Project Manager
Warsaw Area, Poland
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- Project Manager at EO Networks
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- Release Leader at EO Networks
- Deploy Manager at EO Networks
- Application administrator at Warsaw University of Technology (WSISIZ)
- WWW pages creator at all kinds of companies
- Engineer, system administrator and IT specialist at PZO Microscopes and Medical DevicesLtd.
- IT specialist at Gazeta Studencka
- Software Developer at Red Core Soutions
- Education
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- Politechnika Warszawska
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Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Summary
Planning - Managing - Results - Flexibility
Project Manager with strong engineering background - broad IT knowledge and impressive interpersonal abilities. Heavily focused on delivering best results and always struggles to satisfy all client's needs. Quick learner, constantly eager for new professional challenges. Worked with multilingual and geographicaly spread teams and clients. Practitioner of both Agile/SCRUM and PMI methodologies.
Career Highlights
- 2 years as Project Manager, 6 years in IT overall experience
- proven track of delivering projects on time and within budget
- presented many project's process enhancements which were incorporated in company's environment (i.e. Agile Project Management methodologies in one million PLN sized project and some TQM concepts)
- run projects (as the first in the company) for o2 Germany which resulted in possiblity of getting other, bigger projects in future
- during one year of work re-established very good communication and relations with main client (one of the biggest classified media corporations) which resulted in closer cooperation (multiple projects and offers)
- easily adaptable to new requirements resulting in fast promotions and wider responsibilities - promoted to Project Manager after 12 months of work (from technical position)
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Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Specialties:
Technologies I worked with include:
Java EE, SQL, HTML, UML, XML, Python, Ruby, PHP, C/C++, bash, LaTeX,
Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Squid, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SVN/CVS and general Linux administration
Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Experience
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Project Manager
EO Networks
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
As a Project Manager responsible for navigating IT projects towards successful end, meeting time frames and expectations. Project experience include: online classified media sites, general web portals, backoffice solutions, IT administrative tools and within industries: IT, telecom, finance, insurance and bank.
Tasks include:
- analyzing and planning projects
- managing offers preparation, managing sub-contractors and - legal/law issues during project
- tracking projects progress and reporting (budget, scope, time)
- leading teams, solving their problems, taking care of good communication, motivation and developing new skills
- working with geographicaly spread teams
- supervising younger PMs in their projects
- in other words - having full responsibility for whole project from start to end
Achievements:
- manged to run nearly all projects within budget which resulted in significant revenue for company
- constantly presenting modifications to development and project management processes to enhance them - most of proposals were accepted and proven to be worthy during projects
- build great interpersonal contacts with all clients which resulted in long-term business relationship
- being the only person promoted in short time from technical position to management in the company
- introduced Agile/SCRUM methodologies in the company and incorporated into project management process. Be the first to implement "agile" in real projects as a result -
Release Leader
EO Networks
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2006 — September 2007 (10 months)
As release leader responsible for getting releases on time. This included tasks time estimation (working with developers), scope negotiating, resource allocation, team coordination, tasks progress tracking and daily reporting - with geographically spread teams and clients.
Achievements:
- delivery of all releases on time
- maintained long-term client relationship -
Deploy Manager
EO Networks
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — September 2007 (1 year)
As deploy manager responsible for deploying and administrating JAVA based applications. Tasks were to take care of planning and configuring, installating and upgrading software through development process from developers platforms, integration, testing to production servers - in short, to coordinate whole application deployment process on the technical level. This required good organizational skills, on-time risk foreseeing and handling and also knowledge of Tomcat, Apache, Squid, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SVN/CVS and general Linux administration.
Company's web sites were situated in many european countries and are visted by millions of unique visitors.
Achievements:
- implemented deployment system which was used over a year for several projects
- successfully worked with client's PM, administrators, own programmers and web developers in many releases (team had more than 50 people)
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Application administrator
Warsaw University of Technology (WSISIZ)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; PW; Higher Education industry)
May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)
An application administrator working with a team responsible for creating and managing university management system.
Achievements:
- presented code control system which is still used
- developed package manager implementation which helped to reduce installation time from 3h to 5min.
- redesigned DB clustering system (Perl/C/PostgreSQL solution)
- rewritten university's internal management system in Ruby -
WWW pages creator
all kinds of companies
(Public Company; Myself Only; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
January 2002 — July 2006 (4 years 7 months)
I created many www pages...
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Engineer, system administrator and IT specialist
PZO Microscopes and Medical DevicesLtd.
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
August 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 10 months)
An engeener doing researches in area of electronics and computers on how to improve our products. Also did some IT work.
Achievements:
- designed camera system for medical microscope that has proven to be successful after selling on the market
- successfully organized IT infrastructure
- developed innovative light source for medical microscope (light diode)
- successfully chose power source vendor
- designed TV system for medical microscope
- made company's website
- integrated CMS and CRM into company's infrastructure (third party) -
IT specialist
Gazeta Studencka
(Newspapers industry)
June 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Worked as a WWW pages developer and system administrator.
Achievements:
- won VIII edition of "Grasz o staz" - international contect held by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Gazeta Wyborcza to get job at Gazeta Studencka
- designed intranet system and networking solutions which are still used
- developed couple portals with own CMS, most significantly - newspaper main portal
- developed long-lasting relationship with company which resulted in many years of part time job aftrerwards (remote servers administration) -
Software Developer
Red Core Soutions
(Medical Devices industry)
March 2003 — May 2003 (3 months)
Designed a video surveillance system for a factory which is still used and was extended after couple of years.
Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Education
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Politechnika Warszawska
Mgr inż. , Bioelectronics , 2000 — 2006
My master thesis was "Seanux - remote CCTV monitoring system". I developed mixed hardware-software solution for remote monitoring of (not only) medical facilities and devideces (such as USG, tomographs, etc). Seanux is used in Institude of Radioelectronics at Warsaw University of Technology.
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Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Interests:
Sports: bike riding (track, road, MTB), clasical dancing, hiking, sailing, rock climbing, yachting, skiing, squash, horse riding Music: playing (guitar, ukulele) and listening (alternative, industrial, flamenco, traditional) Photography: nature, animals, portraits Reading books, writing Self-development: trying and learning different things
Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Groups:
Warsaw critical mass.
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E&IT at the Warsaw University of Technology -
European Project Manager -
Kariera Managera - Executive careers in Poland
Krzysztof Kajkowski’s Honors:
Won the VIII edition of "Grasz o staz" international competition. Main prize was a job in Gazeta Studencka.
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