Szymon Kobalczyk

Current

Owner at KOBUKOM (Self-employed)

Past

Chief Technical Architect at Touch TV Networks
Consultant at Colonial Supplemental Insurance
Senior Software Developer at InterKnowlogy

Project Manager at Software Mind
Trainer at COMARCH SA
Senior Software Developer at Software Mind
Translator at Helion
Senior Software Developer at Apriso

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Education

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie

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Industry

Computer Software

Szymon Kobalczyk’s Summary

Szymon Kobalczyk’s Specialties:

Systems Architecture and Design, User Interface Design, Design Patterns, Project Management, Scrum, .NET Framework, Visual Studio, C#, Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, Ajax, XML, Web Services, SQL Server, Sharepoint, and related technologies.

Szymon Kobalczyk’s Experience

Owner
KOBUKOM (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Independent software developer specializing in .NET technologies and solutions.
Chief Technical Architect

Touch TV Networks

(Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — August 2009 (8 months)

Touch TV Networks, an Issaquah, WA-based company specialized in multi-touch software and hardware platform and solutions, is a pioneer of large format multi-touch kiosks for retail stores, museums, and digital signage industry. Touch TV Networks also develops a multi-touch SDK that developers can use to build engaging multi-touch applications for both Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 platforms.
Consultant

Colonial Supplemental Insurance

(Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Working on 1.5 year long project with the team at Colonial Life to develop a next generation Harmony Offline - WPF application for agent-assisted enrollment. The case study for this project can be seen here http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002535.
Senior Software Developer

InterKnowlogy

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Joined the team building the C-ME solution for TSRI, the leading healthcare research organization in United States. The project is build using new Microsoft technologies including Office SharePoint 2007 and Windows Presentation Foundation. Presently working on other projects for InterKnowlogy.
Project Manager

Software Mind

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — February 2007 (2 months)

Managing sales support projects for key customers in telecomunications industry.
Trainer

COMARCH SA

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

Two week course in programming .NET Web applications for international audience.
Senior Software Developer

Software Mind

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 3 months)

Working as lead programmer in R&D team developing CRM product-line. Design and implementation of baseline architecture for enterprise applications. Focused on SmartClient application for knowledge workers. User interface design and implementation.
Translator

Helion

(Publishing industry)

2000 — 2006 (6 years )

Ocassionally translating and editing IT related books. Some of the books I have translated are Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java", and Jeffrey Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards",
Senior Software Developer

Apriso

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 8 months)

American company based in L.A., California, providing solutions for manufacturing, including real-time production process execution and monitoring, as well as inventory and supply chain management.

Working as senior programmer in polish division of international R&D team. Primary responsibilities include design and development of client user interface for entire suite of applications (Windows, Web, PocketPC). Developed highly efficient module for integration with factory-floor machinery.

Szymon Kobalczyk’s Education

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie

Master of Science , Computer Science , 1997 — 2002

Thesis titled "Knowledge Extraction from Artificial Neural Networks". Received scholarship for academic achievement. Participated in both national and international ACM Collegiate Programming Contests.