Carlos Quintero Vivar

Current

• Owner at MZTools Software
• Software Technology Chief at Sogecable

Past

• Cofounder, Main Developer at Tambalea Entertainment
• Software Technology Chief at CATSA
• Crosswords creator at Ediciones Pléyades

• Developer at Infostrat S.A

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Education

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Connections

37 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Carlos Quintero Vivar’s Summary

With a telecommunication engineering academic background, I have focused my career as a software and computer technology specialist and manager in different programming languages, development environments, tools and technologies, mainly in the Windows operating system with Microsoft tools.

I have a passion for everything related to software: design, user interface, development, testing, quality, team collaboration, specifications, management, usability, methodologies, etc., either for commercial software or for in-house applications in corporations, working with smart and highly talented people to achieve the excellence in the final result: the software. The two key goals that I pursue when creating software are quality and innovation, not for the sake of technology, but to improve the life of people in some way (work, productivity, relationships, entertainment, etc.)

I am also interested in complementary subjects such as entrepreneurship, marketing, sales and customer support for software products. As a side project apart from my daily job in a big media company, I have created my own small company (a micro-ISV, actually) successfully releasing a family of software products sold in dozens of countries around the world and used by thousands of customers.

In order to keep myself up-to-date with software technologies and to learn from the best people in every field, I am an avid reader of books of well-known authors (either classic books in some subjects or recent ones for the latest technologies), magazines, web sites and blogs. I am also involved in software development communities, where I learn from, and where I contribute to answering questions in forums, writing articles in magazines and on my own blog. Microsoft has recognized this contribution with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title several years in a row since 2004.

Carlos Quintero Vivar’s Specialties:

Development of software from inception to release, sales, and customer support.

Carlos Quintero Vivar’s Experience

• Owner

  MZTools Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)

  Development of productivity add-ins (plug-ins) for Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA-enabled IDEs (Microsoft Office).
  
  Responsibilities:
  
  - Functional specifications
  - Technical specifications
  - User interface design
  - Development
  - Testing
  - Web design
  - Marketing
  - Order processing gateway
  - Sales
  - Customer support

• Software Technology Chief

  Sogecable

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  September 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)

  Responsibilities:
  
  - Development of software architectures
  - Development of frameworks and libraries for code reuse
  - Creation of standards for development of corporate software
  - Manager of the Database design and modeling group
  - Manager of the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) group
  - Manager of the Business Process Modeling (BPM) group
  - Development of software methodologies
  - Software security
  - Code optimization
  - Code quality
  - Code control and team collaboration
  - Best practices
  - Research of new software technologies, frameworks.
  - Development teams training

• Cofounder, Main Developer

  Tambalea Entertainment

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 10 months)

  Start-up company for the development of commercial crossword games for Java-enabled mobile phones.

• Software Technology Chief

  CATSA

  (Consumer Services industry)

  February 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 7 months)

• Crosswords creator

  Ediciones Pléyades

  (Entertainment industry)

  January 1992 — December 1999 (8 years )

  Development of software for the creation of crosswords to be published in the paper-based entertainment magazines of the company

• Developer

  Infostrat S.A

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 1994 — January 1997 (2 years 2 months)

  Developer

Carlos Quintero Vivar’s Education

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  Telecommunication Engineering 1987 — 1994

Additional Information

Carlos Quintero Vivar’s Groups:

•    Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals
•    Visual Studio Extensibility

Carlos Quintero Vivar’s Honors:

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2004 Visual Developer
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2005 Visual Developer
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2006 Visual Developer
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2007 Visual Developer
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2008 Visual Developer
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Award for Customer Excellence
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2009 Visual Developer
MSDN & TechNet Community Content Top Contributor Award 2008

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