Pawel Defee

 Junghansinkuja 6 D 35
02700 Kauniainen
Finland
Phone: +358 40 822 1101
  (For US callers: 011 358 40 822 1101)
e-mail: pawel.defee@iki.fi
  http://www.chiralion.com/PawelDefeeCV.html
CAREER
OBJECTIVES 		Mobile software platforms expert with over 10 years experience in the industry mainly as a Software Architect, but also Team/Project Manager. Extensive contributions to Symbian-based Nokia S60 and Sony Ericsson UIQ platforms as well as other mobile systems such as EMP, Mobile Linux, BREW and Windows Mobile.

Numerous assignments executed succesfully in environments ranging from small startup companies to large multi-national development efforts. Focused on the most challenging projects in the industry where the best expertise in design and implementation of systems architecture, user interface frameworks and advanced end-user applications are required.

PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE 		Software Architect,
Team Leader /
Consultant
January 2007 - Present

 Sony Ericsson
Lund, Sweden
  • Key responsiblity in design and implementation of a next-generation user interface platform for mobile devices.
  • Team Leader for a team of 8 experts in mobile software.
Software Architect,
Sole Owner /
Consultant
January 2003 - Present

 Chiralion Ltd
Helsinki, Finland
  • Offering custom architecture, design and software implementation services to companies working on mobile platforms and products.
  • Management of schedule-critical projects, building and leading teams as well as technical negotiations lead in inter-company projects.
Software Architect /
Consultant
July 2006 - June 2007

 A Startup Company
  • Designed and implemented a secure telephony software product for a startup company.
  • Implementation combines strong cryptography (RSA/ECC) and real-time audio protocol over GSM data channel resulting in a truly unique secure voice telephony support for the latest Nokia S60 platform phones.
Software Architect /
Consultant
January 2006 - December 2006

 PacketVideo, Inc
Helsinki, Finland
  • Optimization of software video decoding engines for mobile phones.
  • Implementation of next-generation user interfaces for multimedia viewing and editing applications.
Software Architect /
Consultant
September 2004 - December 2005

 Sony
Salzburg, Austria
  • Lead Symbian Architect for the Vodafone Radio Dj client software for Symbian devices.
  • Designed the architecture and implemented a complex streaming application for UIQ and S60 handsets.
  • Provided technical negotiation and specication review assistance with major telecom vendors (Nokia and SonyEricsson).
  • Trained a local team of software engineers in Symbian / Nokia S60 development.
  • Technical assistance in creation of long term roadmaps for implementation of new services and features, server-side integration and mass-scale deployment of the software components.
Software Architect /
Consultant
December 2003 - September 2004

 Ericsson Mobile Platforms
Lund, Sweden
  • As a member of a team of three highly skilled software architects, defined a complete architecture for the application framework layer of a new 3G phone product.
Software Architect /
Consultant
July 2003 - December 2003

 NextMobile GmbH
Innsbruck, Austria
  • Design and implementation of a low-level call and data traffic routing component for transparent optimization of long-distance calls placed by the end user.
  • Low-level telephony APIs, reverse-engineered call routing functionality in the Symbian platform.
Software Architect /
Consultant
January 2003 - June 2003

 OplayO, Inc
Helsinki, Finland
  • Optimized performance of a real-time video streaming software for mobile devices.
  • Implemented an efficient video display component and hand-optimized video decoding algorithms as well as the custom HTTP stack used in the product.
Software Architect
April 2000 - January 2003

 SysOpenDigia, Inc
Helsinki, Finland
  • Project management, architecture and software design in multiple customer projects for Symbian/S60-based products.
  • Completely designed and implemented several major software components in the Nokia S60 platform.
  • Trained and coached experienced developer teams in Symbian OS development as well as provided technical consulting to 3rd part clients.
Symbian Specialist
September 1999 - March 2000

 Nokia Research Center
Tampere, Finland
  • Specification, design and implementation of Symbian/EPOC application programming interfaces involving streaming and rendering multimedia feeds over wireless networks.
  • Research in low bit-rate video compression and software performance tuning in distributed computing environments.
Software Engineer
June 1999 - August 1999

 Symbian Ltd.
London, United Kingdom
  • Trainee program in application development on Symbian platforms.
  • Implemented certificate management user interface and contributed to the specification of PKI repository and encryption frameworks.
Research Engineer
March 1997 - May 1999

 Nokia Research Center
Tampere, Finland
  • Research and development in mobile video technologies.
  • Participated in development of a world-class video compression and transmission software for mobile phones.
Summer Trainee
June 1995 - September 1995

 Nokia Research Center
Tampere, Finland
  • Worked on the only existing (at the time) software video decoder implementation for mobile users.
  • Optimization of video and audio signal processing algorithms to meet the real-time constraints of the available hardware.
EDUCATION Tampere University of Technology, Finland

MSc Information Technology, May 2000
Majored in Mathematics and Software Engineering
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Mobile Platforms: Symbian, Nokia S60, UIQ
  • Mobile Platforms: EMP, Mobile Linux, BREW, Windows Mobile
  • Server/Desktop Platforms: HP/Sun Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows
  • Programming: C/C++, Java (J2SE, J2ME + MIDP)
  • Programming: ARM Assembly, X86 Assembly
  • Design of software, drivers, firmware, and hardware
  • Design: User Interfaces, Protocol Stacks
  • Management: Teams, Projects
  • Other: Performance Optimization, Multi-chip systems
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
  • Co-authored: Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oct. 2002.
  • Pawel Defée, V. Lappalainen and A. Hallapuro. Performance of an Advanced Video Codec on a General-Purpose Processor with Media ISA Extensions. Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics ICCE. Los Angeles, California, USA, pp. 318-319, Jun. 2000.
MEMBERSHIPS / INDUSTRY RECOGNITION Forum Nokia Champion 3GSM Congress in Barcelona in February 2006, Founding Member of the Champion Programme.
LANGUAGE SKILLS English Fluent
Finnish Fluent
Polish Fluent
Swedish Conversational
German Basic
Russian Basic
HOBBIES / INTERESTS Programmming Languages, Embedded Systems, Applied Mathematics, Cutting-Edge Technologies, Training and Management of Individuals and Teams, New Venture Development, Sustainable Investment Strategies, Cycling, Sailing
REFERENCES Available upon request.
PREFERENCES Willing to travel within EU, Asia and US.
Contract work is preferred, but I will also consider permanent positions that are well aligned with my professional aspirations.

Last updated: 10th January, 2008