Christian López Espínola

Current

• Developer at eMaCMAS (Sole Proprietorship)
• Open Source Developer at ArgoUML

Past

• Developer at Arion Grupo
• Freelance web developer at INERCO
• Google Summer of Code 2008 Student at Google

• Project Manager at Fidetia
• Trainer at Independant Consultant (Self-employed)
• Developer at CSIC - EBD
• Google Summer of Code 2007 Student at Google, Inc
• Open Source Developer at OpenLayers
• Developer at Arion Grupo

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Education

• Universidad de Sevilla

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Computer Software

Christian López Espínola’s Summary

I'm a experienced .NET developer, with experience on Windows Forms and ASP.NET.

I have worked on Java technology.

I have worked in web development, with experience in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML technologies, like XSLT, XQuery.

I have knowledge about GIS systems. I have built them based on OpenSource.

Christian López Espínola’s Specialties:

Software Quality Assurance, Usability, and SEO.

I like team management, and I am an agile methodologies lover, and a SCRUM practitioner.

ITIL v2 Foundation Certification (May 2009)

Christian López Espínola’s Experience

• Developer

  eMaCMAS (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Computer Software industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Open Source Developer

  ArgoUML

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  I'm the responsible of the Sequence Diagram subsystem in ArgoUML, among another contributions along the project.
  I also contribute with spanish localization.
  You can see my history in ArgoUML in my Ohloh profile [1]
  
  [1] http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/670

• Developer

  Arion Grupo

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2009 — June 2009 (5 months)

  Development at BAS Nucleo department.
  
  My main activity in the team was developing an ASP.NET code generation framework for generating webapps integrated with their ERP, BAS.
  
  I proactively encouraged my department to improve our software development lifecycle (SDLC). I was responsible for the setup and administration of VS Team Foundation Server (TFS) and teaching how to use these tools in order to improve the quality of our product. I was also responsible for the migration from Sourcesafe to TFS. I organised some training about testing methodologies, how to use unit tests and how to write testable/readable code, using the Unit Test framework included with VSTS and the Moq library for mock objects. I also setup the Continuous Integration build server, and provided different metrics to developers and managers for watching and controlling the evolution of the project.

• Freelance web developer

  INERCO

  (Environmental Services industry)

  September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)

  Development of a CMS for internal use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX.

• Google Summer of Code 2008 Student

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)

  Successfully completed "UI Code generation for ArgoUML property panels" working with the ArgoUML project.
  
  Technologies: Java.
  Developer Student during Google Summer of Code 2008.

• Project Manager

  Fidetia

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — September 2008 (7 months)

  I was the project lead of a project called Gesmed, developed for Easy IS and Instituto Andaluz de Tecnología.
  
  I was responsible of the success of the team, composed by two devs and me. I was the responsible of estimations, planning and some other managements tasks, and development too.
  
  We developed a instrument management website using ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, the AJAX Control Toolkit, SubSonic and some other technologies.
  
  The team used Subversion and Trac for the management of code and issues/tasks.

• Trainer

  Independant Consultant (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2007 — November 2007 (2 months)

  "Forensics Analysis on Windows Systems". A seminar for University of Seville IT employees.
  
  "Web Security". For University of Seville IT employees.

• Developer

  CSIC - EBD

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2006 — September 2007 (1 year )

  I worked on a project for the Estación Biológica de Doñana, organization dependent of CSIC, a government scientific investigation agency.
  
  Geographic Information System with oss: OpenLayers, Mapserver.
  Extranet website (technologies: XHTML CSS Javascript ASP.NET and C#).
  
  Not officially presented, but online at http://161.111.228.104/CuadernosEnLaRed/Extranet
  
  Pdf creation for the organisms cards with iTextSharp.
  I increased productivity and quality by implanting Trac and Subversion at the organization.
  Contract through Fidetia.

• Google Summer of Code 2007 Student

  Google, Inc

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Successfully completed "Sequence Diagrams Improvements" working with the ArgoUML project.
  
  Technologies: Java.
  Developer Student during Google Summer of Code 2007.

• Open Source Developer

  OpenLayers

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)

  I contribute sporadically to this opensource project.
  
  Technologies: Javascript, mapping
  
  http://openlayers.org

• Developer

  Arion Grupo

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Development of a IDE for the BAS ERP.
  Developed with C# and Windows.Forms 2.0.
  Contract through Fidetia Foundation.

Christian López Espínola’s Education

• Universidad de Sevilla

  Computer Science 2003 — 2009

  Student Representative [2005-2007]

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE, DotNetClub, Sugus GNU/Linux

Additional Information

Christian López Espínola’s Groups:

IEEE, IEEE Student Branch Sevilla, IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, DotNetClub, SUGUS GNU/Linux, AsCII

•    The Official IEEE Group
•    SoftwareEngineering
•    DotNetClubs
•    .NET People
•    Networking Activo
•    Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    Open Source Universe
•    .Net Professionals
•    GIS
•    Friends of Spain / Amigos de España
•    Model Driven Architecture
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    TurboGears
•    Spanish Connection
•    Sevillanos
•    Software + Services (SAAS)
•    Alumni ETSI Sevilla
•    GSoC
•    informatica.us.es
•    Software construction process
•    Agile Spain
•    FindBugs
•    Marketing 2.0 en Español
•    OpenLayers
•    Ecosistemas Software
•    Agile Spain Sevilla

Christian López Espínola’s Honors:

- Distinguished Student at ETSII Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla in 2008
- Successfully finished Google Summer of Code (TM) 2008
- Distinguished Student at ETSII Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla in 2007
- Successfully finished Google Summer of Code (TM) 2007

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