Beata Błaszczyk

Experience

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  Future Centre Training Corporation

  May 2006 - Jan 2012

  English teacher

  Conducting English courses for intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced students in international corporations in the following fields: Finance & Banking, Marketing, Law, Tourism, LCCI preparation courses.

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  Infovide - Matrix S.A. for T-Mobile Polska

  Oct 2007 - Jun 2008

  Analyst / OLAP designer / Tests Consultant

  Preparing project documentation and requirements analysis, carrying out the system testing, implementation of the analytical environment, carrying out the modular tests of multidimensional cubes.

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  Infovide - Matrix S.A. for T-Mobile Polska

  Aug 2008 - Oct 2010

  Preparing business requirements analysis for the reports based on Oracle 10g DWH, supervising reports development, designing and developing reports, coordination of reports implementation, administering the reports repository, implementation of compensation algorithms, coordination of system support, implementation of change requests within the reporting field. Preparing and conducting Microstrategy Desktop and Microstrategy Web trainings for analysts including e.g. the use of advanced functions and solving case studies. Updating project documentation, implementation of changes in analytical cubes, preparing testing scenarios.

  • Reporting Consultant / Analyst

    Nov 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Trainer

    Jul 2010 - Aug 2010

  • Analyst / OLAP designer

    Aug 2008 - Oct 2008
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  KONTEKST Translations

  Sept 2008 - Sept 2010

  Translator - freelancer

  Doing translations on financial topics.

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  National Fryderyk Chopin Institute

  Dec 2008 - Jan 2011

  Translator - freelancer
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  Infovide - Matrix S.A. for Raiffeisen Polska S.A.

  Sept 2010 - Nov 2010

  Analyst

  Conducting analyses of debts recovery processes and indicators, as well as debt recovery and risk management reporting, preparation of analytical documentation.

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  Infovide - Matrix S.A. for T-Mobile Polska

  Dec 2010 - Jul 2013

  Preparing business requirements analysis for reporting change requests, preparing analytical reports migration recommendation, supervising reports development and implementation, administering the reports repository, assigning budget allocations, managing BI projects, coordination of project works. Managing the process of conducting requirements analysis in DWH and OLAP area, preparing OLAP cube prototype, implementation of OLAP cubes, preparing testing scenarios, test reports and project documentation, managing the testing process.

  • Reporting Section Coordinator / Analyst / Project Manager

    Jul 2011 - Jul 2013

  • Analyst / OLAP Designer / QA / Tests area coordinator

    Dec 2010 - Jul 2011
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  Infovide - Matrix S.A. for PKO BP

  Jun 2013 - Aug 2016

  Project: MIS projectScope of responsibilities: Preparation of test plan, supervision over the scope of SIT and UAT, supervision over preparation of tests conditions, test scenarios and delivery of installation packages etc. Numerous roles in projects conducted for many customers (details below). Project: CC&B reporting.Scope of responsibilities: Conducting reporting requirements analysis, developing reports for Sales Department. Project: Risk data mart.Scope of responsibilities: Preparing processes in a form of SQLs downloading data into custom datamart designed for Risk Management Department, development and testing of current changes in Oracle data warehouse, developing Cognos reports.

  • Release Manager

    Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Senior IT Consultant

    Nov 2007 - Aug 2016

  • Reporting analyst / BI Publisher reports developer

    Dec 2013 - Mar 2014

  • System analyst / Cognos reports developer

    Jun 2013 - Nov 2013
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  Grupa Wydawnicza Helion SA

  Oct 2013 - May 2018

  Translator (freelancer) / Author of books

  Translation of books for IT Professionals:1. Silverman E., Git. Leksykon kieszonkowy (rozdział 1.).2. Rockoff L., Język SQL. Przyjazny podręcznik.3. Alexander M., Decker J., Wehbe B., Analizy Business Intelligence. Zaawansowane wykorzystanie Excela.4. Banfield R., Todd Lombardo C., Wax T., Sprint projektowy. Tworzenie produktów cyfrowych.5. Nield T., Pierwsze kroki z SQL. Praktyczne podejście dla początkujących.Author of the book "English 4 IT. Praktyczny kurs języka angielskiego dla specjalistów IT i nie tylko" available here: http://helion.pl/ksiazki/english-4-it-praktyczny-kurs-jezyka-angielskiego-dla-specjalistow-it-i-nie-tylko-beata-blaszczyk,anginf.htm Show less

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  Infovide - Matrix S.A. for Raiffeisen Polbank S.A.

  Sept 2014 - Jan 2016

  Project: Application for registration of recoveries for the Department of Restructuring and Debt Collection. Scope of responsibilities: Supporting the Product Owner in management of Product Backlog, facilitating Scrum events, introducing and supporting agile approach, coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality, removing impediments to Development Team’s progress, preparing presentations for the management on project progress (i.a. calculating forecasted velocity based on the focus factor) etc. Show less

  • SCRUM Master

    Sept 2015 - Jan 2016

  • Team Leader / Analyst

    Feb 2015 - Sept 2015

  • Team Leader / Analyst

    Sept 2014 - Jan 2015
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  Roche

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2021

  My role involves i.a.:• leading Agile Centre of Excellence aimed to operate across the whole organization (Roche Global IT Solution Centre affiliates in Poland, Canada and Malaysia),• shaping Agile CoE OKRs in alignment with organization’s OKRs,• promoting and hosting Agile Meetups across the organization,• conducting extensive Agile Health Checks and providing ad-hoc Consultancy/Coaching on demand,• conducting on-demand Agile/Scrum trainings internally and to the Partners across the globe,• providing consulting on Agile/scaled Agile setup in projects, leveraging knowledge on Scaled Agile frameworks when applicable (Spotify/SAFe/LeSS/Nexus approach),• coaching individuals and teams on Agile mindset, principles and frameworks, ensuring the delivery of projects as per arrangements (budget, time, quality standards, functional requirements, corporate rules) and Agile/Scrum best practices, also by acting as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach within different projects,• managing teams dispersed in matrix structure (work organization, allocation of resources, motivating and appreciating), ensuring knowledge sharing,• building, maintaining and managing relations with Business Partners,• co-shaping the strategy for Business Area,• identifying Business Partner requirements concerning the application and service development, consulting and proposing solutions and accountability for their delivery,• managing cooperation with external vendors of services/solutions, ensuring availability of and engaging appropriate resources. Show less At this position I was a DevOps Lead/Agile Coach, evangelizing on DevOps best practices, automation strategies and CI/CD pipelines in alignment with Agile/Scrum best practices.In general I was responsible for:• ensuring the delivery of BI/Data Science projects as per arrangements (budget, time, quality standards, functional requirements, corporate rules).• managing teams dispersed in matrix structure (work organization, allocation of resources, motivating and appreciating), ensuring knowledge sharing, playing the role of Scrum Master.• building, maintaining and managing relations with Business Partners.• identifying Business Partner requirements concerning the application and service development, consulting and proposing solutions and accountability for their delivery.• managing cooperation with external vendors of services/solutions, ensuring availability of and engaging appropriate resources.• implementing improvements with a view to increasing cost and resource efficiency and optimization of existing services and project processes.• providing Agile training across the organization, leveraging Scrum best practices. Show less

  • IT Delivery Manager/Agile Coach/Lead of Agile Centre of Excellence

    Jul 2019 - Jul 2021

  • Associate IT Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

    Sept 2016 - Jun 2019
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  Circle K

  Aug 2021 - now

  • ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of 2 global platforms (customer-facing solutions), • line manager for over 30 employees/consultants who develop and maintain software,• building culture focused on delivering business outcome, agility, collaboration, teamwork and accountability,• recruiting and developing world class talents, mentoring, motivating, empowering people to grow, fostering high-performing teams,• working closely with a wide range of business stakeholders (incl. C-level) to ensure alignment on business goals, progress and deliverables, ensuring transparency, communication and great partnership,• participating in defining technical solutions as a sparring partner for Architects and Developers,• managing expectations from the business stakeholders,• vendor management (improving processes, setting KPIs and expectations towards IT vendors, collaborating with Procurement, acting as single point of contact for the vendors from IT Leadership perspective),• co-author of Agile metrics for IT organization, co-founder of Lean-Agile Center of Excellence. Show less

  • Senior Software Development Manager

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Software Development Team Manager/Agile Product Delivery promoter

    Aug 2021 - now