Director at 2Bit-Technologies Ltd
Reading, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Director at 2Bit-Technologies Ltd
- Owner at PathogenHost
- Past
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- Web Designer / Developer at Direct Wines
- Web Developer at genesis.uk.com
- Designer at Jobsgopublic
- Web Designer at Intapps
- Director / Designer at LostSheep Productions Ltd
- Web Monkey / Designer at DDplus
- Education
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- On the Job
- Connections
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- Industry
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Derek Sozou’s Summary
A veteran survivor of the dot bomb era, specialising in design from conception to delivery. Ability to hand code sites that are accessible, progressively enhanced, standards compliant and cross browser compatible. Expert in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and text editor for design and web builds.
Derek Sozou’s Specialties:
Recruitment, Media
Derek Sozou’s Experience
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Director
2Bit-Technologies Ltd
(Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
2Bit Technologies, a E&N Worldwide Company, is a globally diversified engineering group and the world’s largest independent provider of enterprise solutions to the engineering industry. 2Bit was formed from a number of individuals that represented the best in the industry. Having over 50+ years combined experience in the engineering and design community, all these individual persons were chosen because they provided superior service and strong, long-term customer relationships.
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Owner
PathogenHost
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Website hosting, Wordpress, Gallery2, PhpGedView
Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems. -
Web Designer / Developer
Direct Wines
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wine and Spirits industry)
September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)
XSL/XML Coding, Frontend Design & Development
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Web Developer
genesis.uk.com
(Industrial Automation industry)
April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)
Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.
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Designer
Jobsgopublic
(Internet industry)
April 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 1 month)
Working closely with a small team of developers & marketing, integrating design with application code, using agile development methods.
Specialising in accessible (AA) websites. Front-end integration (branding) of jobsgopublic's online recruitment application, based on rubyonrails.
Company branding identity (brochures/flyers/campaigns), portal/micro site creation. Google analytics, adwords and adsense. Administrating Openads for banner/button campaigns. -
Web Designer
Intapps
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years)
Instrumental in defining user interface systems for HR Management application called PeopleCube. Team lead for e-peopleserve, Pepsi, Autoglass, Vodafone and internal Intapps projects.
Conception (client consultations) to final draft (html/flash). Working closely with developers, integrating design with application code via XSLT/XHTML/CSS for PeopleCube. Shockwave games for campaign promotions. -
Director / Designer
LostSheep Productions Ltd
(Internet industry)
January 1997 — January 2001 (4 years 1 month)
Co-founded with PJ Collins in 1997. Web, print and creative media production house.
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Web Monkey / Designer
DDplus
(Computer Software industry)
September 1999 — June 2000 (10 months)
Working with a core team of developers to produce multi-lingual websites for clients such as Siegel & Gale, Lernout & Hauspie, Cisco and cdiy.com. In charge of overall design and branding work, utilising server generated images & graphics.
Derek Sozou’s Education
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On the Job
First , Internet , 1997 — 2012 (expected)
Netslave of the dot bomb years.
http://rathervague.co.uk/writings/listenings/netslaves- Activities and Societies:
- Alpha Phi Omega Beta, Confined Spaces
Derek Sozou’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
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