Janek Lasocki-Biczysko Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Gb

I've been working as the technical team lead and developer for the following projects:- An assessment platform with focus on ease of use, in-depth reporting and high concurrency.- A browser based content authoring tool which produces self-contained (html5 / ims package) assessment modules, with interactions such as "fill in the blank", "multiple choice", "drag and drop", and embeddable video + audio (streamed from external sources).- A existing digital content repository (intraLibrary) specialising in deep metadata, taxonomies and heavily customisable workflows and permissions.- An open source Moodle plugin for intraLibrary.

Lead developer for an online community-based learning platform

- developed facebook applications (mainly backends using Facebook API / PHP and MySQL) and a some admin/intranet tools in close relations with Transfusion Media (http://www.transfusionmedia.com) - developed and maintained websites for AW Studios Inc. and affiliates using PHP / HTML / CSS and MySQL - other clients include artists, non profit organizations, online retail catalogues - during free time pursues personal projects such as Facebook and Twitter apps, and experiments with the latest tech

London, Gb

- redesigned thetrainline.com's help pages (http://thetrainline.custhelp.com) on top of RightNow Customer Portal (customised CodeIgniter framework)- work also included: SEO, general codebase optimization, analytics & reporting

New York, Ny, Us

- PHP (CakePHP, Custom mini-frameworks) / MySQL / CSS / JS / XHTML based web development- worked individually and in small teams to develop Facebook pages and applications for clients (eg. Research In Motion, Intel, Stella Artois)- created tracking systems to provide extensive user activity metrics- implemented successful user growth strategies leveraging Facebook’s social graph- set up and monitored linux web and db servers, minimising downtime and iteratively improving performance

Us

- developed the PhotoGrab (http://apps.facebook.com/photograb) facebook application from incubation - as the main backend engineer employed optimization techniques to reduce response times - designed and implemented APIs used by the flash component of the app - worked closely with graphic designers to execute the layout using XHTML/CSS and UIs with Javascript

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As a J2SE developer for the PDE (plugin development environment) component of Eclipse: - developed and tested major features for an Eclipse release cycle - fixed bugs, refactored and improved code and contributed thousands of lines - attended weekly team status meetings to discuss current projects and suggest ideas and improvements - supervised new hires, reviewed and released their work - thoroughly tested components by going through manual test scenarios and writing/executing JUnit test cases