Maricel Quesada Jara

Current

President at Costa Rica JUG
Senior Software Engineer at Backcountry.com

Past

Project Manager at Avantica Technologies
Project Lead at Avantica Technologies
System Analyst and Developer at Avantica Technologies

Developer at Interamerica

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Education

Universidad de Costa Rica
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

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Industry

Computer Software

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Maricel Quesada Jara’s Summary

Over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. I have worked as Software Engineer in many projects, including Technical Lead roles. I have worked as a Project Lead where I get to help in the managerial side of a project while still doing development tasks. In addition to my software development experience, I have experience as a Project Manager where I got to manage teams of up to 8 people.

I have had the opportunity to work as an outsourced resource for companies in the US like Chordiant Software Inc. and Shutterfly Inc., among others.

Right now, I am part of the Engineering team at Backcountry.com, the best outdoor e-tailer company. If you have some time, check out some of our sites:

http://www.backcountry.com
http://www.dogfunk.com
http://www.hucknroll.com
http://www.realcyclist.com

I'm interested in enterprise applications, web development, software as a service and team leading. I really enjoyed working with Java applications and anything that represents innovation and new challenges.

Maricel Quesada Jara’s Specialties:

Prog. Languages: Java, JSPs, Servlets, EJB, JDBC, Javamail, Web Services, Struts, Ant, Log4J, XML, XSL, XSD, UML, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, JUnit, Ajax. Databases: Oracle, MySQL and SQLServer. Others: Microsoft Project, Visual SourceSafe, SSH Secure Shell, CVS, SVN, Perforce, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Tomcat, JBoss and Rational Rose.
Also:
Basic Knowledge in Ruby on Rails. Some experience with Spring.
Teamwork, leading teams from 1 up to 8 people.

Maricel Quesada Jara’s Experience

President

Costa Rica JUG

(Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

In charge of creating and organizing Costa Rica Java User Group.

For more information about the group go to http://www.crjug.org.

We are looking for members and sponsors!!
Senior Software Engineer

Backcountry.com

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

At Backcountry.com, we have several sites that we call ODAT (One Deal At a Time), where we sell one item at a time at an incredible price.

I work for the ODAT Marketing team, I am in charge of all the ODAT tools for marketing: desktop alerts, IE Alerts, FF alerts and Google Gadgets, among others.

I've been working with Javascript, Ajax, CSS, HTML, C# and Java.

Check out our ODAT sites, you might find a great deal:

http://www.steepandcheap.com
http://www.whiskeymilitia.com
http://www.chainlove.com
http://www.tramdock.com
http://www.bonktown.com
http://www.brociety.com
Project Manager

Avantica Technologies

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

February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)

Manage resources to ensure the success development of the projects under my charge guarantying client satisfaction and the quality of the product while they are developed on the estimated time and cost.
Project Lead

Avantica Technologies

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

September 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 6 months)

Leading and managing teams of up to 5 people.
Assign tasks to team members according to their skills and responsibilities.
Define best way to accomplish technical and non-technical goals.
Coordinate with clients to translate business needs into clear technical requirements.
Follow up issues and track project advance.
Define and update project plans.
Development of key modules.
System Analyst and Developer

Avantica Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 7 months)

Analysis, design and development of different modules of Web applications using several different technologies.
Create and manage different types of documentation for the different phases of the project.
Acted as technical leader in some projects.
Resolve technical issues during project development.
Work along with Project Management to develop project plans.
Developer

Interamerica

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

January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

I made my profession practice in this company than I started working as an outsourced resource in Avantica Technologies.

While I was there I worked mostly with Java and JSP pages.

Maricel Quesada Jara’s Education

Universidad de Costa Rica

MS , Professional Masters on Computer Science , 2005 — 2006

Graduated with Honors!!
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

Bachelor , Software Engineer , 1996 — 2001

I worked as a teacher assistant in several courses like Computers Fundamentals and Operations Research 1.

Additional Information

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Maricel Quesada Jara’s Interests:

Work: Java, Software as a Service, Software Architecture, Project Management Hobbies: Digital photography, reading, play some basketball, watch TV, go to the movies.