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Carlos de la Guardia
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Acueducto de Tarragona 49
Colonia Vista del Valle, Seccion Bosques
Naucalpan de Juárez
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Mexico
Home: (5255)53640026
cguardia@yahoo.com
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| Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) |
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May 1995 |
Bachelor of Science
Communication Science
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Atizapan de Zaragoza |
Graduated with honorable mention.
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January 2007 - Present |
Web developer and consultant
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Naucalpan de Juarez |
| · | Specialized on large web content management projects using the Plone CMS and other Zope related technologies.
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| · | Developed web applications and sites for a number of contract customers in México, USA, Chile and Spain.
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| · | Trained several groups of people at different companies in technologies like Zope, Python and Plone.
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| · | Involved in open source projects.
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September 2005 - January 2007 |
Web developer
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Naucalpan de Juarez |
| · | Co-owner of the company.
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| · | Developed web applications and sites for a number of contract customers.
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| · | Trained several groups of people at different companies in technologies like Zope, Python and Plone.
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| · | Involved in open source projects.
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October 1995 - August 2005 |
Web developer
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Distrito Federal |
| · | Co-founder of the company, which grew from two persons to 50 in three different countries.
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| · | Lead developer in most of our success stories
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| · | Also in charge of evaluating and selecting new technology
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March 1994 - May 1996 |
Researcher, teacher assistant
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Atizapan de Zaragoza |
| · | Member of one of the very first media research centers in Latin America focused on the Internet.
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| · | Co-creator of the first course of Internet as a communications medium in the country.
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| · | Imparted and developed one of the first page design courses in the country.
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| · | Participated in a team that introduced the mexican government to the use of the web as a medium of communication.
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April 1995 - August 1997 |
Trainer
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Mexico |
| · | Developed and imparted the training materials for a course offered free to all new subscribers of this ISP.
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June 1994 - March 1995 |
Technical support, trainer
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Naucalpan |
| · | One of the first employees of the first ISP in Mexico City.
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| · | Developed the training materials for introductory internet courses.
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| · | Leader of the telephonic technical support team.
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Recent important projects
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| · | Worked with Enfold Systems training Ministry of Work personnel in Nicaragua in Plone use and development.
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| · | Worked with Jazkarta developing code and documentation for several Plone projects, including Oxfam America, Oxfam Canada, Harvard SEAS and others.
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| · | Developed strategy and software for multiple sites of the Library of Congress in Chile.
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| · | On site consultant and developer for the web sites of www.cnnexpansion.com, www.chilango.com, www.saludempresarial.com and www.quien.com. Resposibilities include development of main web components, support for the development team and definition and set up of the high availability infrastructure.
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| · | Trained staff at the Library of Congress of Chile on Zope, Plone and Python technologies.
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| · | Trained staff at Grupo Editorial Expansion on Zope, Plone and Python technologies.
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Important projects while at Open Trails
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| · | Developed and maintained financial applications for Miami based EFG International brokers.
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| · | Developed plug ins for existing financial applications for Miami based Hencorp.
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| · | Trained staff at Mexican newspaper La Jornada on the use of Zope, Plone and Python.
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| · | Helped La Jornada develop the special site devoted to the Mexican elections in 2006.
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| · | Bootstraped development of Julius, the open source newspaper product for Plone began by La Jornada.
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| · | Helped La Jornada develop their last minute news website, which receives hundreds of thousands of visitors daily.
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| · | Trained staff at Mexican editorial group Expansion on the use of Zope, Plone and Python.
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| · | In the process of building the new websites for a number of Expansion's magazines.
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Important projects while at Aldea
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| · | Technology and methodology advisor to Aldea Guatemala for the creation of a web development outsourcing center. Responsibilities included interviewing and selecting project leaders, supporting those leaders on developer interviews, selecting and evaluating technologies, preparing and imparting course materials and defining the development process and methodology.
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| · | Development and architecture of an in-house business process engineering tool, including automatic form creation, business rule definition and graphical workflow management. This tool allows a non technical user to create a fully functional web application for various kinds of business processes without programming experience.
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| · | Definition and drafting of coding and development process standards used throughout the company.
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| · | Lead developer and architect of a web based credit process management application for Banobras in Mexico. As a government institution, the bank won a presidential award for technological achievement for this project.
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| · | Lead developer and architect of a content management and publishing site for Proceso magazine in Mexico. Responsibilities in this project included converting the magazine's archive of over 60,000 articles into a searchable catalog and setting up the production site with a web caching engine and load balancing for hundreds of thousands of daily hits.
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| · | Design and development of a tool for package delivery administration for DHL customers in Mexico. The software was distributed to more than 3,000 corporate customers and allowed them to keep a database of delivered packages and generate printed airway bills and bar codes for the shipments.
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| · | Part of the development team that created a custom content management application for policies and procedures at ISOSA (the main systems development contractor for the SHCP in Mexico), and later on at the SHCP itself.
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| · | Part of the development team that created an internet banking system for the now defunct Banco del Atlantico in Mexico.
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| · | Development of several credit simulation applets for the mortgage and housing credit branch of Banamex, Mexico's largest bank.
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| · | Capable of designing and developing complex internet applications using any available platform, including Zope/Python and all Java-based web application servers (J2EE), Mason, PHP and ASP.
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| · | Experience managing and developing complex content management sites with Plone.
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| · | Strong understanding of web technology and standards, which allows for quick adoption and practical use of new technologies.
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| · | Practical experience in object oriented programming and methodologies.
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| · | Extensive, real-world experience in Java, Python, and Perl.
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| · | Experience in setting up high availability web configurations with Apache, IIS and other servers, using web caching, load-balancing and clustering.
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| · | Capable of setting up and administering both Linux and Windows-NT based servers.
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| · | Very good knowledge of SQL and practical experience with many DBMS, including Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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| · | Good experience in creating client side web application interfaces using HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax.
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| · | Excellent writing and communication skills.
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| · | Experience managing mixed teams of developers and designers.
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| · | Fluent in English (TOEFL 283 out of 300)
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| · | Basic French (good reading skills, basic writing and speaking)
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| · | My web site is at http://www.delaguardia.com.mx
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| · | I keep a blog about Plone, Zope, Python and related technologies at http://blog.delaguardia.com.mx
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