Patrick Lipinski

I had the opportunity to lead a talented team of up to 5 members of staff covering a wide range from print and media designer to web designer to UX designer, who were all working in different ventures within BörseGo. One aim of my role was to foster the cross-project collaboration on topics like branding, design systems, functional principles and overall customer experience for every touch point.

My main project from day one at BörseGo has been the GodmodeTrader news website. I have since then executed and was responsible for a major revolutionary redesign (from co-concepting to drafts to mockups to frontend code), a responsive retrofitting and various site wide design iterations to further improve the user experience with the focus on readability, performance and ease of use of the website.

Together with my colleague I was responsible for the corporate identity, the design and the implementation of every touchpoint of the company ranging from the event websites, the event administration area, the marketing website to printed marketing material and trade show stand. Furthermore I was the technical contact person for the integration of event pages and the implementation of the TicketShop API on client websites.

Fun Fact: I initiated and worked on numerous april fools pranks (2009: amiando in bavarian language, 2010: amiando introduces ‘ViralVoting’ used as e-voting tool for the next election of the Federal German Government) which got covered on several news outlets worldwide and led to many keynote requests for various conferences throughout the years.

Dotcom bubble, anyone?! Getting paid to edit and test HTML templates for a custom intranet tool for employee absenteeism management.

For my diploma thesis I was tasked to find a possibility to add amiando’s at this time relatively new event ticket shop feature to other websites as easy as possible. This was later on a unique selling point and used widely which helped to expand amiando’s reach and brand awareness, led to more customers (event hosts and ticket buyers), and boosted its SEO score. Thesis: Widgets — Untersuchung und Implementierung der verschiedenen Integrationsmöglichkeiten von Internetanwendungen

As part of my academic studies I did an internship at Gölz&Schwarz and supported a colleague in the department ‘Kreation’ to work on various joint and individual projects.

I was co-responsible for the day-to-day routine, being in direct contact with many clients and processing their orders coming through Leonardo. I learned working with Macromedia Freehand and deepened my skills in Adobe Photoshop and Quark Xpress, helping preparing documents for pre-print and Computer-To-Film, which I then manually exposed to cromaline proofs.

Over the nine semesters at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen-Friedberg I gained a broad knowledge on many different computer related topics. I was taught design and programming principles, which I used in practice in various labs and university projects. Besides the web technologies I already knew I got experience among other things in Flash, ActionScript, PHP, SQL, Java, C++, audio editing, video editing I was awarded for my diploma thesis by the VDE.

Having participated in Biology A-levels during school I thought studying Biology would fit perfectly. Which turned out it didn’t because setting up, customizing and maintaining a phpBB bulletin board to connect biology and chemistry students all around Germany was way more interesting. I dropped out, but learned for life.