Peter Karas IT

University Of Arts, London

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:52:50 +0000

Work started on new University of Arts Global Business Web Portal. The new website will allow organisations across the University to manage their own content and advertise business services on a single website.

Elan Nursery community

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:35:30 +0000

Work starts on prototyping new community portal for Elan Nursery. Forums and Bloggs present Elan Nursery with an opportunity to keep in touch with customers and provide a better service.

MMP email campaign

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:27:35 +0000

Email campaign to publicise Manage My Property’s new website and Sales service. Campaign generates new sales leads and rental opportunities.

Services

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Websites, Databases, Applications and Consultancy.

Free no obligation first consultation and estimate.

Consultancy Clear and independent advice about how to use the internet and new technology to help your business.

Design, Development & Testing Using industry standard methodologies and technologies.

Digital marketing Email campaigns to help promote your business.

Documentation & training Specific to your requirements.

Project Planning, budgets, estimation to help deliver your IT project

Background

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10 years working in the IT industry freelance, and for IT consultancies, Logica, Sopra Group and Detica. Research year spent at Oxford University developing innovative applications for on line learning. Solid experience of entire project lifecycle, from estimation and planning to testing and go-live.

Skills

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Languages: .NET, c-sharp, Java

Web: HTML, CSS, Javascript, XSLT, XML, PHP, Joomla

Databases: ORACLE, Access, MySQL, SQL Server

Design:UML, ER modelling, conceptual, logical and physical design

Project: Team lead, estimation, budgets, planning

Testimonials

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:37:23 +0000

“I would highly recommend Pete to anyone looking for IT consultancy and website services. His ability to give the client exactly what they want and react positively to specification changes, no matter how late in the project, was priceless to me. Being my own business I was very keen to get the finished website exactly how I wanted it and by using Peter Karas I have certainly achieved that. His selfless approach to business is scarce and is a great testament to not only his outstanding workmanship but also the great guy that he is to work with. Thanks for all your work Pete and I look forward to working with you more in the future.”

Andrew Bald – Director – Manage My Property

“Pete is a good communicator who was able to articulate technical issues in a simple manner – this was much appreciated internally and by the client and I’d be very happy to work with Pete again.”

James Fox – Account Manager – Detica

“Pete is an engineer who is dedicated, skilled and easy to work with. He is trustworthy, focussed and excellent at design and problem solving tasks. Pete also had a good track record of delivering high quality code to time and budget”
Tom Bassett – Project Manager – LogicaCMG.

Pete took great care to understand the needs of both my business and my customers…and provided a series of practical
and effective ideas that will deliver benefits for us immediately and in the longer term.I would definitely recommend Pete to any business wanting to make better use of their marketing channels.
Clare Coward – Director – Elan Nursery

Further references available on request.

MMP Website goes live

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:21:50 +0000

Manage My Property Website goes live. Website built using Joomla Content management system and the Hot property plugin. All URLs redirected to new site to avoid disrution to SEO. RSS datafeeds to major property portals established.

Case studies

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:38:35 +0000

Elan Nursery - Helping a busy nursery find new ways to communicate with parents
www.elannursery.com

Manage My Property – Website and digital Marketing for a growing Estate Agent.
www.manage-my-property.co.uk

Transport for London – On line ticketing system allowing London school teachers and TfL staff to co-ordinate school party travel.
schoolparty.tfl.gov.uk

Oxford University – On line Chinese language learning materials. www.oucs.co.uk

Google App Engine

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:55:35 +0000

Technical evaluation into the suitability of Google infrastructure and Android OS for Mobile application. Areas covered included XMPP messaging, geospatial queries on App engine and Google Mapping API.