Sokratis Kartakis, M.Sc.

Education

2006 to 2008: 

Master in Computer Science (8.52 / 10)

Concentration Areas : Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Master Thesis : Tool Support for Designing and Generating Accessible User Interfaces in Ambient Intelligence Environments (published in “Computers in Industry” journal - 2010) University of Crete, Greece

2002 to 2006:

Bachelor in Computer Science (8.22 / 10) with distinction Ranked 1st among 130 students in graduating class of 2006 University of Crete, Greece

1999 to 2002:

High School (18.7 / 20) Koridallos, Attikis, Greece

Languages

November 2012

International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

Listening: 8.0 | Reading: 6.5 | Writing: 6.5 | Speaking 7.5 | Overall: 7.0

Summer 2012: 

English for Graduate Students and Professionals Yale University : English Language Institute (A)

Concentration Areas : Writing, Academic Speaking and Presentation Skill

Work & Research Experience

January 2012 to present: 

Yale University, ENALAB, New Haven, Connecticut, US January 2012 to present Visiting Assistants in Research (VAR)

Involved in research projects of :  

• Smart Buildings in area of power consumption
  
• Elders Wellness Empowerment Systems 
  
• Embedded Sensors’ Technologies in Smart Environments
  

November 2009 to December 2011:

HCI Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, Crete, Greece - Senior Software Engineer and Researcher

• Head researcher and designer of Smart Home Project
  
• Designed and implemented:
  
  • Applications for automatic integration, control and state monitoring of a new smart device in Ambient Intelligence Environments (Control Home Easily)
    
  • The smart patient room and allow (a) patient to control his environment and use hospital facilities through a touch pad and (b) doctor or nurse to monitor patient in an easier way
    
  • Applications for measuring and control power consumption, wired and wirelessly
    
  • Scenario of Smart Hotel Room
    
• Involved in implementation of the smart doctor’s meeting office table
  
• Implemented services to:
  
  • Control door, set of blinds, fluoresce, colored and led lights, TVs and projectors
    
  • Retrieve data from sonar, current, motion, ambient light sensors, Phidgets and RFID readers
    
• Implemented Windows Phone applications to control all the above appliances through WCF Services and Web Services
  
• Implemented full functional library of Xbee Pro
  
• Remote configuration of Xbee through Arduino without the need of a PC / Laptop
  
• Specialized in research, design and implementation of new scenarios for Smart Home (implementation applications and services to control / monitor sensors and appliances)
  
• Evaluation processes for all applications with real users
  
• WPF, Silverlight, WCF, SQL server
  

November 2008 to November 2009:

Military of Greece - IT Administrator, Hellenic Army Duty Mandatory

• Maintained existing websites; Implemented new functionalities
  
• Installed network appliances such as printers or routers, etc.
  
• Hardware and Software maintenance
  
• Maintained users’ account in Server
  
• Windows Server 2003
  

September 2006 to October 2008:

HCI Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, Crete, Greece - Senior Software Engineer, Graduate Fellowship

• Implemented: 
  
  • Accessible games
  • Rent PDAs application through barcode reader for e-Guide Project 
    
  • Statistics application, in order to handle visiting rate of exhibits in Museums for e-Guide Project 
    
  • Accessible lights control application over sockets (CAMILE) 
    
  • Tools for designing and generating accessible user interfaces in Ambient Intelligence Environments 
    
  • Applications and services for the rapid prototype of a Smart Office
• Specialization in accessible applications and evaluations process
  
• Windows Forms, Flash, Actionscript, SQL server
  

July 2003 to August 2006:

HCI Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, Crete, Greece - Software Engineer, Undergraduate Fellowship

• Design and development of dynamic components for Accessible Web Portals.
  
• Involved in Intuition project
  
• Specialization in accessible web sites
  
• ASP .NET, SQL server
  

Teaching Experience

October 2009 to January 2012:

Science Dept., Technological Institute of Crete, Greece - Lecturer and Lab Coordinator

• Informatics Mechanical Engineering Dept. (C programming) 
  
• Programming I Electrical Engineering Dept. (C programming) 
  
• Programming II Electrical Engineering Dept. (C programming) 
  
• Data Processing Systems Business Administration Dept. (Excel, Access, Databases) 
  
• Introduction in Computers Accounting Dept. (Word, Power Point, Excel)
  

July 2010 and July 2011:

Institute of Vocational Training, Greece - Examiner and Proctor in Greek State Accreditation Examinations

February 2009 to July 2011

February 2004 to July 2008

Mathematics Dept., University of Crete, Greece - Teaching Fellow

• Programming (C programming)
  

October 2004 to January 2007:

Applied Mathematics Dept., University of Crete, Greece - Teaching Fellow

• Programming (C programming)
  

Technical Skills

Proficiency with a wide range of programming languages, concepts and technologies

• Programming Languages & Environments 
  
  • .NET Framework (C#) WPF, Silverlight (Web, Windows Phone 7), C, XML. 
    
  • ASP.Net, Windows Form, SQL Server, HTML, LINQ, WCF, Web Services , Matlab
    
  • JAVA, Flash & Actionscript, Assembly, JAVAScript, UML
• Windows & Linux development platforms
• Hardware Interfaces 
  
  • Xbee & Arduino
    
  • X10, DMX, MSP430