Michel Pawlak

PhD es Sciences Economiques et Sociales

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Last update : 25.06.2012

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Summary

IT Quality specialist with strong business analysis, solutions architecture, process

management, open source and security background. Passionate about IT Quality strategy and

process improvement-related challenges. MAS in Management and Technologies of Information

Systems. Obtained a PhD in Information Systems in 2007 with highest honors for a research

done on Open Source development process measurement and improvement.

Key character traits

Leader, Future Oriented, Customer Oriented, Analytic Mind, FastLearner, Pragmatic, Team

player

Core qualifications

IT Quality Management Lean & Agile Methodologies Problem Solving

Requirements Management Business Analysis Solution Architecture

UML & BPMN Modeling ISTQB Certified Tester ISO 9126

Experience

8 years experience as IT Quality specialist in public administration (State of Geneva),

banking industry (Credit Suisse SA) as well as research environments.

4 years experience as Solutions Architect in charge of various solution acquisition and

J2EE development projects.

2 years experience as Project Manager in charge of the definition of a quality

improvement process aligned with HERMES, RUP as well as CMMI and setup of quality tools.

6 years research and development experience on various European projects on topics like

open source development process measurement and improvement, enterprise software

interoperability, peer-to-peer networks, and secure mobile agents platforms.

5.5 years teaching IT experience at Bachelor and Master level.

Employment History

Quality ManagerCredit SuisseAugust 2011 - current (1 year, 1 month)

Public Company; CS; Banking industry

Working as QMO at Credit Suisse's Development Center in Lausanne (ITDCL.

)

Responsibilities :

Quality Manager

Support to the development center's management for Quality related matters

Setup of the development center's approach to Quality (based on a close partnership of

the quality manager with projects to enable continuous Quality management)

Deployment of Lean and Agile methodologies for the development center s Business

Management team and for a decentralized IT development project (conduct of vision

meetings, sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospective meetings, sit-ins,

waste chasing)

Process definition in the area of Business Management to enable business continuity (BPMN

modeling, SOP definition)

Process measurement (team efficiency measurement, data analysis, set up of dashboards)

Continuous improvement, Kaizen (adaptation of methodology based on findings)

Quality audits and reviews (process, requirements, architecture, documentation)

Quality coaching (project managers, developers, Business Management team)

Member of the bank's Quality experts group

Link with suppliers for technical analysis (related to state-of-the-art MS Surface)

Middleware components evaluation (data integrity, interoperability)

Technical environment :

Methodologies Lean, Scrum-ban, CMMi, ISO 9126, Kaizen

Modeling UML, BPMN, Enterprise Architect

Consultant - IT Quality SpecialistAnswer SAApril 2007 - July 2011 (4 years, 4 months)

Information Technology and Services industry

State of Geneva - Centre des technologies de l'information

April 2007 - current

Public Administration

Member of a pool of Solutions Architects in charge of various solution acquisition and

development projects (J2EE). Each architect had a specialization and was owner of a

specific topic in terms of methodology, tools roadmap, coaching and activities. My

specialization was IT Quality Management. Between March and end of July 2012, I was the

leader of the Quality & Tests team of the software integration department of the center.

Note: In 2007 I was hired by CarisInfo SA, since then the name of the company changed two

times as a result of two successive mergers. CarisInfo SA merged in 2010 with Solsteam SA.

Then, in 2011, Solsteam SA merged with 3 other companies to form Answer SA.

Responsibilities :

Team Leader

Team management (6 people)

Performance tests planning and cost estimation

Performance and Functional Test methodology definition ? Application monitoring

methodology definition

Test resources management (HW, SW)

Quality reviews and audits coordination

Supplier management (external testing workforce)

Trainings setup (BSM for a team of 30 people)

Performance Analysis tools deployment (DynaTrace)

IT Quality Specialist

Software quality measurement and improvement (ISO 9126, GQM)

Architecture, code and test reviews (for various projects)

UAT, Integration, Unit, Performance and Regression tests

Metrics elicitation, tailoring and improvement of quality dashboards

Development of quality checks with PMD / Checkstyle for architecture rules

Integration of Selenium with the Maven build for integration tests

Integration of code quality checks to the IDE

Project Manager

Definition of a quality platform (methodology, development, test, ALM, and dashboards)

Management of a team of 6 people

Provide quality support to other projects

Alignment of project results with RUP, CMMi and HERMES

Solutions Architect

Architecture design

Business modeling, Requirements gathering, elicitation and management

Assessment of solutions suitability with requirements

Coordination of internal and external technical resources (development, integration,

infrastructure and components specialists)

Government procuration (ITT / RFP) preparation and evaluation

Technical components evaluation and assessment

Technical environment :

Methodologies ISO 9126, GQM, RUP, HERMES, CMMi, ISTQB, TMAP

Modeling UML, BPMN, Rational Rose, MEGA Suite

Requirements Management HP Quality Center, Rational Requisite Pro

Dashboards Sonar

Testing HP Quality Center, HP Performance Center, VuGen, QTP, Analysis, Dynatrace, JUnit,

Clover, PMD, Checkstyle, FindBugs, EasyMock, Selenium

Development environment Eclipse, Hudson, CVS, SVN, JBoss, JOnAS, Tomcat

Technologies, Components and Tools J2EE, JAAS, HP Dialog, Docubase, Oracle Hyperion,

Spring, Hibernate, CXF, MS-Project, Augeo I-Planner

Application monitoring HP BSM, Nagios

Research Assistant

University of GenevaMarch 2001 - March 2007 (6 years)

Educational Institution; Research industry

Involvement in various european research projects. Concrete results through Java

developments and industrial-accademic cooperation. Numerous publications presented at

international conferences and workshops, papers published in journals and co-writing of a

book chapter on enterprise interoperability security. Teaching at Bachelor and Master

level (java development, networking, design patterns.) Mainly working on Process

improvement, quality dashboards, interoperability and security.

Responsibilities :

Research Assistant

Define a model for Open Source development process analysis, measurement and improvement

(project led by Mandriva the Linux company)

Define quality dashboards for open source development process

Define a model for secure enterprise interoperability based on DRM principles

Define a model for seamless communication means hotswap on peer-to-peer networks

Develop an infomediary portal based on secure mobile agents

Develop a secure mobile agents platform

Present work at international conferences, workshops and project meetings

Organize project meetings involving international partners

Participate in the organization of international conferences

Teaching assistant

Preparation and teaching of various courses (Object Oriented programming, Networking)

Mentoring of students

Technical environment :

Modeling UML, Conceptual maps

Methodologies ISO 9126, ISO 15504, Design Patterns (GoF, MVC)

Networking Mobile Agents, JXTA (P2P), RMI

Security X.509 Certificates, PKI, Bouncy Castle

Development environment jBuilder, eclipse, CVS, ANT

Technologies, Components and Tools Java Bytecode Analysis, Object Spaces, Swing, Java

Bytecode rewriting (SOOT)

Systems Solaris,

Linux, FreeBSD

DeveloperPurdue University (Indiana - USA)

August 2001 - November 2001 (3 months)

Research industry

Stay at the S3 lab working on OVM's (an Open Source Java Virtual Machine) performance

optimization.

Responsibilities :

Developer

Refactor the virtual machine's java bytecode representation in order to lower its memory

footprint and increase its performance

Optimize java Datastructures implementation

Technical environment :

Development environment XEmacs, CVS, ANT

Technologies, Components and Tools Java Bytecode Analysis

Systems Solaris

DeveloperUniversity of GenevaSeptember 2000 - March 2001

(6 months)

Research industry

Developer for the Objects Systems Group lab - Centre Universitaire d'Informatique.

Working on the improvement of an e-learning tool.

Responsibilities :

Developer

Integrate Realaudio streaming

Synchronize audio streams with slide images

Provide offline access to recorded courses

Improve user interface

Deploy the tool at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus)

Technical environment :

Development environment XEmacs, CVS, ANT

Technologies, Components and Tools Realaudio, Swing, XML

Education

PhD es Sciences Economiques et Sociales, Information Systems specialization

University of Geneva2004 - 2007

This work was part of the European IST Project EDOS (Environment for the Development and

Distribution of OpenSource Software) led by Mandriva, the Linux distribution company. This

project aimed at providing a peer-to-peer solution for the distribution of open source

code. In this scope, the goal of my contribution was to provide a means for streamlining

this process considering all involved activities such as development, defect tracking,

testing, distribution, etc. This research resulted in a PhD entitled "A Reference Model

for Free / Open Source Software (F/OSS) Process Management" which provided an extensible

model and its implementation for describing workflows involved in distributed environments

like F/OSS. The model allows to reason about the F/OSS process and to measure it in a

global manner in order to be able to improve it.

I defended the thesis on September 24th 2007 and obtained my PhD with highest honors.

MAS, Management and Technologies of Information Systems

University of Geneva

2002 - 2003

The key achievement of my MAS thesis was to provide a model and java framework allowing

peers to seamlessly renegotiate and hotswap the communication means they use in case of

network outage. It resulted in a paper presented at Hawaii International Conference on

System Sciences (HICSS 37) in 2004 and in a Master thesis entitled "Hot-Swapping

Communication Models in P2P Networks". Degree obtained with great honors.

The DEA in Management and Technologies of Information Systems is a joined European degree

delivered by the University of Lausanne, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, by the

University Josef Fourier in Grenoble and the University of Annecy in France.

M Sc, Information Technology

University of Geneva

1997 - 2001

The aim of this M Sc thesis was to improve a secure Object Spaces framework by providing

means to distribute it on multiple nodes. Degree obtained with great honors.

Further Education

HP Quality Center 10.00 - User and Administration

Apollo Formation

May 2011

Negociation

CEFCO - Lemania Group (eduQua, FEDE)

November 2010

Meeting chairing

CEFCO - Lemania Group (eduQua, FEDE)

November 2010

Certifications

Certified Tester Foundation Level

ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualification Board

November 2009

Competencies overview

Methodology & Standards

Quality : Lean, ISO 9126, GQM

Testing : ISTQB

Process Measurement : CMMi, ISO 15504

Modeling : UML 1.x, UML 2.x, BPMN

Development : RUP, Scrum, eXtreme Programming

Design Patterns : GoF, MVC, IoC, DI

Project Management : HERMES

Technical Skills

Modeling : Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Mega Suite

Requirements management : Requisite Pro

Test management : HP Quality Center 10.00, Test Director 9

Performance Tests : HP Performance Center 9.52, Dynatrace

IDE : Eclipse

Langages : Java 5, PHP 5, C

Build and/or dependency management frameworks : Maven, Ant

Software revision control : CVS, SVN

Continuous integration : Hudson

Defects management : JIRA

Repository management : Nexus

Logs management : log4J, slf4J

Interoperability : XML, Web Services (SOAP, REST, CXF), JMS, RMI, JXTA

XML Binding : JAXB

Unit Testing : JUnit, DBUnit, EasyMock, Mockito

Tests automation : Selenium, Vugen, HP Quick Test Pro

Software quality measurement : Sonar, PMD, Checkstyle, Findbugs

Templating : Velocity, Smarty

Security : PKI, X.509, Bouncy Castle, JAAS

Data access : Hibernate, jdbc, SQL

Databases : Oracle, MySQL

Persistence : hibernate, JPA

Lightweight containers : Spring

Application servers : JOnAS, Tomcat, Borland Enterprise Server (BES)

Web Languages : HTML, XHTML, Javascript, JQuery, CSS1, CSS2

Operating Systems : Windows XP, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux (Mandriva, Ubuntu)

Other tools : HP Exstream Dialogue, Docubase, Oracle Hyperion

Project Management : MS-Project, Clarity

Document Preparation System : LaTeXReference management : BibTeX

Soft Skills

Negociation

Meeting chairing

Team building

Languages

French (native)

Polish (native)

English (fluent - working language)

German (basic - willingness to learn)

Memberships

ASQ Member

ASQ - American Society for Quality

IIBA Member

IIBA - International Institute of Business Analysis

MENSA Switzerland Member

MENSA - Connecting smart minds

SAQ Member

SAQ - Swiss Association for Quality

Additional Information

Interests

Guitar, archery, bridge, go, curling, tennis, skiing, piano, reading

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