Development Director at Gratka Sp. z o.o. and Owner, Roomauction.com Ltd
Gdańsk Area, Poland
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- Development Director at Gratka Sp. z o.o. (www.gratka.pl)
- Owner at Roomauction.com Ltd
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- Project Manager at Engine Sp. z o.o. (www.engine.pl)
- Deputy General Manager at Rising Sun Hotel
- Front of House Manager at Washbourne Court Hotel
- Education
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- Uniwersytet Gdanski
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Boleslaw Drapella’s Summary
Experienced project and business development manager. Online entrepreneur specialising in classified, tourism and hospitality industry.
Boleslaw Drapella’s Specialties:
Project Management, Business Development, Online Marketing, SEO, SEM, photography, hospitality, online tourism industry, classified industry
Boleslaw Drapella’s Experience
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Development Director
Gratka Sp. z o.o. (www.gratka.pl)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Strategic business development, new products implementation and growth, activities concentrated on increasing website’s range and targeted quality traffic; coordinator of a team of Product and Project Managers; creating and implementing company’s marketing and development strategy. Gratka.pl is a leader of Polish Classified online industry has over 4,000,000 unique users each month (source: Gemius Traffic) and close to 3 000 000 classified ads (Real Estate, Automotive, Jobs, Tourism & more).
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Owner
Roomauction.com Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)
Founder and owner of a British company that promotes over 200 hotels online by providing a unique system of bidding on room rates. System has been praised by prestigious The Times newspaper as well as many other leading titles (more on www.roomauction.com/media)
Main responsibilities:
• Company management
• Designing and coordinating further development of the system
• Marketing of the whole company, to include online promotion and PR. Also includes monitoring of success rate and conversions of all marketing activities
• Cooperation with hotel’s managers and marketing directors for hotel groups.
• Coordination of an international team based in USA, UK, India and Poland
• All financial and legal issues related to running a company in UK -
Project Manager
Engine Sp. z o.o. (www.engine.pl)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Within the company I am coordinating projects for a key Client, PTC Sp. z o.o. (owner of Heyah brand – telecom industry). Leading a team of twenty I have completed a complete new website for the major Polish mobile operator. Technologies used were: flash, ajax, xml, php, javascript and html.
Other, selected duties within the agency:
• Online marketing camgaings – banners, top-layers, non-standards, xhtml, site-branding and landing pages
• Viral marketing – our last application has been viewed by over 250k unique visitors
• Training for Clients on company’s CMS
• PR activities
• Meetings with Clients
• Recruiting and Internal training of new employees
• Internal projects – CRM, communication, time & quality management
I am also a part of teams serving other clients i.e.: BMW Polska & dealers, Dr Oetker, Multimedia Polska S.A., GE Money Bank, Clear Channel, Americanos ors US Pharmacia. -
Deputy General Manager
Rising Sun Hotel
(Hospitality industry)
February 2004 — December 2004 (11 months)
Main responsibilities:
• Day to day managing of reception, reservation and housekeeping departments
• Smooth running of the hotel, especially in the accommodation part
• Achieving and exceeding sales goals
• Maximization of hotel’s occupation
• Setting and maintaining high levels of quality of all hotel services
• Acting on behalf of General Manager in his absence
• Recruitment and training of employees, organising HOD meetings
• Business clients relations, receptions, events coordination (weddings, conferences)
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Front of House Manager
Washbourne Court Hotel
(Hospitality industry)
October 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 5 months)
ummary of duties and responsibilities:
• ensuring smooth day-to-day running of Reception
including Reservations (also group bookings), dealing with all guests requirements
• maximise occupancy levels
• maintain and exceed budgeted average room rates (A.R.R)
• recruitment and training of all Front Office staff
• attending HOD meetings
• deputising for General Manager in her absence
Boleslaw Drapella’s Education
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Uniwersytet Gdanski
MA , Marketing , 2000 — 2006
NVQ Level 3 (equivalent to BA) in Hospitality Supervision - UK
BA in Marketing - University of Gdańsk
MA in Marketing - University of Gdańsk
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Boleslaw Drapella’s Interests:
effectiveness of online advertising, photography, hospitailty industry, awaiting 2nd child (ETA early Jul 2009)
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