Wojciech Szela

Current

Owner at Uslugi Informatyczne - Wojciech Szela (Self-employed)

Past

Lead of User Support, Quality Assurance and Testing Division at Tuenti Technologies S. L.
Project Manager at Kreolabs Sp. z o. o.
Project Manager, PHP Developer at Kenig Spedition

PHP Developer at Intituto Valenciano de Vivienda
Freelancer (Self-employed)
Volunteer at EtobRes Rzeszów
Freelancer (Self-employed)
Volunteer at VIA - Katolickie Radio Rzeszów
Scholar at Direct Training Services
Volunteer at InfoRes Rzeszów

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Education

Politechnika Rzeszowska im. Ignacego Lukaszewicza
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
High School of Electronics

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Wojciech Szela’s Summary

Consultant, Project Manager, Quality Assurance Specialist and Applications Designer.

Areas of expertise:
- quality assurance in software development
- testing
- project management and modern project management methodologies, specialized in Scrum
- scalable webbased application and webservices architecture and development
- software engineering
- object oriented programming
- strong PHP programming knowledge
- startups

My usual tasks and goals I am contracted are analysis and implementation of processes and tools for improvement of quality and productivity. I have also found myself very good in training and coaching - in KreoLabs I was the first manager to work with new developers, especially for entry level jobs.

I am also a bit active in Open Source world. Mostly as bug reported (including patches). Open source project I am working at the moment is Zend_Chart component proposal for Zend Framework. I am the leader of Zend_Chart team.

Wojciech Szela’s Specialties:

Development processes and methodologies with focus on Scrum, project management, teaching and coaching, software engineering, software design.

Wojciech Szela’s Experience

Owner
Uslugi Informatyczne - Wojciech Szela (Self-employed)

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

November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

I have been working on many projects in different fields, ranging from LANs design, building and administration (for example LAN of High School of Economics in Rzeszów), through outsourcing consulting and development services (for example through rentacoder.com) to development of own small projects – open source tools, frameworks, hobby websites.

If you are interested in my consulting services, please send me an "InMail".
Lead of User Support, Quality Assurance and Testing Division

Tuenti Technologies S. L.

(Internet industry)

April 2008 — February 2009 (11 months)

Duties:
- implementation of quality assurance and testing processes as a part of implementation of SCRUM methodology (I am not responsible for overall implementation of SCRUM process in Tuenti, only for quality assurance and tests)
- as one of two team members experienced in Scrum, mentoring and controlling of Scrum implementation in the company (reporting to person responsible for overall Scrum implementation about successes and failures of teams and team members)
- implementation of testing environment
- training developers in writing use cases and automated tests, object oriented programming
- helping in site development (data partitioning, bugfixes etc.)
Project Manager

Kreolabs Sp. z o. o.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Design and development management of browser based applications (PHP4, PHP5, Ruby) and tools/daemons for key clients
Daily contacts with client representatives
Taking part in recruitment process and constant improvements of internal development process
Co-workers training and attracting new clients (occasional)

Example applications:
- webbased application for gathering (through API) and analysis (volumes, trends) of eBay transactions – around 300 000 API calls per day
- other eBay API based adhoc distributed tools, up to 1 200 000 API calls per day
- environment for extraction, transformation and analysis of large volumes of html documents
- webbased mass AdWords negative keywords management and synchronization tool (currently covers more than 700 AdWords accounts, around 8000 keywords each)
- websites (wayout.com – social networking site written in Ruby on Rails, reallyps3.com, wiifind.co.uk – blog and community sites, yeego.com – large hotel booking site)
Project Manager, PHP Developer

Kenig Spedition

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

May 2005 — January 2006 (9 months)

My task was to bring know-how on webbased applications development, analyse and help in refactoring of large in-house developed, webbased application for managing all types of company activities (invoicing, warehousing, transport, human resources etc.), train lead developer in modern design of webbased applications and build base of new Intranet having same functionality and lots of enhancements, for example synchronization with IKEA transport orders system, semi-automatic orders analysis and management, geo-location tracking. The client itself is large and one of the fastest growing transport and shipping company in Poland, main shipping services provider for IKEA Poland and Renault Truck Poland.
PHP Developer

Intituto Valenciano de Vivienda

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

March 2004 — September 2004 (7 months)

Design and development modules of company Intranet basing on requirements of representatives of particular IVVSA departments.
Bringing web and document related knowledge (structured documents, JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX, automatic text analysis)
I had some responsibility on choosing technologies used in Intranet development, occasional, short co-workers trainings, development of internal framework
Freelancer

Self-employed

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

August 2003 — December 2003 (5 months)

I was designing, building and administrating small LANs and Linux boxes.
Volunteer

EtobRes Rzeszów

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

June 2003 — July 2003 (2 months)

I had to find possibilities of running up and/or porting employe's applications to Linux environment, debug these applications and help in designing and building local area networks.
Freelancer

Self-employed

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

September 1999 — May 2003 (3 years 9 months)

I have been working on many projects in different fields, starting from LANs design, building and administrations (my first commission - to create LAN for High School of Economy in Rzeszów), through programming (PERL, PHP, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, web design) to even messenger.
Volunteer

VIA - Katolickie Radio Rzeszów

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

May 1999 — October 1999 (6 months)

I was recording my own audition.
Scholar

Direct Training Services

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

March 1999 — April 1999 (2 months)

Leonardo da Vinci scholarship holder. Office work.
Volunteer

InfoRes Rzeszów

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

October 1998 — November 1998 (2 months)

I was a volunteer in hardware repair and LAN management department.

Wojciech Szela’s Education

Politechnika Rzeszowska im. Ignacego Lukaszewicza

MSc. , Informatics , 2000 — 2005

I was representing Univeristy in National Programming Contest in year 2002 and 2003.

Activities and Societies:

Kolo Naukowe Informatykow Politechniki Rzeszowskiej (Group of Computer Scientists of Rzeszow Univeristy of Technology)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Informatics, Business 2004 — 2004

Socrates scholarship.
High School of Electronics

Technician , Computer technology , 1995 — 2000

Additional Information

Wojciech Szela’s Interests:

new technologies, PHP, RAD, OOP, ORM, modern programming techniques, modern management methodologies (eg. Scrum), investing, stock, forex, statistics, AI, ballroom dancing, skiing, movies (classics),