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Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Architecture Group., 62nd NW Ave, Johnston, IA
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Senior
member of the architecture group. Responsible for the creation of a new
software architecture to help J2EE developers teams to increase productivity.
Advice project managers and lead developers on architectural decisions. Fill
the role of software architect on several developer teams. Mentor application
development staff on new technologies and security practices. Deliver presentations on company wide
meetings about different software and security topics.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Architecture Group., 62nd NW Ave , Johnston, IA
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Senior
member of the architecture group. Responsible for the development of complex
computer applications (J2EE) that meet defined worldwide business
requirements. These business
applications facilitate the sharing of information to assist in business
decision-making and to support the daily operations of the business. Also responsible for providing technical
guidance to the application development staff.
ABC Virtual Communication, Regency 1 Building 1501 50th Street, West Des Moines, IA
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Senior
member of the technical team at ABC Virtual Communications. Primarily
responsible for design and development of web-based software solutions for
Pioneer Hi Bred Int. Member of company-wide re-usable component initiatives.
Work with various web enabling technologies as well as object-oriented
methodology using Java and Rational Rose. Design and develop web-centric
interfaces to access server-based relational databases and generate reports.
Mentor and support other developers.
Contracts and Grants Office, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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Responsible
for researching and maintaining a central database server for transaction
management, and implementation of security policies to protect the Network
server. This database contains all university research proposal and award
data. Helped configure server and train
users for using Oracle 7.3. Also, responsible for administering and maintaining
a Windows NT server and a Linux workstation running an Apache Web server and a
MySQL database. Participate in the maintenance of the network, trouble shooting
hardware and software problems on both the Macintosh and PC systems.
Vessing C.A., Caracas, Venezuela
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Worked
in the design and development and installation of three digital fault recorders
(DFR) to be installed on a new hydroelectric power plant. Also, I supervised the modification in
hardware and software of 21 DFRs which allowed the recorders to synchronize the
date and time using a Global Positioning System (GPS), giving users an easy way
to compare the data collected by the registers.
Vessing C.A., Caracas, Venezuela
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Started
network composed of three machines in our department to share information about
projects and presented a plan to the board of directors to install a network
server to share information between all departments in the company. In December 1996 the plan was approved and I
was appointed administrator of the network.
By July 1997 the network consisted of one server running Windows NT 3.51
server connected to 50 computers running Windows NT workstation 4.0 or Windows
95. The server handled email, file
sharing, version control software, file backup and printing. Work included testing new hardware and
software for the network, installing operating system on new computers,
troubleshooting, maintenance, system security and Supervising the connection of
new computers to the network.
Vessing C.A., Caracas, Venezuela
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Worked
in the design and development of software for five Analog Processing units
(APU), designed to substitute voltage, current and power transducers for
distribution sub-stations. Given the success of this project all the new Remote
Terminal Units (RTUs) for distribution sub-stations use APU instead of
transducer to measure the electric signals.
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Design
and development of software for three RTUs for the Instituto Costarricence de
Electricidad in San José, Costa Rica.
Vessing C.A., Caracas, Venezuela
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Worked
in the design and development of software for RTUs to be installed on electric
sub-stations or power plants. These
units gathered information in real time and transmitted data to a master
station for user supervision. An
in-house real time kernel developed in C is used to control the priority of
each task performed by the RTU. This also included the development of
communication protocols such as MODBUS to communicate between RTUs and master
station. All the development was done
in C, C++, and Assembler 8086.
Corposistemas Tec, Caracas, Venezuela
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Installed
Novell Network clients and provided user support for PC computers on a Novell
network. The company was in charge of
maintenance and user support for the INELECTRA network. INELECTRA is a
consulting company in charge of several projects for oil companies in
Venezuela. This network consisted of
five servers running Novell 3.11 serving 350 users.
SoftLogic C.A., Caracas, Venezuela
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Repaired
and upgraded Macintosh computers. This included hardware and software
troubleshooting and user support.
Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Departments, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela
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Gave
two recitations per week to resolve exercises related with the subject matter,
assigned and evaluated homework, and assisted the professor during exams.
M.S. in Computer Engineering, August 1999 - Iowa State
University, Ames, IA
B.S. in Electronics
Engineering, October 1991 - Simón Bolívar
University, Caracas, Venezuela.
"Intranet Design and Implementation" - Caracas, Venezuela, May 1997
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A
one-week course about design and implementation of Intranets. The course focused on the use of Web servers
and Internet tools as a method to share information within a company.
"UML, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design" - Des Moines, Iowa, August
2002
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A
one-week course about OOAD and the UML, describes the OOAD development process
and teaches how to plan for a project.
Member for the "Information Assurance Center" while studying at Iowa
State University (http://www.iac.iastate.edu/index.html
).
Debian developer.(http://www.debian.org/ ).