Evangelos (Vangelis) Gazis

Advancing cybersecurity across products, solutions, customers, and standards. Technology policy trustee to the CTO office.

Scope and responsibities:

• Ownership and accountability of the baseline security architecture of the Internet of Things (IoT) Products and Solutions (P&S) of Huawei (global portfolio). Focus on IoT security in the industrial (Smart Manufacturing), automotive (V2X) and energy (Smart Grid) domains.
• Vision and technology roadmap for Internet of Things (IoT) Products and Solutions (P&S) at the CTO office.
• Ownership of the security ecosystem roadmap strategy.
• CxO advisory and thought leadership on the IoT security landscape (inclusive of Smart City scenarios).
• Innovation activities in IoT security jointly with global key accounts (Tier-1 carriers and Tier-1 mobile operators).
• Standardization and certification strategy in IoT security.
• Lead of technical contributions to global standards (ETSI, GSMA, etc.).

Company representative (includes ad personam appointments):

• European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) Expert Group (EG) on IoT Security (IoTSec)
• European Commission (EC) Directorate General (DG) Mobility and Transport (MOVE) Expert Group (EG) on C-ITS PKI
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee (TC) on Cybersecurity (CYBER).
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Securing Artificial Intelligence (SAI)
• GSM Association (GSMA).
  • Fraud and Security Architecture Group (FSAG)
  • Device Security Group (DSG)
  • IoT SAFE Group (IOTSAFE)
• European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO)
  • WG1 Cybersecurity Certification
  • WG6 Strategic Research Agenda
• Joint Working Group (JWG) between CEN/CENELEC and ETSI for joint standardisation activities in cybersecurity for IoT

Key milestones:

• ETSI EN 303 645 European Standard for “Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things” developed jointly by ETSI and CEN/CENELEC that applies across all 27 Member States.
• ETSI TS 103 701 companion to EN 303 645 assessment specification.
• Alignment of the Global Certification Forum (GCF) to ETSI TC CYBER standard EN 303 645.
• ETSI position on cybersecurity assessment under the ex-ante framework of the Radio Equipment Directive (RED).

External advisories:

• East West Institute (EWI) think tank on matters of 5G and Smart Cities.

Growing the customer base for Big Data products and services in Germany.

Head of the Big Data organization. Build up of the caliber, expansion of the portfolio, delivery of excellence, and, enlargement of the market footprint.

• Accountable for P&L and Big Data business growth.
• Innovation activities for improving customer capture in the Big Data service line across Cognizant.
• Thought leadership and customer stewardship through digital transformation initiatives.
• Lead proposal portfolio across the service set (i.e. advisory, consulting, solution, implementation, and operations).
• Partner alignment and collaboration in go-to-market strategy.
• Public dissemination and brand awareness initiatives.
• Activities for customer mindshare development.
• Coordination of delivery across on-shore, near-shore and off-shore centers.
• Customer engagements across industry sectors with emphasis in the following sectors:
  • Telecommunications
  • Banking
  • Manufacturing
  • Transportation
  • Life sciences

Advancing an IoT platform initiative successfully to product commercialization.

Advisor to AGT top management on technology strategy in the area of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Leading a technology development program for an IoT cloud platform product. Advance an IoT cloud platform from an R&D prototype to a commercial product and impact business strategy on a company level. Secure international collaborative R&D projects in the Big Data area.

• Accountable for the R&D strategy in the Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio of technologies.
• Responsible for the scope, differentiators (USP) and market positioning of the AGT IoT Analytics (IOTA) cloud platform.
• Market intelligence of M2M/IoT offerings (components, services and platforms), competition analysis (on IoT platforms), technology roadmap and development of R&D plan at tactical and strategic level, Unique Selling Proposition (USP) and value acquisition plan.
• Review and approval at CxO level for go-to-market strategy for the IOTA platform product leading to a re-positioning of AGT as an IoT Analytics company.
• Responsible for the Edge Computing technology program of AGT R&D.
• Market analysis of Data Analytics and IoT Analytics offerings, analysis of partner (Cisco) platform plan, technology roadmap and development of R&D plan at tactical level, USP and onboarding strategy for application developer community.
• Led the Edge Computing program for IoT Analytics at the edge in collaboration with Cisco.
• Responsible for the end-to-end technology-to-product engineering pipeline (e.g. Agile, SCRUM) and the collaboration with the product architecture team.
• Technology thought leadership and innovation management though Systematic Inventive Thinking methods (e.g. task unification).
• Active customer interface and market intelligence (e.g. market analysis, shaping solution and technology portfolio, strategic advisory, cross-unit coordination, etceteras).
• Secure the VAVEL (4.1M€ ranked 1st) project under the EU H2020 framework.

Building an IoT platform initiative through innovation projects jointly with customers.

Leading the transition of technological innovations from the R&D organization to the product organization and into customer projects. Engaging multiple teams across the value chain (e.g. researchers, research architects, developers, product managers, customer liaisons, business heads, customer delegates, vendor staff, etc.) in end-to-end programs. Developing, refining and securing VP approval for innovation management processes.

• Accountable for managing technology transfer programs to deliver innovations to AGT products.
• Delivered the Data Analytics Architecture project that spawned the AGT IoT Analytics (IOTA) cloud platform.
• Delivered Integration of Cybersecurity into Smart Grid (SCADA) Substations project to the AIMS-e product. Direct collaboration with Elenia Smart Grid operator in Finland.
• Delivered Acoustic Analytics in Predictive Maintenance at Smart Grid Substations project to the AIMS-e product. Direct collaboration with Elenia.
• Responsible for working with business units and shaping selective parts of the R&D roadmap to their requirements. Coordination of technology management (e.g. roadmap planning, budgeting, resourcing, etc.) and product roadmap.
• Responsible for developing business processes for technology transfer across AGT.
• Approval and establishment of processes in the Technology Transfer Organization (TTO):
  • Change Management
  • Risk Management

Establishing internal standards and formalisms for product design and architecture development.

Working within the architecture group to define and roadmap the future technologies roadmpa for the platform product of AGT. Introducing formal design (UML) in the Software Development Organization (SDO).

• System architecture (per TOGAF) for the CityOS PaaS concept of a Smart City platform that was approved at VP level.

Research and innovation activities in the interplay of M2M and Smart Grid in residentials scenarios.

Advancing Smart Home and Data Analytics projects in the area of Smart Grid. Focus on regional generation aspects and peer-to-peer energy trading in support of Demand Response in the Smart Grid. Advancing the pilot portfolio of AGT in Demand Side Management (DSM) applications for the Smart Grid. Contributing to Machine-to-Machine (M2M) projects for the Smart Metering Infrastructure (SMI).

• Responsible for developing the residential system architecture for the German BMWi Peer Energy Cloud (PEC) project according to (functional and non-functional) requirements of the Smart Grid. The platform comprised of an IEEE 802.15.4 wireless network segment of sensors recording the mount of energy consumed by residential appliances (e.g. toaster, refrigerator, etc.) and a gateway hosting the data collection and aggregation services along with the data analytics services. The last-mile platform was deployed at the Saarlouis area and several billion data points collected over a 3-year duration. In addition to the data analytics carried out by the gateways, end-to-end global data analytics were applied over all the data, to identify potential segments for Demand Response applications and to develop Demand Smoothing strategies.
• Responsible for evaluating Smart Grid use cases to management for project sign-off.
• Lead the platform design and development for the IoT Gateway (to the IEEE 802.15.4 WSN) and the IoT Backend (ESB middleware and SOA parts). These were deployed in the Saarlouis community (approximately 100 residences) to provide Smart Home and Data Analytics services and to integrate with the Smart Grid operator applications.
• Responsible for developing and securing IPR material (e.g. patents) for AGT.

Adjuct faculty at the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering in one of the best technical universities in Greece in the area of computer science. Teaching system design/ and in particular applications of object-oriented design. Extend the curriculum to introduce design patterns to the audience.

• Responsible for the undergraduate course(s):
  • Object-Oriented Programming (i.e. abstraction, encapsulation, generalization, composition, design patterns, UML notation, etceteras)
  • System Programming and Software Development Tools
  • Discrete and Symbolic Structures (i.e. basics of logic, propositional logic, predicate logic, proof structures, etceteras) Approximately 300 students per course.
• Extended the course curriculum to include design patterns.

Adjuct faculty at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering in one of the best universities in Greece in the area of computer security. Teaching system reliability approaches and formalisms to a postgraduate audience.

• Responsible for the postgraduate course(s):
  • Reliability and Performance of Computational and Communication Systems (i.e. probabilistic performance, statistical modeling, failure, recovery and redundancy models, etceteras). Approximately 60 students per course.

Surveying policy approaches on a global level to distille appropriate recommendations on a national level. Editor of policy recommendations to the Greek National Regulatory Authority (NRA) on:

• The national strategy for the development of broadband infrastructures and network applications in the education sector. Editorship, development and publication of recommendations of the Working Group of the Greek National Regulatory Authority (EETT) responsible for the efficient use of broadband in tertiary and higher tranches of the education sector. This work reviewed international experience and summarized the lessons learnt in Member States of the European Union. The final recommendations were formulated in the light of specific CAPEX/OPEX criteria of the Greek state.
• The recommendation was ratified in Greece by ministerial action in early 2012.

Working in large-scale R&D projects (MOBIVAS, ANWIRE, GEANT, SELFNET, E2R) with multiple international partners (academia, network operators, service operators, equipment manufacturers, application providers, etceteras) in gigabit networking and 3GPP wireless mobile systems. Advancing the state-of-the-art in technologies for dynamic and flexible management of networks and services. Contributing innovations in adaptable systems for software-defined networking, focusing on the area of on-demand network provisioning through dynamically adaptable protocol stacks.

• Responsible for developing mechanisms to support self-management in Future Internet systems.
• Designed, developed and validated the information model for a protocol composition framework. This work was demonstrated in the SELFNET project audit by the European Commission (EC).
• Designed, developed and deployed a wireless test-bed for self-manageable networks. This work supported the demonstration facility during the SELFNET project audit by the European Commission (EC).
• Accountable for defining functions to support self-optimization in the context of resource allocation in Future Internet wireless systems.
• Designed, developed and validated an OWL ontology to enable self-management of reconfigurable protocols in the Future Internet architecture. Prototype development was based on OSGi and integrated to the Protégé ontology development platform, using an SWRL engine and a DIG OWL-DL reasoner. The ontology and the prototype were demonstrated in the SELFNET project audit by the European Commission (EC).
• Responsible for defining Bandwidth Broker (BB) functions as part of the GEANT-II large-scale infrastructure project. Requirements specification and logical design of the functional architecture in UML (i.e. use cases diagrams, interaction diagrams, etc.).
• Defined the technology solution for the Bandwidth Broker (BB) based on the light path switching techniques over a DWDM wide-area network.

• Accountable for the end-to-end integration and the final audit demonstration in project MOBIVAS.
• Accountable for network configuration and provisioning mechanisms to support the on-demand (i.e. over-the-air) delivery of value-added services in mobile networks in project MOBIVAS.
• Developed in UML (i.e. use cases diagrams, interaction diagrams, deployment diagrams, etceteras) the network integration architecture for the value-added service provision platform.
• Designed, developed and deployed the prototype for the network provisioning module supporting the dynamic change management of data traffic handling policies (i.e. QoS classification and treatment, charging and accounting classification) in sync to 3rd party service provider operations in the value-added service store (e.g. deployment of service, activation/deactivation of service, removal of service, etceteras).
  • The design of the prototype adopted the principles of policy-based networking under the SDN paradigm for plane separation where the user plane elements effecting the data traffic treatment (e.g. DiffServ routers) are logically separate from the control plane elements determining what the appropriate treatment is for each kind of traffic.
  • Traffic identification and treatment leveraged deep packet inspection capacity of the DiffServ router and employed protocol header information from the network, transport and application layers.
• Designed, developed, tested and validated the prototype platform for the dynamic reconfiguration of the DiffServ classifier and the IP accounting (IPFIX) modules in a router jointly with NEC Europe R&D.
• Designed and developed an information model and OWL ontology for the dynamic assembly of protocol layers into complete protocol stacks in a software definable manner (Ph.D. thesis).
• Analyzed the computational complexity of optimized end-to-end transport level connectivity in multi-homing mobile devices (i.e. the “Always Best Connected” problem). Designed and developed a generic UML 2 model in Rational Rose RealTime to study (i.e. sensitivity analysis, etc.) the “Always Best Connected” problem formulated as a traffic engineering optimization problem.
• Designed, developed and evaluated a Java framework for dynamic class loading, unloading and reloading of object code based on design patterns (e.g. chain of command over a cascade of class loaders) and meta-programming techniques (reflection).
• Developed and contributed to successful funding proposals under the EU Framework Program 5/6/7:
  • MOBIVAS (3.9M€)
  • ANWIRE (1.2M€)
  • GEANT2 (180.0 M€)
  • E2R (15.9M€)
  • SELFNET (3.7M€)

Providing consultancy services to top companies in the Greek IT market (e.g. IBM Greece, National Bank of Greece, etc.) in the area of IT infrastructure rollout and large-scale transitions in IT.

• Consulting on the new rollout of a global IT environment and corporate applications of IBM.
• Consulting the National Bank of Greece (NBG) on the production rollout of their next-generation IT environment.

Managing the corporate LAN infrastructure and the desktop suite of applications for IBM Greece.

• Responsible for the LAN environment design and operation and for the central deployment and management of desktop applications suite (i.e. design, development and automation setup for the rollout of golden images across multiple client classes).
• Designed and rolled out into production the system and application deployment and configuration infrastructure for the OS/2 system and the suite of corporate desktop applications for IBM Greece.