About Me
Hi!
If you’ve made it to my creative corner of the internet, I must have told you about it.
I’m happy you’re here and welcome!
I’m Magdalena, a passionate individual, a life-long learner by day and a skilful DIYer by nightfall.
I took a leap and followed my passion, and it lead me here.
Due to my dominant educational background in arts and design, I was always keen on making everything I do aesthetically pleasing.
Still, I was also interested in how everything works behind the curtains - whether it be the human mind or the internet.
Like a tree sprouting twigs from existing branches, I want to build new knowledge upon the things I already know, as well as things I don’t know.
Recently I have finished my one year long apprenticeship at a web development company in Graz, Austria and simultaneously acquired my Techdegree at TeamTreehouse.
I like to be challenged with different types of projects which take me out of my comfort zone, help me become more flexible and enrich my knowledge.
Due to the diverse topics such as culture, economics, law, technology, engineering and fashion, which I have studied over the last decade,
I am able to quickly familiarise myself with new assignments in several languages, and to extract core statements in order to combine them with pre-acquired knowledge.
I also have creative and lateral thinking, as well as being solution oriented. Psychology and finding of new ways to solve problems are my hobbies,
which can be useful in the professional field of web development or working with people and the associated needs analysis.
Certificates
All certificates can be viewed on my LinkedIn profile. Please find the link icon in the footer section of my page.
- Front End Web Development Techdegree by TeamTreehouse (online)
- Wie das Web technisch funktioniert & Programmieren fürs Web by OpenHPI (online)
- Object Oriented Programming in Java by Open HPI (online)
- Coding Lab prep course in Java (local)
Work Experience
Working at Jack Coleman (advertising & marketing agency)
At my last job, I not only worked as a front end developer, but also contributed in the creative area as well as performed SEO tasks.
Some of my tasks were:
- The implementation of custom made mini web apps
- The implementation of screen designs (created in Adobe XD) - responsive websites based on WordPress and Elementor including custom solutions (for existing clients also in other CMS),
- First level customer support (Gitlab tickets, e-mails and phone),
- Consulting - I was the first contact person on web and software topics,
- Copywriting and writing of blog posts, brochures and social media texts,
- Translating from German into English,
- E-commerce - online store support
- Customer support for Mailchimp issues
- Working with Google Analytics API, Google Tag Manager and other Google products for marketing purposes.
Vučna Sluzba DS website
Arch&Living website
Epado Immobilien website
Notar Graz Süd website
Work Experience
Working at recordIT GmbH & Midlight GmbH in Graz
My responsibilities at recordIT GmbH first included the implementation of templates that are based on DocxTemplater with the Mustache inspired syntax, into the software startup "recordIT", which requires abstract thinking skills and precise work. Templates are created in Microsoft Word or other software that can save docx files. I learned the techniques for this and updated and improved the documentation while working. Afterwards, I took over the implementation of the new recordIT homepage. Thereby, I handled communication with the graphic designer, the copywriter, other developers and the management and took a leading role in the project on my own initiative. I learned working with the frameworks VueJS and Quasar, which were foreign to me until then, on my own, without much support.
View current recordIT websiteWork Project Gallery
Click on the thumbnails below to open the gallery and see a few screenshots of my work at recordIT while in progress.
Projects While in Training
To-Do List
My simple to-do list web app was build with Bootstrap and jQuery, combined with HTML5 and CSS3. It was a dive into how to work with what jQuery has to offer.
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Employee Directory
In this project, I used the Random User Generator API (https://randomuser.me/) to grab information for 12 random employees and used that data to build a prototype for an Awesome Startup employee directory. I requested a JSON object from the API using fetch and parse the data so that 12 employees are listed in a grid with their thumbnail image, full name, email, and location. Clicking the employee’s image or name opens a modal window with more detailed information, such as the employee’s birthday and address.
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Web App Dashboard
In this project, I took a mockup and a few icons and built a web dashboard complete with JavaScript-driven charts and graphs. These charts are provided by Chart.js. This project was a bit more elaborate, as the requirement was to create a responsive web app with three different mockups and a mobile-first approach.
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Game Show App
Here I created a browser version of Wheel of Success, a word guessing game. I used Javascript to come up with a random phrase that players will try to guess by entering different letters into the program.
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Photo Gallery
This is an interactive photo gallery using JavaScript and CSS Grid Layout. Part of the project's requirements was using a plugin (BaguetteBox) and building a search filter as well as making it look like in the provided mockup. As the user types into the search input, only photos that match the caption text appear. Case insensitivity has been added, so searches will ignore letter case.
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