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Raúl Tovar Sierra
rtovars@hotmail.com
www.angelfire.com/my/ownstuff
ICQ: 84898458

OBJECTIVE
Obtain a position as software engineer / software architect in an IT-related company in which I can apply my strong analytical skills and highly creative abilities in the design and development of software applications.

WORK EXPERIENCE
aXiem / GE Energy (Greenville, SC / Atlanta, GA / Querétaro, México)
IT Developer / Project Coordinator / Software Architect, October 2001 - Present

Coordinated the implementation of different web projects in the IT-Engineering Team.
Analyzed, designed, programmed, tested, implemented, and documented web-enabled applications for the GE Energy Gas Turbine Services Engineering division using Java and Oracle as development platforms.
Provided technical support to Java developers.
Created and implemented ISO internal procedures for the IT-Engineering area.
Implemented Six Sigma projects using the DMAIC methodology.

Concretos del Centro, S.A. (Toluca, México)
Systems Manager, December 1998 - March 2001

Analyzed, designed, programmed, tested, implemented, documented, and maintained the company’s central information system using Visual Basic Professional 6 and MS Access.
Training of operative personnel.
Implemented software licensing and inventory control policies.
Coordinated the software installation and hardware maintenance actions.
Selected and installed new hardware equipment (IBM Netfinity server) and software packages.
Planned budget and negotiated the contract with an ISP, achieving important discounts.
Supervised the design and implementation of the company’s web page www.concretosdelcentro.com.mx

Grupo Financiero Bital (México City)
Systems Analyst, July 1997 - August 1998

Designed the access and security scheme for the bank’s new information system.
Designed, planned and performed tests on the new information system. Coordinated the test personnel.
Analyzed the requirements for a new credit-approval module.
Analyzed, documented and redesigned operative procedures for the credit department.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Systems Engineering, 1996
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Toluca. GPA: 86/100

COMPUTER SKILLS

Design methodologies:	Life cycle, Prototypes
Hardware:	PC, Macintosh, IBM 9370
Languages:	Java, Visual Basic, SQL, C, TurboPascal, Scheme, Javascript, HTML, CSS
RDBMS:	Oracle
Applications servers:	Tomcat, JBoss, Blazix
IDE:	Eclipse, NetBeans
Framework:	GE's CASPER (MVC)
UML:	Poseidon, Enterprise Architect
Version Management:	CVS
Operating Systems:	MS-DOS, Win 3.11/9X/NT/2K/XP, MacOS X, UNIX (User level), VMS
Project Management:	MS Project, Primavera TeamPlay

CERTIFICATIONS
Six Sigma Green Belt
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4

LANGUAGES
Spanish – Native language English – Fluent Hebrew – Beginner