Edmund Fliski

Software Systems Architect Seasoned systems architect and team leader, more than 10 years of professional career in software development within a number of local and international software houses, partner / subcontractor to multinational IT corporations. Experienced with full systems development life cycle (SDLC / SLC), involved in a wide variety of software projects. Particularly strong backgrounds in business and technology solutions for telecommunications sector; several on-site projects for the majority of telcos in Poland. Well acquainted with IT solutions for financial services market. Considerable experience in systems architecture, enterprise application architecture, enterprise application integration (EAI), service-oriented architecture (SOA). Accomplished in diagnosing and re-architecting legacy systems, refactoring legacy code. Practiced at leading small software development teams throughout complete project life cycle in a number of relatively long-term and higher-risk projects / programs. Responsible for tracking work to scope, schedule and budget, ensuring teamwork, managing staff and subcontractors - both in on-site projects with team co-location and in highly distributed projects with remote teamwork. Successful in developing collective competencies, team building; recruiting, training, coaching and mentoring skills. Thriving on Scrum-like sense of team leadership. Moderate experience in project management, IT consulting services, professional services. Strongly focused on software engineering, software development process (especially a range of lightweight / lean / agile methods), software life cycle models. Practiced at implementing software development process within commercial projects. Competence in software quality assurance (SQA), software configuration management (SCM), software process automation. Fairly gifted toolsmith. In-depth knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) and related disciplines, understanding of how to adopt AI in commercial software. Specialties: Java EE / Java SE platform (J2EE / J2SE), enterprise application architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), information architecture (IA), service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise application integration (EAI), enterprise integration patterns, software design patterns / anti-patterns / bug patterns, test-driven development (TDD), software process automation, lean / agile software development, Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP).