A. Personal & contact information
| First name | Andreas |
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| Last name | Konstantinidis |
| Father's name | Dimitrios Konstantinidis |
| Mother's name | Eleni Tsitsakopoulou |
| Date of birth | ..............*, 1962 |
| Place of birth | Kavala, Greece |
| Residence | ..............*, Kavala .......*, Greece |
| Telephone (home) | +30 2510 ..............* |
| Cell phone | +30 6947 ..............* |
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| Marital status | Married, ................* |
B. Basic education
| Primary | 10th and 13th public primary schools of Kavala, Greece |
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| Secondary | Up to 10th grade 2nd public secondary school
(gymnasium) of Kavala, Greece 11th grade – Del City High, Oklahoma, OK USA – Member of Honor Society 12th grade – American Community Schools of Athens, Athens, Greece – diploma grade 96/100 |
C. Studies and work experience
| 1982-1984 | Studying at the Greek Merchant Marine Academy – Captains' School – diploma grade 17.3/20.0 |
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| 1984-1985 | Working as a cadet deck officer on Greek merchant vessels |
| Dec. 1985 | Acquiring diploma of “Captain Class C” |
| 1986-1988 | Working as deck officer on Greek merchant vessels |
| 1988 | Working on a two month contract (seasonal employee) in the Shipping Department of Phosphoric Fertilizers Industry (PFI**), Nea Karvali, Greece. |
| 1988-1990 | Serving Greek Navy, doing military service, as petty officer, positioned in charge of a radar watch station, on Samothraki island, training staff in the use of naval radars and computers for reporting / recording regional navigational traffic. |
| 1990-1994 | Working as a tutor in private institutes and preparatory schools, teaching English as foreign language, computer use and advanced computer programming. |
| 1994-1999 | Running my own school of Languages and Computing. At the same time I create various software, the most noticeable being my automations for music, commercials (advertisements) and RDS broadcasting of commercial radio stations. |
| 1999 | After strong competition I am hired by the Phosphoric Fertilizers Industry (PFI**), Nea Karvali, Greece, and positioned in the Shipping Department, where I am still working up to the present time. |
| 2000-2001 | Covering, temporarily, the position of Chief Foreman in the Material Handling Department of PFI. Managing two bagging units, about 100 people, and all raw material, ready and final products warehouses. |
| 2001 | Being positioned back and continuing work in PFI Shipping Department. |
| 2004 | Starting for a degree in Computing at Hellenic Open University (HOU) – at the pace my working duties allow. |
| 2006 | Being promoted to Assistant Head of Shipping Department. |
| 2009 | Completing my undergraduate thesis on the “Development of a Geographic Position Visualization Tool of the H.O.U. Services and Facilities”, being posted at http://www.akweb.gr/eap/pe/, and receiving my BSc in Computing – grade 8.87/10.00 |
| 2010 | Starting for a MSc in Ubiquitous Computing at HOU – studying, as before, at the pace my working duties allow. |
| 2012 | Being promoted to Head of Shipping Department, while actually being in charge of the department since mid 2011 – while my predecessor was in his retirement leave. |
| 2014 | Completing my postgraduate thesis on the “Design and Development of a Web Application for Monitoring the Voyage, Arrivals and Departures of Vessels, Being of Interest to a Specific Port Facility, with Emphasis on Mobile Devices Usability”, being posted at http://www.akweb.gr/eap/de/, and receiving my MSc in Ubiquitous Computing – grade 8.70/10.00 |
| 2022 | My contract with the fertilizer companies not being renewed for the year 2022 I decide to end my working life and by May 2022 I apply for pension. |
Last updated: May 2023
*For obvious reasons, certain data from the “Personal & contact information” area have been deleted.
**Phosphoric Fertilizers Industry (PFI SA) changed ownership in 2010 and was renamed to ELFE SA. In 2016 it was split into Hellagrolip SA and PIFC Ltd, while in later years the two companies, resulting from the 2016 split, change several times.