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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Join a company which is leader in its field; join an experienced team on developing top Internet sites, in which clients and employees are treated with respect.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

REY JUAN CARLOS UNIVERSITY
Telematics Systems & Computing Department August 2008 – July 2009
Libre Software Engineering Research Subgroup
Researcher (Reporting to Director of Department):
• Project Member: New Generation of Mobile Social Networks based on Google Android.

YAHOO! EUROPE October 2006 – March 2008
European Senior Engineer (reporting to Head of EU Entertainment & Media Engineering):
• EU Entertainment & Media Engineering team member (News, Sports, Movies and Finance).
• EU FrontDoors Engineering team member (Homepage & My Yahoo!).
• Technical support to all engineers (junior & senior) from EU Market Engineering team.
Main achievements:
• Development of a powerful international platform to process content from providers.
• Member of the engineering team that built the new official site for EuroSport & Sports for Yahoo!.
• Member of the engineering team that built new News product.

YAHOO! EUROPE March 2003 – March 2008
Technical Lead Verticals Search Platform (reporting to Head of EU Media Engineering):
• Responsible for running European Verticals Search Platform involving the following products: News, Finance, Movies, Cars, Travel, Music/Launch, Games, Weather & Mobile.
Main achievements:
• Development and QA of FIFA World Cup 2006 search backend (9 languages).
• Member of the engineering team who built the following products: Movies, Music/Launch & Sports.

YAHOO! SPAIN February 2001 – May 2003
Market Engineer (reporting to Head of Spanish Market Engineering):
• Content integration from providers, enhancements & maintenance of Media products.
• Technical support to Sales and Production Departments.
• IT support (software & hardware) for Yahoo! office in Madrid.
Main achievements:
• Member of the engineering team that built Spanish Yahoo! Movies product.
• Search and selection of IT personnel & transition of responsibilities.

At Yahoo! I also was recognized with multiple individual and team member awards.

ÁNDAGO October 1996 – January 2001
Head of Systems Department, coordinating a team of 5 people (reporting to Director of Production):
• Development of products based on Debian Linux: Virtual Link, VPN & Virtual MAP.
• ISP administrator: sendmail, bind, radius & hosting.
• Technical support for development of dynamic websites for clients.
• Technical support to Customer Care Department.
• Responsible for IT Department (hardware & software).
Main achievements:
• Development and QA of Virtual MAP product that was installed across 200 offices of the MAP.
• Development and deployment of Sainco intranet.

Additional experience while studying at University
• Development and running of a telnet chat for 3 years (1995-1997).
• Helped with system administration of 3 SunOS workstations and 40 NetBSD desktops at the Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones (GSyC) & Unix Alumni Lab at University (1994-1997).
• IT Support (hardware & software) at the Escuela Superior del Ejército (1997).

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

MÁSTER OFICIAL EN SISTEMAS TELEMÁTICOS E INFORMÁTICOS
REY JUAN CARLOS UNIVERSITY – 2008 ~ 2009.

TECHNICAL ENGINEERING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE OF MANAGEMENT
CARLOS III DE MADRID UNIVERSITY- 1992 ~ 1997.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

PROGRAMMING
PHP, Perl, Javascript, Java, C, C++, Pascal, Tcl/Tk, ADA, Cobol & Assembler.

DATABASES
Design and implementation of Relational Databases: SQL y MySQL.

UNIX
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD & SunOS.

WEB DEVELOPMENT
HTML, JavaScript, DOM, PHP, MySQL, XML, SEO, RSS, XSL, AJAX & Apache.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Agile/Scrum.

COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

Training Courses:

• Introduction to Project Management (Business Managament Consultants).
• AJAX (Crea Formación).
• Change Management (Adecco).
• Time Management (Adecco).
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using the UML, v4.2 Rational University (Adecco).

LANGUAGES

ENGLISH
• First Certificate in English, Cambridge University (Grade B)
• I worked in multicultural, geographically distributed teams and I worked at all major Yahoo! Europe offices during short periods of time.

OTHER INFORMATION

Personal development:
• P2P Direct Connect client (Perl).
• Sudokus solution solver (Perl).
• ToDo Tool (PHP).
• Table Soccer Tracking (PHP).

August, 2008