Kevin Marzec

My role is to oversee the design and development of an online crowdsourcing application for scenario and future planning research, utilising the Agile methodlogy and a technology stack of Meteor.js and MongoDB. Some high profile customers include the OECD and the UN. Responsibilities include hiring and managing freelance developers (in remote locations), requirements gathering and analysis, software design and implementation, user interface design, backup management, deployment and source control management, and occasionally supporting customers.

Some recent press praising the use of Futurescaper in Kosovo and Moldova:

• http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2014/10/06/youth-unemployment-the-foresighting-experience-in-kosovo/
• http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2014/09/24/moldova-post-2015-how-are-we-getting-ready/

I was responsible for the product development and technical documentation for a complex data processing and workflow WPF application for Citigroup's Cross Asset Group, leading a team of offsite developers based in Poland. The technology stack was C#/WPF/WCF/MSSQL/EC4/WF4.

HostelSystem is one of the leading online reservation and property management services for hostels and small hotels. My role is business strategy, technical strategy, overseeing high-level design decisions and managing a team of remote developers, primarily based in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. The technology stack is C#/WinForms/MVC5/EC5/MSSQL on the back and ExtJS4 on the front.

I was responsible for all of the marketing websites as well as the UpperDeck corporate website. Worked closely with the marketing team to identify new product web application opportunities and managed relationships with third parts consultants and vendors to ensure quality of deliverables.

Started two award-winning hostels in Krakow and Wroclaw, Poland, with a total of over 150 beds. Was responsible for all aspects of the business, from marketing strategy and SEO to managing the construction process, working with accountants, architects, interior designers and plumbers. The Stranger Krakow was listed as one of the top ten "Hippest Hostels" in the world by the Lonely Planet Bluelist 2006 and one of the Guardian's top five hostels in Europe.

Designed and implemented new features for the World Builder app, used to generate the Flight Simulator world. Generated ArcGIS tools for auto-generating location lists for bridges, lakes, etc. Designed an intelligent system for automatically creating accurate taxiway signs on all 26k airports.

EverDev started out as a full-service web development company, specialising in vertical-market portals, and eventually developed an online content management product that was licensed to clients. My roles included: recruiting and hiring development staff, advisory staff and CEO, designing the content management system used to facilitate development of high-content portals, leading technical sales meetings with prospective customers, and oversaw all organisation and planning of our Comdex tradeshow booth in Las Vegas for 2000 and 2001.

Hotmail was migrated from the Unix platform to Windows NT starting in 1997, and a powerful set of testing tools were needed. My group was codenamed Pixie, we were responsible for providing a multi-threaded C++ testing application designed to stress-test and analyse the performance of Hotmail with various sized email messages at different throttling rates. I was responsible for the design and development of this tool, my focus was on the C++ threading, timing, and mail message size analysis functionality.

iCat created an ASP-like scripting language (called ICL) to be used in HTML templates to allow for dynamic content, about a year before dynamic scripting languages became mainstream. The language provided database access, various loops and conditionals and more. Powerful catalog templates were build off the ICL system. iCat was sold to Intel in 1999. My role started as a QA Engineer writing test scripts, primarily in Java, to regression test the various functions of the ICL compiler. After six months I was moved to the engineering team and became responsible for adding features to the compiler, such as pointers and an intelligent page caching system.