CURRICULUM VITAE KIMON - ELPIDOFOROS SPILIOPOULOS Personal Data Born in Athens, October 7, 1960, married. Home/ work address: 18 Amassias St., 116 34 Athens. Tel: +30 210 7252 025, mobile: +30 6932-760155 E-mail: KSpiliop1@Ath.Forthnet.gr, Kimon@Unipi.gr Education 1995 2001 University of Piraeus, Dept. of Industrial Management & Technology. Ph.D., Operations Research (degree: Excellent ). 1986 1987 University of London, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Dept. of Management Science. M.Sc., Management Science, Diploma of Imperial College (DIC). 1978 1984 National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Diploma, Mechanical Engineering. Teaching and Research Experience 2001 - University of Piraeus, Dept. of Industrial Management. Research Associate, Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate courses: a) «Quantitative Analysis of Management Decisions» (2002-, Department of Banking and Financial Management), b) «Queuing Systems and Simulation» (2002-, Department of Industrial Management), c) Operations Research I (2008, Department of Industrial Management), d) Operations Research II (2009-, Department of Industrial Management). Post-graduate courses in Logistics (Department of Industrial Management): Mathematical Programming, Statistics, Computer Simulation, Data Mining. Research in a) industrial production design, b) combining optimization and statistical methods for the solution of prediction classification problems, c) approximate string matching and grouping in databases. 1991 Brunel University, West London. Lectures to undergraduate and post-graduate students in the field of Computational Complexity. Research in the area of connecting Mathematical Programming and Artificial Intelligence methods. 1989 Imperial College, London, Dept. of Management Science. Design and implementation of a software system for medical and actuarial statistics. 1
1988 NTUA, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Research project in the area of industrial processes optimization (cutting stock problems). Employment History 2002 - Free-lance Operations Research / Management Consultant Cooperation with QUANTOS S.A. (Statistics and Information Systems), ICAP S.A., ITMC S.A. (Information Technology Management Consultants) and independent professional activities. Indicative projects: With QUANTOS S.A.: Study «Expert Review and Proposals for Monitoring Trends in Health Inequalities in the EU», EC/ Directorate General for Health and Consumers (on-going), technical consultant. Study Combined Trade and Business Statistics - Linking Τrade and Βusiness Statistics: Methodological Framework, ΕC/ Eurostat (ongoing), technical consultant. Project «Statistical Analysis and Publication of the 2009 LFS Ad Hoc Module Results», ΕC/ Eurostat (on-going), technical consultant. Study «Statistics on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)», ΕC/ Eurostat (on-going), technical consultant. With ITMC S.A.: Study «Utilization of Human Resources», Cyprus Productivity Centre, project manager. Study for the Penetration of Information and Communication Technologies into the Tourism Sector: Strategies and Perspectives, Information Society Observatory, member of working team. Introduction of CRM culture and infrastructure, Biotronics Ltd & Scientronics Ltd (Cyprus), member of working team. Project for the Introduction of a System for the Accreditation and Evaluation of Training Providers, Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus (HRDA), Cyprus, technical consultant. With ICAP S.A.: Project «Technology and Innovation Providers Services in Eastern Macedonia & Thrace» in the framework of Action 2, Technogenesis programme, member of the working team. Development of credit scoring models and applications for ICAP S.A: logit and non-parametric models and related issues, technical consultant. Data Quality Cleansing project for the Commercial Bank of Greece, project manager. Business Plan for the Information Society Observatory, project manager. Projects in Alpha Bank: a) Pilot Data Mining in the Cards Division (attrition modelling) and b) Data Cleansing Pilot. Other projects: Study Self-employment in Greece: Determinants and Attitudes of Men and Women, Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Sized 2
Enterprises and Handicraft, independent contract. Advanced decision support/ management information methods and systems using modern optimization tools and operations research techniques, research project in the framework of PRAXE programme. Development and implementation of commercial software: a) Data Envelopment Analysis, b) tools for the AutoCAD platform. 1997 10/2001 ICAP S.A. Director, Business Process Reengineering & New Technologies Project Manager, Business Process Reengineering at Alpha Bank (Proteus 21 Program). Areas: New Branch Platform, Telephone Banking, Customer Information System, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Lobby Banking and Automated Services, Sales Pilot Program. Pilot Data Mining project in the Commercial Bank of Greece (Risk Management). Project management consulting for the Alpha Credit Bank and Ionian Bank IT merge (Aristotle Program). Other consulting services for Alpha Credit Bank: Private Banking system, systems disaster procedures, archiving procedures and spaces redesign, design of records retention schedule etc. Pilot project evaluation study for the Hellenic Banks Association. Management of EC Program "Greek Post Office" 1994 1999 (Program initialization and redesign). 1991 1996 ORCO S.A. Senior Consultant Scientific/specialized software sales manager: CACI Inc. (simulation languages and applications), NAG Ltd. (mathematical and statistical libraries and applications, compilers, programming tools) and EDS/Scicon Ltd. (mathematical programming solvers and modellers). Statistical and Operational Research projects: Principal analyst in more than 15 major statistical projects mainly in market research, sociology and medical research. Design and implementation of the core (optimizer) of a decision support system. Design of an automated production system for a textile company. Feasibility/ computerization studies: National Centre for Public Administration, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority. Investigations/ comparative studies in the EC member states. Co-ordination of large-scale specialized translation and DTP projects. Implementation of a database for Greek researchers (in Greece and abroad) on behalf of the General Secretariat of R&D. 1988 1991 Free-lance services Engineer Operations Research Analyst MILLER Ltd. (International insurance company, Lloyd's Group), engineering services (surveys, evaluations, loss adjustments etc). Hellenic Tartaric S.A., construction of chemical factory, engineering services. 3
CS Lighting Consultants Ltd., Operations Consultant. 1987 1988 PC SYSTEMS S.A. Sales Engineer 1984 I. G. Korontzis S.A. Mechanical Engineer Experience Management Science/Operational Research methods and applications (modelling, optimizing, analysis) and use of specialized software. Application of optimization methods in Finance. Simulation methods and applications, especially of factory and office environments. Statistical analyses and Data Mining. Special expertise in large volume data handling. Advanced applications, indicatively: Credit Scoring, Database Marketing, Structural Equation Modelling. Business Process Re-engineering. Project Management (incl. Earned Value Management/ Analysis). Customer Relationship Management. Change Management, Balanced Scorecard methodologies. Programming in C, C#.NET, VB.NET, FORTRAN (77 & 90), SAS, Matlab, Visual Basic, Excel VB. Theses, Publications & Conferences Theses «Mathematical programming methods for the design of manufacturing cells, PhD Thesis (2001), Dept. of Industrial Management, Univ. of Piraeus. «A heuristic algorithm for the travelling salesman problem, M.Sc. Thesis (1987), Department of Management Science, Imperial College, London. «Optimal feedback compensator design, Diploma Thesis (1984), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. Journal Publications K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, An efficient ant colony opimization system for the cell formation problem, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (36) (2008), pp589 597. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, Manufacturing cells design with alternative routings in generalized group technology: Reducing the complexity of the solution space, International Journal of Production Research 45(6) (2007), pp1355-1367. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, Calculating distances for dissimilar strings: The shortest path formulation revisited, European Journal of Operational Research 177(1) (2007) pp525-539. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, Designing manufacturing cells: A staged approach and a tabu search algorithm, International Journal of Production Research 41 (2003), pp2531-2546. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, «Designing manufacturing cells using a tabu search approach», in «Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems, S. Gershwin et al. (eds), Kluwer Int. Series in Operations Research and Management Science Vol. 60 (2003). K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, «An optimal tree search 4
method for the solution of manufacturing systems cell formation problems», European Journal of Operational Research 105 (1998) pp537-551. Conference Proceedings S. Poulaki, B. Wiegele, S. Thum, K. Spiliopoulos, Entwicklung und Evaluation des Bedürfnisorientierten Interventions Assessments (BIAS) zur Auswahl von aktivierenden Interventionen für ältere Menschen in stationären Einrichtungen, 5. gemeinsamer Kongress der DGG und der ÖGGG, 16.9. 18.9.2010, Potsdam. Foreign Languages Memberships S. Sofianopoulou and K. Spiliopoulos, The manufacturing systems cell formation problem: A proposal for a standardized staged approach and a unified framework for mathematical programming formulations», 15th Operations Research National Conference, October-November 2002, Tripolis. «Modern approaches to the utilization of customer information and the role of marketing», 2nd Banking Marketing Forum, November-December 2000, Athens, also in Data Mining Seminar Workshop Turning Raw Data into Business Gold, SAS Greece, May 2001, Athens. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, «Designing manufacturing cells using a tabu search approach», 2nd Aegean International Workshop on the Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems, May 1999, Tinos. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, «The reduction of interdependencies between manufacturing cells in group technology», 11th Operations Research National Conference, May 1997, Athens. K. Spiliopoulos and S. Sofianopoulou, «On performance improvement in modern production systems. New capital investment or subcontracting?», 1st Panhellenic Conference on Materials Purchasing & Management, November 1994, Athens, also published in Laios, L. (ed.) "Modern Purchasing and Supply Management" (1995) Foreign Languages: English: Very fluent. French: SORBONNE I, II. Full Member of: The Hellenic Operational Research Society The Imperial College/ Management School Alumni Association (founding member, General Secretary 1995-1997, Special Advisor 1997-1999) The Technical Chamber of Greece The Mechanical Engineers Association The Lycee Leonin Alumni Association October 2010 5