Web Architect and Craftsman
Czech Republic
- Current
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- System Analyst and Architect at Mather Advertures
- Somebody doing a lot at Agile Walkthrough
- Past
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- Technical Architect at Z & M Corporation
- Product Strategy Manager at Pink Mountain
- Project Coordinator at Itransition
- Project Manager at Itransition
- Marketing Manager at Invest System
- Freelance web designer / developer at vividbox.com (Self-employed)
- Web Project Manager at Kreado LLC
- Web Developer at Kreado LLC
- Marketer at Drexpol Holding S.A.
- Education
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- Catholic University of Lublin
- Marie Curie-Sklodowska University
- Politechnika Lubelska
- Brescki Dzjaržauny Tehnièny Universitet
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Yury Kusik’s Summary
My skills and experience cover business-analys, project management and technical development aspects of web- and software- projects.
I have a major passion for creating effective and reliable solutions for different businesses starting from marketing research and validation of business model, elaboration of a product concept with strong accent on user experience, organization and management of ui-design and software-development process.
As regarding organization of the development process I'm an advocate of agile methodologies but I strongly appreciate value of quality documentation. In my projects I try to apply some of the practices valid for the software development to work with requirements (e.g. constant work with the requirements documentation, keeping it in simple and easy to use form etc).
Over the last ten years I've lead or participated in a number of web- and software-development projects in different roles (analyst & ux designer, project manager or coordinator, developer or technical lead) and my experience and understanding of the effective and convenient way of doing things seeing from those different perspectives, results in Agile Walkthrough - software for agile project management and collaboration. Read more at http://agilewalkthrough.com.
Yury Kusik’s Specialties:
• Conceptual Design, Business Requirements Analysis,
• System and Application Architecture, Technical Architecture,
• Web Development, Web Interface Design, User Interface,
• OOA&D, CASE, UML, PHP, Python, Ruby, RubyOnRails
• Project Management, Agile, RUP, Scrum, XP
Yury Kusik’s Experience
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System Analyst and Architect
Mather Advertures
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
I've been working in an new-media marketing agency as a part of "technical minority" and still managed to preserve some of my sanity :)
Technically-wise: Ruby on Rails (with Pivotal desert, Hobo, and many neat gems and plugins from Rails-ecosphere), deployed to Amazon EC2, utilizing Amazon S3, managing code with svn and git etc. -
Somebody doing a lot
Agile Walkthrough
(Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
We're making project management and collaboration tool which makes our work on software project easier, more comfortable and effective.
Agile Walkthrough helps to create project knowledge base (aka agile documentation), structures the communication, makes the process transparent and easy to be acquainted with, helps to plan workload and fairly share the time between multiple projects and implements other traditional Agile practices like iterative development, bug tracking and so on. The tool is particularly suitable for distributed and offshore teams.
Project is currently in alfa-phase, being test-driven in a number of fellow-companies.
Read more at http://agilewalkthrough.com -
Technical Architect
Z & M Corporation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Hands on design and development of the web-interface layer of the analytics software for the telecommunications industry, technologies evaluation and recommendation.
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Product Strategy Manager
Pink Mountain
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)
Bridging the gap between market and customers needs and engineering team.
Responsibilities:
• Identifying market opportunities and defining product vision and strategy,
• Gathering customer needs and product requirements,
• Elaboration of high-level product concept and participation in further workup of technical architecture. -
Project Coordinator
Itransition
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)
During my work at Itransition software I’ve been in charge of development of more then 20 small and medium-sized projects. Working as a “coordinator” (strange job title whatsoever :-)) I was still project-managing part of the team (see below). Coordination was understood as some help/supervision of teams headed up by other project managers, authorities to allocate people to particular projects and conflicts resolution, financial performance tracking and reporting to Itransition management.
Additionally I headed up activities aimed to improvement of existing internal processes of the department. -
Project Manager
Itransition
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)
I came to web-development department at Itansition as a PM with no team and went through the process of building it from one person to more than ten. Essentially, my responsibility was to make my team work effectively and earn its money doing offshore development. So depending on the time and projects’ specifics I was wearing different hats: analyst working on business requirements with customers’ representatives, architect elaborating product design and team leader and technologist, PM doing project plans, managing risks and reporting to customer and Itransition management, coordinating customer, development and QA teams. During my work CRM systems, eCommerce projects, Content Management Systems, Social Networks and various custom solutions).
We worked with following technologies:
• PHP (4+, 5+) + MySQL, Postgre SQL, LDAP,
• ASP.NET (1.1, 2.0) + MS SQL Server 2000+, NHibernate, NUnit, Spring.NET, Atlas,
• HTML, xHTML, CSS, JavaScript. -
Marketing Manager
Invest System
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
May 2002 — April 2005 (3 years )
Responsibilities:
• plan and organize wide range of marketing activities:
•• plan and manage advertising campaigns, integrated brand promotion and other promotional,
•• development and applying of corporate identity,
•• creation and support of the corporate website.
• maintain and expand existing relationships with key clients, participate in negotiations, take part in conferences and symposia,
• plan and organize custom training courses realized by the studio,
• participate in consulting activities of the firm: elaboration of strategic and marketing plans, organize market researches, devise sales plans and strategies, competitive analysis, analysis of clients' loyalty and ways of its improvement, marketing campaigns organization and media-planning. -
Freelance web designer / developer
vividbox.com (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
April 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 1 month)
During my primary occupation as a marketing manager at company working in real estate investment company (details below), web-development and design still remained my passion so I was doing some occasional freelance work. It was logotypes and identity design, web-design and development of simple websites. Selected works: www.vividbox.com/en/works/.
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Web Project Manager
Kreado LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2001 — April 2002 (5 months)
Responsibilities:
• supervise over development process, elaborate requirements specifications and day-to-day contact with account managers and sales-,
• manage projects for clients from France, Germany and Russia, including plan development, resource allocation and management (projects included client- and server- side technologies, visual design, database integration, marketing),
• art-director’s authorities,
• recruitment (web designers, flash- and html- coders). -
Web Developer
Kreado LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2001 — November 2001 (4 months)
Responsibilities:
• web design: graphic design, web UI design and development, usability analysis,
• web development: cross-browser html markup (HTML 4, CSS 1, 2) conforming to existing web standards and browser implementations,
• participate in development of proprietary Content Management System (Perl, XML/XSLT/XPath...). -
Marketer
Drexpol Holding S.A.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
November 1998 — July 2001 (2 years 9 months)
Responsibilities:
• contacts with partners from the Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS countries,
• preparation of tender documents and other promotional activities,
• supervising and participation in creation of promotional material (e.g. 3D-visualizations of developed buildings),
• participation in realization of market researches and other consulting activities.
Yury Kusik’s Education
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Catholic University of Lublin
Individual Scheme of Studies September 1999 — May 2001
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Marie Curie-Sklodowska University
Individual Scheme of Studies September 1999 — May 2001
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Politechnika Lubelska
MSc. , Management and Marketing , 1996 — 2001
Accomplished with grade of 5.0 (grade point average — 4.8, degree work and examination grade — 5.0).
- Activities and Societies:
- NZS (Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów), KNM (Koło Naukowe Managerów)
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Brescki Dzjaržauny Tehnièny Universitet
Computer Systems and Networks 1995 — 1996
Accomplished first year with GPA of 5.0.
Additional Information
Yury Kusik’s Websites:
Yury Kusik’s Interests:
austrian economics, information architecture, hci, usability, agile software development, scrum, ruby, rails
