Alejandro Villanueva

Current

CEO at EVATEC

Past

Systems Engineer at Xplayat
Engineering Director at Straw Pulping Engineering
Project Manager at Straw Pulping Engineering

Senior Programmer at ATCANET
Quality Assurance Engineer at Análisis, Control & Precisión
Junior Programmer at EDS

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Education

Universidad de Zaragoza

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Industry

Industrial Automation

Alejandro Villanueva’s Summary

** Pulp & Paper Industry:

Project & Resources Management. All jobs concerning turn-key projects in the Pulp & Paper Industry, including:

- Plant Layout
- Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)
- Piping Layout and Isometric Drawings
- Equipment specifications
- Erection supervision
- Instruments on-site calibration
- Distributed Control Systems (DCS) analysis
- Control Loops, Logic Diagrams and Automated Sequences design (Petri Nets, GRAFCET, GEMMA)
- Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) supervision
- On-site problem solving
- Performance Tests supervision

** Information Technology:

Project & Resources Management. Software development in Java, Ada 95, ANSI C, C++, Pascal, COBOL, SQL... under Windows and Linux using modern methodologies such as Extreme Programing, UML and HRT-HOOD.

Both Non Real Time (NRT) and Hard Real Time (HRT) programming paradigms, as well as Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and design. Multi-tiered architectures.

Relational Databases such as MySQL.

Windows, Linux and Macintosh platforms. Experimental real time operating system RTEMS.

Web programming under HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Server Faces (JSF) and Javascript.

Alejandro Villanueva’s Specialties:

Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), Control Loop Diagrams, Logic Diagrams, field instrumentation, Petri Nets, GRAFCET, software solutions.

Management of Industrial and IT projects.

Alejandro Villanueva’s Experience

CEO

EVATEC

(Oil & Energy industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Systems Engineer

Xplayat

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 9 months)

IT solutions development for tourism entities in Spain in J2EE platform under Windows operating system using Extreme Programing methodology.
Engineering Director

Straw Pulping Engineering

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)

Management of the Engineering Office, including resources and engineering personnel management, coordination with Purchasing Department and Process Department, report to General Director, requirement analysis, client relationship and problem solving.
Project Manager

Straw Pulping Engineering

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

November 2002 — October 2007 (5 years )

Turn-key projects for the Pulp & Paper Industry using non-wood fibers, in different countries such as Spain, France, Tunisia, Indonesia and Turkmenistan.
Project management, plant control design (instrumentation, DCS, PLC), commissioning and start-up.
Based in Spain but with frequent long stances at projects sites for plant on-site projecting, commissioning, start-up and problem solving.
Senior Programmer

ATCANET

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

October 2000 — November 2002 (2 years 2 months)

IT solutions development for financial entities in Spain in Java platform, JDBC and MySQL mostly under Linux operating system.
Project management. Analisys, design and implementation of informatic solutions. Debugging and test running.
Quality Assurance Engineer

Análisis, Control & Precisión

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

1997 — October 2000 (3 years )

Development of the Quality Assurance Manual and Procedures Manual under ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation.
Junior Programmer

EDS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1998 — August 1998 (3 months)

Summer internship in Y2K department in EDS Headquarters in Plano, TX. Ten european students qualified for the internship.
Development of an internal resources assignment database in MS-Access under Windows platform.

Alejandro Villanueva’s Education

Universidad de Zaragoza

Engineer , Industrial Engineering , 1993 — 1999

Industrial Automation and Robotics.
Final Assignment: "Analisys, Development and Implantation of an Embedded Hard Real Time Multimedia System in Ada 95 under GNAT/RTEMS"