Curriculum Vitae

Karol Bieńkowski

Tel.: +48.661.401.888
www.bienkowski.net
born in 1979, married
live in Warsaw, Poland

Objective

Tech Lead, Architect or Senior Developer

Top skills

Object-oriented programmer and designer in Java using design patterns and TDD
Developer of multi-tier, scalable Java EE apps for JBoss, WebSphere
Team leader
Goal-oriented and effective

Career

05.2007 – now: Senior Java EE developer in Syncron Poland. Projects:

Supplier chain planner and process engine (Java EE, JBoss, JSF, AJAX) – I am member of team designing and implementing new unified web GUI [2007]

01.2005 – 04.2007: J2EE specialist in GTech Eastern Europe. Projects:

Internet gaming application (J2EE, WebSphere/JBoss, legacy connectivity, high performance and availability constraints, intl team of >50 developers and QA's, budget >50M €) – I created design of many internal, business layer frameworks, implemented some of them, migrated ex-CORBA modules to J2EE/POJO. I was a team lead (up 8 developers). [2005-07]

09.2002 – 12.2004: Java programmer/designer in empolis Poland (part of Bertelsmann AG, profile: knowledge and content management, workflow, portals)

Peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing network (JXTA, SWT, RDF, international, EU-sponsored, budged over 3M €) – I designed and from scratch and implemented with tests a large module (over 500 classes) tightly coupled to Oracle DB [2003-04]
Article archive and portal for one of the largest polish newspapers (J2EE) – I wrote and optimized a DB access layer (Oracle), participated in adding of new functionality in GUI (Struts, JSP, JSTL) and business layer (POJO, EJB, XDoclet) [2004]
Content and knowledge management system (Weblogic then JBoss, Oracle, over 10 programmers, over 2 years, international, with direct boss in Germany) – I worked on the webapp, created a design of introducing Struts and i18n, participated in completing requirements, designing of functionality and defining of the knowledge model (RDF) [2002-03]
Implementation of the W3C XML standard [2002]

2002: Laboratory lecturer at the Computer Science Faculty of Warsaw University:

„SGML/XML and up-to-date knowledge management technologies”

Tools and applications I intensively used:

Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, JBoss, Spring, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle, DB2, CVS, PL/SQL Developer, JIRA, Perforce

Complete list of projects I participated - www.bienkowski.net/work

Education and interests

Graduate (with distinction) from the Polish top-rated Faculty of Computer Science of Warsaw University with M. Sc. degree in computer science [2003]. Overall GPA: 4.7 (scale: 2 - 5). Valuable knowledge I gained:

Computer science fundaments: computational complexity, distributed systems, concurrency, key algorithms and data structures
OO and structural design and programming, UML
Languages: C, C++, Smalltalk, Java; logic and functional programming
Web application creation: J2EE (JSP, servlets), PHP
DB structure design and DB handling: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, object DBs
A list of my student projects: www.bienkowski.net/stud

Now I am extending my knowledge in

Web 2.0 technologies (JavaScript, AJAX, JSF)
Application integration (SOA)
New, light-weight software development methodologies (XP, TDD)

Achievements and certificates

Nationwide finalist of the XLIX Mathematics Olympiad For High School Students [1998]
Holder of the scholarship of the president of the city of Lublin [1998]
Sun Certified: Java Programmer (SCJP); Business Component Developer (SCBCD) [2005]

Miscellaneous

English (read, write, speak) - I use it in my daily work; FCE
Native Polish
Driving License
Hobbies: sports, traveling, eating

Last updated: 9-Aug-2007.

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