Marek Bukowy

Design and development of a ERP data analysis web application

Technologies: Linux, Grails, Java, Groovy, MySQL, HTML, CSS, javascript, jQuery

Performing CTO function for FRU.pl and Vola.ro.
* Design and development of air travel reservation system.
* Definition and oversight over implementation of automated testing facilities.
* Establishing of development and production environments.
* Introduction of task tracking methodology and tools.
* System administration, performance improvements.
* Definition and implementation of innovative product features.

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, JavaEE, Tomcat, Spring, XML, networking, sh, perl.

The customers have been recognized as the main category winner (vola.ro) and #6 Rising Star (fru.pl) in 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe ranking.

Responsible for product development, project management and transitional activities:

* reporting to top management
* ideation of services/products - vision statements; functional requirements; project budgeting, service market research, making customer proposals
* formalizing criteria for acceptance testing
* customer support; assembling user and system documentation
* human resources involvement
* EU-funding research and coordination
* participating in patent application creation and prior art searches
* office management responsibilities

2003-2005 manager, Shopping and Pricing
• managing a growing group of 12 to 40 individuals in a matrixed environment
• leading recruitment activities for the group and the office
• fulfilling the HR duties for the group
2005 manager, ATSE v1
• managing U.S. and Poland based resources
• overseeing delivery of projects critical to U.S. domestic Air Shopping
2006 manager, Air Connectivity
• building out global team by applying knowledge management processes
• managing U.S. and Poland based resources remotely (time shared between the PL and U.S. offices)
• overseeing delivery of projects critical to Sabre’s TN and AS businesses
• implementing efficiency measurement targets, redefining strategy for the group

Lead Software Developer - Sabre, non-air Content.

November 2002 - March 2003

Led the team of developers of the Merchant Hotel system
(Java, Oracle, C++).
Led the effort on hotel internationalization, including language and currency enhancements. Led maintainance and enhancements of the Sabre Exclusives and Merchant Model Hotel applications, including stability improvements to a third-party Edifact handler; ensuring stability and high quality of the ongoing operations.

Piloted process improvements for the MTS development group – reorganized the environments and promotion rules, championed the introduction of a coding standard and a continuous integration environment, including regression and database-bound unit tests.

Lead Software Developer, Sabre OTS

January 2002 – November 2002 ( 11 months)

Refined private fares support further, providing user support tools for data troubleshooting and verification.
Implemented and further improved Stadaf processing in a replatformed Res 3.0 application specifically focusing on:
*plentiful option search and rule validation,
* removal of thread-unsafe dependencies,
* Improvements to Stadaf 1.1 routing parser, introducing a regression test mechanism.
* led analysis of the stadaf interpretation, working with third party consultant and taking part in a Stadaf committee meeting.

Nov 2002 - Improved stability of a C++ MATIP gateway application by removing memory leaks and building in online diagnostic capabilities, enabling constant monitoring and troubleshooting in a live application.

Developer, Sabre OTS

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2001 – December 2001 ( 11 months)

• working on the IBE projects for Karavel and generic .Res product
(JAVA, VB, MS SQL, Oracle)
Customized flow and layout of a standard booking engine to customer requirements.
Supported transition to Euro currency.
Improved diagnostic capabilities of the application enabling effective troubleshooting.
Changed and automated deployment procedures by integrating multiple CVS sources, thereby eliminating tedious and error-prone process.
Made improvements to IT infrastructure in the office: overseeing communications with network suppliers, setting up ISDN backup routing on CISCO IOS, championing connectivity solutions for effective development.

Database Software Engineer of the RIPE Network Management Database (whois Routing Registry) – a mission critical on-line system serving mainly Europe and surrounding areas, containing over 5,000,000 records, responding on average to 750,000 queries and processing over 40,000 updates daily

• monitoring the operations of the database systems
• analyzing and improving system performance
• maintaining the existing code
• designing and coding parts of the database’s reimplementation project
• responding to user questions and requests
• created a part of the documentation
• involved in the developments at the database & routing working groups of RIPE

Online expert for the Backing Calorimeter of the ZEUS experiment. Responsible for the overall performance of the $5,000,000 system of 2000 analog and 40,000 digital signal sources, 42 interconnected data acquisition T800 transputer processors controlled by AXP/VMS and MVME147/OS-9 control systems.
• maintained and developed the data acquisition and control systems
• identified and solved hardware and software problems
• 24/7 availability on an emergency trouble-shooting basis
• analysed the systems’ performance using existing and self-developed tools
• Managed OS-9 and Open VMS machines
• Coordinated work of short-term contract engineers and programmers