György Straub

Education

BSc (Hons) in Computing (University of Plymouth, 2010 -)

Stage 2 direct entry. Took on the role of Course Representative.

NVQ level 2 in Customer Service (Orpington College, 2010)

Video Games Design and Development (The Game Institute, 2006 -)

Grade A in the following modules: C++ Programming for Game Developers I & II, Artificial Intelligence for Game Developers, and Game Mathematics. [Transcript]

Programmer and Software Operator Diploma (2F School, 2001 – 2002)

Basic computing, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access; SQL and HTML. Marks: 97/100.

BA (Hons) in Special Needs Education (Eötvös Loránd University, 1998 – 2004)

First Grade. Specialisation: Learning Disabilities and Psychopedagogy.

Work Experience

Poundland (Plymouth): Part-time Sales Assistant (October 2010 - )

Leonard Chesire Disability (London): Support Worker (March 2005 – September 2010)

UPC Hungary Ltd. (Budapest, Hungary): Internet Helpdesk Operator, VoIP Helpdesk Operator (October 2004 – February 2005)

Bilingual (Hungarian / English) customer support with cable / ADSL broadband related issues. Promotion to VoIP helpdesk in 2 months. Network diagnostics and troubleshooting, browser / e-mail client configuration (Windows / Mac OS X), engineer bookings.

BellResearch Ltd. (Budapest, Hungary): Data Processing Assistant (September 2003 – October 2004)

Proposal and implementation of the company's project management administration system, PADME, for data entry and field operator performance monitoring (MS Access, SQL, VBA, DAO). Database management tasks in cooperation with research team and field project management.

Photel Ltd. (Budapest, Hungary): Back Office Assistant, Call Centre Operator (January 2003 – August 2003)

Customer service on the EU Integration Hotline project, promotion to back office support of the same project in 2 months. Database management, liaising with call centre and database providers.

Projects

Tweetube prototype (2011):

Prototype for a social micro-vlogging site. HCI design, and implementation in HTML and JavaScript. (Firefox, Google and Safari only.)

Space Garden Punchonaut (2010):

Freeware 2D puzzle platformer written in C++ / XRhodes for Windows and Mac OS X.

Nuclear Heart Studios website and XRhodes microsite (2010):

Domain management, b2evolution blog and SMF forum engines installation, customisation (PHP and CSS), graphic design. Complete design for the XRhodes microsite.

Sunshine Man and the Wind of Changes LP (2009):

The first LP of my electronic music project, äkktive cärbön.

Tragedius (2009):

Freeware pseudo-3D rail shooter written in C++ / XRhodes for Windows and Mac OS X.

XRhodes (2007 -):

Freeware cross-platform (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux) game development library written in C++, based on SDL and OpenGL (design, development, debugging, documentation, deployment). Used Mercurial and Dropbox for version control and Doxygen for documentation.

NormalityGames website (2006):

Web design (HTML, PHP, CSS) and forum engine design, implementation (PHP, MySQL), testing (Apache) and deployment.

Additional skills and interests

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