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Phil Bajsicki
- Quick info:
- Operations/ project manager: service fulfillment and back-end ops.
- System administrator: Linux, bare metal, databases, ansible, bash, Perl, Lisp, backup management.
- Database engineer: MySQL, Mariadb, large data parsing, reverse engineering.
- Executive assistant: office administration, scheduling, meeting management.
- Web developer: WordPress, GravCMS, DokuWiki.
- Personality:
- Blunt, to the point. I have no problem raising issues when there’s smoke.
- I do best in technical environments, with clear black-on-white rules.
- I’m rather averse to risk. I live by cost/ benefit equations.
Work Experience
Executive Assistant (The Engine Room, LLC, dba Sales Call Overhaul), April 2022 - April 2023
- Assistance to the CEO:
- Managed the overall task list, schedule, and calendar for the CEO,
- Managed inbound communications (email, slack),
- Prepared meeting briefs and notes for external meetings.
- Coordinated and ran team meetings.
- Prepared and delivered twice-weekly reports on the overall status of operations.
- Regularly helped prepare payroll.
- Operations:
- Acted as project manager on 10+ projects, supporting a team of 5+.
- Raised and solved internal issues as needed,
- Maintained documentation
- Introduced Critical Path project management.
- Re-designed and re-built the PM system and process in ClickUp.
- Coordinated operations across multiple departments.
- Marketing
- Wrote and reviewed ad copy on an as-needed basis.
- Technologies used:
- ClickUp
- GoHighLevel
- Google Suite/ Workspace
- WordPress
- Welo
- Zoom (and otter.ai, fathom.video)
- Make (formerly integromat)
- Zapier
Customer Support Lead (Hermes IT Sp. z o. o.), May 2016 – Feb 2017
Hermes IT was an MSP for SMB clients.
- Successfully deployed new IT systems:
- Laptops, docking stations, multiple monitor set-ups for users.
- Mass deployed pre-configured Windows 10 images on the laptops.
- Office networking including network switches, Wi-Fi repeaters.
- Monitored, patched and updated the systems remotelyon a weekly basis.
- Managed vendor relationships as needed.
Video Game Tester (Testronic - Warsaw), 2011 – 2012
Performed video game testing:
- Confirmed algorithms and game mechanics were intact.
- Noted and reported gameplay issues.
- Noted and reported visual bugs and glitches using Jira and screen capture hardware.
- Spent countless hours calculating whether Bejeweled combos counted up to the correct score on a Nintendo DS.
Lead Database Engineer (GTT Sp. z o. o.), June 2008 – August 2009
- Summary:
- Designed, developed and maintained complex geodesic databases spanning most of Poland in multiple formats.
- Reverse-engineered a proprietary map format.
- Created a system for importing, transposing and converting between multiple coordinate systems.
- The final product allowed for:
- Free manipulation of data points.
- Complex comparisons between datasets.
- Importing and exporting from predefined formats, including the proprietary MikroMap (.mmp) format.
- Results:
- Automated the largest time-sink in the company.
- Cut the time spent compiling maps from large data sets from days to minutes.
- Technologies used:
- MySQL
- Perl
- Bash
- Linux
- Windows
- CSWDE
- MikroMap
- Microsoft Excel/ OpenOffice Calc
Certifications
- TryHackMe, Jr Penetration Tester, THM-PUW3BAZ4EX
- ITTT, TESOL Certification, ITTT00219981