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Costa Rica

Technology Manager focused on backend. In general, my mission is to reach as many collaborators as possible to guide and help them in their technical career development. This is reflected through the following responsibilities:- Coordination of the centers of excellence (CoE) of backend technologies to create initiatives related to technical excellence and generation of communities around common interests in programming languages.- Support to the Staffing area by defining technical levels, being part of groups focused on the successful resources colocation on multiple projects, profile standardization, and definition of technical interview processes.- Support to the Career Development area by defining and coordinating the technical aspect of the promotion process.- Collaboration with the Education area to provide educational resources to the employees to allow them to learn new concepts and improve technically.- Identify, improve and automate internal processes to accelerate the technical modernization of the company.- Finding new possible technical leaders and providing them the tools and mentorship they need to develop their potential.

Costa Rica

- I had the Tech Lead and Project Lead roles managing and mentoring a team of software and QA engineers. - Owner of the successful migration of key features, thousands of users, and millions of database records of a project part of the energy industry that allows access to land information in the United States. This migration created a significant performance improvement and increased the response speed of the application, as well as the access to new markets that generated new income streams.- Work closely with stakeholders in the definition and creation of the new application's functionality.- Communication channel between the client and the technical team.- Definition and decision-making about the project's software architecture and best practices.- Task prioritization and assignment, as well as technical growth initiatives for the QA and development teams. - Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies.

Costa Rica

- In charge of providing educational resources for all employees and creating spaces for knowledge sharing.- Coordinate the multiple subareas involved in this team (Certifications, Courses, Library, Talks, and Events)- Manage the budget for the GAPsters' needs related to learning and education.- During my leadership the team grew from 6 to 13 people being able to provide learning resources for hundreds of employees successfully. - The subareas were re-organized into two main sections (consumption and production) which provided better focus and collaboration between subareas. - The main processes, especially for events coordination and financial aid requests for educational resources, were documented.- A new Podcast subarea was created.

San José, Costa Rica

- In charge of all digital projects.- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s services.- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely.

Costa Rica

- Tech Lead role managing a team of software and QA engineers.- Technical administration of multiple projects focused on the energy industry.- Work closely with the PO in the definition and creation of the new application's functionality.- Communication channel between the client and the technical team.- Work closely with the Scrum Master and provide support with his responsibilities by prioritizing and assigning tasks to the development team. - Scrum Agile Methodology.

Costa Rica

- Team member for the development of an international project that includes a website with responsive design, single-page app, cloud storage, and apps for iOS and Android.- My responsibilities are the development and maintenance of the project using the latest Microsoft technologies.

Costa Rica

- In charge of all digital projects.- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s services.- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely.- Involved in the decision making process of the project.

San José, Costa Rica

- Project manager for new entertainment products development.- Project manager for new real time systems development.- Team member of android native apps development.- In charge of setting new development standards.- Tools and technologies: Visual Studio 2005-2008-2010, Eclipse, C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Entity Framework, WCF, HTML, XML, XSL, MSSQL, SQL Server 2000-2005-2008, Web Services, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, JSON, Phonegap, Android SDK, PHP, Wordpress, IIS 6.0.

San José, Costa Rica

- Team member of tablet version development for various websites.- In charge of multi-language support for several websites.- Project manager of critical logic merge from two international websites.- Team member of mobile version development for various websites. - Improvement of critical logic on transactional websites (Signup, login and transaction processes).- Tools and technologies: Visual Studio 2005-2008-2010, Eclipse, C#, ASP.Net, HTML, XML, XSL, MSSQL, SQL Server 2000-2005-2008, Web Services, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, JSON, Phonegap, Android SDK, PHP, Wordpress, IIS 6.0.

San José, Costa Rica

- In charge of SEO tools improvement and integration with custom CMS.- Participation on a new cashier module development for transactional websites.- In charge of several websites optimization and performance improvement. Transcription of client side code from Javascript to jQuery and implementation of unobtrusive JavaScript.- In charge of new in-house tools development. (New modules for Custom CMS)- Participation on the technology migration project from .Net Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to .Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010 on 30 websites.- Tools and technologies: Visual Studio 2005-2008-2010, C#, ASP.Net, HTML, XML, XSL, MSSQL, SQL Server 2000-2005-2008, Web Services, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, IIS 6.0.

- Supervision and personal management. Responsible for at least 5 people.- Data analysis, data processing, creation of statistics and data tabulation. - Creation of scripts that reduced the time of business processes.- Training responsibilities.- Tools and technologies: Unix, vim Editor, Quantum, SPSS, Java

- Design, creation and development of business software modules. - Maintenance, support and upgrade of business software packages.- Customer Service.- Tools and technologies: Power Builder, MSSQL, SQL Server 2000

Master'S Degree, Information Resources Administration

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Systems Engineering