Álvaro Quintana Email & Phone Number

Remote

Gooten is an eCommerce technology platform that enables businesses to easily and automatically fulfill orders for products made on-demand.Key Achievements:* Designed and developed foundation classes for communication with external manufacturers systems on top of the .NET Asynchronous Programming Model. Integrated backend services with new print on demand manufacturers based on business needs.* Integrated backend shipping services with Shippo (https://goshippo.com/) in order to get accurate data on the shipping times of orders processed by the system. This project had a huge impact on the business because it provided the data required to properly estimate shipping times in the order management platform.

Cartagena Colombia

Worked for Johnson Controls Inc. (through MAS Global Consulting).Key Achievements:• Frontend development, worked on a wide range of activities to provide a full user experience on the application using the technologies defined by the company: Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Infragistics controls, KnockoutJS, MVC Views. Also I worked with Salesforce team to provide an integration with Salesforce canvas (this application was running integrated with Salesforce).• Backend development, worked on the development of Web Services (RESTFul) to implement services exposed to other applications. To achieve this I worked with .NET WebApi Version 2, Swagger to document the services, Ninject API (for dependency Injection).• Database development, creating or updating stored procedures (Microsoft SQL Server)• Unit Testing, all deliverables I provided were properly Unit Tested (NUnit), always providing a complete code coverage of the code developed (at least 90% code coverage)

New York

http://www.ebillity.comTime tracking software that lets you enter time from any device.Key Achievements:• Real time performance analysis to improve performance in core application modules.• Developed new features for the main product in the company "Time Tracker” allowing them to integrate the application with Xero (online accounting software).• Developed new features for the main product in the company "Time Tracker” allowing them to integrate the application with ZenPayroll (online payroll application for US companies).

Veracruz Area, México

As an application architect, is my responsibility analyze and design a high level architecture for new application initiatives or redesign existing ones to maximize their capabilities.It’s part of the role, to provide architectures which minimize the development cost, throughout the usage of technological frameworks and leveraging the applications previously implemented to reuse their functionality, applying well-known enterprise integration patterns. Key Achievements:• eCommerce web based application architecture definition. This architecture integrates with already defined SOA layer and provides a rich UI experience to the user providing a iGoogle like dashboard web interface. A prototype was developed as part of the deliverables and served as a framework to initiate development.

Bogotá, Colombia

Member of the Research and Development area. Responsible for the improvements and development of new features to increase the productivity of the company mobile development framework.Key Achievements:• Development of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the company mobile development framework using Visual Studio Shell (SDK) as the base project to increase developers productivity giving them a flexible and well-known development environment. • Development of custom LanguageService to provide a grammar for the framework language (Based on ECMAScript).• Design of panel for mobile preview rendering of source code• RESTFul Web Service layer design and development used provide an interface between the mobile application deployment server and the client IDE. • Visual Studio Shell integration with Team Foundation Server• Insight knowledge of SCRUM methodology used as the development framework for the application development.Additionally, this experience give me the opportunity to work with foreign people increasing my English language fluency.

Bogotá, Colombia

As a Senior Software Developer, i play a lead role in the design and development of mission critical government system, used to support the Colombian electoral process in a wide range of states at national level.Due to my work in this project i was able to gain experience as a Technical Leader in several electoral processes (Presidential, Council, Senate).Additionally i work in core business project related to Document Capture software to increase the productivity of the already existing applications used by the company.Key Achievements:• Linux Debian Lenny server installation and configuration, implementing a High availability (clustering) solution to provide reliability and availability to the systems running on it.• Database configuration (PostgreSQL) on the deployed environments to support Master-Slave replication mechanism.• Glassfish server installation, configuration and tuning to deliver high performance in the deployed solutions.• Architecture definition for core modules related to the voting government system to improve performance, information reliability and availability of the designed system.• Architecture definition for the system used to scrutiny the votes in the Colombian electoral process.• Architecture definition for a Medical Bill Audit system required by the company to improve its current business process.

Cartagena, Colombia

Provide assessment to clients in the design and development of fully automated and integrated industrial systems.This experience allowed me to work with a multi-disciplinary group due the need of a variety of engineers of all areas to develop an industrial system, increasing my communication and coaching skills. Key Achievements:• Member of the design and development team that develops the systems to track, monitor and control of Heat Treatment production line. This includes integration with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to properly track production information of each product.

Cartagena, Colombia

Participation as a web developer in a project for administration of a previously telecommunication related application.Key Achievements:• GUI design and implementation using ASP .NET• Business layer implementation

Cartagena, Colombia

This was my first experience as a Functional Analyst, and give me the opportunity to see the software development process in the client side, gain proficiency in Rational Unified Process and increasing my communication skills to properly understand business requirements and focus development in the real client needs.Key Achievements:• Responsible of system functional definitions for later development.• Member of the team responsible of legacy system migration to SAP ERP.

Cartagena, Colombia

My first experience as a professional. Responsible of Legacy system maintenance and development of new functionalities.Key Achievements:• Design and development of web modules for the company ERP system.• Implementation of SugarCRM (Open source) as a platform for marketing and sales management.

Postgraduate Degree, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architect

Bachelor'S Degree, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering