I have attended courses covering basic training in Adobe s Master Design Collection suite as well as in HTML and CSS coding.

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1 Michał Stopa SENIOR VISUAL DESIGNER WITH STRONG FOCUS ON USER CENTERED AND USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN Former Head of Design International at Ringier One Africa Media. Born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. Contact (+48) behance.net/michalstopa skype.com/michalstopa Education Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Sep Jun 2010 GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION I have studied in Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts for two terms and attended classical printmaking, typography, illustration and freehand model drawing classes. Warsaw School of Advertisment September June 2008 GRAPHIC DESIGN AND COMPUTER ARTS I have attended courses covering basic training in Adobe s Master Design Collection suite as well as in HTML and CSS coding. Atelier Foundation September June 2008 ILLUSTRATION AND FINE ARTS I have attended this part-time school for five years, having a chance to participate in a number of creative activities including freehand drawing, illustration, nude study, landscape and portrait painting classes.

2 PAGE 1 Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) February February 2017 HEAD OF DESIGN INTERNATIONAL SCOPE OF MY DUTIES FUNCTIONAL: - Developing best practice guidelines for ROAM s digital marketing strategy - Training designers of all levels and developing educational resources for them - Critical project graphics for marketing (branding and user interfaces) - Brand identity creation and maintenance of visual guidelines across ROAM s portfolio - Graphics for management communication and presentations - Templates for designers to visualize personas, competitive environment, brand voices and other branding documentation SCOPE OF MY DUTIES ORGANIZATIONAL: - Supervising ROAM s senior designer along with a team of 8 immediate junior designers - Daily use of Trello to record, communicate and update task progression - Weekly team alignment meetings and educational trainings with senior designer - Developing weekly skills workshops and educational trainings for graphic design teams across Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania - Corporate identity design for ROAM - the largest classifieds media company in Africa - Branding redesign for the largest classifieds website in Tanzania - ZoomTanzania - Corporate identity redesign for MaMaison the largest real estate classifieds website in Senegal - Corporate identity redesign for PigiaMe, industry leader in horizontal classifieds website in Kenya - Creation of scalable social media templates for 16 brands, posted on channels including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp - Design and implementation of visual guidelines template for the entire ROAM portfolio - Design and implementation of brand voice and persona infographic template for the entire ROAM portfolio - Adaptable and modern educational training materials and design template utilized for design process, colour in design, information organization and visual hierarchy

3 PAGE 2 ihouse Web, Inc. April June 2015 UX & UI DESIGNER INTRODUCTION: ihouse is a dedicated, multitask web platform for real estate salespersons. I was hired to to take part in a redesign and implementation of new UX solutions. - 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 - Maintaining visual style consistency on the entire platform - Developing 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 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 - Better Tommorow Project redesign of Polish Radio home page with a brand new approach to user interface and user experience

4 PAGE 3 Gazeta Wyborcza - Agora S.A. INFOGRAPHIC DESIGNER & GRAPHIC DESIGNER July May 2013 INTRODUCTION: I was hired by Wawrzyniec Święcicki and Maciej Kałkus to to take part in redefining visual guidelines for infographics in Gazeta Wyborcza, the biggest printed daily newspaper in Poland. - Designing infographics for printed media and for both static and interactive web projects - Designing illustrations of key data for annual printed reports - Designing consistent icon sets for all visualization projects within one information area - Designing visualizations and functional schemes and instructions of various kind for print and web design Visual Science Production August 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 - Creating 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 - Med Phone UX and UI design and full process of prototyping of medical platform dedicated for dermatologists and other medical specialties practitioners

5 PAGE 4 Publishing Room January July 2008 GRAPHIC DESIGNER / DTP - Designing layouts for printed magazines, brochures, catalogues, advertisements - Designs for internet banners, newsletters, contests - Research of stock photography, graphics and designs resources 4 Fun tv June October 2007 GRAPHIC DESIGNER / MOTION DESIGNER - Designs for internet: banners, newsletters, contests - Designs for animation: vector visualizations and illustrations - Building simple animations in Flash technology and Adobe After Effects - 4Fun TV home page - Supporting web design team with internet banners and other forms of simple advertisement design forms Irish Archeological Consultancy (Ireland) DRAUGHTSMAN - Specialized archeological drawings and plans on site. Illustrations - Digitalization of plans and drawings (AutoCAD) - Specialized archeological visualizations June May 2007