Experience

Neurotrack

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development Team Lead

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Senior Web Engineer

  • Nov 2021 - Feb 2023

  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Neurotrack develops digital cognitive health solutions that enable people to assess, monitor, and strengthen their brain health to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and other dementias. Part of the team responsible for all the Front-end user facing applications. Using the whole Vue stack to provide of senior users the best and easiest experience while using our applications.



Comet

• United States
• Internet Publishing

• Director of Software Engineering

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Comet is an all-in-one college app companion that helps high school students choose majors, find the RIGHT college(s), and organize everything to submit your college apps. Have been involved from the design & concept of the project. Currently iterating to get to a stable MVP. Our iterations involve small user groups. Using Angular 13 on frontend, Node/TypeScript/TypeORM on backend. Using Apache Solr resource management too. Everything hosted on AWS.



FYidoctors

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Sep 2019 - Nov 2021

  Calgary, Canada Area Public website developer. Maintain and update the CMS using Laravel PHP framework and Asgard CMS. MySql as database, some Vue components too. Unit testing & QA'ing. Developed two standalone Vue application, using vuex and vue routing, these are pre-appointment personal shopper tools for patients.



Blackline Safety

• Canada
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Dec 2018 - Aug 2019

  Calgary, Canada Area Working as part of a developer team on extending functionalities of the safety system using Php, Python, NodeJs and Elastic search, under an Agile environment with 2 week sprints.



None

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Side projects

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Hadoop ecosystem (2017-) Ongoing learning. Through an app in node.js, and using twitter API, we pull trending tweets and, using Google maps API, show them on a zoomable map. Loading these trends into hadoop hive using sqoop, with help of Scala we can analyze the information. Based on a cloud based system (AWS) Book REST Api (2017) Test project to introduce tech stack Node.js, express and, of course, Restful API's. Decipher letter substitution (2017) As a code challenge… Show more Hadoop ecosystem (2017-) Ongoing learning. Through an app in node.js, and using twitter API, we pull trending tweets and, using Google maps API, show them on a zoomable map. Loading these trends into hadoop hive using sqoop, with help of Scala we can analyze the information. Based on a cloud based system (AWS) Book REST Api (2017) Test project to introduce tech stack Node.js, express and, of course, Restful API's. Decipher letter substitution (2017) As a code challenge, this is my result. Using Node.js. Lanista (2018-) This is a Recreational Sports Management app, in partnership with a product manager in Silicon Valley. Using Android Studio and programming in Java. Hanoitowers (2018) Simple known game, Hanoi Towers. Using Javascript manipulation of DOM objects life appendtochild, lastchild, etc. Visual Sort (2018) Visual representation of know sort methods (Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, etc) in a graphical environment. Using Javascript, D3 and DOM manipulation of objects. Farmland IoT control (2018-) This is a startup project with a EvolveU classmate. The idea is, through a main dashboard, give the farmer more control over the status of this farmland and surroundings. Using IoT devices, we will monitor weather, wind, humidity, temperature and others. Tech stack to use (in definition): React native, D3, NoSql, Sql, Cloud computing Show less



Sandi S.A.

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager/Entrepreneur

  • Sep 2001 - Mar 2018

  Guadalajara Area, Mexico At this family-owned, English-only bookstore, this role was responsible for its P&L, sales strategies, and day-to-day operations, and all software/IT requirements. • Negotiated large contracts, including the largest university in Mexico (ITESM), resulting in $3M in revenues per fiscal year; grew annual revenues 10-15%. • Directed & executed the product development cycle from prototype to development to deployment of the complete sales systems, with inventory, purchasing, collections, and… Show more At this family-owned, English-only bookstore, this role was responsible for its P&L, sales strategies, and day-to-day operations, and all software/IT requirements. • Negotiated large contracts, including the largest university in Mexico (ITESM), resulting in $3M in revenues per fiscal year; grew annual revenues 10-15%. • Directed & executed the product development cycle from prototype to development to deployment of the complete sales systems, with inventory, purchasing, collections, and POS modules. Tech stack: Red Hat Linux, php, Interbase (Sql), some Javascript. • Researched & integreated a DOS propietery DB system, which had configurable DOS .bat interfase, into our Linux system & our own database. Tech stack: Red Hat Linux, DOSEmu, DOS, Perl, Interbase. • After a 'fail fast' try with Ruby on Rails development, had to reimplement the whole bookstore system from scratch again since going back to previous one was far from gone. Tech stack: Ubuntu Linux, php, MySql, jQuery, Ajax, javascript. • Coded electronic invoicing (v2.1) with 'approved stamping' making us one of the few small companies being able to generate their own invoices without having to wait for the approved stamping. Tech stack: curl, XML, php, webservices • Coded adaptation to v2.2 of electronic invoicing system rules. Still, gave business flexibility of having instant invoicing without depende of 3rd parties. Tech stack: curl, XML, php, webservices • Coded adaptation to v3.2 of electonic invoicing system rules. Major changes in the information rules required big changes within the system and system flow itself. Tech stack: curl, XML, php, webservices • Installed ethernet network, with VoIP phone system & router. • Architected online web sales system; focused on backend flow of gathering information. This was a outsourced project, but monitored and owned all requirements. Main concern was the gathering of book title information directly from publishers through Onix based structure. Show less



Axtel

• Poland
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Regional Manager

  • Aug 1999 - May 2001

  Mexico As the regional IT Manager, led the implementation of all software systems, presented proposals and reports to the executive team, worked in a cross-matrix environment and led cross- functional teams. • Formulated strategy in conjunction with headquarters IT staff and led the teams that solved all IT issues. • Researched, compared, and selected companies to install voice & data networks. • Supervised installation of network, computers, systems, and access in a 10- floor building, and 3… Show more As the regional IT Manager, led the implementation of all software systems, presented proposals and reports to the executive team, worked in a cross-matrix environment and led cross- functional teams. • Formulated strategy in conjunction with headquarters IT staff and led the teams that solved all IT issues. • Researched, compared, and selected companies to install voice & data networks. • Supervised installation of network, computers, systems, and access in a 10- floor building, and 3 other locations in the city. • Hired, managed, and developed 8 team members, in three different cities. • Started a local software development team, closing the gap between user requirement of information and the huge backlog that corporate IT software development team had. Tech stack: MS Sql server. Show less



Grupo REFORMA

• Mexico
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Revenue-generating Systems Software Manager

  • Dec 1991 - Jul 1999

  Mexico Beginning as a Software Development Analyst, and then quickly moving into a revenue- generating Systems Software Manager, managing all revenue systems: ad sales, subscription sales, newspaper sales, and wanted ad sales. • Led a startup team of 5; set up all systems in time for newspaper launch. • Responsible for all local operations and management in a cross-matrix team. • Product Owner for each of the revenue systems; led the design, architecture, coding, testing, setup, and… Show more Beginning as a Software Development Analyst, and then quickly moving into a revenue- generating Systems Software Manager, managing all revenue systems: ad sales, subscription sales, newspaper sales, and wanted ad sales. • Led a startup team of 5; set up all systems in time for newspaper launch. • Responsible for all local operations and management in a cross-matrix team. • Product Owner for each of the revenue systems; led the design, architecture, coding, testing, setup, and operations of all revenue systems. • Prior to launch of Mural (Guadalajara newspaper), had to code the core of the distribution system in a very short time, managed to deliver on time and with processes running three times faster than previous version. • Coded a system in Perl and HTML that allowed each newspaper section designer (for the first time) to work on a pre-layout, significantly increasing productivity and flexibility. • Worked extensively in MS Sql Server with all the systems, definining tables, indexes and stored procedures. Show less