Katarzyna Dworniczak

TuShare is a web portal which allows people to give things that they no longer need to one another for free. It is the fastest growing sharing site in Australia.

Responsibilities:

• Undertaking spatial analysis of customer density (using thematic and heat maps) and growth in time
• Preparing and publishing maps in PDF format for presentation at the annual GeoNext Conference
• Successfully working with Open Source Software (QGIS, Libre Office) and data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
• Cleansing and applying QA/QC processes to customers’ data prior to spatial analyses.

Geographic Information System (GIS) company established in August 2012. Currently working remotely with clients. As self-employed I was directly responsible for preparing proposals for work, providing advice to customers and planning and managing all financial aspects of the company.

Major achievements:

• Successfully prepared map products depicting billboard locations using GPS, OpenStreetMap and Quantum GIS
• Geotagged over 100 photos for Biuro-Kruk project which was prepared for an advertising agency
• Negotiated excellent conditions relating to the booking of conference facilities for a Quantum GIS course. This included clauses which allowed the booking to be delayed 24hrs prior with no obligations
• Organised and facilitated the conduct of Quantum GIS courses for 5-6 participants
• Received positive feedback from client regarding professional service and delivery of high quality maps for Biuro-Kruk

Leading Polish producer of steel profiles with 11 offices in Poland. Directly responsible for responding to office mail daily by e-mail, answering queries via e-mail and phone in the Poznan office. Communicating and negotiating with clients on delivery schedule, pricing and contract insurance. Acquiring new customers by cold-calling. Preparing sales offers of steel cold-formed profiles for customers, making sales orders, establishing delivery schedules for customers. Supervising due and timely clients’ payments.

Major achievements:

• Grew customer base from 20 to 150 active clients within a year, by cold-calling and launching direct mail campaign to new and existing businesses in area
• Minimized transport costs by closely managing delivery schedule
• Implemented Customer Relationships Management (Zoho CRM) software in office which improved customer service and feedback

Leading a medium – sized company, with more than 70 employees, in the field of road measurement and GIS services. As a part of the GIS team, I was directly responsible for road-map making with RoadScan Software using photos with GPS coordinates which were gathered using a vehicle mounted imaging system. Interpreted surveyor maps (georeferenced rasters) and Google Map images for road map making.

Major achievements:

• Successfully compared surveyor maps, photogrammetry maps and photos (of highly complicated urban areas) for updating road maps for Poznan Road Authority using RoadScan software with a very high level of details
• Reduced time (by 10%) for digitalisation of road maps by suggesting new tools (snap, closing polygon by double click) in RoadScan software

The GIS Department is a part of Poznan City Council and responsible for maintaining cadastral maps and records, the Council’s asset management database, providing survey data and managing the Poznan Spatial Information System (SIS).


Major achievements:

• Prepared numerous high quality maps using Adobe Photoshop and scanned and plotted maps for the surveyor team
• Successfully carried out measurements using Leica Disto Plus equipment and GPS eTrex devices to update SIS for the City of Poznan with Geo-Info software

Wroclaw University of Technology is of the best performing technical universities in Poland – with over 35000 students, 2 000 academic teachers in 12 faculties. During my postgraduate studies, I prepared a thesis entitled “Analysis of Grene Internet shop clients using GIS tools” which is spatial analysis of the e-commerce customers of the international Grene company.

Major achievements:

• Produced a cartographic relief depiction using Total Station and GPS-RTK equipment. Imported, manipulated and visualised the data using ArcGIS software
• Migrated statistical data (csv to dbf) from Polish Bureau of Statistics to ArcGIS
• Created and demonstrated thematic maps in ArcMap showing analysis of customers/sales
• Geo-referenced several maps using ArcGIS
• Joined company sales data with local councils’ boundaries and postal codes in ArcGIS
• Prepared analysis of dependencies between shops’ location and customers buying in online store for trading company – this thesis was marked as very good (91%-100%)

Leading company in adventure recreation and retailing in North Carolina with 19 stores and recreation centres. As a Lead Sales Associate I was responsible for operating and balancing cash register, checking returns before providing refunds and helping customers with selecting products. Checking daily supplies of goods to store.

Major achievements:

• Effectively communicated with clients by answering queries and provided information to customers about stores and events
• Received positive feedback from clients regarding excellent customer service

As a Sales Associate responsible for operating the cash register, assisting customers with selecting kites and other merchandise and preparing store daily by checking merchandise and maintaining store cleanliness.

• Operating cash register
• Assisting customers with selecting kites and other merchandise
• Preparing store daily by checking merchandise and maintaining store cleanliness
• Checking products upon delivery before display

Achievement:
• Received bonus pay for completed Kitty Hawk Kites University checklist which included kite training, rock wall climbing, kayaking, kite boarding and hang- gliding

Major achievements:

• Prepared a 3D map and visualisation of Mierzecka Struga catchment using the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension with ArcScene
• Successfully prepared over 100 maps of lakes in the Mierzecka Struga river catchment using MapInfo
• Worked as an interactive member of a hydrology team which developed maps and collected field measurements using GPS and current meter and magnetic flow meters for the Sierakow Landscape Park. Prepared map products using advanced cartographic principles and ArcGIS
• Developed a bathymetry map of the Mierzynskie Lake using echo sounding and GPS equipment and prepared an analogue map using traditional interpolation techniques (e.g. triangulation)
• Produced a cartographic relief depiction using Theodolite and Total Station equipment and preparing it as an analogue map using interpolation techniques
• Collected field data in the Slowinski National Park using Kata Thermometer, GPS, heliograph, barometer and collected weather observations
• Geo-referenced over 250 maps and digitised thematic spatial information for my Masters’ thesis using MapInfo
• Digitised lakes, rivers, geology and climatology rasters using ArcGIS and converted to ESRI shape-file format
• Collected field data for my Masters’ thesis through surface inspections, flow and temperature measurements
• Solved problems with geo-referencing Messtischblatt maps by finding root cause and modifying configuration files for the datum
• Successfully registered three groups of maps in different projections as one UTM projection and undertook detailed analysis to identify and demonstrate historical change in the areas of lakes
• Prepared Master’s thesis entitled “Changes in the surface of ponds and lakes in the catchment area of Mierzecka Struga (from Messtischblatt to Vmap Level 2)” - marked as very good (91%-100%)

Responsibilities:
• Teaching sailing skills to children, teenagers and adults
• Delivering sailing courses to enable participants obtain sailing license
• Assessing participants for sailing licence examination
• Providing training for children and teenagers in water sports camps