Tamas Szabo (1944)

At his first job, at the Instrument and Office Equipment Sales Company (MIGÉRT), he worked in software training and German interpreting between 1968 and 1969. In the summer of 1969, he left Hungary for 50 years.

Between 1969 and 1972, he worked on the development of the DEC PDP/8e assembler at Olympia AG (Wilhelmshaven, West Germany), working as a department manager from the second year. After the Hungarian embassy refused to renew his passport, he became a German citizen and remains so to this day.

From 1972 he switched to a mainframe environment in Munich. The focus of his work in the system development environment was IBM TP Monitor CICS and IMS (at BMW, MTU, Kraus Maffei, Hermes Hamburg, Tages Anzeiger Zürich, Allianz, Bayerische Landesbank).

Between 1978 and 1982, he was a project manager at the legendary Softlab on several parallel projects: Bavarian administrative network, national network of German pharmacies, IBM TP-Monitor system development, Siemens Compiler Runtime System.

Between 1982 and 1987, he led Hungarian intellectual export projects, which he obtained through winning competitive tenders. In 1987, after a complication surrounding the "dAccess" project, he stopped his involvement in the field of Hungarian intellectual export.

Between 1987 and 2001, he held the position of "Database Architect" at IBM in Munich.

Between 2004 and 2006, he organized conferences as a product development director at the IBM training center in Munich on behalf of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI). He organized SZTAKI's presentation twice at the SYSTEMS exhibition in Munich, and then organized two professional conferences in Budapest at the request of SZTAKI.

He started working with personal computers in 1978, mostly in his spare time. Then, during one of his developments (on behalf of Schering AG in Berlin, in Chicago, in the field of biological laboratory automation), he was transferred from Berlin to the USA.

His personal computer software, developed in his spare time, was among the top three winners in the German CHIP magazine's shareware competition between 1988 and 1989 for two years. The software he designed (dAccess IBM-PC Adatbank) won first prize in the Softver/86 competition in Budapest.