MICHAŁ STOPA UI/UX DESIGNER Interaction & Graphic Designer based in Warsaw (Poland) with 10+ years professional experience. Scope of Interest: User Centered Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design. CONTACT www.michalstopa.com (+48) 792 831 067 michalstopa.grafik@gmail.com behance.net/michalstopa twitter.com/michalstopa skype.com/michalstopa EDUCATION ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN WARSAW Graphic Design and Illustration SEPTEMBER 2009 - JUNE 2010 I have enrolled in Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts for two terms and attended classes for classical printmaking, typography, illustration and freehand model drawing. WARSAW SCHOOL OF ADVERTISMENT SEPTEMBER 2005 - JUNE 2008 Graphic Design and Computer Arts I have attended there a course covering basic training in s Master Design Collection suite as well as in HTML and CSS coding. FUNDACJA ATELIER SEPTEMBER 2005 - JUNE 2008 Illustration and Fine Arts That was the most interesting part of my education. I have attended this part-time school for five years, having chance to participate in a number of creative activities including freehand drawing, illustration, nude study, landscape and portrait painting classes.
IN HOUSE EXPERIENCE page 2 ihouse WEB, INC. APRIL 2015 - JUNE 2015 UX & UI Designer INTRODUCTION: ihouse is dedicated, multitask web platform for real estate salespersons. I was hired to to take part in re-designing and new UX solutions implementation. - Defining features and common experiences, using already established as well as entirely new patterns and models. - Prototyping (Axure) in order to define new functionalities and improve old ones. - Care of visual style consistency with entire platform; development of new visual guidelines - Cooperation with developers and testers on interaction implementation in product code. - Drafting concepts for future UX and UI development directions. POLSKIE RADIO S.A. JUNE 2013 - SEPTEMBER 2014 UX & UI Designer - Creating User Experience and full GUIs for educational web projects. - Redesign User Experience approach for educational web content - 25 lat Niepodległości (25th Anniversary of Independence) user experience and user interface for web site designed for Polish Radio and the Chancellery of President of Poland. PR and Polish President Office - Sochi 2014 web design for Polish radio as an official Winter Olympic broadcaster. - FIFA World Cup 2014 web design for Polish Radio as an official World Cup Brazil broadcaster - Andrzej Bobkowski an educational web design for Polish Radio. - the Better Tommorow Project redesign of Polish Radio home page with a brand new approach to user interface and user experience. It was very long, lasting almost two years, process, and I participated in a team only for a part of it, however it was one of the most interesting projects I chanced to work for.
IN HOUSE EXPERIENCE page 3 GAZETA WYBORCZA / AGORA S.A. Infographic Design & Graphic Design JULY 2012 - MAY 2013 INTRODUCTION: I was hired by Wawrzyniec Święcicki and Maciej Kałkus to to take part in redefining guidelines for visualization in Gazeta Wyborcza, a bigest printed daily newspaper in Poland. - Designing visualizations for printed media and for both static and interactive web projects. - Designing visualizations of key data for annual printed reports - Design of viral illustrations for social media. - Design of consistent icons sets for all visualization projects within one information area. - Design of manifold of visualizations and functional schemes and instructions of various kind for print and for web design. VISUAL SCIENCE PRODUCTION AUGUST 2009 - DECEMBER 2011 Graphic Designer / UX & UI Designer - Designing visual guidelines and full corporate identities for different medical and technological startups. - Web designs and my first ios and Android applications. - Prototyping (Balsamiq, HTML), and design of medical applications for ios. - Designing layouts for variety of printed brochures, catalogues and advertisements. - Creation of visual elements for computer animation including vector visualizations and illustrations. - Newborn Diet an ios healthcare application intended for mothers of newborn children. - Pregnancy Calendar an ios healthcare application for pregnant women.a - Med Phone UX and UI design and full process of prototyping of medical platform dedicated for dermatologists and other medical specialties practitioners.
IN HOUSE EXPERIENCE page 4 PUBLISHING ROOM JANUARY 2008 - JULY 2008 Graphic Designer / DTP - Designing layouts for printed magazines, brochures, catalogues, advertisements. Branding - Designs for internet banners, newsletters, contests. - Research of stock photography, graphics and designs resources. 4 FUN TV JUNE 2007 - OCTOBER 2007 Graphic Design / Motion Design - Designs for internet: banners, newsletters, contests. Branding. - Designs for animation: vector visualizations and illustrations. - Building simple animations in Flash technology and After Effects. - 4Fun TV home page - Supporting web design team with internet banners and other forms of simple advertisement forms design. IRISH ARCHEOLOGICAL CONSULTANCY (IRELAND) JUNE 2005 - MAY 2007 Draughtsman - Specialized archeological drawings and plans on site. Illustrations. - Digitalization of plans and drawings (AutoCAD). - Specialized archeological visualizations.
SKILLS AND INTERESTS SELF-EVALUATION page 5 MY INTEREST IN INTERACTION DESIGN MY SKILLS IN ADOBE COLLECTION 100 90% 90% 80 Ps Ai 60 Photoshop Illustrator 60% 50% Id Fl UI Design UX Design Prototyping InDesign Flash MY INTEREST IN GRAPHIC DESIGN 100 70 100 80 60 UI Design Typography Branding Illustration Infographic "I hereby declare that all the facts and information provided for this cover letter and CV are true. I allow my personal data stated in the abovementioned applications to be processed for the purpose of recruitment, in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act dated 29/08/1997 (Dz.Ust.No.133, item 883)\".