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Szymon Nieradka

Executive Management

  • Sienkiewicza 5a/3 71-311 Szczecin (Poland)

Nationality:

szymon@nieradka.net

Work Experiences
04/2011 - Present

Consultant

Self-employed

Many

Consultant working for HP (http://www.hp.com/) and Red-Sky (http://www.red-sky.pl/).

Management of two Red-Sky products. Product management of AngryFile (http://www.angryfile.com/) (B2C Global); Product management of mobile learning solution mKnowHow (B2B PL).

03/2010 - 03/2011

Managing Director

AZ.pl

Domains and hosting provider

AZ.pl is the third biggest domain registrar in Poland with more than 11% of market share. Contributed towards the rise of company\'s market share by 1.4% (second result) in 2010. AZ.pl successfully entered secondary domain market.

I was responsible for whole company but thanks to active management board I was focusing mostly on • new products and services development (new website, drop-catching solution for domainers, new domain market tool, plenty minor changes); • IT administration (company has moved to a new datacenter and redesign completely
hosting architecture, also the biggest servers purchase has been done); • customer service optimization (redesign of help-desk and FI-CO departments, many other outsourcing-based improvements); • implementation of business intelligence tools based on Pentaho

11/2009 - 02/2010

Senior Producer

Vivio World Polska

Mobile and online entertainment

Conducting 10 employees team in startup company from gaming business. During three months of cooperation involved in development of two iPhone titles, Symbian application, Facebook photo browser application and Facebook SIMS-like game. Responsible for whole production, project management, recruitment, cooperation with US customers, subcontracting and company IT strategy.

05/2009 - 10/2009

Director, Sales and Business Development

BLStream

Software and solutions for enterprises

03/2008 - 04/2009

Business Development Manager

BLStream

Software and solutions for enterprises

The acquisition and launch of a long-term cooperation with biggest insurance company in the region. Keeping two other customers.
Developing a partnership with a company with the industry’s new product for the geodesic to perform measurements with the use of mobile devices, and GPS system. Conducting advanced work on two other products for the telco sector.
Active marketing solutions for Google’s corporate clients (GSA). Acquisition of the organization responsible for the development, promotion and sales of all products.
Developing subordinates sales — two direct subordinates.
From February 2009 acting as the company’s marketing manager.

03/2007 - 02/2008

Account Manager

BLStream

Software and solutions for enterprises

Acquiring the first customer from the insurance industry — one of the largest companies in this sector in Europe. Performing a series of several projects during 12 months (the largest lasted 5 months and involved 12 employees).

06/2006 - 02/2007

Project Manager

BLStream

Software and solutions for enterprises

Participating in the project as a project coordinator with the largest mobile telephony operator.
Participating in projects as a technical analyst at entering the market mobile telephony operator.
Carrying out a series of lectures on JEE Szczecin university students (approximately 150 listeners) — JavaOpenSchool project.

03/2006 - 05/2006

Team Leader

BLStream

Software and solutions for enterprises

Participating as Project Manager in HIJA — High Integrity Java European project (6th framework programme). Main goal of this project was to implement a new JVM for networked real-time embedded systems. BLStream role was to identify requirements and validate of ANRTS in flexible dynamic systems involving intelligent portable devices.
Participating other EU project — Mobilife as team leader. MobiLife brought advances in mobile applications and services by innovating and deploying new applications and services based on the evolving capabilities of the 3G systems and beyond.

03/2004 - 02/2006

Chief of Information and Telecommunication Office

Szczecin New Shipyard

Shipyard

Taking over supervision of all means of communication in the company in April 2004. At the same time, the number of subordinate employees in my department had stabilized for 20 people.
In a short period of time the biggest changes in telecommunication in shipyard since last 20 years occurred.
I mean: • exchange of shipyard’s old trucking-radios for mobile phones (including some 550 cameras); • reduction in the average mobile call prices by 40%; • creating semi-automatic system of clearance of private telephone calls; • replacement of two old telephone exchanges by a modern CBX — lowering the purchase of equipment by 70%.

08/2002 - 02/2004

Chief of Information Office (CIO)

Szczecin New Shipyard

Shipyard

Creating a 14 person IT department from a scratch and consistent realisation of new outsourcing-based strategy or IT development (old IT department of collapsed shipyard had more than 100 employees). Over 600 LAN users in more than 20 locations.
Conducting technical supervision over the implementation of Microsoft GreatPlains (formerly Dynamics). It has been implemented in the areas of finance, accounting, warehousing and controlling (a total of 150 users).

03/2002 - 07/2002

Main Information System Specialist

Allround Ship Service

Shipyard

Taking care of entire IT infrastructure in the company. More than 100 network users.
Expansion of the department up to 4 employees.

08/2001 - 02/2002

Database Administrator

Allround Ship Service

Shipyard

Microsoft SQL Server and QNX 4.25 administration. Preparing of multidimensional management reports. Development.

Education and Training
10/2012 - 05/2013

Coaching

Poznan School of Banking

Postgraduate studies

In 2012 started new postgraduate studies — coaching — to learn how to better listen to the people.

10/2010 - 10/2012

Executive MBA

Poznan School of Banking and Aalto University School of Economics

MBA

Master of Business Administration at Poznan School of Banking/Aalto University School of Economics. Specialization: Company Management; Financial Expertise; International Business & Management Issues; Communication and Marketing Skills.

02/2009 - 02/2009

„Google Search Appliance Technical Training”

Google

training

Administration and sales of Google Search Appliance.

07/2008 - 07/2008

„Business to business selling”

Door

training

Business to business selling techniques.

10/2006 - 02/2009

Studies in computer science

Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology

Master of Science

Graduate studies in computer science at Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology. Master of Science title. Final note: A

06/2006 - 06/2006

„Leadership and Values”

Kaj Nordström — futureskills.fi

training

Leadership and Values course 19. - 21.6. 2006. This education was highly valuable on the different roles of a manager, motivation, performance management including project management, leadership challenges in conflict situations, managing customer relations, the need of values in an organisation and their implementation.

10/2005 - 03/2006

Master of Business Administration

University of Szczecin/Manchester Metropolitan University

(not finished)

Master of Business Administration at University of Szczecin/Manchester Metropolitan University

06/2004 - 06/2004

„Design and implementation Information Security Management according to ISO 17799:2003 standard”

ISO standardization company

training

Design and implementation Information Security Management according to ISO 17799:2003 standard

04/2003 - 04/2003

„Design and implementation Quality Management System according to ISO 9000/2000 standards”

ISO standardization company

training

Design and implementation Quality Management System according to ISO 9000/2000 standards

03/2003 - 03/2003

„Software Testing Basic ISEB/ISTQB”

Software Quality Assurance Management — sqam.org

training

Preparing to ISTQB certificate.

06/2002 - 06/2002

„Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database” course (MS2072)

Unizeto

training

Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database

11/2001 - 11/2001

„SAS Data Warehouse and 4GL” course

SAS Institute

training

SAS Data Warehouse and 4GL

10/1999 - 10/2003

Bachelor of Science

Technical University of Szczecin

Studies in computer science

Graduate studies in computer science at Technical University of Szczecin. Bachelor of Science title. Specialization „Information Systems”. Final note: A

Personal Skills
Mother tongue(s)
Other language(s)
  • English
Communication skills
Conducting trainings, lectures and business meetings
Commitment to customer success, very good interpersonal skills
Organisational / managerial skills
Management — over 8 years of experiences with team up to 30 subordinates
Project management — especially using agile methods
Full life cycle software product design, consultancy, QA, documenting and development, especially Enterprise and Mobile Java based solutions
Technical analysis and gathering customer requirements
Technical skills and competences
Sales of IT products, solutions and services
Working knowledge of telco, insurance and hosting sectors, active business development
Data Warehouse, ETL, OLAP: MS SQL Server, Pentaho Kettle, SAS ETL Studio
Very good knowledge of: Java, C++, SQL/TSQL, XML/XSLT, LaTeX
Working knowledge of: C, Python, C#, Perl, PHP, Shell scripts
Database administration: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
OS administration QNX 4.25 and Debian/GNU Linux
Java application server administration: BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat
Other skills and competences
Piano (Roland HP 201)
Windsurfing (Freeride 130l)
Motorcycles (HH 600)
Driving licence
A+B
Additional information
Annexes


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I am an experienced IT manager with strong technical background focused on new technologies.
During last 10 years I was working on variety positions including managing director, project manager, sales manager and CIO. I was working with HP, Google, AXA, Era (T-Mobile), Play and many others.
In mid 2005 (before launch of YouTube!) I created the first in Poland and one of the world\'s first mobile timetable of public transport (J2ME) called Microbus. The application had a total of approximately 100 thousand downloads in my hometown.