User:Kochas

Personal

Marcin is an apparent remote descendant of the Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski (left), most recognized for his 1580 Laments, dedicated to daughter Urszula (incidentally also the name of Marcin's mother, while Jan being his grandfather's). The nickname Kochaś, attached to Marcin since his kindergarten, may evoke various connotations, as it's a common Polish colloquialism for sweetheart, and loverboy (rightly so, nonetheless).

Marcin is proud of his hometown Gdańsk (part of the Tricity), the historic place, in which, in 1939 World War II had started, and where in 1980, Poland's, and eventually Eastern Europe's communism saw its end in the revolutionary Gdańsk Shipyard. Although, since 1999, Marcin lives in Warsaw, Poland's fast growing, struggled by history capital city, home of the unfortunate Palace of Culture and Science, and where Frédéric Chopin and Marie Curie grew up.

As a recognition of Marcin's worship of Indian cuisine, one of the towns in Bihar state in India was named — Kochas. What are the odds.

Media and project management

Marcin has been trying hard to multitask in different web projects and applications, with over 15 years of practice. He first contributed as a co-host of a weekly music radio show in the alternative local radio station in Gdańsk, before writing culture reports for the New York Polish daily news Nowy Dziennik, the national daily Życie, and music magazines.

In 2005, he became an online editor in Gazeta Wyborcza, and had a weekly column on entertainment websites. In 2008, he turned to digital marketing strategies in advertising and public relations agencies including Grey Group, and later managed internal communications at GE Capital.

In 2010, he joined a international local-search and lead-generation provider — a fancy way of saying he helped yellow pages evolve into something people actually wanted to use to look for SME businesses. Starting as a local project manager, he trained a 30-person team and moved to the company's London headquarters.

In 2012, Marcin managed corporate communication at Bank BPH, then a GE Capital subsidiary, where he led an intranet transformation affecting over 6,000 employees.

Software development

In 2016, he returned to his media roots at Agora, one of Poland's largest multimedia groups. There, he managed mobile app development with a pioneering subscription business model.

After managing mobile loyalty program development, used by a substantial chunk of the country's population to justify their gym memberships, Marcin joined a business travel software company in 2022. There, he owned a mobile environment for a corporate travel management platform serving millions of users across France, Poland, and the United Kingdom.

Simultaneously, Marcin has been also operating independently, delivering project management and product consulting for international enterprises, including a web application transformation, requirements refinement, and product discovery.