Jr. Project Manager/Business Analyst

My current goal is to start my career on positions that allow me to work on both technical and business aspects of Technology corporations.

Platforms Program Manager Intern, February 2008 – August 2008
GOOGLE Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA.
Management of Software Projects/Programs at the Platforms Department.

Disk Firmware project
Planned schedule and managed development and testing from March to August 2008. Led all meetings and assisted technical discussions for integrating the project with another existent product. Presented the project to internal customers. Realized Cross-Functional reviews with members from different teams of the Platforms Department.

Autotest project: Open source project with contributors outside Google (http://test.kernel.org).
Managed launch of v.1.0 from June to August 2008: Led meetings with testers and developers for keeping track of v.1.0 features. Gathered requirements from internal customers. Helped the team keep track of the most significant issues and bugs on the project. Helped the team improve current documentation.


QA Software Engineer Intern, March 2007 – September 2007
GOOGLE Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA.
Development of testing applications in the Internationalization (i18n) testing department at Google.
Development of a QA tool for detecting translation errors on different Google product pages. The main technology applied on this project was the Spellchecker technology for different languages. Project implemented in C++. I presented the product as a proof of concept to i18n QA teams. I applied to author a patent on the proof of concept.
Development of unit tests in Java for different Google QA applications.

IT Account Manager Intern, September 2005 – February 2006
SUCAFINA S.A. (Global coffee trading company) in Geneva (Switzerland).
Analysis and Development of a Coffee Production Management Module for SUCAFINA S.A. Web Application.
I managed the development of a Coffee Production product into the company’s web application. This product would be used for managing coffee production (i.e. coffee processing) at coffee exporters worldwide. During the internship I had a 3 week mission in eastern Africa; I gathered requirements and implemented the solution for two of SUCAFINA S.A. customers coffee exporters in Uganda (UGACOF LTD in Kampala) and in Rwanda (Rwacof S.A.R.L in Kigali). The module was developed on ASP to access a MySQL database.

September 2007 – November 2008
Technology Management and International Business Masters at UTBM (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard) in Belfort (France).
Concentration Topics: Product/Program Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, International Economics and Finance, Business Intelligence, International Law.

September 2004 – September 2007
Computer Engineering Masters at UTBM (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard) in Belfort (France).
Concentration Topics: Software Development, Data Bases, Networks, Distributed, Embedded and Real Time Systems.
Minor: International Careers.

June 2002 – August 2004
General Studies on Computer Science at UFPB (Federal University of Paraiba) in Joăo Pessoa (Brazil).
Minor Topics: Basic Programming, Mathematics and Physics.


September 1997 – June 2001
High School Diploma at Alhambra High School in Granada (Spain).

Background Information

Extended Foreign Experiences: Spain, Switzerland, France, USA.
Leisure Activities: Swimming, Books, Traveling, Aeronautics, Astronomy, Cinema, 70’s Music.
Community Involvement: Member of the humanitarian aid club solidar at the UTBM for 1 year in 2005.


Skills


Product Marketing:

Familiar with market research, competitive analysis, business models, and pricing.

Project/Program Management:

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), MS Project.

Software Engineering:

Programming languages: C, C++, JAVA.
Web and databases: Experience with MySql Server, Access; ASP, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript; Hibernate.
Testing: Unit tests Frameworks :gUnit and Junit.

Languages:

Fluent on English, French, Portuguese (native language) and Spanish.