Poland
Experienced, highly technical, IT business development hunter and executive manager in software development, security and networking areas. Acquired, participated and directly managed multiple world scale software projects. I stand firmly on two legs: * very strong technical background * business development and strategy skills Business: international sales; product definition; new markets opening; sales team building & management; US and EU markets. Technology: software & network security including cryptography; software development and design; sharp knowledge of C, Python and Go; seasoned LINUX professional (20+ yrs); network design. In the past strongly connected with open source movement: Gentoo Linux developer, Spamassassin, Plone and others.
COO, Senior Vice President of the Management Board responsible for most of operational functions at Ailleron S.A. (former Software Mind).
* worldwide software outsourcing sales and delivery management * substantial revenue growth in three years * direct sales execution and sales team management
* Responsible for European and PL sales * Concentrating on IT services plus telecommunications sector * Did business with T-mobile, Polkomtel, Orange, Play - all major polish GSM operators. * Achieved 20% EBIDTA (highest among all Software Mind PL units)
* Changed my technical career into sales and management path. * Responsible for three (I acquired two) biggest Software Mind customers (40% revenues) * Achieved average 20..40% year by year BU growth
Chief Technology Officer including software development team management. I was responsible for every IT product delivered by WebService to our customers. I also took active role in analysis and design stages for bigger projects.
This position was eight years of hard technical work in software development and network&system engineering (unix). It created priceless experience and rock solid technical basis for rest of my career. I designed and builded form scratch (later managed) local Internet Service Provider. I was responsible for administration of UNIX servers cluster (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and network equipment configuration and mgmt. I was a lead designer and software developer responsible for design and implementation of complex burglar surveillance software system (to automatically gather and process data from SOHO security systems). System is used still after 15 years (2014) in many locations in private and public agencies (Police stations, Security companies, etc.) as a 24x7x365 solution handling large data volumes (TB).