Create your own way

1. 1

CREATE
YOUR
WAY.
Senior Technical Designer
Bogdan Anghel

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AVERAGE
PERSON DAY
8h
Sleep
8h
Work
8h
Life, hobbies, family
Did you know that
we spend just about
one-third of our lives
at work?

3. 3

Taking calculated risks is an
important part of life
• 78% of respondents out of 1000 people, wished
they had taken more career risks.
• #1 reason being to pursue a passion they had as
part of their careers.

4. 4

Representation of myself at
around 12 years old in front of of
my first computer
• Playing World of Warcraft, FIFA, Diablo, GTA, Sims
• Learning English to complete missions and talk to
strangers

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• Tired of just playing
• Built a gaming community/forum of more than
1000 members
• Built a private game server with custom SQL
database, creating Lua scripts, setup a website
with registration function
• Had my first Youtube channel with gaming videos
getting few thousand of views per video
• Learnt Photoshop to design logos, my websites
and advertisement banners
A FEW YEARS
LATER..

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• Word spread out about my skills
• I was getting paid (online) to do
graphics for strangers as a 13 years old
• Started playing football at the local
(juniors) team
TAKING MONEY FROM
STRANGERS

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• Finished my football “career”
• Got pretty good at design
• Studied Computer Science and
Software Engineering
• Discovered product design
HIGHSCHOOL AND
UNIVERSITY

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Examples of experiences that develop
our personalities, skills and abilities and
shape us as persons
Our personalities
Self awareness
Journey of self-awareness and look
back at your past to identify key
characteristics and abilities that you
have developed and that shape you
today
THE
DNA

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THE FULL-STACK
DESIGNER
• Just as a full-stack developer, but on the
design side.
• Result of my past experiences and
involvement.
• Role created for my skillset due to my
involvement in multiple parts of the
design process.

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Be

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• Generalist position
• Highly skilled in one
• Multiple other skills to support the
development process
THE FULL-STACK
DESIGNER

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YOU!