Robert Nowak

Employment

• Software development for top investment banks - GFT (formerly Rule Financial) in PoznanFeb 2013 - onwards

  Big data project in secure lending area (2014-onwards)

  • Technical team leader, responsible for gathering requirements, design and implementation supervision.
  • JEE 7, Oracle Coherence, Spring Framework.

  Risk-assessment platform (2013-2014)

  • Appointed to be main Java developer on one of a delivery streams that built up to a risk-assessment platform. Designing the project architecture, code implementation and supervision, communication with the client
  • JEE 6 and 7, OSGI 4.2, Spring Framework 3, financial libraries

• Software development for RocheOct 2011 - Feb 2013

  Systems integration platform (ongoing)

  • Created a message-driven data exchange system for the integration of Roche's heterogeneous systems.
  • JEE 6, OSGI 4.2, Spring Batch 2, Spring Integration 2, JBOSS A.S 7

  Design and development of CMS templates based on CQ5

  • Member of a software development team responsible for creating CMS system architecture using Adobe's Communique 5 platform including OSGI and Velocity-based solutions for customizable mailing.
  • Liaised with clients and content managers to create a coherent solution within the time schedule.
  • Successfully applied good software creation, test, release and maintenance practices acquired when working in large scale systems.
  • JEE 6, Adobe CQ5, JCR, Sling

• Baroo SoftwareJun 2010 – Sept 2011

  Created a software product for a specialist provider of SEPA payment solutions for banks and corporations across Europe as a member of a team based in Poznan, Poland

  • Worked as a part of a UK-based development team, gained experience and practice in outsourcing.
  • Began work as a developer, promoted to a Team Lead role.
  • Participated in remote planning and task estimation sessions as a team leader of the Polish group.
  • Implemented Maven profile-based code to minimize code redundancy while still creating a client-specific output including different work flows.
  • Conducted interviews with technical developers, evaluated candidates and took part in employment decision-making.
  • Created a multi-tier transactional implementation for various payment file formats
  • Implemented security mechanisms to prevent XSS attacks.
  • JEE 5, Hibernate 3, Spring 3, Eclipse 3, Maven 2.

• Team Manager, Comarch S.A.Oct 2008 – May 2010

  Development and management of development teams creating enterprise Java software for the banking sector.

  • Participated in the creation of the software requirements analysis and managed a team of 5 developers creating a multi-tier life insurance product. Scheduled and supervised the work in progress, liaised with the clients to ensure a smooth flow of information. Responsible for the quality of the end-product.
  • Redesigned, coded and supervised the software architecture that allowed for using the existing claims system in a new project by inheriting and extending core modules while removing performance bottleneck by implementing a distributable thin client solution.
  • Promoted to the position of the Project Manager when supervising three projects in maintenance phase. Reorganized the support flow, negotiated software release delivery with clients, motivated co-workers and reduced lead time and a growing queue of pending issues to meet the deadline set out in the contract.
  • JEE5, ComarchESB, Spring, GWT 1.4, Jboss 4, Oracle DB, Hibernate 3.

• JEE Developer, Comarch S.A.May 2008 – Sept 2008

  Development of banking software solutions.

  • Implemented a non-life insurance solution for a bank.
  • Provided test-driven development and basic application servers configuration.
  • Promoted to Team Leader for a new life insurance project.
  • JEE 5, Tomcat 5, WASCE, Apache HTTP Server, Eclipse.

• JEE Developer, Rodan Systems S.A.Mar 2006 – Apr 2008

  Began work as a last year student, continued after graduation.

  • Participated in the creation of Public Information Bulletin as a Junior Software Developer,.
  • Implemented documents management software for the Polish public service as a Software Developer,.
  • J2EE 1.4, Struts 1, JSP, Eclipse, XSLT, CVS.

Education

• Master’s degree in Computer Science2006 - 2007

  Poznań University of Technology

  final grade: 5/5

• Computer Science Engineer2002 - 2006

  Poznań University of Technology

  final grade: 4.5/5