György Elekes

Project Manager, Business Development, and Software Localization in Budakalász, Magyarország

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NEW GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Consultant 2014 – 2016

· Carried out due diligence and made recommendations regarding accounting, finance and vendor relationships.

· Creating company’s website, including branding, design and back-end development. Also, took part in the creation of marketing materials and proposal presentations.

LEG HUNGARY LOCALIZATION AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY LTD.

Co-founder and Business Development Manager 2006 – 2013

· Tripled net sales and grew the company from 2 people to 10-12 in less than five years.

· Took part in the creation of LEG’s expansion strategy.

· Set up the IT system and administration workflows from the ground up. Also, prepared job descriptions and designed and implemented workflows in the early days of the company.

· Project Manager.

HONDA HUNGARY LTD. Budaörs, Hungary

IT Specialist and System Administrator 2005

· Participated in several projects, managed and actively supported Logistic System development. Used technologies: BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Lotus Notes.

JULIANUS LTD.

Project Leader (managed 3-5 people) 1997 – 2004

· Led the software localization process for clients from initial planning to content delivery. One of our biggest partners was IBM, and we also worked with companies from different industries.

· Translation Verification Testing in different locations abroad.

· Coordinated all tasks of the regular translation by using translation management systems (IBM TranslationManager, Trados Translator’s Workbench).

· We managed to grow the business from nothing to over a million dollars by 2004.

· Board Member of the Association of Hungarian Translation Companies between 2002 and 2004.

BUDAPEST BUSINESS SCHOOL

· Bsc in System Administration 1990 – 1993

OTHER

· Programming languages and used technologies: HTML, Pascal, Cobol, Lotus Notes, BASIC, Clipper, C, XML, Microsoft Visual Studio, SDL Trados Studio, InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office

· Publications: The Central and Eastern European Translation Market (MultiLingual Magazine, March 2008 Issue); An Introduction to Hungarian (MultiLingual Magazine, October/November 2003 Issue)

· Training: Motivational Training for Leaders (2004); Translator's Workbench Technical and In-Depth User Training (2002)

· Languages: English (full professional proficiency), Hungarian (native proficiency)

· Category ‘B’ driver’s license

· Hobbies: playing the piano, skiing, snowboarding, playing table-tennis, reading fiction, passionate about the practical usage of sustainable energy

  • Education
    • Budapest Business School