Wojciech Ptak

Current

• RIA Consultant, Senior Flex Developer and RIA Team Leader at The Ministry of Ideas UK
• Independent RIA Professional at Nordic Network Solutions

Past

• Senior Flex Developer at Making Waves
• IT Training at PrivatMegleren AS Norge (Trondheim)
• IT Engineer at ComputerLand Poland

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Wojciech Ptak’s Summary

Flash platform development and consulting:
- Experienced in Flash + ActionScript 1-3
- Experienced in Flex w/WebServices, Flex Data Services, Flash Remoting etc.
- Experienced in developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Adobe AIR (formerly Adobe Apollo)
- Experienced in Flex Architecture Frameworks: Swiz, Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate
- Acquainted with Flash 3D (Papervision 3D, Away 3D)
- Experienced with AS3 TDD (FlexUnit, FlexMonkey)
- Experienced with rich mapping solutions

Fluency with:
- OOAD
- Design Patterns
- UML
- B2B Applications Design and Development

Publications:
- Articles covering Flex Mapping Applications and MVC Cairngorm Framework in Software Developers Journal July 2008

Awards for Flex applications:
- Webby Awards Honoree (Interactive Advertising/Business to Consumer) for Vattenfall Home Energy Calculator made within Making Waves, April 2008
- "Innowacja Roku 2008" ("Innovation of the Year 2008") by Polish Business Forum for Vattenfall Home Energy Calculator made within Making Waves, January 2009

Extra:
- Certificate in Advanced English
- snowboard above all sports
- love mountains, espacially polish ones
- experienced photographer

"I love working with the best, clients that knows what they want and require it. It makes you work even harder as expectations are really high. In such conditions I am able to create unique solutions. I have pleasure to work with Coca Cola HQ in Atlanta, Heineken EU, Adidas UK, BT Agilemedia UK, HSBC UK, Bols Liqueurs NL and many more. Those kind of brands make me proud of what I achieved."

Wojciech Ptak’s Specialties:

Flex, RIA, AIR, Apollo, Actionscript, MXML, WebServices, Blaze DS, LiveCycle ES, FlashRemoting, AJAX, Silverlight, Swiz, Cairngorm, FlexUnit

Wojciech Ptak’s Experience

• RIA Consultant, Senior Flex Developer and RIA Team Leader

  The Ministry of Ideas UK

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Responsible for coordinating RIA team, Adobe platform solutions consulting and creating B2B RIA applications for high profile brands across US and EU.
  
  Key Clients:
  - BT Agile Media, UK,
  - Adidas, UK,
  - Coca Cola, UK & US,
  - T-Mobile, UK,
  - Heineken, UK,
  - Lucas Bols (liqueurs), NL,
  - Douwe Egberts, NL,
  - UPC, EU,
  - Absolut, SE,
  - British Petroleum (BP), UK,
  - Ferrero Rocher, NL,
  - Desso, NL,
  - Cardinal Security, UK.

• Independent RIA Professional

  Nordic Network Solutions

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  - RIA consultancy
  - Flex and Adobe AIR development
  - RIA trainings and projects supervising
  
  Key Clients:
  - HSBC (UK, Forbes #5) - RIA (AIR) dev & consultancy
  - Adidas (UK & DE, Forbes #795) - RIA (AIR) dev & consultancy
  - Heineken (US & UK, Forbes #522) - RIA (AIR) dev & consultancy
  - Coca Cola (US & UK, Forbes #155) - RIA dev
  - British Telecom (UK, Forbes #161) - RIA (AIR) dev & consultancy
  - PrivatMegleren A/S (Norway) - RIA dev & consultancy

• Senior Flex Developer

  Making Waves

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

  March 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  - Senior Flex developer
  - Rich Internet Applications Consultant
  
  Clients:
  - Vattenfall Europe (Forbes #462) - RIA dev & consultancy
  - StatoilHydro Norway (Forbes first 50) - RIA dev
  - Secondbrain AS Norway - RIA dev & consultancy
  - Making Waves AS Norway - RIA consultancy
  - Skald Project Pilot Norway - RIA dev
  - FinansForbundet Norway - Flash dev

• IT Training

  PrivatMegleren AS Norge (Trondheim)

  (Real Estate industry)

  July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)

  - Flash platform developer

• IT Engineer

  ComputerLand Poland

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; CPU; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2002 — June 2006 (3 years 9 months)

Additional Information

Wojciech Ptak’s Websites:

• My Blog

Wojciech Ptak’s Interests:

flash, flex, ria, web2.0, actionscript, new technologies, photography, mountains, snowboard, bike