Education and technology, Athens
I am Director General of City Unity College in Athens. I joined in 2011 as an IT administrator on the help desk and never left. Since July 2025 I have also been CEO of Epsilon College.
I came to education through its infrastructure: cabling, switches, servers, a help desk. For three years I worked that help desk for faculty, staff and students. Higher education should stay close to the real needs of the technology industry. Whatever the tool, AI included, a person answers for the result.
Today my work is two colleges. City Unity College, where I am Director General, offers Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes in central Athens. Epsilon College, where I have been Chief Executive Officer since July 2025, provides postgraduate degrees for professionals, in collaboration with internationally recognised universities. I also co-own Datapack.net, an IT consultancy and hosting business.
From 2011 to 2023 my work at City Unity College was its systems: workstations, VLANs, daily backups, then the ticketing system, procurement and security policy. The habits carried into this office. Plan the budget, document the procedure, protect the data. Confidentiality, integrity and availability turn out to be reasonable goals for a college too.
Since June 2011, in Athens.
As IT Director of the college, April 2018 to December 2023.
Volunteer, Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network, since February 2006.
MBA, Project Management, Computer Science, Cyber Security. LLM in progress.
I joined City Unity College in June 2011 to work the help desk. I am still at the college. The job description has changed three times, each version wider than the last.
I provided technical support on campus and an online help desk for faculty, staff and students. I fixed what broke across Windows, Linux and Mac, laid CAT 5/6 cabling and set up free Wi-Fi for students. I also wrote the procedures down.
The work moved from fixing machines to planning for them. I managed the ticketing system and the network infrastructure, planned the IT budget, and designed and deployed network extensions between multiple offices.
Reporting directly to the CEO, I led the strategic and operational management of the technology infrastructure, supporting over 7,000 users and students. I mentored the IT team and answered for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, networks and data.
I am now Director General of the college I used to keep online. My work is strategic leadership, academic partnerships, and making sure that what we teach stays relevant to the global job market.
Chief Executive Officer since July 2025, based in Athens. I lead a higher education institution that specialises in postgraduate degrees for professionals. The mission is to connect academic knowledge with market needs.
I have co-owned this IT consultancy and hosting business since September 2019. Dedicated servers, domain names, corporate email, managed firewalls and endpoint protection.
I was co-owner and CEO from June 2012 to July 2019, in the London area. Corporate hosting: custom packages, cPanel and WHM administration, dedicated servers, DNS and email.
Data wiping specialist on contract since May 2019. I sanitise data at data centres and colocation facilities, and specialise in wiping Cisco routers, switches and access points during decommissioning.
From August 2015 to May 2024 I was a remote IT engineer on contract, supporting servers, networks and end-user systems for international clients across multiple time zones.
I was IT Manager at the hotel in Vouliagmeni from June 2017 to December 2023.
I was IT Manager for the college in Nicosia, Cyprus, from February 2016 to December 2023.
From October 2014 to June 2017 I mentored students and professionals in open-source software development, within Monades Aristeias, a programme under the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society.
I taught computer science in Athens from September 2014 to June 2015. The subjects were Computing Practices and Programming: structured programming, logic and coding fundamentals.
My first degree was in Computing, 2008 to 2011. Four master’s degrees followed. A Master of Laws is in progress. So is a degree in natural sciences at the Hellenic Open University.
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Coventry University
Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Cardiff Metropolitan University
University of Wales
University of Wales
Hellenic Open University
Issued between 2022 and 2026. Several follow the work: data protection, data wiping, networking. The most recent, from September 2026, is an instructor certification for routing and switching.
Omada by TP-Link UK&I
HP LIFE
GDPR Complet
Hellenic Open University
University of Patras
The Art of Service Academy
UCERT Greece
LiberoGroup
EASA, European Union Aviation Safety Agency
City Unity College
Three things from outside the two colleges: a community wireless network, open-source mentoring, and a drone pilot certificate.
Volunteering
The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a community-driven wireless network in the Athens region. I have volunteered on its backbone since February 2006. I have operated and maintained two active backbone nodes and taken part in deploying new ones locally. The work is hardware setup, signal alignment, troubleshooting, and sharing what I know with other members. Open, decentralised networking.
Mentoring
From 2014 to 2017 I mentored students and professionals at the National Technical University of Athens on real open-source projects: Linux, Git, version control, community contribution. Two projects are associated with that work, both on Arduino: Internet of Things, in two parts, and the development of a wearable system for use in sports.
Airspace
In November 2022 I was certified as a UAS Remote Pilot in the Open Category by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. In plain terms, a drone pilot. The certificate sits beside two Data Protection Officer qualifications and one in data wiping and destruction.
Greek
Native or bilingual
English
Professional working
French
Elementary
I write on LinkedIn about artificial intelligence, authorship and the link between higher education and the technology industry. Three excerpts from 2026, unedited.
The real conversation shouldn’t be about whether AI was involved. It should be about who takes responsibility for the final output.
In the age of AI, authentic human knowledge may become the world’s most valuable resource.
As Director General of City Unity College, I strongly believe that higher education should remain closely connected to the real needs of the technology industry.
Contact
If you want to talk about education, technology or a partnership between institutions, I would be glad to hear from you. Reach me on LinkedIn.