I am Adam Kosecki, a highly-analytical product developer with 10+ years of
experience. I create things that are clean; from beautiful, straightforward,
comprehensible design elements to robust & readable code.
I strive to understand a problem from all angles before outlining a solution.
My solutions are a fair compromise between form and function, fanciness
and efficiency, seriousness and fun.
I am a leader. I make decisions when appropriate, and defer or delegate
without shame. People respect me and enjoy working with me.
Experience
2017 - 2019
Co-Founder / Developer
SpotMii was created to provide fitness consumers a way to discover new and exciting
fitness facilities, and streamline the payment and check-in process for individuals
that frequent multiple gyms. Users purchase single-use passes for drop-in access and
scheduled classes. Payments and scheduling are handled in-app.
As a co-founder of SpotMii, I successfully designed, built, and deployed demonstrative beta
versions of our apps that enabled us to secure an angel round of funding. I completed and launched the app
in early 2019.
- Geo-located, on-demand, two-sided marketplace consisting of discrete consumer and affiliate apps
- Single codebase SPA/JS app deployed to iOS App Store and Android/Google Play via Cordova
- Three apps built and deployed: Consumer facing app, affiliate app for gym owners,
and an intranet for internal moderation.
- Ember.js SPA design & implementation
- PHP/Phalcon API design & implementation
- MySQL DBA
- AWS infrastructure
2016 - 2018
Co-Founder / Developer
I designed and built MogulMind: an Ember.js SPA that provides insight into real estate investments,
helping to increase ROI and make better investment decisions. MogulMind is a first-to-market web app
providing traditional RE investment calculations for the modern world,
as well as proprietary investment advice through AI.
- As the founder's first partner, I took MogulMind from napkin idea to launch and customer acquisition.
I was the root of anything technical or design related.
- SPA: Ember.js design & implementation
- REST API: PHP/Phalcon/MySQL design & implementation
- Marketing website design & implementation
- AWS infrastructure
2015 - 2016
VP of Product / Lead Developer
Transitioned Clear Software from an on-premise, single-user solution to a
multi-tenant, SaaS, cloud application. Evangelized best practices and modern
development techniques.
HelpSystems
2014 - 2015 / Full-time
2015 - 2016 / Contract
Senior Developer
* HelpSystems acquired Network Automation (below)
Developed and deployed an HTML5, mobile-first invoicing application in
PHP/AngularJS/MySql to facilitate an end-to-end process for online ordering and payments.
The application included a robust API allowing it to integrate with multiple, disparate
back-end legacy systems.
Implemented ETL processes to migrate and synchronize data between HelpSystems
and Network Automation servers throughout the acquisition process.
Network Automation
2005 - 2014
Lead Developer,
UI Design (Web & Windows App)
Created entire public web entity for company (no longer online as of 2019), including all visual
design elements, technological decisions (language/framework/server), coding, SEO decisions,
optimization for user experience & retention, and… everything else:
- Lead on-borading.
- Built a homegrown shopping cart system: processed every purchase/transaction made through the company. Responsible
not only for collecting payment, but issuing products and licenses to customers.
- Built a homegrown Customer Resource Center: video tutorials, knowledge-base articles, product version history, etc.
Included an internal CMS for resource center.
- Built a homegrown, drag-n-drop html email creation tool for our newsletters (mailchimp before mailchimp).
Integrated with our blog, etc. to easily drag-n-drop existing articles to create an HTML newsletter. Included
mass-mailing system and managed subscribers.
- Built a homegrown support ticketing system.
- Built a homegrown Channel/Partner Portal: an application to provide sales collateral, news,
lead registration, etc for resellers/VARs/strategic partners.
- Built our homegrown customer account application (address info, license keys,
product maintenance subscriptions, etc).
- Marketing and pre-sales content: press releases, news, case studies, blog.
Served as company DBA, implementing best
practices including full normalization of existing MS SQL database. Wrote and revised countless
queries, views, and stored procedures for various organizational departments.
Inherited, managed, enhanced, and enriched existing (homegrown) corporate CRM.
Tech & Tools
Tools & technologies regularly used to work efficiently.
- JS
- Ember.JS
- Cordova
- Bootstrap
- MySQL & MS SQL
- Sphinx Full-Text Search Server
- PHP, Phalcon
- AWS Deployment & Infrastructure
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science,
Programming Emphasis
Western Illinois University 2000-2004
Minor in Psychology
Other
Has nothing to do with working with me.
I love to build things; always have, always will. There's always at least one vintage motorcycle
or car being worked on in my garage. Looking forward to finding the right EV conversion project.
The marriage of form and function motivates me; when it's right, it's beautiful.