Oscar Ferrer
oscarferrer.com

--- Education

* Master of Information Systems Management (Project Management Concentration)
  Keller Graduate School of Management. Orlando, Florida, USA. 02/2007. 

* B.S. Computer Engineering
  Rafael Urdaneta University. Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. 07/2002.


--- Professional Experience

* Aperturent, LLC. July 2010 - Present 
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 

* Senior Software Engineer. December 2007 - July 2010 
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 

  Function: Develop, maintain and improve applications by evaluating business needs and analyzing requirements following company standards.
  Technologies Used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Java, MS SQL Server, Oracle. 

  Key Responsibilities: 

  . Translate design requirements and specifications into robust implementations in a timely fashion.
  . Consult with supervisors to gather information about program intent, functions, features, and data requirements.
  . Participate in the application design and planning process.
  . Develop software for all aspects of a release's lifecycle, from new major or minor releases, to hot-fixes and maintenance releases.
  . Respond to feedback given by clients and QA Specialists by fixing defects and performing enhancements.
  . Implement data conversion plans where appropriate.


* Senior Software Developer. July 2005 - December 2007 
  Procuri, Inc. - Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 
  Function: Develop, maintain and improve web-based applications by evaluating business needs and analyzing requirements following company standards. Create technical requirements documents from lists of business requirements. 
  Technologies Used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C#, MS SQL Server.   

* Software Developer. May 2003 - June 2005 
  Contract Management Solutions, Inc. - Winter Park, Florida, USA. 
  Function: Develop and maintain web applications following requirement guidelines. 
  Technologies Used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL.

* Web Specialist. January 2002 - August 2002 
  Maintain and enhance an intranet web application that tracked customer support performance. 
  Technologies Used: JavaScript, HTML, ASP, Microsoft SQL Server. 


--- Skills

* Client-Side Technologies
    XHTML
    CSS
    JavaScript
    DOM

* Client-Side Frameworks 
    jQuery
    YUI
    Dojo JavaScript toolkit
    Blueprint CSS

* Server-Side Languages 
    PHP
    Java (Servlets, JSP)
    C#

* Operating Systems
    Mac OS X
    Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, SuSE)
    Microsoft Windows

* Server Software
    Apache HTTP Server
    Apache Tomcat
    Microsoft IIS

* DBMS
    MySQL
    Oracle
    MS SQL Server


--- Areas of Interest

* Projects
  Project Management
  Portfolio Management
  Time Management

* Processes
  Definition
  Automation
  Reengineering

* Software Lifecycle
  Development Methodologies
  Requirements Definition
  System Analysis	
  
* Software Technology
  Cross platform web-based applications
  User Interface Design
  Rich Internet Applications
  Server-side processing