Dr. Michail Vlachos

iOS software developer in a team consisting of 5 mobile developers, a product manager, a UX designer, a UI designer and a producer. My responsibility is to develop iOS applications for Zalando’s service named Zalon.

Technical leader of the mobile department, which currently consists of 4 developers, a designer and myself - working as developer. Responsibilities involve: • Analyzing and translating product features into technical specs. • Researching new technologies, libraries and open source projects and developing prototypes • Working on sprint planning and task breakdown • Providing team guidance • Developing software in both iOS and Android • Performing quality assurance and code reviewing

• Developing new features • Performing maintenance, improvement / refactoring of legacy code • Working on quality assurance

Major contributor to the design, development and maintenance of the company's main product, a customizable, modular and workflow-enabled CRM solution. Tasks I dealt with: • Analyzing customer requirements. • Designing system architectures & databases • Creating documentation • Managing the technical team • Developing software in C# • Developing data migration / synchronization processes • Developing middleware solutions • Engaging in customer consulting and support

Developed mobile applications for iOS "Dortia backgammon" An “interactive” backgammon iPhone / iPad game with cool features. "Make the Face!" An iPad game for toddlers and kids. Unfortunately the games are not anymore in the App Store. However, you can still check some videos and screenshots in their Facebook pages. https://www.facebook.com/Dortia-4-IPhone-IPad-229196810464116/ https://www.facebook.com/Make-the-Face-373890322629576/

Participated in a telemedicine research project funded by the European Union. My responsibilities in the project included: • Developing software, mainly in Java • Participating in internal project meetings & EU review meetings

Participated in 3 software-related research projects funded by the European Union. My responsibilities in the company included: • Developing software, mainly in Java • Participating in internal project meetings • Participating and presenting work progress in EU review meetings

Dissertation title: “Secure and dynamic environment for relational databases information retrieval and presentation over the Internet.” The dissertation proposed methods for describing GUIs and relational database schemas using XML structures.

Thesis title: “Development of a distributed application using Java.” The thesis designed and developed a client / server application based on a three- tier architecture using two major Java technologies: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Java Remote Method Invocation (JRMI).