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Skills
Languages
Polish (native), English (fluent: CAE grade B), German (basic: A2-B1)
Programming
Wrote various applications in C, .Net/C# (notable mention: Reflexio, a promising simple tool for data backups), Java, Qt/C++ (a recent fascination, owing to convenient cross-platform development and easy yet powerful UI styling capabilities). Proficient with Microsoft Visual Studio, occasionally used Eclipse (for GUI design used Eclipse Visual Editor and Jigloo), recently discovered Qt Creator. Focused on creating easily understandable and efficient user interfaces.
Writing and translation
Formerly active Wikipedian, frequent contributor and co-writer of several series of Polish articles in mathematics and algorithms; focused on improving understandability of formal definitions (by rewriting entire article sections) and easy navigation (by introducing structural associations between articles in a series). More than eager to learn natural languages, currently studying German (towards Zertifikat Deutsch), after obtaining master's degree planning to concentrate on French. Member of the Opera Translation Team, a group of volunteers engaged in establishing localized versions of Opera websites.
Graphic design
Long interested in text documents appearance and style control, designed several OpenOffice.org Writer document and Impress presentation templates as part of the current OOo suite user experience study.
Experimented with various ways of aiding the process of learning foreign languages with the help of interactive systems or uncommon approaches (color-driven associations etc.).

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