MAREK NOWAKOWSKI
ul.Malinowa **, 84-230 Rumia, Polska
ul.Taborowicza 104, 32-200 Miechów, Polska
*******@******.****.**
Profile
Charismatic with own initiative and goal oriented Engineering Manager who has huge
engineering knowledge, experience in life as well as with human approach and product development
cycle, effective budget planning and spending and project management background. Efficient with
team creation, integration and speed of work improvement. Oriented to teach and continuously learn
working with and in the teams, finding solution to the challenges appear in daily work. The one who
use to analyze risk and manage corrective actions. Inventor, who use to pass “can do” as well as “The
client is the King” approach to the members, adding value added assets to the designs. Good listener.
Accountable and self motivated professional with ability to develop and drive business forward. Power
Generation & Distribution, Turbine, Engines, Military and Consumer electronics applications
experience. Has managed teams up to 120 members with success. The guy you can rely on.
Key skills / achievements
• Has prevented and solved multiple technical and personal problems developing and managing
teams and projects leveraging teams awareness
• has found solution to the seems not resolved technical EMC issues of WOODWARD Current
to Pressure Converter gen.2 EUT decreasing test cost, speeding up the work and providing to
Woodward customer more robust CPC product with schedule and price as had been agreed
• has made inventions showing vision of future, finding solution to the problems had occurred
during design cycle with safety critical military applications and detection systems confirmed
by patents P-342973, P-356192, P-356328, P-357051, P-359948, P-360455, P-361964, P-
364152, P-364542, P-372400. Some of them have been classified by Ministry of Defense.
• W PDS, WISE2, DOORS, Mentor Graphics Expedition Software, Power PCB, Orcad,
Protel99SE, C compilers, assembler of PIC and MSP430, MISRA, Agile project management.
CAREER HISTORY
2006 - currently Woodward Governor Company in Poland – since 2008 New Product
Introduction Engineering Manager; direct reports to the Woodward
Engineering Director in USA
- define and continuously improve company, development processes and work
procedures quality increasing team awareness and understanding
- has changed inexperienced HW and SW not efficient few members team into the
30 members true knowledge developer one delivering at the same time new
designs with schedule
- has involved “6sigma” tools, FMEA and “Lean” engineering principles to the
Krakow development processes improving quality, efficiency and decreasing cost
- has been assuring equipment capacity following current and future departments
demands
- has made successful business talking/negotiations with regards to new projects
transition timeline, cost and technical requirements.
- has been working as the technical leader with every Woodward Krakow project
teaching way of work and assuring success at the end
- 2007 – 2008 – has been Engineering Team Leader/Staff Engineer of HW, SW,
Test and Product Support engineers
- 2006 - has been Senior Hardware Engineer at Woodward
Marek Nowakowski +48-693-***-*** page 2
2005 - 2006 Humax Electronics in Poland – Hardware Engineer
- has designed, tested, made required changes to the two revisions of 26”LCD DVB
DTV in 6 months time frame, making design reviews with Philips and Humax
engineers in different locations and time zones by phone and mail.
1999 - 2005 R&D Marine Technology Centre in Poland – Senior Specialist/Staff Engineer
- has laid out visions of future product features and their global trends to the client
which were welcome in real products increasing their sales
- during integration time of complex military equipment and systems, work
coordination of multi-disciplined engineering teams has found solution to the
challenged technical problems; inventions have been made providing opportunity to
deliver more competitive products with schedule and better price. Has been
rewarded for that few times
- business talking/negotiations with clients and suppliers were done
1989 - 1999 Second in command of battalion in Military Unit, Senior Engineer in Military
Unit (Logistics)
- has managed work and training of 120 soldiers, engineers and technicians
delivering output as had been requested
- has effectively planned and overseen hundreds of devices and mobile military
electronic equipment service keeping them in active condition – mobile power
generators included.
1991 - 1998 Service of THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONCS POLAND
- has been owner of TEXT-ELECTRONICS RTV service
- has made lots of business talking/negotiations with all customers and clients with
regards to permanent and temporary business contracts.
QUALIFICATION and Trainings
2009 Communications, art of suasion and perlocution – Berndson
ISO 14001
2008 Change management - Berndson
EMC – Dirks Compliance Consulting – Nils Dirks
Time and Team management, problem solving skills training
2007 EMC training – Colorado Spring University USA
Grounding and Shielding of Electronic Systems; Circuit board layout to reduce
Electromagnetic Emission and Susceptibility - Dr. Tom Van Doren
ISO 9001
Power Supply design - Warsaw
2004 PLC - MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC - Gdynia
2 years of CISCO Network Associate, Computer Science Academy
2001 - 2002 Quality internal auditor
1991 - 1996 Thomson analogue and digital TV-sets, video recorders and camcorders
1989 Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Qualified Electronics Engineer, WRE
1984 Diploma in Electric and Mechanic
OTHER DETAILS
• Full driving license
• Speaking/writing of English and Polish, in the past Russian and German
• Travelling Europe, South Korea, USA
• Very good health and attendance record.
• Interest of Stock Market, Economy, chess
I hereby authorize you to process my personal data included in my job application for the needs of the
recruitment process (in accordance with the Personnel Protection Act of 29.08.1997 no 133 position
883).