That's what I thought. You're checking me out. Yeah why not, why listen to me?
So there are several facts from my background.
I'm a Landscape and interior designer by profession, and I love to create things and leave solid marks of my existence, that would survive for a long, long time. On the other hand I'm addicted to technology, always was. While most of you take any kind of technology for granted these days,
I was around when the internet was invented and, I was living and breathing with every single creation and idea that happened after. Both of my passions have been intertwined throughout my live.
Between 1999 - 2003 I was part of the first in the history of Microsoft mobile division (back in those days it was called Pocket PC Phone Edition), responsible for visual UI of their Windows Pocket PC 2000 to 2002 and Windows mobile 2003, implemented in the early PDAs and later in mobile phones. It was an old version of Windows mobile platform (mainly working on GSM phones). If you happened to see one of the earlier Windows PDAs, its more than likely, I had dipped my fingers in its design. Nothing to be proud of however as I had never appreciated the design, and always dreamed to create cool interface based on Windows. Sadly in the past, Microsoft hadn't seen any reasons to make any visual changes in their mobile operating systems saying people care about functionality not aesthetics. Several years later, Apple proofed them otherwise.
From 2006 for over a year, I was working for London-Live magazine (internet edition) creating flash based websites. I also had my own, small blog on their main website, where I was writing phone's reviews available on the market, topped by my market analyzes and trends.
So there are several facts from my background.
I'm a Landscape and interior designer by profession, and I love to create things and leave solid marks of my existence, that would survive for a long, long time. On the other hand I'm addicted to technology, always was. While most of you take any kind of technology for granted these days,
I was around when the internet was invented and, I was living and breathing with every single creation and idea that happened after. Both of my passions have been intertwined throughout my live.
Between 1999 - 2003 I was part of the first in the history of Microsoft mobile division (back in those days it was called Pocket PC Phone Edition), responsible for visual UI of their Windows Pocket PC 2000 to 2002 and Windows mobile 2003, implemented in the early PDAs and later in mobile phones. It was an old version of Windows mobile platform (mainly working on GSM phones). If you happened to see one of the earlier Windows PDAs, its more than likely, I had dipped my fingers in its design. Nothing to be proud of however as I had never appreciated the design, and always dreamed to create cool interface based on Windows. Sadly in the past, Microsoft hadn't seen any reasons to make any visual changes in their mobile operating systems saying people care about functionality not aesthetics. Several years later, Apple proofed them otherwise.
From 2006 for over a year, I was working for London-Live magazine (internet edition) creating flash based websites. I also had my own, small blog on their main website, where I was writing phone's reviews available on the market, topped by my market analyzes and trends.
Then, between 2008 and 2010 I worked for Vodafone in London. I was responsible for technical advice and the phone-sale presentations. Having access to every Vodafone phone, I continued my blog and phone's reviews on the newly created website called "VodafoneSpy".
From 2010 to 2012 I ran my own design company named "Dreams and art". This is the company I had been been leading back in my country, and is still active. If you wanna check it out, here's the web address: www.dreamsandart.co.uk I believe I'll come back to it next year.
From 2010 to 2012 I ran my own design company named "Dreams and art". This is the company I had been been leading back in my country, and is still active. If you wanna check it out, here's the web address: www.dreamsandart.co.uk I believe I'll come back to it next year.
And then, last year I moved from London to Bournemouth and immediately had two interviews, one with Carphone Warehouse manager, a second with Matthias from WDS. Matthias was more convincing about the company perspectives and my future in it (no comment), so here I'm - end of story.