Head of Engineering UK @ Design of Solar Photovoltaic systems for medium-to-large commercial and industrial installations From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Electrical Engineer @ Automation Systems, SCADA. Remote monitoring platform which applies to various activities like photovoltaic sites, Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), hybrid solar/wind/petrol systems. Responsible for company's ISO 14001 and 18001 (Health and safety & Environmental) From April 2009 to Present (6 years 9 months) IT Manager @ Network Organization Center. IT Consultant. Trouble ticketing systems. High Availability Clusters. Escalation point for all requests and incidents. IT related R&D for various applications. Company's infrastructure consists of multiple gateways, VPN connections IPSec/SSL, support on various types of hardware. More than 100 terminals, MS SQL server, MySQL servers, Linux based and Windows based. Duties also cover camera surveillance systems and call centers. From January 2011 to May 2015 (4 years 5 months) IT Helpdesk Manager @ Manage and evaluate the performance of level 1 services & support. Company supported an infrastructure of more than 2000 Microsoft Windows terminals and 200 linux servers with roles expanding from PDC's (Public Domain Controllers) to MySQL servers. Helpdesk departement operated in a 24h basis. Act as escalation point for all requests and incidents. Apply company policies and procedures related to helpdesk departement. From June 2007 to April 2009 (1 year 11 months) Network Administrator @ - Establish and supervise copper wire (M1020), and wireless communication solutions. Company's backbone network structure included more than 200 points accross Greece. Wireless network was based on WiMax IEEE 802.16 and wifi/aironet protocols with Cisco, Redline, RAD and Microtik. Big scale wireless structures based on redline/cisco solutions (e.g connection between Thessaloniki and Katerini Pieria, 70km-30miles, 40 Mbps), wireless network over Thessaloniki area. - Escalation point for 1st level support. - Cisco IOS based QoS and Policy Based Routing (PBR) for the backbone. SLA Tracking - Design, implementation and support for H323 based VoIP solution for communication between support center and clients. - Design, implementation and maintenance of more than 150 IP/CCTV surveillance points ( more than 1000 cameras) From December 2006 to April 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Master of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering @ University of Macedonia From 2006 to 2009 Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering @ Brno University of Technology From 1997 to 2002 Athanasios Bakalis is skilled in: Electrical Engineering, Photovoltaics, Electricians, Project Management, Surveillance, Operating Systems, Linux, Ubuntu, Networking, Windows, Wireless, Cisco Technologies, Network Administration, Cisco IOS, HTML