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We are very proud that once again we could be a part of this amazing initiative – Team Project Conference organized by the Wrocław University of Science and Technology!
Watch this short recap prepared by our local TV – soon we will post nice case studies about the projects we sponsored this year!
We are very proud to announce that the Thaumatec Techgroup has reached yet another important milestone. We invested in the very innovative Smart Healthcare start-up, SmartQare BV
We have been a technology partner of smartQare since 2018, responsible for the development of the wearable health-care device according to the ISO 13485 quality standards.
We have decided to bring our relationship to the next level, because we believe in a business model which is based on long-term cooperation, involvement and responsibility for a common project. We want to reach beyond the traditional lines between a supplier and a customer – to become an equal partner in every endeavour.
Our partner smartQare is developing an intelligent armband, 24/7 connected to a health-care platform, that gives patients the freedom to manoeuvre and keep their autonomy, while being monitored to keep safe.
The highly innovative patient monitoring device measures and sends data on multiple vital functions to connected medical-aid workers, using the Internet of Things. Apart from parameters as heartbeat, oxygen saturation and skin temperature, the wearable has a fall detector and location determination.
Superior level of services is one of our most important values. Always we pursue the latest standards of development and product delivery. As we are working for sensitive industries (like for example smart healthcare), we know that many of them require special rules and processes. That is why, we decided to apply for ISO certification, and we are incredibly happy to announce that our company passed all the necessary tests.
From now, Thaumatec officially have three certificates:
– ISO 9001:2015 – “Quality management systems” – this standard is focused on understanding and meeting customer requirements, i.e. specific needs for products of a given organization, adopting a process approach, delivering process effectiveness results and their continuous improvement based on objective measurements.
– ISO 27001:2017 – “Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems” – this standard is all about information security management. Our customers can be sure that we protect their information in a systematic way, through the adoption of an Information Security Management.
– ISO 13485:2016 – “Medical devices – Quality management systems – Requirements for regulatory purposes” – this certificate specifies requirements for a quality management system and it’s a proof that we are able to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and applicable regulatory requirements.
ISO certification – what does it mean?
ISO is the short name of The International Organization for Standardization. It is an independent and non governmental organization, working on an international level to provide globally recognized standards. They bring together experts from all over the world to develop new and high quality standards that will support innovations and solutions to change the world to a better place.
ISO is not involved in the process of any certification, as well as is not issuing any certificates. To keep the highest transparency, this process is performed by independent and external certification bodies.
How will it influence our company and projects of our customers?
Having the ISO certification confirms that our company knows how to keep the highest standards of development and services. We apply this in all our projects on a daily basis in order to meet our customer requirements. Want to know more how your project can benefit from our experience? Let’s connect and discuss your challenges.
One of our most important values is always to stay on the forefront of the technological revolution. Our team is following the most interesting technologies using our Thaumatec Technology Radar, so we are sure that we will never miss solutions interesting for our customers.
For a long time, we have been watching how Artificial Intelligence is developing. For example – Gartner expects that by 2023, one-third of companies that have implemented IoT will also have implemented AI in conjunction with at least one IoT project. AI is also viewed as one of the 5 biggest technology trends in 2021 and most of them are in our skills portfolio.
The fast-changing situation in the technological market inspired us to develop a new, artificial intelligence department in Thaumatec. From now, we will be able to create solutions for our customers, which will take their projects to the next level. Moreover, we were always doing everything to create the best work environment for the most skilled people in their interest area. That’s why we are more than happy to announce that Michał Zgrzywa is joining our company to take a lead on our new AI department.
Michał Zgrzywa, PhD, is an experienced leader of both software delivery and back-office teams. He’s helped to grow companies from small to mid-size, performing many roles and adapting to the needs of developing organizations along the way.
He has started his journey by delivering software and being a technical leader in the Financial Services and Automotive industries. With time, moved to project management and program management roles, being responsible for delivering software for the Retail and Pharma industries. Following in more business administration roles, he was responsible for various functions: Delivery, Operations Research, Human Resources. During the recent years, he has been focused on building AI and Data Science offerings and teams, successfully delivering AI projects to industries like Pharma, Professional Services or Public Sector.
He’s a strong advocate of empowering teams and motivating through autonomy and trust. He honestly believes that Data and AI can improve people’s lives. He stays a software developer at heart.
Michał in Thaumatec will be responsible for helping our clients to relies all the value that Data & AI can add to their product, thus helping them to extend their product development roadmaps. His first focus will be to build the Thaumatec’s team capacity and capability around skills and technologies required to build Data & AI solutions for our clients. Going forward, together with the team they will extend Thaumatec’s portfolio by successful delivery of many exciting and technologically advanced Data & AI projects.
We are more than happy to see the challenges which are waiting for us in this new era of our company!
Kurt Neubauer is joining Thaumatec as a Sales Operations Manager responsible for DACH market
Communication is one of the key values for our company – both in relationship with customers and employees. We enhance our success in the DACH market, and we are happy to announce that Kurt Neubauer is joining Thaumatec in the position of Technology Network and Sales Operations Manager.
Kurt has a huge experience in many areas – SW development, R&D line management, project management, sales, and marketing. In the past years he was working for many software and hardware development companies like Siemens Austria, Siemens Poland, Nokia, REC, GlobalLogic and managing big sales accounts as Gemalto M2M, NXP and Nokia.
Kurt has comprehensive project management and project development skills – from first customer contact through piloting and development of the project. He was also involved in innovation and cooperation projects with the University in Wroclaw & Cryptologic department.
In our company, he will be responsible for:
We could not miss the opportunity to ask Kurt a few important questions about the software and hardware development in the DACH market!
1) What are the biggest challenges of software and hardware development in this area?
DACH market represents Germany, Austria and Switzerland which are similar in language and geography but somehow different in mentality and business behavior. There are many KMUs which still like to have all engineers on site and do not trust companies from abroad.
We must convince them and create trust in our excellent engineering skills, the best with inviting them to meet and discuss on current technology trends and evolution.
2) What is your biggest challenge / advantage of joining Thaumatec?
Joining the company during Covid times can be challenging for everyone and for sure will influence comprehensive team building, but luckily, I know many of the guys since a long time, which will help a lot in this case. I am extremely excited that I will have the opportunity to work with a high-skilled team and of course to support them in delivering challenging projects.
3) How can Thaumatec fit the needs of DACH-located companies?
The Thaumatec portfolio in Technology research, HW/SW prototyping and product development is an asset which we must foster, explain, and show. This will create trust and help to advertise capabilities in the suitable competence areas which are needed. I am sure that as a company we can fit every need of DACH- and as well global companies.
Team of Thaumatec is growing fast – we didn’t share this secret before, but it’s possible thanks to the new member of our team! Monika Gorzelak joined our company a few months ago and she is responsible for all our recruitment processes.
One of the biggest reasons for hiring Monika was the fact that she believes in exactly the same values as our company. Together, we are sure that we can achieve the best results when we invest time and energy in developing our natural talents. As Monika, we are big fans of open communication and building companies and it’s internal rules on values.
For the last 8 years, Monika was doing HR in IT. She was responsible for recruiting candidates who best match the company’s needs and values, helping them grow and taking care of a safe and friendly environment to work. She is a mother of two almost grown-up kids and one crazy dog Ludwik 😉
Monika in Thaumatec will be a guardian of our internal, HR-related rules:
We’ve asked her what her impressions are after two months.
Why did you decide to join Thaumatec?
There were two general reasons: First, I wanted to join a smart and fast-growing medium size company, because I wanted to use my previous experience in new processes. Second, I was looking for a place where people are involved in interesting and valuable projects
I have to admit, I have been very much impressed after the interview with the way of thinking and solving problems of my potential colleagues! 🙂
And what does it look like after two months?
I’m still impressed! When I’m talking to developers and testers they all are happy with projects they are involved in. They are taking part in creating, for example, medical solutions which definitely help people, or they work on security solutions which are the safest tools in the world.
Within the management board, we inspire each other, working with such experienced people cause we are able to work smooth and fast, doing proper things at the proper time.
To summarize – it was a very good decision!
What is the biggest plus of joining a smaller company?
You can have a real influence on shaping the strategy and daily activities of the company. You know all the people and they know you, they can trust you and you can trust them. You are working with a smaller amount of processes and they are only designed to make your work easier, not to complicate it. Thaumatec is definitely not the corporation.
I can be engaged in many different projects – starting from recruitment, through employer branding and development, to end in managing the new office.
For me, it’s a very interesting, fresh experience, every day something new is happening.
Is it hard?
Not so, I’m still living my honeymoon! Everything is happening fast, every day is very intense, I need to switch from topic to topic and this makes me very excited.
Why should people join Thaumatec?
If you like working in smaller companies, you enjoy the fact of having an influence on the business and fast changes – it’s definitely a place for you.
We care about openness, if something is wrong we discuss it immediately. We like creativeness, so it’s definitely a great place for you if you like to think outside the box!
If you want to meet Monika in person, we are currently recruiting people for positions of:
Supporting ambitious students of Wrocław University of Science and Technology in their challenging projects it’s always a big pleasure for us!
We are very happy that this year, once again we could grow our collection of diplomas for being the Gold Sponsor of Team Projects Conference (Konferencja Projektów Zespołowych)!
It’s our 6th consecutive year, so we already have six of them and we are sure we will have more!
Thank you Maciej Nikodem for this great partnership!
Thaumatec’s 6th consecutive year to be the Gold Sponsor of Team Projects Conference (Konferencja Projektów Zespołowych) on Wrocław University of Science and Technology. These projects are interdisciplinary and are performed by undergraduate students as an obligatory course during the penultimate year of study.
From the very beginning of KPZ in 2011, more than 4500 students realised around 500 projects with the support of 50 companies. Despite the coronavirus epidemy, this year over 900 students realised 61 projects, supported by 29 companies.
This year (as 5 times in the past) Thaumatec has handed in several exciting projects proposals for students to work on. Thaumatec believes sponsoring these university events gives a great opportunity to exchange know-how experiences with university specialists and students. It also creates an opportunity to start on advanced research and development activities with the academic staff.“We are still looking for outstanding students, who would like to create their own projects in the area of Internet of Things or connectivity – with the support of Thaumatec” – said Dmytro Schestachuk, our Chief Technology Officer.
This year we supported the development of:
The knowledge we gained during those projects will be used in the successful development of the projects of our future customers.
We are very happy that once again we had the pleasure to support this initiative – it is a great way for us to meet the new generation of creative people with a passion for the technology and also to recruit some rising talents.
You can watch the conference below:
Sharing our knowledge is one of the most important values in Thaumatec DNA.
That’s why, we were more than happy when in march, one of the most-watched TV stations with international recognitions across Europe – RTL, selected us to create a movie for the national business program, explaining how to benefit from international cooperation between companies.
RTL TV was also shooting scenes from the daily lives of Thaumatec’s employees. The report will be shown on Dutch TV as part of the program “Nederland maakt het”.
Below you can see behind the scenes pictures of these 2 days of filming!
Together with our international smart healthcare customer – smartQare, we shared our best practices and stories, proving that working together on an international level has never been easier.
You can see the final result below!
In January 2020, Thaumatec appointed Paweł Bryła, to be the new Chief Operating Officer. The new Chief Executive Officer Maciej Stachura held the position that Paweł Bryła has today. As of March 11th, Dmytro Shestachuk became the Chief Technology Officer of the Thaumatec Techgroup. The new position of CTO will help realize the vision of the Thaumatec Techgroup being recognized as a technological leader for Embedded Software and Hardware, Connectivity and IoT Cloud Solutions.
“ As the company moves into the next face of growth, we are confident that Pawel and Dmytro’s past experiences will help Thaumatec Group, take it to the next level”, said the Chairman & Co-Founder of Thaumatec, Barend Smet.
Dmytro has held leadership positions not only in Poland but in Ukraine as well. He started there as a Mobile NetworkShift Engineer and worked his way up the ladder and landed as a Solution Architect and Embedded Practice Coordinator for GlobaLogic in Poland. Furthermore, he became an expert in handling architectural multi-project solutions related to the Embedded IoT areas.
Dmytro will be Thaumatec’s “key architect” to lead the path to new projects that will enable the company to thrive.
Pawel has experience in domains of telecommunication, connectivity, and IoT. He gathered his knowledge working on different positions, starting as a tester to become COO across his 12 years career in small local companies, as well as huge multinational ones. Success-oriented and ready to talk on different topics, especially connected with the IT sector.
In Thaumatec he is responsible for delivering projects, developing our HR activities and supporting sales processesThaumatec’s commitment to hiring the best personnel in the IT sector is crucial for the growth of it. Thaumatec looks forward to creating partnerships with its employees as well as, its customers. After all “we make the future matter and connect it to you”.
