About Me

Δεκεμβρίου 25th, 2009

This is only a sketchy outline of my CV. The full CV can be requested by e-mail. It contains the most work I was involved after 2002 which is not listed here. This page will be updated whenever possible.

Full Name: Apostolos Karakoussis,
e-mail:ktolis@ktolis.gr

Studies:

  • Graduation from the Greek Lyceum in Duesseldorf, Germany.
  • One year of studies in the Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Department at the Polytechnical School of Patras University.
  • Currently in my last year of studies in the Informatics Department at the Science School of Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki.

Military Duties:

Completed (2007-2008)

Working experience:

  • 1992-1994 Working at Graphica Team which is an advertising/graphics company located in Duesseldorf, Germany as interim
  • 1998-1998 Six months of working as a systems administrator at an advertising company located at Patras, Greece (1998)
  • 1998-2000 Two (2) years as co-assistant in the Multimedia Laboratory of the Computer Science Department in the Science School of the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki.
  • 1999-1999 1 year working at “Human performance and health” project under supervision of the Department of Physical Education & Sports Science at the University of Thessaloniki and professor Efthymios Kioumourtzoglou.
  • 2000-2000 Research associate for the project “New technology for the control of narrow-gap semicoductor materials” under supervision of professor Georgios Bleris.
  • 2004-2004 6net International Ipv6 Testbed research associate under supervision of professor Panagiotis Argyrakis.
  • 2005-2005 Support actions for information systems at schools in Thessaloniki, Serres, Pella under supervision of professor Panagiotis Argyrakis.
  • 2006-2006 Advanced Tele-education services support for EDUnet III, under supervision of professor Panagiotis Argyrakis
  • 2000-2006 (7 years) working as part of the Network Services Team (NST) at the Network Operations Center of the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, the biggest of its type in the Balkans.(1999-2006)

Foreign Languages:

  • English ( Advanced Proficiency grade ) – very fluent speaker
  • German ( Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom grade ) – very fluent speaker
  • Klingon ( Elementary grade )

Computer Knowledge:

    Computer languages:
  • Basic
  • Forth
  • Pascal
  • C
  • C++
  • HyperTalk
  • AppleScript
  • Perl
  • Php

Operating Systems Experience

  • MacOS (since 1994)
  • MacOSX (since 1999)
  • Win9x/NT (since 1993)
  • Unix/Linux (since 1998)

Other knowledge:

  • Technical Sketching
  • Mechanic and Architectual Sketching

Personal Interests:

  • Distributed Systems
  • Cluster Computing
  • Computer Generated Static 3D Graphics
  • Computer Generated Animated 3D Graphics
  • Virtual Machines
  • Macintoshes and the MacOS
  • VR Systems
  • Superscalar computers
  • Cryptography
  • Freehand sketching
  • Travelling
  • Photography
  • Cinema
  • RealTimeStrategy (RTS) Games
  • Backgammon
  • Chess
  • French Fries

Personal Info:

  • Date of Birth: 05/05/1979
  • Marital Status: No children from first marriage ( yet ).
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