Where and When
My name is George Katsanos, was born in Athens, Greece, spent 16 months in Aix-en-Provence, France, currently living in Brussels.
Background
During my studies in the Technological and Educational Institute of Athens, department of Computer Science, I became strongly interested in Web Design, and began creating my own personal projects. One of them, the greek www.se-eida.com social ads portal, for it's innovative idea, has been frequently mentioned in the Greek electronic media & press. In the summer of 2008, I decided to move to France, in order to attend the Management & Information Technology Masters Degree, in the IAE Graduate School of Management Aix-en-Provence. After graduating in May 2009, I worked as a Web Designer for three months in Marseille, France, and then moved to Brussels, Belgium where I currently work and live.
The Person
I try to blog as frequently as possible, strongly support the Sustainable Development pattern of resource use, Green IT solutions and I have been a longterm passionate Recycler. I spend my free time discovering recipes, listening to repetitive music no one else likes, good old jazz or studying other cultures and mentalities.
Development Skills
I am trying to master the essential Front-end Engineer's skills, hand-coded HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks. I have been a FreeBSD user for quite some time, and can perform UNIX administrative and maintenance functions.
The commercial success of http://www.se-eida.com, pushed me into using Google's Analytics, Adsense & Adwords tools, and develop skills in SEO and Information Architecture.
Design skills
Even if I have a solid Computer Science background, I am extremely interested in Design (huge fan of the "Less Is More" approach, and Swiss Style Design) and have used Photoshop and Illustrator tools extensively.
Practices
I have reviewed web design and development practices since 2001, and I fully understand and support Web Standards and the separation of style and content philosophy.
