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Name	Károly, György Tamás (Tom Károly)
Place and date of Birth	Budapest, 18th of June 1976.
Telephone (Mobile)	+36 20 599 5758
E-mail	kgyt@kgyt.eu

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

2009.:
Studies in the United Kingdom
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

Technical Knowledge and Skills

Area	Technology	Relevant experience (years)
Design	Graphic design (freehand drawing* and computer graphics) with corporate design and company face building (both Adobe/Macromedia and Corel Suites)	21
	Web design, (X)HTML, XML	17
	CSS	11
	Javascript	4
	SEO	3
	Accessibility and usability (web)	6
	Desktop publishing (Quark XPress, InDesign, Page Maker, Ventura)	21
	Map design (from satellite pictures too)	4
	Proofing	3
Programming	PHP programming	6
	CGI (perl, awk, shell)	11
	SQL coding (PostgreSQL, MySQL)	1
	ASP	**
Computer using	Unix/Linux (AiX, RedHat, Slackware, Ubuntu, Suse as a user)	17
	Windows and Macintosh (as a user)	21
	Office (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org etc.)	21
	Internet (browsers, mail programs)	17
System administering	Unix / Linux	6
	Apache web-server	5
	Samba server (smb), Windows networking	1
	Shell Scripting	7
	Cron	2
Hardware	PC and new Apple	5
Hardware	(Old) Macintosh	2

* I was studying eight years from a limner artist
** Less than one year.

Personal Skills and Hobby

Loyal
Friendly
Quality minded
Teachable/Easy to learn
Analytical
Problem Solver
Dedicated
Hard-working

I speak English.
Driving licence: European driving license (with European experience).

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 (or other countries in the EU).

My hobbies: photographing, programming, planning, drawing, decorating, reading and poetry…
I love the nature and truly enjoy rowing on different excited places.