
Board Representative, Strategic Projects at Gadu-Gadu
Warsaw Area, Poland

Board Representative, Strategic Projects at Gadu-Gadu
Warsaw Area, Poland
10+ year of experience in Internet projects: from perl programming to launching new businesses. Deep knowledge of technologies and business models.
Area of interest:
* Identity management (OpenID and related technologies)
* Social networking and social software, community building
* Widgets, open API's, working towards more interoperable Web
* Microblogging/Lifestreaming
* Polish and worldwide Internet market
* Blogging and on-line journalism
software development, web development, journalism, writing, design, presentations, startups, identity, openid
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
Researching, advising, evaluating, encouraging. Responsible for strategy of developing projects and services according to the long term vision. Still involved in BIip.pl project management.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Architecture, design, user-experience, fund raising for new revolutionary, Twitter-like-but-much-more-immersive service.
Now part of Gadu-Gadu SA
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Identity management:
* OpenID Europe Polish Representative
* Evangelizing OpenID and other user-centric identity technologies to industry, PR activity, lobbing.
* Maintaining the best Polish language source of information about digital identity technologies: Identity20.pl web page. Creating community of people interested in this area.
* Maintaining and developing the first Polish OpenID server: openid.pl. Fund raising so it will always remain a free service.
* Consulting services for companies interested in identity technologies
Consulting
* Research and Consulting services for various customers on Polish Web market
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Supermarkets industry)
June 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 8 months)
Leading Polish weblog covering Web 2.0 and related topics. Trying to balance personal point-of-view with impartial coverage of most interesting trends in Internet industry.
I was recognized as one of the most influential Polish bloggers by Edelman PR (2007) and received honourable mention in Blogroku (Blog of the year) contest for popularisation of blog-writing.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — January 2007 (9 months)
(Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 3 months)
Everything. And all.
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
(Newspapers industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Geology 1990 — 1996
social web, identity, usability, web 2.0, startups
Edelman PR regards me as one of the 10 most influential bloggers in Polish blogosphere.
Honorable mention at BlogRoku 2007 Awards