Robert Castaneda

Current

• GSEA Australia Chair at Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
• Founder/CEO at CustomWare Asia Pacific

Past

• Casual Lecturer at University of Technology, Sydney
• Senior Consultant at CustomWare
• R&D Engineer at Borland

• Systems Engineer at Borland
• Support Engineer at Borland

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Education

• University of Technology, Sydney
• APHS

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Robert Castaneda’s Summary

Entrepreneur with strong values and integrity with the ability to quickly identify opportunities and work with various partners to create win-win outcomes.

An experienced team leader and motivator with broad business and technology experience.

Robert Castaneda’s Specialties:

Technology - Experienced Enterprise Java programmer, architect and trainer.
Business - Entrepreneurial skills, Defining new markets & opportunities from scratch.

Robert Castaneda’s Experience

• GSEA Australia Chair

  Global Student Entrepreneur Awards

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  The GSEA recognizes the worlds top undergraduate student entrepreneurs who own companies which have generated revenues for a minimum of six months, are majority shareholder or majority percentage based owner of the company, and who are students at a recognised school/college/university for the academic year.
  
  The GSEA holds competitions around the world for student entrepreneurs to present their entrepreneurial skills to a panel of CEOs, Presidents, Reporters, Professors, etc. who evaluate the student entrepreneurs.

• Founder/CEO

  CustomWare Asia Pacific

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)

  CustomWare is a global technology services company specialising in connecting systems (integration) and people (collaboration). The CustomWare team designs and integrates new and existing business processes and technologies. Our aim is to delight the customer and share skills and knowledge to benefit both organisations. We do this by working closely with our customers to ensure that our implementation and support is delivered transparently and efficiently.

• Casual Lecturer

  University of Technology, Sydney

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2000 — March 2007 (7 years 3 months)

  Casual lecturer, providing lectures in the faculty of IT for the postgraduate/masters program

• Senior Consultant

  CustomWare

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Moved to the United States to provide training and consulting services based upon BEA Systems WebLogic, WebGain, webMethods & JBoss. Developed materials for vendors, Enterprise Java Performance consulting and strategy.
  
  Co-authored book on Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 and technically edited over a dozen other Enterprise Java related books.
  
  Performed community and forum moderation for jGuru.com
  
  Contributed to Open source projects including JBoss.

• R&D Engineer

  Borland

  (Public Company; BORL; Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — June 2000 (10 months)

  Java R&D Engineer working on Enteprise Java products - AppCenter and integration with other products, such as AppServer, VisiBroker and Enterprise Java Beans.

• Systems Engineer

  Borland

  (Public Company; BORL; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  Reporting to the Sales Support Manager, worked on various customer prototypes, consulting engagements and supporting tasks including training, community beta programs for Java related products - including AppCenter, AppServer, VisiBroker(CORBA) and Enterprise JavaBeans

• Support Engineer

  Borland

  (Public Company; BORL; Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  Enterprise Help desk supporting Borland tools, including Turbo Pascal, dBASE, Paradox, Delphi, C++ and JBuilder

Robert Castaneda’s Education

• University of Technology, Sydney

  BSc , Computing Science (Honours) , 1997 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Electronic Commerce Submajor

• APHS