PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• MY OBJECTIVES:

  • Consulting assignments
  • Professional networking

• EDUCATION:

  • Computer Science, Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, University of the Philippines , Philippines , June 1997 - October 2003

• PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

  • UP Alumni Engineers
  • Philippine Usability Group
  • Philippine Ruby Users' Group
  • Mindshare Philippines
  • DevChix

Experience Summary

• Skills, Background, and Experience:

  I've worked as a developer, a senior web analyst, developer team lead, software development manager and even as an IT manager over my 10 year working experience. Most of my work were focused on web applications, though I have also been able to produce standalone applications like an offline inventory system, a computerized student records system and even offline data gathering application with databasing.

• Areas of Expertise:

  Web development, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP. Has experience working with social networking sites, IPTV, internal monitoring web applications.

• Responsibilities:

  • Manage projects from the home office
  • Conduct research
  • Provide technical advice on projects

• Opportunities I Might Consider:

  • Short-term consulting assignment

Employment Summary

• February 2010 - Present Senior Web Developer / IT Consultant, Devex
  Working professionally using Ruby on Rails technology for an online web application that gathers and presents data via portal logic. Product site is also a business/social networking portal.
• May 2007 - February 2008 IT Manager, Netvision, Inc.
  Netvision was just a startup back then, and I was able to adapt quickly into the IPTV business. I handled communications, development and setup of all IT services ranging from site development, emailing system, video conversion setup and uploading, video streaming setup with the use of popular CDNs and streaming technologies from Australia.
• March 2006 - April 2007 Software Development Manager, GameAsiaTel
  We had several projects, all under my supervision. Some were in house, others were in relation to tracking products and some were tangential to third party services. We had a lot of applications relating to CMSes, and mobile related applications. Some were made in Java, the others in PHP. I was able to manage 11 programmers and perform infra related tasks.
• August 2005 - May 2006 Development Team Head/Senior Analyst, DOST ASTI - TACIS Project
  I was hired originally as the senior analyst for the project that was to unify the different Tests And Calibration process that different science oriented government agencies had into a paid online service. The project was divided into two phases, wherein phase 1 was the web application. Phase 1 was developed using PHP Symfony under my supervision.

Relevant Links

• Sweetperceptions (main personal site)
  Sweetperceptions has been my pen name for years. Its like my online identity next to kristeta126 and my own name of course. This site is where I keep the most important information about myself, and its the gathering of almost all of my web footprints. The perfect site for stalking me. :)
• Coderkitty (technical blog site)
  Go straight to my techie blog through this link. Its a fairly young site, almost just a year now. Although I do blog about other personal stuff in another site, this is where most of my tech related ramblings/discoveries/etc. go to. This blog is running on Mephisto. You can also reach this site when you go to the blog section from http://sweetperceptions.com. Here you'll find coding ideas in a not so purrfect world.
• LivingLife (personal blog site)
  I have moved from my old personal blog host. Though I've had it since early 2005, I wanted to have more control and management of my blog. This blog is a moveout of all my posts from http://sweetperceptions.i.ph (except the comments--I'm still working on this). Its now running on Wordpress. From time to time, I post random things about my life. Some short and understandable, others very long and complicated. :)

• Current status:

  waiting for a saviour

• Upcoming assignment:

  Personal site/blog updates, starts 01-Oct-2008

• Employment status:

  Employed on a long-term contract
• Available in from now

• Career Level:

  Senior-level

• Citizenships and Permanent Residences:

  1. Philippines

• Total Years of Experience:

  11 years

• Languages:

  1. English
  2. Tagalog