Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Always with the customer in mind and creating value, my passion is innovating science, creating greenfield software and high performance applications across life-cycle product and program management. Over 15+ years leading customer engagement from pre-sales consultancy to strategic account planning and software program management supporting Europe’s leading consumer and fuel retailers across EMEA. Leadership of experienced software engineers, QA specialists, business analytics and project management and delivering agile team trainings to impact growth. Full P&L management of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) EMEA. ◆ Accredited with a top 100 most important world astrophysics discovery in 2001. ◆ Pioneer of ground breaking software innovations such as controlling surveillance cameras through ATM application, use of vein biometry for ATM customer authorization. ◆ Professional Excellence and Best Employee Company Awards. ◆ Retail Expo Key Note Presenter Native Polish, fluent in English and French Key Skills: Agile Project Management, SCRUM, Bullet Proof Manager, Java Spring Framework, C# .NET, Fortran, C++, Linux Drivers, Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, Swift, iOS, Neural Networks
I design, manage development and own the life and use guidelines of new software products. My products support key IT management activities in whole organization. I use old-school programming products as well as low-code automation techniques with state of the art tools like UIPath, UI.Vision etc to make the use of my tools more effective and decrease time-to-market.
Supporting EMEA Country Leaders and providing strategic account management of major European retail and fuel customers across EMEA. P&L management and leadership of experienced software engineers, QA specialists, business analysts and project management teams. ► Secured the roll-out and bespoke development of C# application interfacing with native Windows POS resulting in triple digital M$ revenue. ► Developed the Centre of Excellence EMEA to become the go-to partner of choice for EMEA Country Leaders and external partners with the most cost effective, highest quality assured, client satisfied product development and high performance applications, pilot testing, product roll-out, customer training and support. ► Secured $100K in financing and set-up a laboratory showcasing the latest software and hardware devices for demonstrating and testing – a strong contributor to pre-sales consultancy and sale wins in EMEA. ► Track record of extending base software applications with additional functionalities creating customer value for local market needs across EMEA. ► Rolled-out the development and training of satellite software consultancy and engineering team in Israel developing market-specific software modifications for 10 customer pilot tests.
Delivering strategic product development and management to support the growth of the Retail Division EMEA while securing the department financing through project participation. P&L management and leading teams of experienced software engineers, QA specialists, business analysts and project managers. ► Developed the only shared services Centre of Excellence in the Company globally now responsible for 50 annual consultancy and bespoke software development projects in EMEA. ► Secured the first international project win with a major DACH retailer leading to significant increases in change requests and maintenance releases as well as securing financing for the department operations. ► Recruited and trained new hires to secure major fuel retail accounts in Poland as well as support for US projects. ► Developed and delivered Agile Team trainings - a key contributor to the teams’ international success.
Team leadership and supporting pre-sales and application development for finance and retail in Poland and point of contact for Sales and local market Project Managers. ►Created ground breaking software innovations such as controlling surveillance cameras through ATM application, use of vein biometry for ATM customer authorization. ►Presentations and ATM custom configurations for demonstration of greenfield projects, Proof of Concepts at national industry conferences such as Retail Expo 2010-2013 and for Company European Roadshow 2010. ►Innovator of cutting edge software development to remotely trigger bespoke and custom ATM monitoring and maintenance functionalities and customer engagement at ATMs leading to advertising revenues and adapted by large banks across Poland. ► Winner of Professional Services Quarterly Excellence Award and Polska Award for Best Employee. ► Led deep Linux system changes for customers to minimize energy consumption and ensure POS peripherals work with various system distributions.
Designed and developed a universal tool dedicated to heavy numerical simulation for the financial markets mainly written in C++.
Teaching students during doctoral studies while continuing with research studies for published Thesis of oscillations of solar-lie stars at the Institute of Astronomy at Faculty of Physics: ►Part of a 3 year mentoring programme for French and Polish PhD students working 50/50 between France and Poland. ►Built software for meteor data collection for the local meteor observatory. ►Writing and editing popular science articles for publishers DeAgostini and Wydawnictwo Naukowo-Techniczne.