About me — a few words

Knowledge, skills, experience, passion

Marcin Szewczyk - press designer, technical editor, information architect with over ten years professional experience.

"The old rule of the Internet was that the winner is the first to find there. It is complete nonsense. The new rule is: The first person to do it the right way, will have a loyal customer".

Karl Peterson, CEO Hotwire

PRODUCTION LEVEL

  • Programy
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • QuarkXPress
  • Webdevelopment
  • XHTML/CSS (W3C)
  • PHP, MySQL
  • AJAX - jQuery (basic)
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  • Systemy CMS
  • Wordpress
  • Drupal
  • Textpattern

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

  • Web Usability
  • Design functionality and interaction
  • Designing the user interface
  • Information architecture
  • Internet marketing / SEO
  • Google Analitycs

EDUCATION

Opole University of Technology, Poland
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Informatics

AFTER HOURS

  • music - blues, rock, southern/stoner rock
  • Hi-Fi and Hi-End
  • off-road (jeep.org.pl)
  • NASCAR racing
  • hiking and biking
  • photography, mostly natural

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

ThinkKong - Interactive Agency

2010

In December 2010, I started working with ThinkKong, creating and developing web projects mainly in the field: web development, interaction, information architecture. Among other things, for:

Quali - School of Computer Graphics

2010

Since April 2010 in Quali I lead a training manual Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator, along with the principles of typography, infographics and information architecture.

m4c/project/

2005

Since 2005, I am the owner of design company m4c/project/. To this day I can boast of nearly fifty implementation of individual projects, press releases, books and electronic products for several customers in Poland. Selected works present in the portfolio. I constantly working with:

  • Presscom Sp. z o.o.
  • Think Kong Sp. z o.o.
  • Nowa Trybuna Opolska
  • Castellum Sp. z o.o.
  • Grupa Vetos-Farma Sp. z o.o.

Nowa Trybuna Opolska - newspaper

2000-2008

  • Design and composition of the journal pages and supervising the process of preparing the newspaper for printing
  • Photoedition
  • Designing infographics
  • Project management of weekly magazine
  • Cooperation in the implementation of editorial system - Millennium Protec
  • Milenium-Protec system administration
  • Database Design (MySQL, Oracle)
  • Creating web applications (PHP/MySQL)
  • Participation in the administration and support of HP Proliant servers
    (Microsoft/RedHat/Novell systems) mainly e-mail servers


Training and education:

  • Visual communication
  • Information architecture

Echo Miasta - newspaper

2005-2007

  • Designing Infographics for branches in Wroclaw and Krakow, Poland

Radio Opole

2004 (staż)

  • Preliminary draft redesign of computer network architecture, cost analysis
  • Develop the concept of a cluster of files based on at least two servers with an external memory that supports virtual network of resources interpenetration

BATEREX - printing house

1999-2000

  • Design and composition of BTL materials