Morten Kozak

Fischer

Managing specialist with decades of experience

Location
DK - Sjælland
Web
Personal website My LinkedIn profile
E-mail
morten@mortenfischer.com
Phone
+45 2615 4282

Summary

What am I all about?

As an accomplished People Lead, Frontend Lead, and UI/UX Developer, I bring decades of expertise and experience in crafting high-quality, enterprise-grade, and business-critical interactive solutions.

I wrote my first lines of HTML somewhere around 1997 and have experienced the rise and fall of trends, technologies and browsers. With an origin in graphic design education from the 1990's, I discovered the web in its infancy. Taking my skills in typography and design production to the web, I have ever since worked to deliver top-shelf on-line experiences.

Over the decades I have assembled an enormous experience in the creation of everything from printed books to large public sector content websites, succesful B2B/B2C e-commerce shops and consumer self-service solutions.

Whether it be in a developer role or leading others.

People lead, Team lead, Tech lead

Managing with experience and empathy

Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated a well-documented track record of leading developers and external partners effectively to deliver high-quality UI solutions that prioritize experience, accessibility and maintainability.

I set a positive example by demonstrating strong integrity. My approach to leadership is highly empathic and involves motivating the team through respectful interactions, while also granting them the autonomy and accountability necessary for optimal performance within collaborative environments.

Understanding the business

Users, tech and design furnace

My driving ambition centers around empowering users through meticulously crafted solutions that align with the design aspirations and strategic goals of the organization. Leveraging my expertise in not only major JavaScript frameworks, but also accessibility and UX, I consistently make informed decisions to ensure our solutions meet and exceed business requirements.

Subject Matter Expert

UI, design and front-end

My primary asset lies in my extensive background spanning decades of work in graphic design, digital/frontend development, and delivery roles. I possess a deep appreciation for the user experience (UX) and advocate for the significance of intuitive interfaces and accessibility.

Selected Experience

  1. 2019 - present

    Immeo P/S

    Copenhagen, Vesterbro

    2023: Senior Lead UI Specialist

    2020: Lead UI Specialist

    2019: Senior UI Specialist

    Spearheading, managing and building the Immeo UI team / taskforce, enabling delivery of Enterprise-grade web-projects for our clients. I am also part of the Immeo Management Team.

    Achievements of note: Over the years at Immeo, I have established the front-end and UI discipline as an important professional area. By creating awareness and sharing skills, the general quality of our UI solutions are of enterprise grade levels.

    By selecting and recruiting the right people, I have built a team of highly skilled specialists, further enhancing the quality levels of our deliveries.

    General responsibilities:
    • Consulting and delivery:
      • Working with external design partners, insuring the finished design is ready for implementation.
      • Working with not only clients but also other internal teams in advisory and quality assuring roles
      • Defining software design and making architectural decisions.
      • Performing UX research and development
      • Picking third party frameworks, libraries and tools suitable for a given project
      • Defining specifications and break work down into tasks
      • Estimating required effort for presale, sale and implementation purposes
      • Stakeholder management
      • Subject matter expert
    • Managing people and building the team
      • Overall lead of the UI specialist team
      • Match assigments with the right developers and skillsets
      • Selecting and interviewing candidates for available roles and positions
      • Mentoring and developing team members, helping them to grow and perform
      • Insure the well-being and sense of purpose for team members
      • Evaluating performance and spotting growth areas for individual team members
      • Facilitating knowledge sharing, empowering other developers
      • Creating and executing courses, increasing insight and abilities of developers

  2. 2017 - 2019

    Capgemini A/S

    Copenhagen, Vallensbæk

    Senior Frontend Consultant/Specialist

    Member of a small specialist team consisting of highly skilled frontend developers. Working specialist/advisor for clients and participating in projects for clients.

    Achievements of note: Together with a developer team, I delivered two large public-sector content website projects. Serving in dual role of subject matter expert (for the client and team) and day to day developer. Both solutions was required by law to meet WCAG 2.0 level AA accessibility requirements.

    General responsibilities:
    • Participating as UI / front-end developer on two large public sector projects
    • Serving as scrum master
    • Estimating work for sale and implementation purposes
    • Software design
    • Visual design
    • Stakeholder management
    • Mentoring

  3. 2013 - 2017

    Enetpulse APS

    Copenhagen, Taastrup

    2016: Team Leader

    2013: Senior Frontend Developer

    Team lead for a 7 man strong distributed team (Denmark and Bulgaria) building widgets and websites displaying full range of sport content (statistics, scores and more).

    Achievements of note: I created a library of highly customizeable widgets with a high range of complexity. Each widget was able to be injected onto foreign (client) websites, and utilizing custom in-house API's as datasource.

    A dashboard was also created for clients to select and customize widgets.

    General responsibilities:
    • Developing responsive Sport Widgets that can be inserted onto any client web page via CORS, together with a client accesible dashboard where clients selects and customizes the individual widgets.
    • Serving as scrum master
    • Guide the team through the scrum process by facilitating meetings, clearing impediments and maintaining project backlog in collaboration with product owner.
    • Working together with a designer in creating the overall site structure and navigation while keeping the required customization options in mind, allowing clients to turn the whitelable into a branded experience.
    • Extend the inhouse framework to include elements and logic used to build whitelabel websites
    • Stakeholder management

  4. 2007 - 2013

    Print2People APS

    Køge / Skovlunde

    Webmaster / Front-end developer

    Graphic designer

    Working as participant in a two-man developer team for a start-up. Mixing visual design with front-end development.

    General responsibilities:
    • Enhancing UX and commerce flow.
    • Designing and building product page and presentations
    • Design changes and updates
    • Technical support.
    • Direct contact to vendors
    • Stakeholder management

Core skills

People core:

  • Empathy
  • Integrity
  • Trust
  • Empowerment
  • Sharing
  • Believing

Specialist core

  • UI / Front-end
  • User Experience
  • Accessibility / WCAG

Tech core

  • HTML
  • CSS / SCSS
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Vue.js
  • React.js
  • State Management
  • Build pipeline and transpilation
  • Webpack

Personal core

  • Communication
  • Knowlegde sharing
  • Problem solving
  • Leader

Private details

Born
1978
Languages
Danish (mother tounge) & English (professional)
Marital status
Married
Children:
Two girls born in 2017 and 2020
Home address
Elmevej 16, 4171 Glumsø