Career Objective

To maintain a permanent full-time employment in an environment where I could develop my professional skills of business designing and knowledge of creative art & technologies, as a part of dynamic team of competent people; working in an environment that respects its members and offers a collegial ambience.

Education

1999 – 2005

University Of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland M.S. in field of Computer Science/ Internet Engineering

1994 – 1999

Technical College, Przemysl, Poland

Qualifications

Common Technologies

XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, Flash

Applications

Adobe: PhotoShop, Illustrator

Corel: CorelDRAW

Discreet: 3D Studio Max

Macromedia: Flash

Software

Microsoft: Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Adobe: Acrobat (PDF documents)

Web Browsers (hacks): Mozilla, Opera, Internet Explorer

Operating systems: Windows, Linux

Project Management

Solid background in planning and execution of freelance web design and graphics. Experience in cultivating the professional relationships with clients and competitors. Highly developed interpersonal skills by working in a geographically diverse or virtual industry. Effective analyzing and solving the business related problems with root cause analysis. Strong experience in organization and full technical realization of Internet advertising campaigns with the biggest European publishers (at CompoSYS, Wroclaw).

Communication

Ability to develop concrete, productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and personnel. Persuasive negotiation and communication skills. Ability to effortlessly convey complex ideas.

Interpersonal

Highly motivated, self-starter. Comfortable to work as a team member. Ability to identify customer needs. Ability to maintain crucial and confidential corporate information. Continual development of professional competence by education and personal exploration of up-to-date technologies.

Artistic Vision

Ability to conceptualize freely & help clients develop exciting, consistent new ideas.

Work Experience

04-2007 - Present

Internet House Wroclaw, Poland
Position: Graphic Designer Full Time
Duties: Primary responsibilities include both web and print, raster and vector graphic designing like layouts, logo, CI, brochures, etc. Creative thinking for designing eye-catching and effective graphics is indispensable at this possition.
Position: Front-End Web Developer Full Time
Duties: Responsibilities included hand coding and semantic xhtml and css markup. Position required detailed knowledge of browser bugs and workarounds and solid knowledge of Web 2.0 design trends.

05-2005 - 04-2007

PPHU CompoSYS Wroclaw, Poland
(brands: www.eurorest.net, www.eurorest.org, www.ehitcollection.com) Position: Technical Support Specialist of Internet Advertising Campaigns Full Time
Duties: Primary responsibilities include full technical support of Internet advertising campaigns (including DM, graphic advertising, etc.). Position required excellent knowledge of SMTP protocol, related RFC documents and multi-language char encoding techniques. Moreover, the knowledge of Internet advertising market and the available forms of sale promotion by means of the electronic media was essential.
Position: Graphic Designer Full Time
Duties: Responsibilities included the preparing of graphic advertisements (banners, popups, toplayers, etc). The key features of the projects were: easiness to understand and attractive graphic form with large effectiveness measured. The responsibilities included also the modernization and creating a new design of the existing portals of CompoSYS enterprise. Designing performed by means of technologies and software such as: Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Flash.
Position: Web Developer/Designer Full Time
Duties: Responsibilities included creating of design for cross-browser front end user interface to back end functionality. Design and hand code with the use of technologies and software such as XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL. Optimization of the web and coding sites to create standards being compliant with each other and maintaining the excellent usability/accessibility.

2003 – Present

Freelance Position: Developer/Designer Part Time Freelance
Full realization of numerous Internet websites projects for the individual and corporate clients, offering from start to finish services: domain registration, layout proposal, full standards of hand coding and graphic optimization, and implementing the updates and follow-up site maintenance.

Additional information

Languages

Polish mother tongue

English good in writing and speaking, still practised

Driving license

Polish (cat. B)

USA (class C)

Hobby

basketball

snowboarding

traveling

photography

References

iStockphoto

iStockphoto profile including some photography and designs.

Portfolio

www.gszostak.com

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