Curriculum Vitae of
Bogdan Bereza
Personal Life Story Education Job Story
Professional Hot Spots Private Hot Spots
Personal:
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Name: Bogdan
Family name: Bereza
Born: 25 October 1957
Citizenship: Polish and Swedish
Children: Anna (born 1994) and Robert (born 1995)
who live with their mother in Stockholm, Sweden
Family: engaged to Magda
Health: excellent
Good personality traits: energy, curiosity,
inquisitiveness, high IQ, lateral thinking, creativity,
assertiveness, sense of humor; my Thomas
International personality profile is normally socalled "propagator": middle-value dominance, high
influence, low steadiness, and low compliance
Bad personality traits: under stress: tendency to
hyperactivity, lower EQ, tendency to dominate (but I
work on them, swear); under stress, my Thomas
International personality profile moves towards socalled "director"-type: higher dominance, lower
influence (steadiness and compliance do not change)
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Life Story:
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon (my Polish parents worked
there at the time)
Kindergarten in Oslo, Norway
Primary school in Warsaw, Poland
Primary school in Stalowa Wola, Poland
Primary school in Warsaw, Poland
Secondary school in Warsaw, Poland
University studies at Warsaw University (English
philology, psychology)
Fascination with mountain walking (Poland,
Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria) - guiding student
groups
1983 escape (not dramatic) to Sweden, application
for asylum
1983-1984 studying Swedish (in Lund, Sweden)
1984 asylum granted, deprived of Polish citizenship
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(stateless)
1984-1987 university studies at Lund University
(computer science)
1988 to Stockholm; Swedish citizenship
1988-2003 Stockholm, Sweden
1994: daughter Anna is born
1995: son Robert is born
2003: back to Warsaw, Poland
2005-2008: in Stara Iwiczna (near Warsaw, Poland)
2010-2012: in Piaseczno, Poland and in Stockholm,
Sweden
2012- in Józefów (near Warsaw, Poland)
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Education:
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1979-1980 English philology, Warsaw University,
Poland
1980-1983 psychology, Warsaw University, Poland
1984-1987 computer science, Lund University,
Sweden
1984 Cambridge Professional Certificate in English
Language, British Institute, Malmö, Sweden
1993-1994 organizational psychology, London
University (post-graduate, extramural studies)
1995 Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Goethe
Institut, Stockholm, Sweden
1987-today: approximately 40-50 professional
training courses in a number of areas:
telecommunications, microprocessor architectures,
operating systems, programming languages, testing
tools etc.
1996: TickIT Auditor
1999: ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software
Testing
2005: IEEE CSDP (today: IEEE CSDA)
2006: Thomas International Certificate (a method for
professional personality profile analysis)
2007: ISEB Software Testing Practitioner Certificate
2008: ISTQB Full Advanced Software Testing
Certificate
2008: REQB Requirements Engineering Foundation
Certificate
2011: IREB registration
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Job Story:
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1980-1983 guide for mountain hiking groups,
Almatur, Poland (part time)
1981-1983 helper at plumber's and painter's
workshop, Poland (part time)
1983-1985 farm helper, Lund, Sweden (part time)
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1984-1986 laser printer operator, Btj Datafilm AB,
Lund, Sweden (night shift)
1986-1988 assistant at Computer Science
Department, Lund University, Sweden (part time)
1988-1989 programmer, Phillips Financial Systems
AB, Stockholm, Sweden
1989-1990 programmer, tester, integrator: Essnet
AB, Stockholm, Sweden
1990-1994 Ellemtel AB, Stockholm, Sweden
(programmer, tester, system administrator, team
leader, product owner)
1994-2003 ENEA AB, Stockholm, Sweden
(consultancy company):
o 1994-1995 test environment integrator,
Ericsson (Stockholm)
o 1995-1996 tester, test analyst, test tool
designer, Ericsson (Stockholm and
Helsinki)
o 1996 test analyst, Ericsson (Nuremberg)
o 1997 test automation specialist, Ericsson
Mobile (Stockholm)
o 1998 test process improvement specialist,
Ericsson Radio (Stockholm)
o 1999 test coordinator, Ericsson Radio
(Stockholm)
o 2000 test team leader for Java conformance
testing of an embedded product, ENEA
OSE, Stockholm
o 2000-2001 audit for DO-178B
conformance, SAAB, Stockholm
o 2001-2002 test manager of acceptance
testing, Swedish Police Headquarters,
Stockholm
o 2002-2003 test lead for railway signaling
system, ADtranz (today: Bombardier),
Stockholm
o 1995-2003 instructor for ENEA test and
SQA training section (in parallel with
customer assignments)
o 1999-2003 manager for ENEA SQA
training section (in parallel with customer
assignments)
2004-today freelancing assignments in Poland
(mainly), Czech Republic, Spain, Luxembourg,
Ukraine, Germany and Great Britain:
o 10% of the time was spent on marketing
and management of other people's
assignments
o 50% of the time was spent on preparation,
maintenance and running of own SQA
training courses
o 30% of the time was spent on consultancy
(or mixed consultancy + bespoke training)
assignments
o 10% of the time was spent on organizing
and participating events like conferences,
seminars and workshops
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A list of some of my customers is available
at references.html
2011-today freelancing assignments in Sweden, and
a part-time assigment for FUN and MOBILE
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Professional Hot Spots:
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Conference speaker:
o EuroSTAR (1998-2004), ICSTEST (2000,
2006), KKIO (2000, Polish), BCS SIGIST
(2006), WCSQ (2008), CzechTest (2011),
Testforum (2011), and more
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Conference manager or member of programme
committee:
o Ethicomp (2001), IIR Test and Verification
of Embedded real time Systems (2002,
Swedish), SQAM (2004-2006, Polish),
KKIO 2010 (Polish), and more
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Co-tutor of MSc degree projects:
o "Test of Computer Memories" (Stockholm
University, 1995)
o "Characterizing Software Test Tools"
(Stockholm Technical University, 1997)
o "Automated Defect Prevention" (PolishJapanese Institution of Information
Technology, Warsaw 2008)
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Founding member or similar:
o SAST 1995 (Swedish Association for
Software Testing)
o SJSI 2003 (Polish Software Testing
Qualifications Board)
o SPIN Poland 2006 (Software Process
Improvement Network)
o ADPQB 2008 (Automatic Defect
Prevention Qualifications Board)
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Accreditation or running accredited courses:
o ISEB Software Testing Foundation
(Swedish), ISTQB Software Testing
Foundation (Polish and English), IEEE
CSDP, ISEB Software Testing Practitioner,
ISTQB Software Testing Advanced (Polish
and English), REQB Foundation (Polish
and English)
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Magazine articles in the following magazines:
o COREMAG (Polish), EuroSTAR
Newsletter, itmanagermag.pl (Polish),
LogiGear Magazine, Software Development
Journal, tester.pl (Polish), Computerworld
(Polish), Professional Tester, Testing
Experience, Businessman.pl (Polish),
hakin9 (Polish), Parkiet (Polish), PC Kurier
(Polish), Wprost (Polish)
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Books:
o "Automated Testing in Daily Build",
Swedish Engineereing Industries 2000
(author)
o Ron Patton "Software Testing" 2002
(translation to Polish)
o "Theory and Practice of Software Testing"
2006 (in Polish; co-author)
o "Software Engineering: How to Improve
Quality" 2009 (in Polish; author)
o Adam Kolawa "The Next Leap in
Productivity" 2010 (translation to Polish)
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Complete lists of similar events, conferences etc. are
available now in Swedish and in Polish, but not in
English
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Private Hot Spots:
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Mountain walking, skiing, bicycle, roller blades,
cinema, children
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Richard Branson, Fridtjof Nansen, Ken Wilber, Tom
DeMarco, Eric Berne, Martin Seligman, Terry
Pratchett, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Richard
Wiseman, Cameron & Quinn "Corporate Culture",
Eckhart Tolle, Ole Nydahl, Dalai Lama, Malcolm
Gladwell, Michael Roach, Robert Wright
("Nonzero"), Charlotte Kasl, Fredrick Forsyth,
Richard Dawkins... and perhaps Leszek Balcerowicz
(Polish liberal economist)
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CV 2012