Software Engineer Developer

JORGE GONZALEZ

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Possess expertise engineering client-server components and multi-tier applications using C++ and Java

Experience and solid knowledge of SQL, RDBMS and Cache Management systems

Demonstrated understanding of distributed systems and parallel programming techniques

Solid interpersonal skills and strong experience in software management & lifecycle process

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Computer Science (Software Engineering) (Expected May, 2010)

Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Engineering in Systems Engineering (March, 2005)

School of Systems Engineering, Universidad Metropolitana Caracas, Venezuela

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio.NET, IBM Rational Software Modeler

Databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Berkeley DB

Platforms: Windows Server family (2003/2008), MAC OS, Linux (Ubuntu)

Languages: C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, SQL, T-SQL

Technologies: TCP/IP, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, AJAX, Servlets, SVN

Methodologies: OOP/D, design patterns, ICM, Agile (SCRUM), UML

Certifications: CCNA, MCP

WORK EXPERIENCE

USC Database Lab, Research Developer (Internship) Summer 2009

Developed Cost Aware Cache Manager system COSAR used to scale data intensive web applications

Analyzed and implemented variants of LRU, LRU-SK and Greedy Dual Size cache replacement techniques

Built thread-safe components and low-level data structures in C++ (http://dblab.usc.edu/users/papers/cosar09.pdf)

Intersect World, LLC. Software Engineer (Internship) Summer 2009

Developed iPhone application in Objective-C using Apple iPhone s SDK and APIs from Flickr, Twitter and Facebook

Led development process from requirements analysis to testing phase, including submission to Apple store

Cavallin-Attias Sistemas, Senior Software Engineer (Full-time) June, 2006 July, 2008

Maintained and developed new features to Automatic Clearing House (ACH) platform in Citibank Venezuelan branch

Designed and built batch transactional components and relational database schemas for banking platforms

Oversaw group of 4 developers maintaining n-tier CMS (Gadget2Gadget) that hosted over 200 e-commerce sites

Developed online booking/payment systems for theater companies with more than 40 agencies distributed nationwide

Led development of customer automated billing system increasing overall Web Hosting product unit revenues by 30%

Vencash Corporation, Software Developer (Full-time) July, 2004 June, 2006

Inspired and proposed new products for emerging markets. Pioneered successful development of new APIs to help expand

and facilitate integration with the payment platform, attracting new merchants and business opportunities

Built event-based transactional message queuing applications for online payment processors

Developed back-end components to integrate e-commerce payment gateways with Banking systems, which were used for

about 60% of all Venezuelan e-Commerce sites for processing online payment transactions

Maintained and developed new features to online payment platforms (ePagos Gateway) using JSP and Servlets. This

platform was the biggest nationwide and processed over 800K transitions per year

Researched, designed and built AI agent for fraudulent pattern recognition over online credit card payments, which helped

stop over 70% of the overall online credit card fraudulent transactions

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE ~ (GRADUATE LEVEL)

Call Center Customer Care System: Software Developer (Software Architecture) Fall 2009

Developed event-based transactional system designed in C2 layered architecture style using Java (J2EE)

Reversi: Software Developer (Artificial Intelligence) Spring 2010

Built intelligent game engine in C++ using Mini-Max, Alpha-Beta pruning and Iterative Limited DFS search algorithms

References and recommendations on both personal and professional levels are available upon request.

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