of the world", Nautiki Hellas, July 1997.
• "The information superhighway, future services and their applications", Nautiki Hellas, October 1996.
• "The smart communications card uses digital coding", Techniki Epitheorisi, May 1996.
• "SIM card in mobile telephony", Oikonomikos, 27/7/1995.
• "SIM card", Nautiki Hellas, June 1995.
• "Computer seminars for everyone from municipality of Amaroussion", Enimerotiki Poria, 15/7/1993.

^* These articles are only available in Greek. If you wish to go through them visit the Greek CV.

• Jogging; Skiing; Basketball; Swimming.
• Member of :
  • HELMEPA
  • Greek Alumni Association of Essex University.
  • Hellenic Informatics Union ( EPE )
  • Union of Hellenic Computer Scientists (EPY)
  • Hellenic Linux Users Group (HELLUG)
  • Java Hellenic Users Group (JHUG)
  • UNESCO.