Tom Karoly – Curriculum Vitae My motto is: enjoy what you have to do. ________________________________________________________________________________ Main Name: Károly, György Tamás Place and date of Birth: Budapest, 18th of June 1976. Address: 109 Millhaven Close, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex, RM6 4PW, UK Telephone (Mobile): 0 777 129 03 65 E-mail: kgyt@kgyt.eu Website: http://kgyt.eu/en/ ________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Profile I am a passionate creative designer with years of commercial experience in many aspects of web development and corporate design. I am sophisticated in clear design and Scandinavian style with strong (hand-drawing and computer based) graphical background. My works based on quality standards (W3C, ISO) and my target is first class quality. ________________________________________________________________________________ Objective I am now seeking a new position where my existing skill set can better utilized and developed further within a suitably challenging and creative environment. My targets: Web designer, graphic designer, site-builder. ________________________________________________________________________________ Employment History March 2004 – December 2008: Personal Enterprise (one-person company) Position: CEO, account/sales, graphic designer, site-builder, programmer etc. Scope of duties: + Communication with clients + Managing the customer requests + Complete web-solutions (from graphic design – with programming – to live service) + Corporate design/Logo-designing + SEO + Usability, accessibility + Printed media editing (e.g. books, newspapers, posters, bills, business cards etc.) + Hardware and software installation and supporting for small-business companies Since 2003 I had the opportunity to cooperate with some different associations for disabled people about the accessibility. In this particularly area I became consultant for different companies, like Novell Hungary, TV2 (commercial television channel in Hungary) and some others. June 2006 – October 2006: Kirowski (digital agency, Central-East-European part of Isobar) Position: foreman, senior site-builder Scope of duties: + Organizing the teamwork + Educating the site-builders + Quality assurance/management + Site-building and creating HTML mails + SEO + Usability, accessibility + PHP programming for customized websites + Correspondence/collaboration with another divisions and teams Other employment 2003–2004: Austral Position: Project manager, senior typographer/layout editor, senior graphic designer 2001–2002: ELO Ltd. (ESCC Hungary) Position: Senior typographer/layout editor 1998–2001: Internet Island Co. Position: Web/graphic designer, programmer, layout editor etc. ________________________________________________________________________________ Technical Knowledge and Skills /------------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | | \ Relevant | | Area | Technology \ experience | | | \ (years) | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------\----------| | Design | Graphic design (freehand drawing* and computer graphics)| | | | with corporate design and company face building | 20 | | | (both Adobe/Macromedia and Corel Suites) | | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Web design, (X)HTML, XML | 16 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | CSS | 10 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Javascript | 3 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | SEO | 2 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Accessibility and usability (web) | 5 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Desktop publishing | 20 | | | (Quark XPress, InDesign, Page Maker, Ventura) | | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Map design (from satellite pictures too) | 3 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Proofing | 2 | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|----| | Programming | PHP programming | 5 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | CGI (perl, awk, shell) | 10 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | SQL coding (PostgreSQL, MySQL) | 1 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | ASP | ** | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|----| | Computer | Unix/Linux (AiX, Slackware, Ubuntu, Suse as a user) | 16 | | using |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Windows and Macintosh (as a user) | 20 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Office (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org etc.) | 20 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Internet (browsers, mail programs) | 16 | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|----| | System | Unix/Linux | 5 | | administering |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Apache web-server | 4 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Samba server (smb), Windows networking | 1 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Shell Scripting | 6 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | Cron | 2 | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|----| | Hardware | PC and new Apple | 5 | | |---------------------------------------------------------|----| | | (Old) Macintosh | 2 | \------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ * I was studying eight years from a limner artist ** Less than one year. ________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Skills and Hobby + Loyal + Teachable/Easy to learn + Dedicated + Friendly + Analytical + Hard-working + Quality minded + Problem Solver Marital status: married. We have one daughter. I am a non-smoking Baptist man. Driving licence: European driving license. I am regularly taking part of different vocational trainings and conferences, sometimes as a teacher. My native language is Hungarian, but being a member of EU community I can work in England. My hobbies: photographing, programming, planning, drawing, decorating, reading and poetry… I love the nature and truly enjoy rowing on different excited places. ________________________________________________________________________________ Download / References This CV and my portfolio are available to download on my website. References are available on request.