Tomasz Skórski

IT manager, Unix administrator, internet industry analyst

Profile

My cooperation with clients on distinct project levels allows me to understand their needs. Technology knowledge helps my finding the core of the problem and communicate with IT people in their language.


I participate in a several international projects executed in a different locations (Russia, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, USA, Germany) with a distributed developer' teams.


I've experience with low-level sites migration, middleware applications (e.g. payments systems, imports/exports systems) and optimizing web services to work under high traffic. Developed Unix skills, administrator and security knowledge gives me opportunity to analyze and propose good solutions.


Since few years I'm learning about e-commerce and classifieds online, trends on the market and new ideas.

Skills

Administration

Strong IT knowledge, 10 years of experience.

Analysis

documentation creator, business offer author, opportunities researcher

Project Direction

Ability to lead and manage development and integration process.

Technical

  • FreeBSD
  • Debian/Ubuntu Linux
  • network protocols
  • middleware integration
  • deployment
  • virtualization
  • VCS/SCM
  • high availability
  • PostgreSQL,MySQL
  • Apache, nginx, haproxy
  • BASH/shell scripting
  • Postfix, qmail, Exim

Experience

EO Group: EO Networks and Sensisoft LTD

Deploy Manager, Release Leader, Bussiness and Technology Manager

2006-present

My job in EO Group consists of three different areas.
The first area is IT management, deployment and administration.
I deploy Java and Python applications on different Linuxes & Windows environments and solve problems with systems and performance. I have experience with virtualization platforms like OpenVZ, Vmware and Xen. I have successfully maintained classified services like: expressz.hu, irr.ru, kupsprzedaj.pl, pennysaverusa.com and trade-it.co.uk and freepropertyads.co.za.

The second area is analysis;
I analyse customers business requirements and preparing offers for them. I also recommend technical solutions for different projects parts. For my own pleasure I monitor Internet for new technologies and conduct research for future products.

The last (but not least) what I'm doing at my work is project management.
I have coordinated project for o2 service germany and managing smaller project for uncovered (NDA) client. In 2008 i've worked in München for half of the year for o2 service and finished with successes project. Earlier, I was responsible for preparing releases (with new features) for our customers (Trader Media East). Currently I'm responsible for delivering on time python/django related projects.

Mad Multimedia

FreeBSD/Unix Administrator

2005-2009

My goal was providing secure environment and high SLA and on dedicated secure servers for big social web campaigns: "Stop wariatom drogowym” and “Bezpieczna Szkoła”.

home.pl

FreeBSD/Unix Administrator

2004-2005

I was a second-line system administrator. My job was solving clients problems on shared and dedicated hosting. I responding to hardware and software failure.

Agricultural University of Szczecin

FreeBSD/Unix Administrator

1999-2006

I was involved in security issues on “Wydział Kształtowania Środowiska i Rolnictwa” department, administration tasks. I've made safe mailing platform (Postfix+ldap+imap+webmail+jail) for 300+ users based on LDAP.

Education

Technical University of Szczecin, Computer Science faculty

BCS/Bachelor of Computer Science, Final note: 4.0

Final year dissertation: Intrusion Detection System - implementing new functionality to SNORT application

Membership

Interaction Design Association


Information Architecture Institute


Unix User Group

Social networks

Detailed resume at LinkedIn

Link: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomaszskorski

My music profile at Last.fm

Link: http://last.fm/user/mrman_pl

My photo profile at Flickr

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrman

Tomasz Skórski — tomasz@skorski.net — +48 502 584 014