Wlodzimierz Gontarz

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Education
Highschool/University
  • Gdañsk University, Scandinavian Faculty
  • Mila College, Informatics
More:
  • Grammar school, Technical college of building techniques, Schools of Music - Szczecin
  • Billströmska Folkhögskola, Sweden (scholarship awarded at Mälardalens Högskola i Västeras
  • Gdañsk University, 6 years
  • Mila College - 3,5 year long program (distance course with lectures - workshops - given in lab)
  • Training at Publishing Institute. Course area: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress for Macintosh
  • Akademic course in Swedish, creative writting, culture and sociology in Sweden. Scholarship awarded at Mälardalens Högskola in Västerås
  • Course and training for touroperator`s representatives. Location: Sousse, Tunis, Monastir: Tunisia
  • "The Baltic Sea Environment", academic course arranged by Jagiellonian University and Uppsala University (Sweden) within the project of: The Baltic University

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Summary work
Marketing 3,5 years
Copywritting, editing, translating, interpreting, tourism 6 years
Project managing (internet) < 6 months
More:

Since 11. 2004

Software developement company

Software internal documentation: product, code, user manuals, data dictionaries, product release notes etc. (English)

Handling requests for documents, technical questions from Customer Service in several locations abroad (English)

Very occasionally small translations (Swedish)

2002 - 2005

Bowne Global Solutions - translations (Swedish language)
Italia nel Mondo - translations (Swedish language)
Norpol - translations (German language)
Norpol - IT-helpdesk
Teaching Swedish (private)
Also some period abroad
TUI 04. - 10. 2001
TUI
 Marketing Dept.
Briefing internet project
Cooperations with outsourcing agencies, company lawyer, sales dept. and office in Germany. Controlling ads. campaign and company`s identity in media as well as cost control. Creating written educational materials for company staff and its cooperators.
Ving, Scandinavian Leisure Group 10. 1998 - 04. 2001

VING ---

Marketing Dept.
Copywritting, small DTP works, creation direct-mail texts, cooperation with General Manager, agency of advertising, main office in Sweden, PR, product and sales dept.
Creating catalogues, internal bulletins, educational texts and guidelines for company personnel. Managing internal data base content. Print control. Translations.
Travel Trade Gazette 12. 1997 - 09. 1998

Travel Trade Gazette

Journalism. Marketing.
Before 1998
Freelancer, summer jobs
Baltic Gateway
Baltic Trade Center
Ena LTD. - The Swedish Trade Council
Tour Agency in Gdañsk
Lion Ferry
Consecutive interpreting, customer service, guiding international tours and tours for youth and children within Poland. Check-in jobs on terminal.
Swedish Trade Council Swedish Trade Council Baltic Gateway Baltic Trade Center
While studying also some additional jobs as freelancer for:

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Languages&IT skills
Mother tongue Polish
Good
  • Swedish
  • English
  • German
Basics Russian
The `I-am-going-to-know-in-future` language :-) Chinese
IT Win 9x, NT, user: McOS, Linux
Microsoft Office: eg. Word, Excel, PowerPoint...
Adobe:
Illustrator (medium)
Photoshop(some)
QuarkXPress(some)
Acrobate
Active Share
HTML, CSS
Basic knowledge of Net protocols, SQL
Some other programs I used at home:
 Creator Pro
Ultimate Paint
Ulead Gif Animator
1st Page 2000
Dev-Pas
EdHTML 5.0
Painter 3
PHP Coder
Other First experiences with help-desk jobs and with intenet project.

Interests in means of communication, new technologies and all activities leading to win new skills, knowledge, abilities in areas of my interests.

Good communication skills, analytical mind and quick-learner. Continuously collecting new skills in area of my interests.
Hobbies
  • informatics, computers, software
  • foreign languages
  • biking, kendo
  • litterature, piano
  • Icelandic history and stories

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