Wojciech Szela

Duties:
- re-organization of User Support and Quality Assurance division
- defining and implementing Quality Assurance processes with focus on testing
- defining and implementing user support, quality assurance and development metrics and analysis methodologies
- implementation of Scrum in US/QA division and helping in implementation of the process in other division
- acting as OOA/OOD/OOP mentor (object oriented analysis, design and programming)
- implementation of testing tools basing and industry standards
- training technical staff in the following areas:
- Scrum process
- work planning and time organization
- object oriented programming
- testing

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)

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 e-mail.

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.

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