Evangelos Karatarakis

Selected Projects

Supply Chain & Healthcare

Medical Supplies Ordering Systems

Led requirements definition and design of supply chain ordering platforms.
Goal: Transform the manual back and forth communication to simple order submissions, focusing on user friendly UX/UI approaches.

Custom Solutions & Healthcare

Clinic Room Booking System

Delivered a centralized room booking system, eliminating manual tracking and reducing double booking.

Procurement, Ordering & Logistics

Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP

Defined business and functional requirements for ordering and logistic processes.
Designed automation solutions, improving financial operations and transactional accuracy.

Financial operations

Automating Payments

Analyzed remittance advice reconciliation processes and delivered end-to-end automation solution.
Improved data and time accuracy in Finance operations.

RPA & AI

Patient Medical Files AI

Designed a hybrid automation and AI solution to process data from free-text fields in medical forms and patient files.
Increased the number of manually processed cases and reducing manual effort and improving the healthcare quality.

Robotics & Hardware Programming

Code Name: AIBond

Developed and deployed a fully functional character personality on SONY AIBO Entertainment Robot.

Experience

Automation Business Analyst

@ Atelier Nuage | Aug 2021 - Jun 2026

Analyzed 150+ business processes in Finance, Supply Chain and Procurement for automation initiatives.

Managed stakeholders, coordinating cross-functional teams, defining business and functional requirements.
Acted as the main point of contact between business, clients and technical teams, ensuring timely delivery.
Analyzed "As-Is" vs "To-Be" business processes, identifying gaps and translating business needs into automation solutions.
Facilitated Agile events, sprint plannings, and progress tracking across software development lifecycle.
Collaborated with Product Manager, refining backlog and setting priority tasks for development teams.
Created business process user stories, flowcharts (BPMN), use cases and acceptance criteria.
Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Training, ensuring solutions meet project requirements.
Managed requirements change and performing risk analysis, aligning business and technical teams.
Mentored a team of 3 Junior Business Analyst, assigning tasks and owing team coordination.

Academic Researcher

@ Technical University of Crete - School of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Dec 2020 - Aug 2021

Analyzed datasets and developed Machine Learning algorithms, optimizing telecommunication systems.
Contributed to publications, releasing research outcomes in international conferences.
Supervisor: Professor Aggelos Bletsas
Collaborating Institution: ECE Department, University of Virginia, USA

Teaching Associate

@ Technical University of Crete - School of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Sep 2019 - Jun 2021

Hosted weekly lectures and organizing student workshops and exercises.
Designed and structured course expertise lectures material such as practical case studies and assignments, following the course outline and ensuring knowledge understanding by students.
Supported the professors teaching process by engaging with students about the syllabus concepts and coursework.
Led assignemnt explanatory courses offering multiple options approaching assignments' challenges and performed the full semester assignment grading.
Courses: Telecommunication Systems II, Introduction to Probability Graphical Models and Inference Algorithms
Supervisor: Professor Aggelos Bletsas

Programming Teacher

@ Thesmos Private Institute | Sep 2019 - Jun 2020

Teaching programming courses to 3rd grade high-school students, enhancing their preparation for univer sity introductory exams.

Google Summer of Code Developer

@ Google with GFOSS | May 2019 - Sep 2019

Project: Upgrade UMLGraph with Java's new Doclet API

Electrical & Computer Engineer Intern

@ SenseLab - Technical University of Crete - School of Mineral Resources | Sep 2018

Developed custom solutions for processing readings and collecting data from RPLidar sensors.
Supervisor: Assistant Professor Panagiotis Partsinevelos

Professional Skills

Requirements Definition Business Process Management (BPMN) Flowcharts & Documentation Business Process Optimization User Acceptance Testing (UAT) User Stories Acceptance Criteria Business Process Automation

Soft Skills

Problem Solving Critical Thinking Decision Making Team Management & Team Spirit Strong Communication Skills Writing Skills Presentation Skills & Public Speaking Sociable Curious Adaptable

Technical Skills & Tools

Business Analysis: MIRO, Figma, Webflow, Visio, Obsidian, LaTeX Project Management: Jira, Confluence, MS Office, Excel (Advanced) Programming: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, C, Java, Javascript, Python, Matlab Automation: Blueprism, Power Automate, Azure AI

Education

M.Sc. Electrical & Computer Engineer | Technical University of Crete

Certifications

PMI Essentials: M.O.R.E. Maximizing Project Success
PMI Essentials: Seven AI Project Patterns
Google Project Manager Professional Certificate (In Progress)
Agile with Atlassian Jira (In Progress)
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
JMeter: Performance Testing Training
Electrical Design and Installments
Mechanics Meet Informatics, DAAD Summer School, TUC and Technical University of Braunschweig

Languages

Greek (Native)
English (Professional Proficiency)
German (Intermediate)

Publications

Batteryless Backscatter Sensor Networks- Part II: Lessons From Scalable Deployment, IEEE Communications Letters · Jan 16, 2023, Learn More
Message Passing Inference as Distributed Computation, Technical University of Crete Archive · Jul 9, 2019, Learn More