Profile

Relevant commercial experience

May 2008 – permanent Avanti PLC, Satellite Applications Consultant
Avanti is a British satcom operator providing rural broadband and value added services (internet continuity, femtocell satellite backhaul) to EMEA markets. Avanti also offers space and satellite applications consultancy to DoD, EU/EC, ESA and a broad range of commercial partners.

I joined Avanti as a special projects consultant to provide expertise externally and internally within the consultancy, space and operations departments. I was accountable for creating my own work, looking for new projects, and writing business proposals. My role also included selection and recruitment of new IT developers. I managed projects of up to 5 people.

Achievements

• Regulatory & frequency coordination support for GEO orbital slot acquisition strategy
• Reverse engineering of satellite payload designs (antennas, coverages)
• Input to various broadband market analysis publications
• Development of spotbeam designer for design and optimisation of geostationary satellite coverages and simulating alternative missions for existing satellites
• Architecture & design of software systems used in newly built Satellite Ops Centre (SOC)
• Technical lead & architect of CTSP: £900k work package being the core of £8m TANGO Project. CTSP provides unified platform for selection, procurement and provisioning to FCAPS management of satcom services used by GMES during emergency relief.
• Winning and leading a £50k business development extension to TANGO project.
• Architectural changes (scalability and external interfaces) to broadband OSS necessary to transition Avanti from satcom VNO reselling leased capacity to satellite ISP acting as wholesale bandwidth provider.
• Architecture of a system processing and disseminating transport & safety data of freight operations in the North Sea region (£650k part of €4.9m EC funded NS FRITS project).
• ESA study under ARTES1 on satcom solutions for Arctic Region Air Traffic Management and Northern Sea Route. Architecture of system for visualisation of GIS data.
• IET satellite communications training at Surrey University

Technologies used

• Java EE (GWT, Spring, Hibernate, Google App Engine)
• LAMP (Drupal, PHP5, CURL, MySQL)
• Web (JQuery, Google Maps API)
• Web Services (Axis2, CXF, WS-Security, SOAP, REST)
• GIS (WorldWind, GeoTools)
• Graphics (Swing, Java 3D, JOGL)
• Data (MySQL, BigTable, Google Storage for Developers)
• Modeling (Matlab, Mathematica, GRASP)

Oct 2006 - Feb 2008 Syndatis, Research & Development Lead
Syndatis specialises in enterprise business processes management and automation. They supply solution for large organisations relying heavily on accounting (reporting, invoicing, ordering) and administration (legal documentation, team coordination) tasks.

I was placed as head of research & development to develop new product line using latest technologies (AJAX, GWT, .NET).

Achievements

• New product: web based CRM / BPM with fully AJAX user interface (GWT). I’ve designed and developed a prototype and supervised the first commercial implementation for a large (35k+ new documents / month) corporate client Empik Group, and further implantations for Merck & Co., Abbott, Pfizer.
• Trainings reservation system for Ernst & Young. Rapidly developed project, set to explore new markets using Microsoft's technologies and to build company's portfolio. I was responsible for system architecture, streamlining of the user interface, data modelling and development of the reporting logic.

Technologies used

• Java EE (Velocity, Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat 5.5)
• Web (GWT 1.4, Javascript, CSS)
• Workflow process automation
• .NET 2.0 (C#,  AjaxToolkit, Visual Studio 2005)
• Source code management (SCC, CVS)
• RDBMS (Oracle 9, MS SQL 2005, ADO, Stored Procedures) 

May 2005 - Oct 2006Wind Telecom, Java web-services Architect

Wind Telecom is the leading developer and integrator of value added communications systems in the mobile segment. They are three-times winner of Deloitte and Touch ranking for the most dynamically developing companies from Eastern and Central Europe within 2004-2006.

I was placed as a web-services architect working on high throughput real-time critical software for two major Polish GSM operators (ERA and PLAY). I also worked as a consultant on user experience design and managed 3rd party subcontractors developing the front-end.

Achievements

• Call Setup Announcement. (CSA) - £2M system allowing users to substitute the standard ring-back tone with a custom one. My role was to design and develop the external ICD for WWW, WAP & IVR Interfaces and implement the business logic behind it. I also developed the database replication logic and asynchronous SMS probes, debugged the operational system and provided first line of support.

• NME/MCN- £1.3M system capturing unsuccessful call setup attempts directed to the subscribers who didn't activate their voice mail or who were temporarily unavailable to the network and back-notifying both calling parties via SMS messages. My role was to develop the external ICD and implement business logic behind it and also to develop the probes collecting and redistributing confirmation messages.

Technologies used

• Java EE (Tapestry, Spring, Tomcat, Hibernate)
• Oracle 9g, XMLRPC,
• Solaris, Windows Server 2003
• database replication & server clustering
• Failover solutions, load balancing, 
• Multithreading, real-time & high availability
• web server and application server load balancing

Sep 2004 – May 2005Plum Web Solutions Limited, E-commerce Developer

On the position of greenfield developer, my role spanned wide range of tasks from software development to proposal preparation, liaison with the client and participation in contract negotiations to procurement of hosting services. I also decided on our technology choices, designed architecture of systems and managed 2 developers.

Achievements:

• Art gallery website Flying Gallery
• Corporate website for BDO - world's fifth largest accountancy network.
• E-Commerce website for Carrefour – international supermarket chain.
• Taxi fleet management system for a major operator in Warsaw

Sep 2003 - April 2004Boston Consulting Group, Business planning officer
Lead a small team (4 people) preparing CFA study for solvent β-carotene extraction from carrots (patented technology and process).

• I directed the course of the study, assigned tasks to team members and made strategic decisions. I also quality checked and compiled the documentation from parts submitted by the rest of the team.

• My individual task were to understand the business case for the technology, analyse efficiency and cost of operation, then find the optimal production scale in current market conditions. I’ve also performed the market study & SWOT/TOWS analysis.

• The project won first prize in Creative student competition, and ended in a round of money rising presentations to VC investors.

May 2003 - Sep 2004 Faculty of Physics,Modern cosmologyresearch fellowship

• I conducted an international research project in collaboration with prof. Z.A. Lalak (University of Warsaw, PL) and prof. M. Lola (University of Patras, GR) in the area of early hot universe, inflation theory, phenomenology of elementary particles and large structure formation which resulted in a high energy physics publication.

• I looked for and analysed scenarios in which dark matter density fluctuations would influence large scale structure formation in the early Universe in a way consistent with models based on WMAP measurements.  To achieve this, numerical simulations of non-equilibrium phase transitions of a semi-classical scalar field immersed in expanding post-inflationary FRW Universe were performed.

• I’ve identified parameters and initial conditions leading to creation of domain-wall network persisting long enough to significantly contribute to angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and galaxy clustering processes while being in agreement with the experimental results from WMAP satellite.

2003 – Stock Market Trader (private account)

Over the years, I’ve educated myself financially and developed a successful trading strategy.

Achievements

• discovering key influence factors for a particular industry
• interpreting RNS
• performing independent corporate valuation
• picking companies most likely to succeed

Formal Education

2009 – 2009 IET Satellite Communication Systems, University of Surrey, UK

2005 –2006 Actuarial & Financial Instruments, University of Warsaw, MIMUW

1999 –2004 Masters of Physics, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics

• Specialisation in cosmology, Big Bang theory & large scale structure formation.
• Thesis: „Non-equilibrium phase transitions in post inflationary Universe"

2001 –2005Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Warsaw, MIMUW

• Specialisation in IT projects management, GUI usability, data distribution services
• Thesis: „State synchronisation Over ad hoc P2P Network"

1995 –1999 Scientifically gifted youth High school, XXVII LO Kochanowskiego