Tamas Langer

Shortly before graduating from university, in 1971, he started working at the Information Processing Laboratory (Infelor) – then continued his work at the successor institutions of the Computer Application Research Institute (Számki) and the Computer Application Company (Számalk). His positions were program designer, scientific associate, then project manager and department manager. He was primarily involved in the development of system software (compilers, operating systems). Meanwhile, in 1976, he earned a doctorate in mathematics (computer science) at ELTE with a thesis on the correctness of compilers.

In 1983, he and his team moved to the Computer Science Coordination Institute (SZKI), where he organized the work of the MProlog development team as a project manager. For this activity, he received a shared State Award in 1988.

He was one of the founding members of IQSOFT Rt., which spun off from SZKI in 1990, and was its technical director until the end of its existence, in 2002. Between 2003 and 2017, he participated in the establishment of Alerant Zrt., also as technical director. In the latter two companies, his activities increasingly shifted towards corporate management.

In 2004, at his initiative, Project and Corporate Management was included in the curriculum of the program design IT education at the Faculty of Informatics (IK) of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), where he taught it until 2017, and as an honorary associate professor from 2009. He is the author or co-author of several professional books.

Between 1997 and 2006, he served as a member of the board of the Hungarian Project Management Association and between 2003 and 2006, he served as a member of the board of the Hungarian Chapter of the PMI (Project Management Institute) Budapest.