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Pawel Bak
http://pawelbak.co | linkedin.com/in/pawelmbak
[email protected] | 773-780-6378
Summary
Seeks a lead/senior position in user experience design and engineering to apply 8 years of experience in
application development, user experience design, and user research. Aims to contribute to organizational goals
by delivering innovative, delightful, and user-centered experiences for mobile and web solutions.
Core Skills & Competencies
Designer Skills
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Heuristic evaluation
Cognitive walkthrough
Information architecture
Usability testing
Focus groups
Personas
Competitive analysis
Wireframes
Prototyping
Leadership Skills
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Creative/Flexible/Adaptive
Mentoring and motivating UX teams
Usability studies coordination
Multi location team collaboration
Usability awareness trainings
Lean start up and lean UX principles
Project/idea presentation
Tools:
Axure, Omnigraph, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Keynote
Technologies: Android, Windows Phone, HTML5/CSS3, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
Experience
Microsoft, IL
April 2014 – Present
Lead User Experience Engineer
 Develops experience strategy on bringing Bing brand and other Microsoft services to new countries via
feature phone browsers
 Designs and usability tests new news discovery apps
 Collaborates with 6 agile engineering teams to successfully implement new browser features
 Owns usability lab operations for Microsoft Chicago location
Nokia, IL
July 2010 – April 2014
Lead User Experience Engineer
 Established and managed UX/UI teams which worked on the implementation of mobile interfaces
 Led the design, prototyping, implementation, and testing of several new Nokia Xpress projects for
Android, Windows Phone and Nokia Asha platforms
 Designed and executed usability studies for several mobile phone products
 Helped organize and conduct market research in developing countries
 Managed the localization needs of all Nokia Xpress services for 87 languages and over 150 countries
 Contributed to the design and development of Nokia Web App SDK platform and web tools
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Contributed to several patents related to mobile browsing and user interface
Received several Performance Achievement Award
Novarra, IL
March 2006 – June 2010
UI Software Engineer
 Designed and implemented a user interface for various internet proxy browsers
 Developed web portals for various cellular clients including Vodafone UK, 3 Italy, TIM
 Designed UX/UI and managed Interface development of a mobile browser for Verizon and US Cellular
mobile devices
 Contributed to 3 patents related to mobile browsing and user interfaces
Other projects:
 Researched, designed and oversaw development of mobile app Yummie – food social network
 Designed and developed mobile and web applications (over 15 apps with 20 million downloads)
 Designed and led the implementation of multiple comprehensive desktop browser applications for ecommerce clients such as FM Group USA, Sure Cosmetics, and be53.com
Education
DePaul University
Master of Science, Human Computer Interaction
Concentration in perceived performance when designing for mobile devices
2013
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Concentration in user interface design and implementation using Java,C++, C#
2008

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