Agnieszka Figiel

Current

• programmer at DreamLab Onet.pl

Past

• researcher at AGH University of Science and Technology
• instructor at Kraków Jagiellonian University
• programmer at Lunar Logic Polska

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Education

• Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie
• The University of Glasgow
• Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanislawa Staszica w Krakowie

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Agnieszka Figiel’s Summary

Programming experience: backend programming (ruby, perl, C), web front end programming (Ruby on Rails, AJAX), databases (mysql, postgresql, oracle)

Coaching experience: Ruby on Rails university course (lab)

Research interests: information retrieval, text mining, natural language processing.

Translation: amateur experience in specialist translation (computer science, chemical engineering). CPE Certificate, completed a PGDipl translation course.

Agnieszka Figiel’s Specialties:

dynamic programming, IT translation

Agnieszka Figiel’s Experience

• programmer

  DreamLab Onet.pl

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Backend programmer, C, perl, Oracle.

• researcher

  AGH University of Science and Technology

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  October 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 3 months)

  Text analysis using statistical methods. Publications in “Słowniki komputerowe i automatyczna ekstrakcja informacji z tekstu” (published by AGH) and conference proceedings.

• instructor

  Kraków Jagiellonian University

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2006 — September 2008 (2 years)

  Graphical Interface instructor, Ruby on Rails

• programmer

  Lunar Logic Polska

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  programmer, Ruby on Rails, Java
  
  completed RoR projects include: a purchase request system, project management system, location based mobile networking community site, fashion community site

Agnieszka Figiel’s Education

• Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie

  PGDipl , Specialist Translation (PL <=> EN) , 2008 — 2009

  http://www.filg.uj.edu.pl/stlum/
  
  The course covers certified translations (court, notary's office, register office etc) as well as various types of specialist translation: European Union documents, legal, medical, technical, scientific, tourist, economic, film, mass media.

• The University of Glasgow

  European Summer School in Information Retrieval 2007 — 2007

  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/
  
  This five-day school (Monday to Friday) will give participants a grounding in the core subjects of Information Retrieval, such as Architecture, IR models and Evaluation as well as various important applications such as Web IR, Interactive IR, XML Retrieval, Question Answering and Multimedia Retrieval. Moreover, ESSIR 2007 has a strong focus on large-scale IR and covers some recent and trendy topics and applications in IR, such as Distributed and Peer-to-Peer IR, Web Usage and Mining, Intranet/Enterprise search, Blogs Retrieval and Information Retrieval in Context.

• Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanislawa Staszica w Krakowie

  MSc , Computer Science, specialty: “Software and database systems engineering” , 2001 — 2006

  Master thesis “Automatic similarity evaluation of Polish texts”, implemented a similarity ranking system to compare search effectiveness of the VSM and LSA algorithms.

Additional Information

Agnieszka Figiel’s Websites:

• My Website

Agnieszka Figiel’s Groups:

BCS-IRSG http://irsg.bcs.org
Volvo 480 Club Europe http://www.volvo-480-europe.org/
proz.com http://www.proz.com/translator/1033004

•    Ruby on Rails
•    ESSIR 2007
•    Kraków Ruby Users Group
•    Polish Agile Users Group (PAUG)
•    onet.pl employees (and former ones)
•    Professional Translators and Interpreters (ProZ.com)
•    AGH University of Science and Technology Alumni
•    Jagiellonian University

Agnieszka Figiel’s Honors:

Graduate with Honors 2006, Kraków University of Science and Technology (AGH)

CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English)

ZMP (Zentrale Mittelstufenprufung)

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