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Jozef Sovcik
www.linkedin.com/in/jozef-sovcik
(LinkedIn)
sovcik.design (Portfolio)
dribbble.com/delightfulfreedom
(Other)
Summary
Contact
Top Skills
User Experience Design
Product Design
Mobile Applications
Languages
Portuguese (Elementary)
English (Native or Bilingual)
Slovak (Native or Bilingual)
Certifications
Statistics Fundamentals - Part 1:
Beginning
User Research - Method and Best
Practices
Certificate of Membership
Mobile User Experience (UX) Design
Gamification - Creating Addictive
User Experiences
Problem Solver and Product Designer for Hire with Crypto and
blockchain experience and mobile expertice - Product, UX,UI
Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic
Hi, I'm Joe.
I solve real (validated) complex problems for real people and deliver
simple, effective and engaging solutions.
Combining skills, knowledge and experience in design, technology
and business I help you to create your dream.
A bit more about me:
Enthusiastic, creative and entrepreneurial Jack-of-All-Trades (or Joe)
with passion to always learn and try out something new who's not
limiting himself by some arbitrary pre-defined box.
That's why I was also involved in many different fields where I gained
varied knowledge and experiences that I can now combine and see
the big picture.
Do you want an example?
I gained business knowledge from being entrepreneurial, playing
poker professionally and investing
Tech knowledge from Developing and learning the ins- and outs of
technology as an Ethical Hacker.
Design from combining my inqusitive, questioning and problemsolving mind with my love for psychology and understanding how
people and this world works.
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What I am exploring:
- Blockchain Technologies, Crypto currencies, etc. (this is the future,
right?)
- Progressive Web Apps (Is this the future, too?)
- Data Analysis, Growth Hacking
- Nomadism, Freedom and other Passions
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My Values:
- Freedom (of exploration, experimentation, opinion, etc.)
- Asking WHY and Questioning Things
- Authenticity
- Experimentation and Exploration
- Deep Human Satisfaction
- Health and peak performence
- Data, Information, Knowledge
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Experience
Freelancer,Product and UX Designer with Development and Tech
Background
Freelance Mobile UX and Product Designer, Consultant and Problem
Solver
May 2015 - Present
First off, I solve problems for businesses and help them improve their products.
I do this with a combination of design-thinking methods as well as lean startup
methodologies and methodologies from Hacking growth. The goal is to always
create engaging and profitable (sustainable) solutions.
This can take various forms, for example
- User experience research and design (Does your target group manages to
perform tasks they need to and want to?)
- Product strategy consultation (What's your product positioning? How will you
make money? What's your business strategy?)
- Information Architecture (What information is presented when?)
- Interaction and UI design (How pleasant is it to use the app? How does it
feel?)
- Design-thinking team workshops or internal Design Sprints by Google
Ventures. (Get alinged across different teams and get ideas from across the
board)
- Product management and ownership (What should you develop next? What's
the priority?)
My biggest expertise is in Mobile and Blockchain systems.
In terms of Mobile, and especially Android I lived through and tried the whole
life-cycle, from Design, Valdiation, Development, Security testing as well as
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some Growth. This is due to my background as an Ethical hacker and Android
developer.
To learn a bit more, visit my portfolio at http://sovcik.design/
Alternatively, here's a non-exhaustive non-up-to-date list
- Crowdholding - Blockchain based B2B and B2C platform for startups Product, UX, UI, Strategy
- iContacts (Mobile app changing the way Contacts are shared) - UX/UI Design
- Pillar Ethereum Wallet (Cryptocurrency wallet with a vision to hold all your
crypto assets) - UX/UI Design
- Baby Names (iOS app for searching names) - Back-end Development and
Mobile Consultation
- Time Entry (Android App for tracking time of employees) - Complete redesign
and UX redesign as well as helping with Development
- And other smaller projects like websites, random Apps, etc.
Crowdholding
UX and Product Design in a Cryptocurrency and Blockchain-based
Startup
December 2017 - Present
Lead UX and Product Design
Product management and Product strategy.
Creating engaging experience for the Users (B2C) and enhancing and
optimizing a complicated Customer-facing product (B2B) and finding the right
market-fit.
ALTERway
Co-founder
February 2015 - Present
Starting and running a mobile development freelancing company with design
thinking focus (creating desirable experiences for the client as well as the end
user).
Learning and experimenting with different leading and engagement
approaches.(Flatness, transparency, passion are few things we find important
here)
Accenture
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Penetration Tester
December 2016 - November 2017 (1 year)
Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic
University of St Andrews
Ethical hacker intern
July 2015 - September 2015 (3 months)
Conducting a self-driven, non-supervised security assessment as well as
designing, proposing and selling it to the management.
Portcullis Computer Security Ltd
Intern
July 2014 - September 2014 (3 months)
Focused on mobile application testing and developing an automated testing
tool
Society
President and co-founder of International Cooking Society
November 2012 - May 2014 (1 year 7 months)
University of Abertay Dundee
Ethical Hacking & Countermeasures Class Representative
September 2012 - June 2013 (10 months)
student-led
SecuriTay 2 Committee Member
October 2012 - January 2013 (4 months)
As part of committee for Securi-tay 2 (Only successful student-led hacking/
InfoSec conference in UK) I improved my organizational skills, communication
skills, pitching ideas and getting things done.
Self-employed
Professional poker player
March 2011 - August 2012 (1 year 6 months)
By playing online poker professionally, I had to manage my time, planned out
my study/work/analysis ratio and work on my discipline, among other things.
Skills acquired
» developed strong analytical and logical thinking while improving decision
making and problem
solving.
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» improved ability to think outside-the-box and finding flaws/exploits as that is
very important in being able to exploit opponents and make a profit.
» developed understanding of concepts like Return Of Investment, Expected
Value, variance, probability, and others, which has improved my understanding
of business
» capable of coping with stressful situations.
» radically improved self-control, time management and organizational skills
» developed strong sense of self-awareness, self-reflection and need for selfimprovement
Education
The Interaction Design Foundation
Design thinking, UX and Human Interaction Design · (2017 - 2018)
University of Abertay Dundee
HoN BSc, Ethical Hacking and Counter measures · (2012 - 2016)
bilingual high school, Bratislava, Slovakia
· (2006 - 2011)
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