High school
Aggie studied Art and Design, Informatics and Communication Technology (ICT), and Performing Arts for A-levels. She practised and learned about drawing, painting, designing, ICT, acting, production management, and began to convert messages into non-verbal mediums. After acting in her first play in high-school, she fell in love with the stage. It helped her start gaining confidence and believing in herself.

She was presented with Student of the Year in GCSE Polish award in 2012, and later, Student of the Year in A-level Art & Design and in Performing Arts awards in 2014.

University
She picked Digital Media for her bachelors degree. Aggie studied how to build websites, create graphics, design for easy user experience, develop games, produce short-film videos, and more. This laid out the fundamentals for her career. She started to code, which enabled her to produce work from concept to deployment. Aggie now uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP to create dynamic and interactive work, and it excites her greatly.

During her work placement at a design agency (Mr. B & Friends), she grasped how to build and manage websites with WordPress and quickly became a bit of an email template smart cookie. The companies she programmed custom emails for included Intercontinental Hotel Group, Dentons, Siniat, and more. As innocent as email templates seemed, they brought challenges difficult to hackle but she kept wanting to deal with those to expand her knowledge and find solutions, and she did!

As a Junior Web Developer Intern, Aggie fell in love with animations. Using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), she developed animations for Principality, IPI, and L&C, which entitled her for an in-company nickname, Aggermation. Out of passion for this type of media, she wanted to move things further. Aggie developed an interactive animation web application for her final year dissertation at university. The aim of the project was to discover how such a new way of implementing educational material (about climate change) could, not only help people learn but also, inspire to change behaviour. Aggie ended up with a 1st Class Honours degree.

Work experience
During her second year at university, she began to take on freelance projects. In her final year, she started working for a Raspberry Pi tech company (Pi Supply) as a Digital Media Designer. This helped her gain more experience in various design areas. Aggie managed and designed, both, digital and print assets; illustrations, icons, logos, banners, animations, brochures, packaging, clothing, etc., even an arcade. With her designs, the company was able to present their products online, and at events across Europe and Asia.

Later, she continued tackling multiple projects; web designs, social media graphics, and brochures, for various clients at an agency, Ronin Marketing. She polished her skills at completing high standard work under pressure. Her work helped increase revenue and audience outreach for clients such as London College of Music Examination, where their income doubled thanks to the redesign led by Aggie.

Now, as a Global Creative Designer at Computershare, she translates data into visuals by creating meaningful and easy to use assets with information presented in an easy to understand way. Aggie produces digital designs for international audiences (the Americas, Europe, South Africa, Asia, and Australia) and helps move the business forward by chasing trends but upkeeping the brand, making sure that all fits into the multi-cultural diversity.

She also keeps practising further her cinematography, including video-editing, photography, and motion design. Aggie independently created 'Intersection' mini-series in the pandemic, with no budget, from a blank page to the final cut, which got selected to multiple international film festivals, and even became a semi-finalist at Lima Web Festival.

Hobbies
Aggie has been a fan of photography since she was in primary school. She would grab a camera and capture stories and beauty of our world in whichever form. When travelling, Aggie always makes sure to have a camera to capture moments. This hobby became a useful asset, she can now use her photos and techniques in the work she creates, and offer photo-shoots. With this strength, her film-making that she has been passionate about since she remembers, got advanced quickly and naturally. Aggie loves to analyse what she sees. In 2021, she volunteered to help with event co-ordination at CamerImage to learn more about the art of cinematography from the industry leaders. A year later, she attended the festival as a cinematographer herself, having produced work.

To break from the screens, Aggie enjoys being active, spending time outdoors, and indulging in good food. She has been a committed rower since 2022. Aggie represents the City of Bristol Rowing Club, and raced at events such as WeHoRR, MET and more. Her achievements also include being a Novice Captain, Training & Race Co-ordinator, and Squad Person of the Year 2023. She also swims, cycles, and runs, getting ready for her first triathlon - Ironman 70.3!

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