javier ramirez

Current

spare-time freelance development at javier ramirez
web consultant, software architect at ASPgems

Past

Lecturer/Instructor at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
Web Development Instructor at Tracor
Author of "Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development" at Packt Publishing

post-sales engineer at Fatwire Corporation
co-founder, software architect, team leader, partner at utende
Project Manager at Intesys Integrated Software Services
Software Architect at Vector Software Factory
Team Leader at Genetsis Partners
Project Manager/Team Leader/Consultant at qarana solutions (formerly gran via internet)
Software Development Responsible at Intersneter
Lecturer/Instructor at Fundacion San Valero (Private University)

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Education

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

javier ramirez’s Summary

Software Architect/Project manager (10+ years working in IT) with a strong focus on web applications

Author of 'Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development' ( ISBN: 978-1-847193-98-8 ), published by Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/aptana-rapid-rails-development/book)

javier ramirez’s Specialties:

Management/development up to 15+ people teams (national and international projects)
Entrepreneurial experience (having co-founded a software development company).
Technical Training
Web Applications, Software as a Service, Content Management, online shops, online banking, e-commerce
j2ee, java,AJAX, ruby,ruby on rails, php,open source,coldfusion
JMS,MQSeries,Websphere MQ
Vignette, openmarket, fatwire, broadvision,mambo CMS
oracle,mysql,db2,sqlite,sqlserver

javier ramirez’s Experience

spare-time freelance development

javier ramirez

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
web consultant, software architect

ASPgems

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

ASPgems provides web applications, mainly in Application Service Provider mode, developed using the Ruby on Rails framework.

As a project manager and software architect, my tasks cover managing requirements, defining the architecture, coordinating and developing the assigned projects.

Besides, I deliver, Ruby on Rails training and I take a part in forums and conferences about this framework. I’m also a member of the Conferencia Rails Hispana organizing committee since the first edition in 2006.
Lecturer/Instructor

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)

March 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Teacher for the subjects "The Java Programming Language" and "Advanced Java" in 2nd and 3rd course of Software Engineering respectively.

I also delivered the Seminar "Programming with the Java Language" (20 hours throughout 7 weeks) for 2nd and 3rd degree Software Engineering students
Web Development Instructor

Tracor

(Higher Education industry)

April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)

Instructor at the Master Of Fine Arts in Computer Art. The name of my subject is "Introduction to Technology", covering the basics of Web Development and using PHP and MySQL for the exercises
Author of "Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development"

Packt Publishing

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)

Author of the book "Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development" (ISBN:978-1-847193-98-8)
post-sales engineer

Fatwire Corporation

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

Fatwire is a one of the world leaders in Content Management Software through its flagship product ContentServer (formerly OpenMarket)

As a post-sales engineer and training responsible, my tasks were to analyze our clients’ needs and to help them architecture their installations, as well as to support their applications and to deliver technical training.

Technologies: Fatwire Content Server/J2EE/JBoss/Oracle
co-founder, software architect, team leader, partner

utende

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )

Utende is a company providing business-oriented software solutions.

As a co-founding partner of the company, my tasks ranged from consulting and training, to project management and definition of different technological proposals.

Technologies: J2EE/PHP/ASP/Oracle/MySQL/MamboServer/OsCommerce
Project Manager

Intesys Integrated Software Services

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

Intesys is a consulting and development company present in several sectors.

Aa an international project manager for our client ‘Lilly’ laboratories, I was responsible for the whole life cycle of our projects, from business requirements to deployment.

Technologies: J2EE/ColdFusion/WebSphere/Solaris/Oracle
Software Architect

Vector Software Factory

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Vector Software Factory is a development company oriented to the model of software components.

As a Software Architect and Content Management Area Responsible, I managed and coordinated the development of different projects, working in the requirements definition, analysis, design and planning of the projects. I also helped the developers with technical issues.

I was responsible for external development of the Intranet portals in Banesto, helping the department to define Best Practices and contributing to their common components library. I was also involved in analysis for SCH and PRISA groups and in technical support for BBVA.

Technologies: J2EE/OpenMarket/DB2/Sybase/WebSphere/Solaris/Windows
Team Leader

Genetsis Partners

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

e-business and e-marketing company.

As a Team Leader, I coordinated the development of three portals for cajamadrid (fundación cajamadrid, obra social cajamadrid and la casa encendida). I took part in analysis and development and I was responsible for the technical team.

Technologies: J2EE/Weblogic/Vignette/Oracle/Solaris
Project Manager/Team Leader/Consultant

qarana solutions (formerly gran via internet)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Formerly named “Gran Via Internet”. E-banking and e-commerce

MANAGERLAND (Barcelona-Spain/Lisbon-Portugal,SEP ‘01-OCT ‘02): Home Banking Project. Team leader (8 people)
Technology: TCL/JAVA/Vignette/Weblogic/Oracle/Solaris

SPES EDITORIAL GROUP (Madrid-Spain, APR ‘01-AUG ‘01) e-Commerce project. Technical Team leader (7 people)
Technology: JAVA/Iplanet appServer/Oracle/Solaris/Windows

CITICORP (New York-USA, MAY ‘00-APR ‘01): Home Banking Project. Team leader for the Account Opening Process in CitibankOnline.com.
Technology: C++/JavaScript/Broadvision/Informix/Solaris

SUPERNET (Milan-Italy, FEB ‘00-MAY ‘00): Multi Home Banking project (one application serving to different banks with the same operations but different protocols/connectivity with the hosts).
Technology: C++/CORBA/SNA/Broadvision/Oracle/HP-UX

UNO-E BANK (Madrid-Spain, SEP ‘99-FEB ‘00): Home Banking Project. Senior Developer
Technologies: C++/CORBA/SNA/Broadvision/ORACLE/Solaris
Software Development Responsible

Intersneter

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Communication & Computing consulting firm. As the software development responsible, my tasks included the Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Installation of software projects (Visual Basic, Visual C++, Informix, HTML, javascript). Participation in International projects.
Lecturer/Instructor

Fundacion San Valero (Private University)

(Higher Education industry)

1995 — 1999 (4 years )

Higher Education Center (private university) (‘96-‘99)
Work as a Lecturer, teaching the subjects of “Software Engineering II” and “Analysis & Design Methods”.

Applied Technology Center (‘94-‘99)
Over 1500 teaching hours on the subjects of “Robotics” and “Computer Integrated Manufacturing (C.I.M.)”. Development of Multimedia training courses in cooperation with teams from other EU countries.

javier ramirez’s Education

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

BSc (1st Class Hons.) , Business Information Systems , 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

javier ramirez’s Websites:

javier ramirez’s Groups:

co-founder and member of the organization of "conferencia rails" (http://www.conferenciarails.org)

co-founder of "madrid-rb", the Ruby Users Group in Madrid, with monthly meetings (http://www.workingwithrails.com/group/3837-madrid-rb-madrid-ruby-and-rails-users-group)

co-founder of the "Spanish Ruby Users Group", responsible for the organization of EURUKO 2009, the European Ruby Conference (http://srug.org)