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Hawthorn, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Joined the Microsoft patterns & practices group and later with the Microsoft Live Labs group on projects such as Updater Application Block v2.0, Composite UI Application Block (CAB), Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF), Web Client Software Factory (WCSF), Smart Client Software Factory Update.

Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Worked in a U$S 18 million project for SIDERAR, the major steel industry in Argentina. The goal of the project consisted in building a middle tier application which will host every interaction with the major back-end systems such SAP, Mainframe, OLAP and several production systems, offering a unified mechanism for the users to interact with such disparate ambient. This involves the construction of an Application Framework and a Presentation Framework, both using Microsoft .NET Technology… Show more • Worked in a U$S 18 million project for SIDERAR, the major steel industry in Argentina. The goal of the project consisted in building a middle tier application which will host every interaction with the major back-end systems such SAP, Mainframe, OLAP and several production systems, offering a unified mechanism for the users to interact with such disparate ambient. This involves the construction of an Application Framework and a Presentation Framework, both using Microsoft .NET Technology, which will be used to construct a development and administration environment, as well an execution environment, all of them web based. My tasks were mainly focused on the Presentation Framework.• Worked in a project with the Microsoft patterns & practices group developing the Updater Application Block Version 2.0• Participated in the implementation of MBI (Microsoft Business Integrator) and on user education on how to develop MBI applications for the “El Mercurio” journal in Santiago de Chile, Chile.• Involved in a geographical distributed group developing FABRIQ, which is a reference implementation and guidance of an optimized architecture for fast, one-way, message processing within network-distributed nodes. This project was led by Microsoft EMEA, and locally coordinated by Microsoft Argentina. Show less

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Initially employed as a web support and maintenance resource my responsibilities included:• Ensure web site reliability and accountability, running Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Information Services 3.0 with Active Server Pages and SQL Server 6.5• Maintenance and support for the web site operators, developing tools based on Microsoft Office 97• Reverse engineering of the previous version after the fact that relevant development documentation was missingLater on I was promoted and… Show more Initially employed as a web support and maintenance resource my responsibilities included:• Ensure web site reliability and accountability, running Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Information Services 3.0 with Active Server Pages and SQL Server 6.5• Maintenance and support for the web site operators, developing tools based on Microsoft Office 97• Reverse engineering of the previous version after the fact that relevant development documentation was missingLater on I was promoted and I was responsible for:• Architect a new version of the site, very much larger an complex, for this assignment I was entitled as the Program Manager, and I was to:o Conform and educate a team for the projecto Research and test new technologieso Manage the team to achieve success• Develop and implement the new version of Portfolio Personal financial online trading site. Show less

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Prototyping groupware applications using on Windows DNA.• Create and participate in a team for building a framework based on DNA to build groupware applications• Build a commercial DNA version of an existing workflow product developed by SISDAM on Lotus Notes using the developed framework. • Architect, develop and deploy of a Document Tracking Workflow System, for an international corporate banking firm. It was an Intranet Application built using:• Development of a hybrid… Show more • Prototyping groupware applications using on Windows DNA.• Create and participate in a team for building a framework based on DNA to build groupware applications• Build a commercial DNA version of an existing workflow product developed by SISDAM on Lotus Notes using the developed framework. • Architect, develop and deploy of a Document Tracking Workflow System, for an international corporate banking firm. It was an Intranet Application built using:• Development of a hybrid solution for Coca-Cola Argentina. This solution involved a Lotus Notes workflow front-end and a Transactional SQL Server 6.5 supported data repository.• Architect, develop and deploy an Expenses Report Approval Workflow for Coca-Cola Argentine, this time a standard client/server application using Visual basic 6.0 and SQL Server 6.5. • Developed of several JavaScript scriptlets for using then with Lotus Domino HTML generation. Show less

Buenos Aires, Argentina

This company required my services as technical advisor, programmers training, and solution architect:• Responsible of recruitment and training of a development team for Client/Server Applications using Microsoft Visual Basic and SQL Server 6.5• Architect a Workflow Automation System for Loan Payment Management in the banking industry.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Analysis and design of a new development process in order to improve efficiency and communication between the development groups. I adopted (an adapted) the Microsoft Solution Framework Team Model for Software Development• Implementation, management and training of a document versioning system, using Microsoft Visual Source Safe.• Development of Client/Server applications using Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 and SQL Server 6.5.• Responsible for the maintenance and upgrading of the Life… Show more • Analysis and design of a new development process in order to improve efficiency and communication between the development groups. I adopted (an adapted) the Microsoft Solution Framework Team Model for Software Development• Implementation, management and training of a document versioning system, using Microsoft Visual Source Safe.• Development of Client/Server applications using Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 and SQL Server 6.5.• Responsible for the maintenance and upgrading of the Life Insurance Sales Distributed System, an application for the salesman assistance, distributed geographically all over the country.• Analysis and Design of a prototype for remote salesman assistance on life insurance sales based on Internet. Basically, a web version of the application described above.• Conducted the legacy systems upgrading, from applications built with Clipper and Fox Pro to Client/Server applications using Microsoft Visual C++ and SQL Server 6.5• Actively involved in the integration process between the insurance system Vantage ONE (from Continuum Corp.) and the legacy systems, most of them Clipper and Fox Pro Applications.• Development and deployment of a NT printing service for printing documents from diverse sources, like Crystal Reports or Microsoft Office to leverage the previous system. Show less

Bachelor'S Degree, Systems Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Systems Analyst-Programmer