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Mr. San Andrés is an accomplished IT professional with extensive international technology and business experience.

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Project Management New Product Development
Software Engineering Software Architecture
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Collaborative Work Style Technology-oriented
Customer-focused Dynamic & results-driven
 Résumé

Professional Experience
Independent IT & Business Consulting
Independent Consultant & Business Analyst based in Atlanta, GA.
Development of business venture analysis and feasibility studies.
Design and development of budget forecasting tools and models.
Financial & technology analysis.
Network design & deployment.
Software design & development.

Software Engineering & Project Management - Microsoft Corporation
Designed and developed the Directory Service and the Transaction Replication Service of the original Microsoft Network (MSN). These services were awarded 3 U.S. patents.
Supervised the design, development and adoption of the System Operator application programming interface (API) for the Microsoft Network (MSN).
Developed a new specification for the Windows setup (setup.exe) program, and incorporated all the changes into the existing code.
Suggested and implemented a code review process for the Windows utilities team.
Co-designed and developed the Windows file system convesion utility (convert.exe).
Designed and developed multiple command-line utilities of the Windows distribution (e.g. mode, more, xcopy etc.).
Developed elements of the Windows SDK visual debugger.
Maintained and re-factored the Windows team version management system.
Maintained and re-factored the Windows command-line interpreter, the Windows SDK linker, the Windows MEP code editor.

Instruction & Education - The University of Texas at Austin
Taught a Pascal programming course to undergraduate students.
Served as student advisor and lab supervisor.

Research & Development - Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Mexico
Functioned as part of a five-member team in the design and devleopment of a tester for a burner control system at an electric power plant.
Designed and developed tester interfaces and communication protocols.

Systems Analyst - Fianzas Monterrey, Mexico
Analysis, design and development of information systems software in a financial company. In charge of user interfaces and standards.


Awards
United States Patent 7305451 – Issued on December 4, 2007
System for providing users an integrated directory service containing content nodes located in different groups of application servers in computer network.

United States Patent 6901433 – Issued on May 31, 2005
System for providing users with a filtered view of interactive network directory obtains from remote properties cache that provided by an on-line service.

United States Patent 5956489 – Issued on September 21, 1999
Transaction replication system and method for supporting replicated transaction-based services.


Education
Degree Institution City
M.B.A. University of California Berkeley, CA
Emphasis in general management, technology and new product development.

M.S. Computer Sciences University of Texas Austin, TX
Emphasis in software design and development.

Management of Technology Certificate University of California Berkeley, CA
Certificate of management of technology awarded by the School of Business and the College of Engineering.

Project Management Certificate Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
Certificate of Project Management following PMI guidelines.

B.S. Software Engineering & Computer Science Universidad La Salle Mexico City, Mexico
Undergraduate degree in software engineering, computer sciences, and business administration.



Languages
Fluent in the following languages:
English
Spanish
French
Good command of the following languages:
Italian
Basic knowledge of the following languages:
Russian
Chinese
Esperanto
What is Esperanto?
You can find out more about the Esperanto language here.
Affiliations
National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
IEEE Computer Society


Some of the technologies I am familiar with
Note: This list is not comprehensive.
Networking Protocols
TCP/IP, FTP, HTML, DNS ...
Web Hosting
Apache Server, IIS ...
Electronic Mail
sendmail, MS Exchange ...
Web Development
DHTML, ASP, Ajax, CGI ...
Programming Languages
C, C++, Basic, Pascal, Python ...
Scripting
Javascript, VBScript, VBA ...
Web Programming
HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, DOM ...
Project Management
MS-Project, UML ...
Productivity
MS-Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Visio ...


Other miscellaneous stuff
Places where I have lived
Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
Area code 404
Area code 770
Area code 678
ZIP code 30308
ZIP code 30096
ZIP code 30062
Berkeley, California (USA)
Area code 510
Area code 415
ZIP code 34705
Seattle, Washington (USA)
Area code 206
ZIP code 98122
ZIP code 98005
Austin, Texas (USA)
Area code 512
ZIP code 78705
Mexico City (Mexico)
Places I particularly like
San Francisco, California (USA) Washington, D.C. (USA)
New York City, New York (USA) Los Angeles, California (USA)
Madrid (Spain) Paris (France)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Moscow (Russia)
Djenne (Mali) Bangkok (Thailand)
Siem Reap (Cambodia) Singapore (Singapore)
Languages I would like to learn
Chinese Portuguese Swahili Indonesian
Thai Romanian Bulgarian Greek
Am I willing to travel and/or relocate?
Yes
Willing to travel
Willing to Relocate


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