Marco Quiros

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Avantica Technologies

Past

Consultant at CPN Online Gaming
Research and Development Engineer at Prides S.A.
Web Systems Analyst at Western Union

Software Engineer at Avantica Technologies

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Education

Sun Microsystems SCBCD
Sun Microsystems SCWCD
Sun Microsystems SCJP

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

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Marco Quiros’s Summary

My primary experience is in web application development using Java and its different platforms.
I have more than 5 years working in projects to develop applications mostly with Java Technologies, but also using technologies like HTML, Javascript, Python, Django, XML, C/C++, SQL, Linux, JUnit, JsUnit, continuous integration, test driven development and methodologies like XP programming.
I also have experience as a team leader, and as manager of a group of engineers in research and development tasks.
I have knowledge in online games development (specially card games) and application infrastructure management and administration.
My primary professional objective right now is to gain more experience in software development, in order to start a career as a consultant or to start my own company, in the mid or long term.

Marco Quiros’s Specialties:

Technical leadership
Web application architecture
Client and server side performance
Java language & JEE platform expertise
Rich Internet Applications
AJAX
Open source technologies
Agile methodologies
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Integration testing
Load and performance testing
Continuous Integration
Scripting Languages

Marco Quiros’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Avantica Technologies

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

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Involved in an agile software development process for a customer relationship management application for a Fortune 500 company, based in Mountain View, CA.

Participate in the development of server side Java components, applying design patterns and established guidelines by the customer

Contributed to the improvements of the continuous integration application used in the project.

Currently working as technical leader of one of the teams involved in the project.

Technologies applied: Java 6, customer’s internal servlet container, JUnit, JsUnit, JWebUnit, YSlow, Firebug, Selenium, Ant, CruiseControl, Perforce, MySQL, Spring, Hibernate, WebWork, JSP, JSTL, Python.
Consultant

CPN Online Gaming

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )

In charge of rebuilding an online gaming infrastructure based on a code base acquired from an Indian software company.

Responsible of refactoring and re-architecture task for the server side part of the solution.

Responsible of managing the development team, make project planning and give design guidelines.

Responsible of managing the communication between the company and technical support from the Indian software company.

In charge of monitoring and managing the staging and production environments of the software.

Technologies applied: J2EE 1.4, Apache Tomcat 5.5.12, Microsoft SQLServer 2000, J2SE 1.5, Struts, Jakarta Commons, Log4J, Proxool, Stripes, Adobe FLEX, XML, JSP, JSTL.

Design Patters applied: Model-View-Controller Model 2, Data Access Object, Singleton, Factory, Business Object, Application Service, Composite View, Acceptor, and Reactor.
Research and Development Engineer

Prides S.A.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 5 months)

Leading the design and implementation of the company’s J2EE framework for building enterprise applications, based on OO design patterns and J2EE design patterns.
In charge of the research, evaluation and testing of new technologies for software development.
Responsible for internal trainings about Java technology.
Project leader of:
o Project control application
-Medical measures graphic components
-PRIDES-Framework and J2EE components
-Code generator for design pattern use
-Consulting project for Banco Banex of Guatemala
-Resource Administration System Project (Poder Judicial de Costa Rica)
-Call Center Web Application for Tentsal

Technologies applied: Oracle 9i, Oracle 9i AS, Oracle Forms 6i-9i, XML, IBM DB2, IBM HATS, IBM Websphere Portal and Application Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Velocity, Struts, Ant, JSTL, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JSF, Portlets, Postgresql, Javascript.
Web Systems Analyst

Western Union

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WU; Financial Services industry)

January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

In charge of monitor and configure the J2EE backend application servers. This included the administration of 5 clusters of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment distributed in USA and Europe.

Responsible of deployment and configuration of new J2EE applications within the different application server clusters.

Responsible of migration and upgrades of backend components like
application server, message queuing software, and web servers.

Technologies applied: J2EE 1.3, WebSphere Application Server 4.0, WebSphere Application Server 5.1 Network Deployment, MQ Series 5.2, WebSphere MQ 5.3, Microsoft IIS, Raritan Remote Control, CA Remote Control, ANT. SQLServer, WebSphere Studio Application Monitor (WSAM).
Software Engineer

Avantica Technologies

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

August 2003 — July 2004 (1 year )

In charge of developing the necessary components to include a new taxes declaration (D-116) in the government's web application SITEL..

Leaded quality assurance tasks, performance analysis and monitoring problems resolution.

Involved in the design and initial implementation phase of the “Gestión de Expedientes” project for the national government (Dirección General de Tributación Directa).

Lead design tasks that plan the adaptation of the Struts framework within the project, based on the need of a base framework that implements the MVC design pattern.

Used technologies: JSP, Servlets, Java Beans, Web Macro, PL/SQL, iPlanet Web Server, Oracle 9i, Javascript, HTML, Struts, Stxx, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL, Tomcat, Junit, Ant, Hyperwave IS/6.

Design patterns applied: Model-View-Controller Model 1 and 2, Composite View, Data Access Object, Singleton, Adapter and Proxy.

Marco Quiros’s Education

Sun Microsystems SCBCD

Sun Certified Business Component Developer , Java programming language , 2006 — 2006
Sun Microsystems SCWCD

Sun Certified Web Component Developer , Java programming language , 2005 — 2005
Sun Microsystems SCJP

Sun Certified Java Programmer , Java programming language , 2004 — 2004
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

1999 — 2003