COO & Member of the Board

• Jan 2023 - Present

CEO

• Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

Chief Operating Officer

• May 2021 - Dec 2021

CEO

• Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

Chief Operating Officer

• May 2021 - Dec 2021

Chief Operating Officer

• Mar 2017 - Apr 2021

Overview:Responsible for company management and organization, strategic company growth planning, business opportunities and risk analysis, project’s P&L, as well as legal issues and business contracts negotiation.Responsible for creating new company branches – currently in Silesia.Key duties:- Proactively seeking new business opportunities and maintaining good relationships with existing clients and partners- Negotiating deals and contracts changes- Providing operational reports to members of the board and running meetings- Managing allocation of 35+ developers and optimizing resource allocation within internal teams based on tech and experience for efficiency and profit increase- Seeking opportunities to optimize work process and ensuring that good practices are established within management, organization and development processes area- Delegating and ensuring execution of tasks by team members- Managing day to day operations and 3rd party providers contracts- Creating estimates, business analysis and long-term cooperation offers for clients- Recruiting and managing IT staff- Performing all previous above listed duties as Project Manager, if needed Show less

Project Manager

• Mar 2015 - Apr 2021

Overview:Managing and delivering web projects and audits of client’s mobile/web applications, IT infrastructure, documentation and IT department organization for both foreign and domestic companies with an Agile approach. Leading projects in close collaboration with the development team as Product Owner and Scrum Master.Key duties:- Preparing estimates, timeframes, resources and technology stack requirements, specifications and offers for clients- Analyzing client’s business models, company's processes and requirements- Building and managing clients relationships- Establishing effective project management methodologies and daily project workflow- Deciding on architecture/technology used in projects with Technical Leads- Coordinating activities and communication between clients and developers- Managing risks, resolving issues, blockers and initiating corrective action as appropriate- Acting as software tester in order to boost team efficiency- Solving UX problems- Making progress and financial reports for company departments and clientsKey achievements:Managed long-term project (12+ months) with 7+ developers team for big sports gear wholesaler. The application took the form of an auction site targeted to entrepreneurs within the sports industry. The whole system consists of two separate applications and integrations with external systems (accounting system, banking system, delivery company and online payments). Was responsible, among other things, for creating product vision and roadmap, business architecture, key features, part of designs and analyzing external systems.Managed audit for the big betting operator. The system consisted of multiple integrated application written with many different programming languages, it was poorly documented and was being developed for more than ten years.Methodologies and tools:SCRUM, Kanban, PivotalTracker, Trello, Asana, GitHub, LucidCharts, yEd, Selenium, MS Office, Google Docs, Slack, HipChat and more. Show less

Business Owner

• Feb 2008 - Apr 2021

Overview: Consulting and creative company focused on client’s business development and improvement. Key duties: - Consulting and analyzing client’s business models, company's processes and ideas - Searching for dedicated grants and funding for client’s products and projects - Auditing - Creating business, product and sales strategies - Creating marketing plans and brands visions - Automating and optimizing client’s processes - Creating specification and documentation - Setting up experts teams dedicated to client’s projects, coordinating and managing team day to day work - Infobrokering - Copywriting Key achievements: - Developed dedicated system (CRM integrated with web scraper) for a client from telecommunications for business industry to automate sales process. System implementation effect was a huge optimization which helped my client to become national sales leader within one year after the implementation. - Developed and managed implementation of an educational application for school for disabled children. The application had drag and drop editor for composing music and own OCR system which transformed scanned sheet music into alphanumeric strings readable for disabled children so they can learn music. - Created and implemented whole new corporate identity for a big national property developer. - Created many small business websites, landing pages, corporate identity and e-mail campaigns. Methodologies and tools: Kanban, Waterfall, MS Project, Trello, Asana, yEd, Photoshop, Illustrator, MailChimp, Freshmail, Balsamiq Mockups, HTML/CSS, Wordpress, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Google Docs and more. Show less

Co-founder / Vice-President of the Board

• Dec 2013 - Feb 2017

Overview: Space Saving Furniture company was created to develop new products line for Polish furniture industry. The idea was to develop and sell transforming and modular furniture dedicated to small spaces. Key duties: - Developing and executing market access and growth strategy - Creating company vision, marketing and brand plan - Preparing documentation for grant applications - Proactively seeking partners and designers/engineers to cooperate with - Managing and cooperating with designers and engineers on creating prototypes of new products - Managing day to day operations Show less

Co-founder / Vice-President of the Board

• Jul 2011 - Mar 2014

Overview: The company was created to build an innovative web service which primary purpose was to support pro-social activities while offering benefits to both buyers and sellers affiliated within the service. The idea was to combine e-commerce and CSR and encourage consumers to e-charity giving them own benefits in return. Key duties: - Developing product concept and business model along with creating a business development strategy, analyzing competition, coordinating of marketing strategy and direction of brand development - Creating functional and technical specification of the web service, guidelines for its promotion and directions of feature's development - Scheduling and managing tasks and targets of IT, sales and marketing departments along with day to day supervision and creating reports for stakeholders - Recruiting and managing a team of more than 20 people and coordinating work related to each project area, in particular managing the development, creative and sales team - Creating standards, guidelines and procedures for customer service and customer acquisition Key achievements: - Invented and developed the whole concept and business model of the product. - Acquiring huge investment capital from private Investors for the implementation of the service. - Representing the company and conducting presentations for potential strategic partners, including the heads of the PR and CSR department of TVN, the director of the Polsat TV program, the directors and members of the WP.pl, BZWBK and Oshee boards. - Acquiring and negotiating terms of cooperation with Media Partners, such as TVP, TVN, WP.pl, Gazeta Wyborcza, Radio Katowice and Miasto Kraków. - Together with the sales department signed over 250 commercial contracts before launching the service Methodologies and tools: Agile, Waterfall, MS Project, Redmine, Asana, SugarCRM, MS Office and more. Show less