Antek Stanislaw Baranski

Current

Technical Director - Development Transformation at Electronic Arts
Founder & Owner at mobex.net

Past

Team Manager / Software Development Process Consultant at Essent Kabelcom
Founder & Owner at OO-consultants
co-Author at European Commission

Senior Consultant at Telelogic
Configuration / Build management consultant at Interpolis
Team Manager / Integrator / Configuration Manager at ISC
Software Configuration & Build Manager at Nokia
Business Development Manager at Sygel Netherlands
Software Development Process Consultant at Dubai Municipality
Software Development Process Consultant at Npol
Founder & Owner at OKC
Principal Architect & Project Manager at NUON
Senior Consultant at Objectivity
Sales Engineer at Norsys
Technical Student at CERN
Software Developer at EMENDO
Technical Student at ESTEC

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Education

Nyenrode Business Universiteit
CERN School of Computing
Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk

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Antek Stanislaw Baranski’s Summary

My primary focus as a professional is to have work that takes me to new places, be it what I do, location or otherwise. I do not shy away from taking a chance with the unknown, although I will calculate the risk before making the jump. To keep the creative juices flowing I like to move around and find new challenges. Doing the same job years on end without change will fixate your mind and deminish creative thinking.

I ran my own businesses from January 2001 till October 2006 when Electronic Arts Canada head hunted me for a position as Technical Director Configuration Management. During my escapades as entrepreneur I've had the occasional setback which cost me dearly and however painful the experience was back then I did learn a lot from it, failure has a nice way of showing you were your limits are. ;)

Today I am a silent partner in a venture in the Philippine city of Cebu which is running along nicely and I am enjoying seeing it grow slowly but steadily. As for my day job I am currently involved in a change management program within EA Canada to change the way that the games are developed, I am currently involved in software architecture, game basekit technologies, SE work flow, build and release management, quality assurance and outsourcing.

What will the future bring? I don't know except that I will return to Europe one day.

Antek Stanislaw Baranski’s Specialties:

• SCRUM, RUP, DSDM, XP, Agile, CMMi, ITIL, Software Configuration/Change Management, Requirements Management, Quality Assuarance, Release Management, Application Lifecycle Management
• Entertainment / Gaming, Finance, Telecom, Bio-Technology, Scientific, ISP e-Business, Law enforcement
• Mentor, Communicator, Motivator, Customer Focused, Enthusiastic, Eager lerner
• English, German, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, French

Antek Stanislaw Baranski’s Experience

Technical Director - Development Transformation

Electronic Arts

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Technical Director - Development Transformation, working on strategic initiatives in outsourcing of software development, software quality assurance and software configuration management.

Technical Director - Basekit Platform, responsible for strategic planning of technology convergence of all game teams within the EA Sports studio.

Previously Technical Director for the Orca CM group (Configuration Management group) of the PlayOne division within EA Sports. As Technical Director I was responsible for the future development of Configuration Management and Build Automation for PlayOne's game titles.

Game title credits:
* FIFA 2009
* EURO 2008
* FIFA 2008
* Champions League 2007
Founder & Owner

mobex.net

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Are you looking for a small or medium size business software solution?

Mobex is a software development company specialising in software solutions for small and medium sized companies using Microsoft's .NET architecture. Mobex's main field of expertise is in ERP & CRM.

Mobex is located in Cebu in the Philippines which gives it access to high potential students from the Cebu University and experienced developers.
Team Manager / Software Development Process Consultant

Essent Kabelcom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

December 2004 — September 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Essent Kabelcom (@Home) is an ISP in the Netherlands where I spent almost 2 years on software development process improvement working as a project manager and process consultant.

Besides my project management activities, I was also responsible for supporting the project with practical knowledge in the field of software development processes (RUP/CMMi), build automation (maven), continous integration (cruisecontrol), CM tools (Telelogic Synergy), RM Tools (Doors), Test Tools (Rational TestManager/TestRobot).
Founder & Owner

OO-consultants

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 9 months)

Professional services company, specialising in Object Oriented software development and software development process improvement.
co-Author

European Commission

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)

co-Author of the book "Europeans on the move, Portraits of 31 mobile workers", ISBN 92-79-02275-X Published by the Office for Official Publications of the European Commission. http://bookshop.europa.eu/eubookshop/FileCache/PUBPDF/KE7606115ENC/KE7606115ENC_002.pdf (page 26)
Senior Consultant

Telelogic

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TLOG; Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 4 months)

Because of my excellent knowledge of several languages and in-depth knowledge of Telelogic’s solutions I was retained by Telelogic to provide pre- and post-sales consulting services for Telelogic in high profile customer engagements and countries where Telelogic didn't have a local presence.

As pre-sales engineer my responsibilities with Telelogic were to present Telelogic’s products to a variety of audiences ranging from engineers to CTO’s & CEO’s. The focus of these presentations was to translate the customer’s needs into solution using Telelogic’s products.

I have also done numerous consulting jobs worldwide for Telelogic, from product installation and trainings to full software development process analysis and implementation.
Configuration / Build management consultant

Interpolis

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

November 2005 — February 2006 (4 months)

At Interpolis, I consulted a “stressed” project that has missed every single deadline for the past 6 months. My main responsibility was to organise and implement the build, integration and release management process in accordance with RUP using the full IBM/Rational Software Suite.
Team Manager / Integrator / Configuration Manager

ISC

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — November 2004 (7 months)

At the Dutch police force I worked on the PSO2 project which was to replace existing criminal investigation applications by the Dutch Police Force with a new J2EE application.

As part of the RUP process implementation I was hired to manage the Integration & Services group consisting of 8 people. The purpose of the Integration & Service group was, to provide the PSO2 project (90 developers) with services in the field of development process, software integration / build / releases management, automation and IBM/Rational tool support.
Software Configuration & Build Manager

Nokia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

October 2003 — April 2004 (7 months)

At Nokia I went back to my technical roots of C/C++ development, although I didn’t write any code myself as configuration and build manager I was closely involved with the developers of a next generation Nokia mobile gaming platform.
Business Development Manager

Sygel Netherlands

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2003 — October 2003 (8 months)

At the end of 2002 I decided to leave OKC and start a new venture and so in March 2003 Sygel Netherlands was founded in Almere (the Netherlands). Sygel is a Belgian company with a revolutionary but simple solution to the most common problems associated with J2EE software applications. In my role as Managing Director, I was responsible for marketing and selling Sygel’s products in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, several factors contributed to the failure of Sygel Netherlands therefore, in October 2003 I decided to terminate Sygel Netherlands.
Software Development Process Consultant

Dubai Municipality

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

July 2003 — September 2003 (3 months)

The Dubai Municipality (DM) contacted me through Telelogic’s distributor in the UAE to help them implement a change and configuration management process for their in-house software development teams. DM had around 80 developers working on a various J2EE and Visual Basic projects that needed to be controlled.

During the 3 months that I spent with DM I helped them transform the software development process for 2 projects from an ad-hoc paper based system to a more streamlined and coherent process using Telelogic’s tools.

My work for DM covered a wide spectrum of software development processes issues ranging from training developers in Telelogic’s tools and making them aware of software configuration and change management, all the way to senior management discussing How-To manages software development efficiently.
Software Development Process Consultant

Npol

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Law Enforcement industry)

January 2002 — February 2003 (1 year 2 months)

In my role as software development process consultant, I was responsible for leading a 2-month evaluation of Rational’s CM Tools & Telelogic’s CM Tools. This evaluation resulted in a recommendation to management on what tool would suite the needs of the Npol organization best.

Based on the evaluation report Npol’s management team selected Telelogic’s CM Synergy line of products. I was then made responsible for leading a team of 7 people to define the software change/configuration processes for the entire organization based on the capabilities of the tools selected.

After the definition of the required process all existing projects were migrate one by one to the new development process. When I left the Dutch police I had educated, mentored and supported over 80 people in the software change/configuration process.
Founder & Owner

OKC

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 11 months)

OKC (Object Knowledge Center) was founded in Stolwijk (the Netherlands) together with 3 good friends. The idea behind OKC was to provide consulting services on cutting edge IT technology.

In 2001 OKC was instrumental in bringing NUON the largest utilities company in the Netherlands to the e-Business market. Within a 6 week timeframe we enabled NUON to provide its existing and new customers with electricity contracts online.

Beginning 2002 OKC expanded into product distribution (OKC-group) signing Europe wide distribution rights with 2 American start-ups (Apalu & TME). Today the OKC-group has contracts with several resellers in Europe who actively sell Apalu and TME products in their countries.
Principal Architect & Project Manager

NUON

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

March 2001 — December 2001 (10 months)

My duties as principal architect and project manager of an 8 people strong development group were to design and oversee the implementation and deployment of a business critical application in a 6-week period.

The application was delivered and commissioned on time and within budget. Because of the development team’s efforts and dedication, NUON achieved its goal of being the first utilities company in the Netherlands to offer electricity contracts to its customers online.

After the initial development, which was a temporary solution, the application was re-written in the second half of 2001 and integrated with NUON's Siebel and SAP backends.
Senior Consultant

Objectivity

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2000 — January 2001 (7 months)

During the 8 months that I worked for Objectivity Inc. I designed and implemented numerous systems in all kinds of industries. I lead the architecture, design and implementation of a great number of projects such as Financial Online Trading Systems, Telecom Network Management Systems, Document Management Solutions, XML Databases, Enterprise CRM Engines, Human Genome Databases, E-Commerce Applications, and Content Management Applications. All these projects were done for large companies all leaders in their markets such as Major Telecom Providers (Telia, e-Plus, KPN, BT), Mobile Infrastructure (Ericsson, Nokia, Nortel, Qualcomm, Alcatel, Siemens, Marconi), Banks (T-MI, Citibank), Pharmaceutical (Astra-Zenica), Scientific (CERN, ESA, ESO) as well as numerous e-Business start-ups and other companies.
Sales Engineer

Norsys

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 1 month)

First job after finishing studies in Sweden. Started out as support engineer, and finished as technical account manager for the nordic countries.
Technical Student

CERN

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

May 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 1 month)

Thesis written: "The quest for elimentary praticles in VLDBs". Performed research into how to retrieve data from extreem VLDBs (100+ PetaBytes).
Software Developer

EMENDO

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1995 — April 1997 (1 year 7 months)

Part time student job, programing Tandem SCREEN COBOL parsers for y2k and € analysis.
Technical Student

ESTEC

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

January 1995 — September 1995 (9 months)

Technical Student