Gustavo Quiroz

Current

• Senior Consultant at Open Edge Technologies
• Solutions Architect & Agile Project Leader at Systems Support & Services

Past

• Technical Leader at Synopsis

Education

• Certified ScrumMaster Course
• Lean Software Development Practitioners Course
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Gustavo Quiroz’s Summary

I have played the roles of Software Developer, IBM WebSphere Specialist, Technical Leader, Software Architect and Project Leader in a wide variety of business and enterprise applications, specially among the banking, insurance and telecommunications industries. I am particularly interested in software architecture and servant leadership for teams in the context of agile software development environments. My teaching experience includes more than ten official IBM Learning Courses successfully delivered and Teaching Assistant possitions at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. I am a Certified Scrum Master and hold various IBM WebSphere/Rational/DB2/Lotus certifications.

Gustavo Quiroz’s Specialties:

coaching and mentoring development team, teaching, enterprise java application architecture, scrum and xp, design patterns, refactoring, JSE, JEE, SOA, WebSphere

Gustavo Quiroz’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  Open Edge Technologies

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Training & Consulting in Agile Software Development Methods & Practices: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Refactoring

• Solutions Architect & Agile Project Leader

  Systems Support & Services

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Sizing, estimation and software projects architecture definition, research of new technologies, leading, mentoring and coaching for software development teams and team leads. Led the initiative for using agile methods and practices on software projects. Leader of the Software Development Division of the company.

• Technical Leader

  Synopsis

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  Software Architect, JEE and IBM WebSphere Specialist, Software Developer, IBM Learning Courses Instructor

Gustavo Quiroz’s Education

• Certified ScrumMaster Course

  Certified ScrumMaster , 2008 — 2008

• Lean Software Development Practitioners Course

  2008 — 2008

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

  Graduate , Informatics Engineering , 1997 — 2004

  2002 ACM South America International Collegiate Programming Contest, Honorable Mention
  2002 ACM Local Programming Contest, 2nd place

  Activities and Societies:

  Asociacion De Alumnos De Ingenieria Informatica (AAII), Academic Affairs Commission & Vicepresident

Additional Information

Gustavo Quiroz’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Gustavo Quiroz’s Interests:

software development, software architecture, software engineering, agile software development, enterprise applications, application integration, patterns, java technologies, music, drumming

Gustavo Quiroz’s Groups:

Spring User Group Peru, Agile Peru

•    Agile Alliance
•    Peru Professional Network
•    Scrum Alliance, Inc.
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    PUCP Alumni
•    Software construction process
•    Agile Coaching
•    Certified ScrumMasters
•    Scrum Manager
•    Pensamiento Lean en las empresas
•    Lima Valley

Gustavo Quiroz’s Honors:

Certified ScrumMaster
IBM Certified SOA Associate
IBM Certified Solution Developer – XML and Related Technologies
IBM Certified Solution Designer – WebSphere MQ V5.3
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere MQ V5.3
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Portal V5.1
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server V5.0
IBM Certified Associate Developer – Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere Portal V5.1
IBM Certified Enterprise Developer – WebSphere Studio V5.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere Studio V5.0
IBM Certified Associate Developer – WebSphere Studio V5.0
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform V1.4
IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 9 Fundamentals
IBM Certified Application Developer – DB2 UDB V8.1
IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 UDB V8.1

Gustavo Quiroz’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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