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Submitted by Wojtek Biela on Thu, 2006-09-14 21:53.


Wojciech Stanislaw Biela
Born: 02 May 1980, Lublin, Poland
Citizenship: Polish
Place of residence: Warsaw, Poland
E-mail: wojciech {[a.t.]} biela.pl
Telephone: (+48) 607066839 (mobile)
Skype ilfrin


EDUCATION
October 1999 - July 2005 Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Major: Computer Science Specialisation: Software Engineering Profiles for Diploma: Internet technologies, e-business technologies, security and data protection, databases.
October 2000 - October 2002 University of Wroclaw, Poland
Major: Philosophy (suspended)
September 1995 - June 1999 II Jan Hetman Zamoyski High School, Lublin, Poland
profile: mathematics-physics


EXPERIENCE
June 2010 - until now Istima Sp. z o.o. (www.istima.pl ), Warsaw, Poland
CEO, co-owner
May 2008 - May 2010 EMPIK sp. z o.o. (www.empik.com), Warsaw, Poland
Head of software development of empik.com, architect
April 2007 - August 2008 ExOrigo sp. z o.o. (www.exorigo.pl), Warsaw, Poland
software development manager, agile evangelist, J2EE developer
February 2006 - April 2007 ExOrigo sp. z o.o. (www.exorigo.pl), Warsaw, Poland
consultant, agile evangelist, coach, J2EE developer
April 2004 - January 2006 ExOrigo sp. z o.o. (www.exorigo.pl), Bialystok, Poland
team lead, coach, J2EE developer
August 2002 - April 2004 Internet Designers S.A. (www.id.pl), Wroclaw, Poland, now known as Contium S.A. (www.contium.pl)
a student practice, afterwards a regular Java/XML/XSLT developer.
October 2002 - June 2004 Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Co-founder and developer of a large scale academic project of a e-journal platform: www.e-informatyka.pl. Developed on the basis of the Apache Cocoon Framework. Project also included a study on software engineering methodologies using both RUP and XP, using groups of programmers as large as 60 people.
December 1999 - September 2002 Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Computer Science Students Association (ASI), Wroclaw, Poland
Vice President
CONFERECES, PAPERS, TRAININGS
2008 July "Capable Leader and Skilled and Motivated Team Practices to Introduce XP" in "Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 5082. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-85278-0.
22 January 2008 Agile Day Hungary 2008 (Budapest) - speaker (see videos)
19-20 November 2007 XPDay Conference (London) - participant
26 October 2007 JDD07 Java Developers Day 2007 (Cracow, Poland) - presenter of a workshop on "Executable Documentation: Setting-Up The Project Around Acceptance Testing".
10-12 October 2007 CEE-SET 2007 (Poznan, Poland) - 2nd IFIP Central and East European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques - speaker.
23-25 July 2007 ENASE 2007 (Barcelona, Spain) - 2nd International Working Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - speaker.
June 2007 "Empirical Evidence Principle and Joint Engagement Practice to Introduce XP" in "Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 4536, pp 141 - 144. Springer. 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-73100-9.
18-22 June 2007 XP2007 (Como, Italy) - 8th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming - speaker
15-17 May 2007 Certified ScrumMaster Training, the training by Martine Devos, held in Wroclaw, Poland
16-17 November 2006 XPDay Conference (Belgium - Mechelen) - participant
19-29 September 2006 ENASE 2006 (a part of NetObjectDays Node'06 Conference) - speaker: "Advocatus Diaboli Walk Through eXtreme Programming".
28-29 November 2005 XPDay Conference (London) - participant
5-7 October 2005 Cocoon GetTogether 2005 - participant
11-12 October 2004 Cocoon GetTogether 2004 - participant
18 November 2003 SunTM Tech Days 2003, A Developer Conference (Prague) - participant
14-17 October 2003 5th National Conference of Software Engineering (Szklarska Poreba), trainings and conference, participant and presenter (presentation of the e-informatyka.pl project)
2-5 October 2003 "Communication leads to a meeting" - workshops (Gdynia, Poland) - participant
2-4 June 2003 3rd Congress of Polish Information Technology (Pozna?, Poland) - participant

SKILLS AND AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of expertise process improvement, agile practice adoption, lean management, Theory of Constraints, Domain Specific Languages, e-commerce systems, middleware.
Software development methods Test-Driven Development, refactoring to patterns, automated acceptance testing (executable documentation), Domain-Driven Design, agile software development, agile modelling, evolutionary database design
Tools and frameworks in no order: Apache Lucene/Solr, Spring Framework, Freemarker, GWT, Apache Cocoon, Apache Wicket, Eclipse RCP, Swing/SWT, FOP, Ant, FIT/FitNesse, servlet containers like Tomcat/Jetty/Weblogic AS, Hibernate, RDBMS like Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL, JUnit.
Programming languages Primarily: Java (JEE), other: C#, C++, XSLT, various scripting languages


LANGUAGES
  Polish (native), English (fluent, CAE), German (basic) Russian (very basic) French (very basic)