Full Name: George Kakaletris

Organisation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Organization Role: Research Associate

DILIGENT Specific Role: TCom Representative and main contact point for the University of Athens. Main involvement: WP1.1, WP1.6, WP1.4, WP4.2

Personal Information

• Born: 22 September 1969
• Live place: Athens, Greece

Education:

• BSc in Physics (UoA)
• MSc in Advanced Infomation Systems
• PhD Cnd in Information Technologies

Employment:

• Manager of the Public R&D Sector of Decision S.A., member of the InfoQuest Group of Companies.
• Director of the R&D Department of Intelltech S.A.
• Project manager and software architect / engineer for Profile S.A.
• Research associate for the University of Athens

Current scientific and research interests:

• New and emerging programming models (AOP, R-OOP, SOP etc)
• Handling persistency in evolving environments.
• Modeling real-life large-scale evolving systems into software constructs.
• Real-life physics & telecom problems optimization.
• Next generation Location Based Services.

Skills:

• IT Project Management
• Integrated Information Systems Design & Implementation
• Software Architecture & Design
• Software Development
• Financial Business Area Applications Design and Implementation
• Relational Database Management Systems
• Modelling Software Development & Optimization

Major Projects:

• Design and Implementation of Integrated Information System for Financial Administration for Greek Public Organizations
• Cypriot Govenment Water Resource Management System
• Studies funded by the Greek Governent concerning the National Registry of Comercial Entities
• Backend Portfolio Management System for Banks, Investment Companies and Financial Organizations.
• M-Guide EU Funded project (UoA team manager)
• Ecosys EU Funded project (Software Development Leader)
• TONIC EU Funded project (UoA team member)
• Development of Microsoft Certified Application for Document and Protocol Management (major installations on Athens 2004 Organization and Greek Prime-minister Establishment)

Recent Major Publications:

• “Designing and implementing an open infrastructure for location-based, tourism-related content delivery”, G. Kakaletris et al, 2004, ACM/Kluver Special Edition on Wireless Communications