NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, nsk@karastathis.org

Current

Founder at CosmosWiki.org
Independent volunteer writer at Wikipedia
Independent software consultant and proprietor at Rechnender.com (Self-employed)

Founder at AlgoLibre.org
Proprietor and founder at Vironame.com (Self-employed)
Founder and owner at WikiLux.com (Self-employed)
Independent computer consultant (Self-employed)
Founder and proprietor at Stealth new Web 2.0 startup
Free Open Source Software Volunteer (Self-employed)
Independent investment management (Self-employed)
Founder at Wikinerds.org
Independent salesman (Self-employed)

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Past

Independent business management consultant (Self-employed)
Analyst Programmer at European Dynamics SA
Freelance computer technician (Self-employed)

Independent real estate investment management and property development (Self-employed)
Programme Sales Crew at Venue Retailing SA
Freelance computer tutor (Self-employed)
Independent investment management (Self-employed)
Independent science fiction, novel, and book writer (Self-employed)
Freelance magazine article writer at CompuPress SA
Independent shareware games developer (Self-employed)
Independent salesman, comics creator, and fiction writer (Self-employed)

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Education

The Open University
University of Teesside
MUC Mediterranean University College

Beck Institute
Mediterranean University College
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
O'Reilly School of Technology
Ohio University
Goethe Institut Athen
IFA (Institut Francais de Athenes)
University of Wales, Bangor
Carleton University
IEK Delta
IEK Delta
IEK Delta
High School

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NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, nsk@karastathis.org’s Summary

My name is Nikolaos S. Karastathis (if that's too long, just call me NSK). I maintain a personal website at http://nsk.karastathis.org/

Here on LinkedIn I am an open networker (LION = LinkedIn Open Networker) and keen to network with anyone. Just invite me to your network and I will accept all invitations! You can find me at themetanetwork.com as well.

NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, nsk@karastathis.org’s Specialties:

software development, business management

NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, nsk@karastathis.org’s Experience

Founder

CosmosWiki.org

(Research industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

CosmosWiki.org is a free scholarship community of independent scholars and professional researchers aiming to provide a more open academic platform built upon the model employed by the free software community (open source).
Independent volunteer writer

Wikipedia

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Publishing industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)

Volunteering at Wikipedia by writing articles
Independent software consultant and proprietor
Rechnender.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Rechnender.com is the rename of my software consultancy.
Founder

AlgoLibre.org

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

AlgoLibre.org is a project to bring free computing and networking infrastructure to free software developers around the globe, including from developing nations. Free email, webhosting, and DNS hosting are currently offered. It is a "social entrepreneurship" venture which, if successful, will evolve to become a not-for-profit charity. Website: http://algolibre.org/
Proprietor and founder
Vironame.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Viraname.com is the name of my name consulting services. Through Vironame I help businesses to choose catchy product names for viral marketing campaigns.
Founder and owner
WikiLux.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Wiki consulting and hosting services offered worldwide.
Independent computer consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

I accept software engineering and computer consultation assignments. From time to time I co-operate with other independent consultants, but I usually work alone. I usually work with clients from USA, Canada, and Australia. Technologies used include Drupal and vbDrupal, PHP, MySQL, Apache webserver, and others. See http://www.karastathis.org/
Founder and proprietor

Stealth new Web 2.0 startup

(Internet industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)

A new Web 2.0 startup in stealth mode is being built. No more details until 2008!
Free Open Source Software Volunteer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)

Contributor to various open-source projects including Drupal (PHP CMS).
Independent investment management

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Investment Management industry)

2004 — Present (5 years)

Independent investment management specialising in precious metals and the stock exchange.
Founder

Wikinerds.org

(Internet industry)

2004 — Present (5 years)

Wikinerds is a wiki for nerds, see http://en.wikinerds.org/
Independent salesman

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Retail industry)

1997 — Present (12 years)

I have extensive experience selling used (second-hand) computers, laptops, computer peripherals, magazines, books, and other goods through on-line auction sites and newspaper ads.
Independent business management consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

From 9 June 2007 until 25 November 2007 I offered generic management consulting services, which I discontinued to focus more on other projects, including my name consulting services for the viral marketing niche market (Vironame.com).
Analyst Programmer

European Dynamics SA

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Implementing software for the European Commission. Technologies used include Perl, Java J2EE, SVG, and others.
Freelance computer technician

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Hardware industry)

2000 — 2006 (6 years)

PC troubleshooting for individuals
Independent real estate investment management and property development

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Real Estate industry)

May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)

Investment in residential and business office real estate, as well as some experience in property development. I still have some passive involvement in the residential real estate market, but I now have exited active investment.
Programme Sales Crew

Venue Retailing SA

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Retail industry)

August 2004 — August 2004 (1 month)

Selling official ATHENS 2004 merchandise for two weeks during the Athens Summer Olympics.
Freelance computer tutor

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years)

Teaching PC usage to individuals.
Independent investment management

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Investment Management industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years)

Independent investment management specialising in precious metals
Independent science fiction, novel, and book writer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Entertainment industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years)

Independent science fiction, novel, and book writer. Attempting to sell my stories to various publishers in order to publish them as a book, but failed.
Freelance magazine article writer

CompuPress SA

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

January 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Even before becoming 18 years old, I was selling professional-quality articles to a magazine, working as a freelancer from my home (after school classes!).
Independent shareware games developer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

1995 — 1999 (4 years)

When I was 14 years old I started developing computer games for Windows (I was previously already creating games for MS-DOS). With one other teenage programmer I marketed games as shareware on the Internet.
Independent salesman, comics creator, and fiction writer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Entertainment industry)

1993 — 1997 (4 years)

During middle school and high school I was drawing funny comics and writing a variety of small fiction stories (specialising in comedies, but also horror and mystery stories), and I was able to sell them to other students.

NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, nsk@karastathis.org’s Education

The Open University

2006 — 2012 (expected)

Courses: Web Systems Integration (May 2007 - October 2007, postgraduate computing course); Understanding Human Nutrition (February 2007 - July 2007, undergraduate level 1 course); Planets: An Introduction (May 2006 - October 2006, undergraduate level 1 course); Mathematics for Science (May 2006 - October 2006, undergraduate level 1 course).
University of Teesside

Master of Science , Management , 2006 — 2008

Part-time study. The programme is offered in conjunction with Mediterranean College and is suitable for working professionals.

Year 1 courses: Management of Operations and Finance, Managing Marketing, Managing People in Organisations.

Year 2 courses: Strategic Analysis, Management Theory and Practice, Management Research.
MUC Mediterranean University College

2002 — 2008

Private college of university-level studies operating as a laboratory of liberal studies owned by Xinis Group. I completed my Bachelor's and I'm doing my Master's there. The quality of studies is supervised by British universities as part of franchise agreements.
Beck Institute

Workshop , Cognitive Therapy , 2007 — 2007

5-6 May 2007: 2-day training programme and workshop on Cognitive Therapy by Dr Leslie Sokol, PhD of Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research and Academy of Cognitive therapy (ACT). Subjects investigated include: Cognitive Model, depression, group therapy, therapy for hopeless and suicidal ideation, anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), treatment of panic, group panic, personality disorders. Event organised by Mediterranean College, sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy, and delivered in English.
Mediterranean University College

Seminar , Telecommunications , 2007 — 2007

* From 3 February 2007 to 19 May 2007: 48-hour seminar on wireless, cellular, and satellite telecommunications at Mediterranean College. Topics studied include TETRA, quantisation, noise, BER, IEEE 802.x, Ethernet, WiFi, WiMax, GSM, GPRS, 3G, UMTS, B3G, VSAT, and DVB. Delivered in Greek.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Continuing Education Units , Unix file system , 2006 — 2007

From 24 December 2006 to 16 April 2007: The Unix file system through O'Reilly School of Technology, earned 4 CEUs (continuing education units) from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Office of Continuing Education. Grade: A.
O'Reilly School of Technology

Linux/UNIX System Administration 2006 — 2007

From 25 December 2006: O'Reilly School of Technology courses on Linux/UNIX System Administration, delivered in English, aiming for a certificate from University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. I expect to finish it by the end of 2007.
Ohio University

Continuing Education Units , User Interface Analysis , 2006 — 2006

2006: 4-week e-learning course "User Interface Analysis" with certificate worthing 2.4 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) from Ohio University, USA, completed through online-learning.com, delivered in English.
Goethe Institut Athen

pre-A1 study , German , 2006 — 2006

In June 2006 I took some German language classes at A1 level at the local Goethe Institut.
IFA (Institut Francais de Athenes)

pre-A1 study , French , 2006 — 2006

In February-June 2006 I took some A1-level French language classes at IFA (Institut Francais de Athenes).
University of Wales, Bangor

BSc(Hons) Bachelor of Science with Honours , Computer Science , 2002 — 2005

Programme offered in conjunction with Mediterranean University College.

Dissertation: 'Online documentation systems, wikis, and content management systems (CMS)'.

Year 1 courses: Introduction to Communications, Artificial Intelligence 1, Introduction to Databases, Java Programming 1, Java Programming 2, Algorithm Design, Information Systems, Computer Systems 1, Discrete Mathematics 1, Discrete Mathematics 2, Digital Circuits & Design 1, Probability & Statistics.

Year 2: Image Processing & Computer Vision, Data Communications & Networks, Systems Software, Java Programming 3, Advanced Software Design, Artificial Intelligence 2, Computer Systems 2, Data Structures and Algorithms, Concurrency & Operating Systems, Software Hut 1, Automata Theory, Complexity Theory.

Year 3: Real Time Systems, Parallel Algorithms, Database Systems, Data Networks & Systems, Agent Technologies, Artificial Intelligence 3, Graphics and Animation, Business Process Reengineering, Pattern Recognition.
Carleton University

Short Course , Introduction to XML , 2002 — 2002

2002: 6-week e-learning course "Introduction to XML" with certificate from University of Carleton (Ottawa, Canada), completed through online-learning.com, delivered in English.
IEK Delta

OEEK , Computer Applications Specialist , 1999 — 2001

After I finished high school, and prior enrolling to university, I studied for 2 years at IEK Delta and I earned an OEEK diploma entitled Computer Applications Specialist, recognised by the Greek government. I started the programme in 1999 and I completed it in 2001.

The vocational programme included courses in: C, Visual Basic, Pascal, Computer networks, Algorithmics, UNIX, MS Office, and Novel Netware.
IEK Delta

Seminars , Hardware and Networks, Windows NT/2000 Administration, Website Design , 1999 — 2001

1999-2001: Seminars on Hardware and Networks (60 hours), Windows NT/2000 Administration, Website Design at IEK Delta, all delivered in Greek.
IEK Delta

Seminar , Sales techniques , 1999 — 2001

1999-2001: Sales techniques seminar (15 hours) at IEK Delta, delivered in Greek.
High School

Apolytirion , General Education and Writing, Mathematics, Economics, History , 1996 — 1998

I finished high school in 1998 and in the final year I elected to concentrate on: Writing, Mathematics, Economics, History.

During high school I also did some French.