Damian Drewulski

Damian Drewulski Technical Project Manager Delivery Manager Business/IT Analyst Email: - Mobile: - Location: Warsaw, Poland Career summary In the projects, I worked so far ​I successfully combined the role of the first person to contact for customers, their partners, and board members while staying the member of a development team by participating in day-to-day discussions and value building​. On a daily basis, ​I facilitate clients’ business goals and KPIs by making them mine​ and d ​ ecomposing into achievable and measurable steps​. Part of this process is keeping head above the surface of the newest technologies and thanks to that ​I’m able to provide quick feasibility recommendations at the early stage of requirements gathering​. As a member of the development team, ​I lead the internal process focused on tracing and fixing bottlenecks​.​ I am experienced in assigning on-the-go members of the team to tasks to reflect the dynamic of business goals​. As a business representative in the development team, ​I am not afraid of making quick decisions according to business goals to keep the work uninterrupted​. Role experience ● ● ● ● Business analyst - 5 years Project manager - 5 years Team leader - 3 years Developer - 2 years Education and certification Bachelor’s degree​ in Radiocommunication and multimedia technologies, Warsaw University of Technology, October 2008 - February 2015​. ● PSPO I​ certificate since D ​ ecember 2018. ● The SCRUM Development Process​ since F ​ ebruary 2017 ● PRINCE2 Foundation​ since F ​ ebruary 2016 ● ITIL Foundation​ since N ​ ovember 2015 ● English​ used for over a year a ​ basic language used at work​. Side projects For some time I was wrangling with data while learning the basics of Machine Learning. Here are so-far published results: ​Does tipsy sommelier rate higher?​ and a follow-up ​What else influences wine rates? As I really believe that to be a successful manager I have to know some basics, here’s ​my GitHub​ with attempts to learn JS, python, and other programming skills​. I hereby agree for processing my personal data, included in my job offer, for the purpose of recruitment (as defined in the Act of August 29, 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws No. 133, item 883). Record of related professional positions UNIT9 | ​3.2020 - NOW Industries: ​Digital experience, e-commerce, experimental. Production coordinator, technical leader. As a production coordinator I work closely with the head of production, executive directors, producers and tech leaders I’m managing the company’s production team. I’m responsible for all production activities, ensuring that resources are distributed to ensure the continuity of work and efficient workflows across the organization. I deliver it by assigning appropriately skilled internal and freelance staff in a dynamic environment. My work spans across different time zones and with multiple teams collaterally. I’m a SPOC in case of escalations and team negotiations. As a technical leader I provide sales and business development representatives with quick feasibility studies of pitches they work on. I’m trusted to negotiate what’s possible and align designed experience/product with timeline and budget expected by the client. My service covers preparing detailed feature split and pricing. A stack of tools used​:JIRA, Teamdeck, draw.io, G-suite, Google Cloud Platform. YND Consult GmbH | ​6.2019 - 5.2020 Industries: ​Fintech, e-commerce. Technical project manager, business analyst, product owner. Within the role taken at YND were responsibilities external to the employer like being support, contact and account manager for clients as well as internal like product owner, business/IT analyst and technical manager. ​Covering such a vast area gave a well-balanced set of skills and ability to easily change hats depending on project and client’s requirements. A stack of tools used​: JIRA, Confluence, draw.io, Sentry, Datadog, Calamari, POEditor, Sketch, Zeplin, Figma, InVision. E-commerce for a food brand During the project for ​a client from Germany​, I am a product owner of four product backlogs with a combined roadmap for 2 years. As a business/system analyst, I maintain a high-level description as well as technical specifications of developed services. As a project manager, I facilitate cooperation between the company I work for as well as third parties involved in the projects I’m responsible for. It covered negotiating requirements as well as orchestrating releases to meet business-specific timeframes​. The focus point of the project is a ​ mobile application with ~10 million active users monthly​. From the perspective of a person responsible for a development team, I d ​ ynamically assign team members to different streams to reflect business priorities​. While delivering the client’s year goal in less than half of a year I successfully used the walking skeleton as well as the MVP approach to assure roll out of the feature scope aimed as the goal. Lending platform A platform offering a non-standard approach to lending and collecting had been developed for a client from Singapore. I joined the ongoing project with ​a short-term goal to harness the development process. From the day one, I introduced the scrum framework and rebuilt the backlog to a manageable form​. In the next steps, I introduced the process of coaching the external team by the internal and solved lacking communication by leveraging online tools for collaboration and enforcing transparency, regular communication and no-waits approach. ​When I left the project, the whole team was working on a common backlog and was communicating on a daily basis​. I hereby agree for processing my personal data, included in my job offer, for the purpose of recruitment (as defined in the Act of August 29, 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws No. 133, item 883). TVN S.A. | ​9.2015 - 4.2019 Industries:​ Entertainment, digital advertisement, online services. Project manager, delivery manager, business analyst. Multiple projects led collaterally for different organization units​. Managing stakeholders and backlog for ​both external (remote) and internal development teams​. I acted ​a lead role in two redesign processes which evolved to 2-years of business-as-usual development projects​. Two main functions carried during this time were project manager and business analyst. In practice, the duties were spanning also on managing releases and being a facilitator for expanding horizons on how the technology can be implemented within the existing business processes. A stack of tools used​: JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, New Relic, Sketch. Order management/flow system The square one was a fully manual order managing process. The first need was t​ o introduce a grown-up order-flow-class system aimed to harness business processes and make them accountable and transparent across the whole organization​. On top of that, the ecosystem was built giving business t​ ools for automated billing, reporting and control processes​. The 4-year transformation process delivered five systems enhancing business capabilities and armed the organization to introduce programmatic stack tools for advertisement selling. ​As multiple products were built, both Kanban and Scrum frameworks were used during the delivery. Electronic invoice introduction In this project, ​led in a waterfall fashion​, the main challenge was to update 2-year-old requirements and perform its feasibility study. ​The burning issue was about 5% of clients generating around 70% of invoices monthly.​ Each of the invoices was processed manually. ​The suggested way around was to build a system harnessing this spike by focusing on the highest-volume clients​. From a technical perspective, the built solution had to i​ ntegrate with existing SAP and document storing solutions​. News and health online services A business goal for both services was​ to quickly establish performant CMS capable of serving content in line with the most up-to-date SEO directives​. The first service was built from scratch, while the second had a long history of content and features that had to be migrated. Each of them was developed by a different company with features trimmed to specific needs. ​That put me in the role of coordinator between two vendors and business people. During that time, I tightly cooperated with SEO and machine learning teams on building solutions increasing visibility and cross-linking services.​ As a result, the whole solution had been seen as leading in that area across the whole company. ​One of those services reached gains of 120 - 140% in TOP3 keywords after deploying the initial phase of the project. Orange, Netia ​| 5.2011 - 8.2015 Industry: Telecommunication Developer, systems administrator, team leader Before jumping to the project management path, for over four years I worked as a developer and maintenance team member, later as a leader. ​This time grounded my profound understanding of IT processes, software development process and gave me practical knowledge about large-scale systems operations. A stack of tools/technologies used​: Zabbix, bash, BMC remedy, Visual Basic, Java, SQL I hereby agree for processing my personal data, included in my job offer, for the purpose of recruitment (as defined in the Act of August 29, 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws No. 133, item 883). Hobby I really do ​enjoy cycling​, so probably the first of “soft” questions during the review will be is there a possibility to park a bicycle close to the office. The second attitude I cannot get rid of is ​shooting photos​, a mirrorless camera when possible, and the mobile phone all the time. I hereby agree for processing my personal data, included in my job offer, for the purpose of recruitment (as defined in the Act of August 29, 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws No. 133, item 883).