CURRICULUM VITAE

JACEK KOTOWSKI

ul. Gen. Bora Komorowskiego 10/78

03-982 Warszawa, POLAND

tel. +48 605 96 13 41

EDUCATION:

  • MBA IT studies (09/2005 – 04/2008) Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw. Thesis: “Winning British construction market by organizing company into small independent teams” application of Blue Ocean Strategy and financial sensitivity analysis.
  • MA degree (10/91 - 03/97) Adam Mickiewicz University, English philology faculty.
  • Maturity Certificate (10/87 - 06/91) Dabrowski Technical College in Gorzow Wlkp., process instrumentation and automation faculty.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

“Synergy” Jacek Kotowski (11/2007 - present)

Job title: Free-lance: Wind Farm Construction Business Consultant, Warsaw.

  • POLCONSTRUCT UK (3/2007 - 11/2007)
    Construction business development specialist in Glasgow office, Scotland.
  • ATEQ PL (04/ 2004 - 12/2006)
    Sales and promotion engineer, promoting production-line leak testing instruments for automotive, aviation and household goods industries.
  • GRAFPOL PARTNERS s. c. (12/ 2003 - 04/2004)
    Promotion specialist, promoting DTP and creation studio, digital printshop.
  • SOFTRADE Sp. z o.o. (11/ 2000 - 11/2003)
    Promotion and sales engineer promoting ultra high vacuum equipment and engineering services.
  • PROPAK SYSTEMS LTD (6/1998-05/2000)
    Assistant to Project Manager, construction of natural oil-and-gas plant in Dębno Lubuskie for Polish Oil and Gas Mining Co.
  • FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS' COLLEGE in Gorzow Wlkp (02/1998-10/1998)
    Academic lecturer training Teachers of English.

INTERNSHIPS:

  • Teacher of English (06/97-12/97) Military Service, Jozef. Bem Academy of Artillery in Toruń, currently reserve officer (lutenant).
  • Proof-reader and translator (10/95-05/97) Monthly Psychological Review-Przeglad Psychologiczny issued by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
  • Camp Counsellor (6/96-8/96 6/95-8/95) Girls' Summer Camp "Kiniya" in Colchester, Vermont
  • Interpreter (6/91-2/92) Kokusai Kogyo Consultants (JICA Study Team) for Japanese consulting company specialized in Communal Waste Management contracted by Polish authorities.
  • Summer camp worker (7/90-8/90 7/89-8/89) Youth exchange summer employment Machine shop assistant, Frankfurt/O, Strausberg, Schwedt, Eastern Germany.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Polish: Native

English: Fluent. Skills acquired during philological studies, and improved by two years of work in a Canadian company and summer vacations in the United States (work at summer camp in Vermont) and Canada.

Russian and German: Good passive knowledge and basic skills.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Trados: Translator’s Workbench (software which helps translator maintain consistency by searching lexicon and translation history, required by most corporate customers)

Editing html internet pages, fast typing, knowledge of DTP conventions: styles and frames, using

MS Excel formulas for business calculations and statistics, basic experience with Statistica package
and data processing.

HOBBY:

Professional photography, HAM radio (1st class license, morse, homebrewing own equipment), swimming (lifeguard's license), sailing (yacht helmsman).

PERSONALITY FEATURES:

Friendliness and enthusiasm, enjoyment of team-work and multicultural environment, very good problem-solving and self-training skills, very good social networking skills.

Hereby I grant the permission to process the above personal data for recruitment purposes (according to Polish legislation: the Decree of August 29, 1997 r. on Protection of Personal Information - Dz.U. No 133, item. 883)

Warsaw, October 2008

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