{"id":1212,"date":"2020-12-18T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/dbaprogrampage\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:01:57","slug":"kostas-lekkas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/dbaprogrampage\/kostas-lekkas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostas Lekkas"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#f5f5f5&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||-50px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;54px|0px|20px|0px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;3_5,2_5&#8243; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|||&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;|40px||40px||true&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; padding_tablet=&#8221;|40px||40px||true&#8221; padding_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Name \/ Page Title&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; title_level=&#8221;h2&#8243; title_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;20px|40px||40px|false|true&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Description&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.5em&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;20px|40px|20px|40px|false|true&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">Kostas Lekkas is a senior director for a Canadian financial institution. Lekkas career spans over 20 years in multi-disciplinary strategic technology management supporting business architecture, software development, quality assurance, and operational support. Among Kostas&#8217; achievements are his numerous contributions to automation in quality assurance and artificial intelligence usage in operational monitoring and response. His work provides the ability for multiple e-commerce platforms to serve individual and institutional clients worldwide, creating revenue that is nearing the one billion mark yearly. Kostas holds various industry certifications from the DevOps Institute and is a certified ITIL Expert, having received many team and individual achiever awards for innovation.<span class=\"s1\"> <br \/><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"> <br \/><\/span>Lekkas&#8217; doctoral research will investigate and profile the surveillance business model&#8217;s usage and proliferation throughout modern business applications. Explore the privacy challenges faced\u00a0 by consumers, policymakers, and businesses using the surveillance business model itself as awareness is expanding within consumers and governments. The research will identify policy blind spots in how the business surveillance model is used and identify methodologies and frameworks required by policymakers to address consumer privacy concerns. 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