Wojciech Zawistowski's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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I help teams become Agile and improve their development practices. I share what I learn on my blog, and I hack on Open Source and side-projects for fun. My strongest points: Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, Web Development (but I love to learn new things!).Agile Coach @ 90-120 person development department; work with co-located, partially remote and fully remote development teams. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Helping the company scale Agile after a rapid growth (from 4 to 11 Scrum teams, http://www.slideshare.net/itesky/scaling-scrum-esky). * Recruiting Scrum Masters. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Team Lead @ 40-90 person development department; work in a partially remote development team. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Stabilizing dysfunctional product (failed rewrite, no new features deployed for several months, over 250 known bugs) and rebuilding the team. * Leading the team during further development of the product (back-office web application handling international sales, operations and invoicing of one of the leading Online Travel Agencies; over 9 millions of transactions processed). ACHIEVEMENTS: * Stabilizing the product in less than 3 months, in less than a year bringing the defect rate from the highest to lowest in the company's product portfolio, and building the team with the lowest turnover in the company (only 3 people in 5 years). * Inspiring and helping other teams adopt Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, code reviews, and many other good practices. * Starting and running company development blog (http://it.esky.pl/blog/), consistently publishing a post every week. * Convincing management to Open Source some of our code: https://github.com/eskypl. * Leading reorganization of company’s IT recruitment process. * Helping build company’s brand as one of the most recognized IT employers in the region, by presenting on conferences and other forms of promotion. From October 2010 to February 2015 (4 years 5 months) Team Lead / Full Stack Web Developer @ 3-25 person development division; work in an offshore development team. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Leading a couple of the teams developing the world leading casual gaming portals network (45 portals in 17 countries, over 2.5 billion monthly views; among many others: gamesgames.com, agame.com, girlsgogames.com) * Leading a team rewriting and further developing onrpg.com, the world leading MMO games source. * Developing core libraries, frameworks, and portal features. ACHIEVEMENTS: * Initiating and leading company-wide, bottom-up Scrum adoption. * Introducing several quality-oriented development practices (TDD, coding standards, code reviews, pair programming). * Introducing elements of modern architecture (MVC framework, Web Services, OO Javascript, OO CSS design). From May 2006 to September 2010 (4 years 5 months) Founder @ 2 person start-up; working at home, as a side project. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Defining product vision, planning, designing and developing the product. ACHIEVEMENTS: * Launching and further developing the site (reaching 45 k views / month), while being employed full-time at SpilGames. From January 2008 to June 2009 (1 year 6 months) Full Stack Web Developer @ 5 person company; remote work, mostly individual. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Rewriting and further developing podatki.biz, one of the leading tax information portals in Poland (over 350 k registered users). * Creating and maintaining customer-facing and back-office web apps: online shop, CMS, tax calculators, product classification databases, legislative acts browser, and other. ACHIEVEMENTS: * Introducing modern development practices (version control, unit testing). * Successfully self-organizing my work. From June 2001 to April 2006 (4 years 11 months) MS, Computer Science @ Silesian Technical University From 1996 to 2001 Wojciech Zawistowski is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Web Applications, Test Driven Development, PHP, JavaScript, Web Development, Team Leadership, Ruby on Rails, Design Patterns, PostgreSQL, Git, Subversion, REST, MySQL