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Irena Szrek 60 Spencer Ave, East Greenwich, RI 02-818, USA Telephone: 1(401)398-0395, Mobile: 1(401)301-1891 Email: irena@szrek.com |
Experienced software manager of international product development, project delivery and software support teams. Skilled in forming and leading cross-functional teams, developing implementation plans, delivering quality product on time and budget, providing high level of customer satisfaction and designing new or improvement processes.
· Introduced innovative and competitive products to market, and created effective lifecycle processes for products.
· Organized and managed international software support organization of 80 professional staff and increased customer satisfaction.
· Acted as liaison between technical staff and business staff, secured contract awards.
· Formed well-performing international technical teams and introduced cost-effective and quality processes.
· Successfully managed and contributed to professional cross-functional teams.
2002-Present Senior Software Consultant, RI, USA
Creating business plan, marketing strategy, product and service definition, implementation plan
1998 – 2002 Software Program Director, Product Development, Warsaw, Poland
Formed and managed a development team of 12 software and QA engineers that created and delivered to domestic and international customers a quality, innovative and competitive software product, compatible with multiple system platforms. Designed and implemented product lifecycle processes resulting in 10-40% cost reductions. Last year also managed product development and baseline support for 1 of 2 GTECH’s main system platforms.
1996– 1998 Consulting Engineer, Systems Engineering, RI, USA
Responsible for system engineering of a new low price GTECH terminal product, from concept through product design and development, to its deployment at a customer location. Also involved in other new software product programs and in administering improvements of software product processes.
1992 – 1995 Director, Software Services, European Software Services, Brussels, Belgium
Responsible for setting up of European software support organization of 80 software professionals. Established structure and processes for software services, improved customer satisfaction and working with Sales secured several beneficial software support contracts to support European market growth.
1990 – 1992 Manager, Software, Central Europe Software Services, RI, USA
Responsible for pre-sale software and systems support for Central and Eastern Europe. In charge of software system delivery to Polish Lottery and responsible for hiring and establishing software support team in Poland.
1984 – 1990 Manager, Terminal Applications, Software & Systems Development, RI, USA
Responsible for creation and management of a terminal application team, providing design, development, delivery and support of terminal embedded applications on multiple platforms for customers. Overseeing new software design processes throughout terminal architecture evolution. Delivered terminal application software to domestic and international customers.
Designed and developed terminal application software for first generation of GTECH intelligent lottery terminals, starting with prototypes to product delivery to domestic and international customers.
1980 - 1982 System Analyst / Programmer
Business application programming and customer support
1973 - 1976 Warsaw University, Poland, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science
BS in Computer Science
1977 -1978 Warsaw University, Poland, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science
MS in Computer Science