Christian Quirós Email & Phone Number

Remotely From Costa Rica

Worked as a contractor for Active Sports Inc, my responsibilities included:- Gathering and analysis of business requirements.- Planning and design of software solutions.- Coordinate and deliver integrations with third party tech vendors, from planning to coding and deployment to production. - Execution of proof of concept projects to evaluate technologies or practices.- Self training on latest technologies.- Mentoring of peer software developers.- Give advise to the VP of Software Development about architectural decisions. - Operate and support of production environments.- Installation and configuration of production environments.- Move of legacy software to new servers.- Maintain and improve third party legacy code.- Software development using the following technologies and practices: TDD, Unit Testing, DDD, IoC, Design Patterns, REST Webservices, ORMs (NHibernate), AngularJS, Microsoft .NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, ServiceStack, MS SQL Server, MySQL, IIS, Amazon AWS, Team Foundation Server,

Remotely From Costa Rica

Working as a contractor for Active Sports Inc, my responsibilities included:Essential functions- Analyze complex business needs presented by my client and recommend technical solutions.- Ensure the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.- Produce a detailed timeline for each application release and implements effective project control by monitoring the progress of the software release and reporting the status.- Direct and prioritizes the workload of team members.- Review all designs, code and unit test plans.- Ensure changing business requirements translate into the best technical solution by working with stakeholders, QA, and developers.- Participate in software evaluations and maintains vendor contracts.- Direct education programs for my staff.- Perform liaison duties between users, operations, and programming personnel in the areas of systems design, modifications or troubleshooting.- Perform salary administration and conducts interviews. Make recommendations for new hires, consultants and/or replacement personnel.

I worked coding reusable web controls that other internal developers could use in their projects.I also worked in the Integrations team creating new services that made it possible for strategic partners or customers to interact with the SaaS system programmatically.

Worked as a Senior Developer for companies in the United States through the excellent nearshore services provided by Informatech.

I presented the following workshops and briefings:Location: Microsoft Costa Rica officesTopic: Service Oriented ArchitecturesAudience: Several Microsoft’s customers in the country.Location: Secretaría de Finanzas de HondurasTopic: .NET PlatformAudience: Banco Central de Honduras IT department EmployeesLocation: Banco Central de HondurasTopic: .NET Security and OLAP, DatawarehouseAudience: Banco Central de Honduras IT department EmployeesLocation: Microsoft El Salvador officesTopic: .NET PlatformAudience: Several Microsoft’s customers in the country.Location: ISSTELEON Monterrey MexicoTopic: .NET PlatformAudience: IT DepartmentLocation: AbaSeguros Monterrey MexicoTopic: Microsoft Team Foundation ServerAudience: IT Deparment EmployeesPROJECTS:Migration of Visual SourceSafe Repositories to Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Training for 80 users in the use of the client tool (Team Explorer), 4 users trained in installing, configuring, and administration topics. AbaSeguros Monterrey Mexico.Design and development of a pocket PC application used by Pemex PEP executives to navigate and download files from Sharepoint 2.0 document libraries. This application was developed using ASP.NET for Mobile, XML WebServices and C#, SharePoint 2.0 API.Development of a Pocket PC application for viewing sales and production data from a data warehouse. This application was developed using Compact Framework, XML WebServices, ADO.NET, OLAP, XML for Analysis, Active Directory, C#.SINPE: Design and development of generic service interfaces components to establish communication between the systems of several financial entities in the country and the SINPE WebServices provided by the Central Bank of Costa Rica. Use of C#, Oracle 9i PL/SQL, WebServices, X509 Certificates, WS-Security.