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Manages internal IT team from planning, estimation, development, testing to deploy. Implements agile and is good with time management.

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

  • MY OBJECTIVES

    • Consulting assignments
    • Professional networking

  • EDUCATION

    • BS 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 12 year professional 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 distributed 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
    • Recruit candidates

  • Opportunities I Might Consider :

    • Short-term consulting assignment

Employment Summary

  • February 2008 - Present Technology Development Manager (IT Department) / 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.
  • April 2007 - Present Consultant/Developer, National Engineering Center

  • October 2004 - Present Consultant/Developer, DepEd with UNICEF
    CONSULTANCY: - Developed deeper understanding of project management - Learned Design and Development of software/program appropriate to its requirements TRAINING: - Conducted training sessions to DepEd personnel, regional directors, coordinators, planning officers, encoders, etc. across 25 divisions nationwide and acquired experience as a public speaker (in CFSS Project)
  • August 2008 - September 2008 Freelance Consultant, Axis Global Interactive
    The service I rendered was more on coaching and mentoring the technical team (from designer to developer to infra team) to equip them with the best practices and best tools to utilize for the success of their current and upcoming projects
  • 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. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Gather and design specifications for task requirements - Designate programming tasks to developers - Monitor project time tables and milestones - Inspect and Deploy completed programming tasks - Test deployed programming tasks - Create documentation of current system - Regulate MIS tasks
  • March 2006 - December 2007 Consultant/Developer, PCARRD, K-AgriNet Project
    Project: Research and Development Management Information Systems and Administrative Library Management - A redevelopment of an existing system built from Oracle, Oracle Reports and with a little bit of PHP to Ruby on Rails with PostgresQL - Works with records from way back 1930s to current
  • March 2006 - April 2007 Software Development Manager, GameAsiatel Philippines
    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. MANAGERIAL: - Lead & mentor other employees, assist in the development and implementation of structured methods such as Change Control, Configuration Management, Release Management, Tests and Quality Management - Perform software development, including validation and testing of source codes against standards; conduct staff reviews - Translates user requirements into software specifications for customizations - Implements use of suitable open source technologies to aid development & project mgt - Undertake customizations of existing open source projects in PHP/XML - Provide end-user training and support for projects developed - Contribute & update software documentation for projects - Provided assessment of developers and properly delegate tasks - Responsible for hiring developers PROGRAMMING: - Debugs, develops tasks unsolvable by developers - Does MIS tasks
  • August 2005 - March 2006 Senior Systems Analyst, DOST Advanced Science and Technology Institute - 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. SYSTEMS DESIGN: - Implements suitable systems framework for development of an existing project - Audits/Inspects developed codes against imposed standards PROGRAMMING: - Assigned as the Head of the Development Team - Develops difficult modules and provides support for the junior developers - Monitors development of the frameworked and traditional version of the software - Provides semi-weekly training on development principles, and assesses developers on their strengths and weaknesses - Learned the application of Symfony Framework for PHP powered development MANAGERIAL: - Supervises/Assists junior programmers in development - Assists Project Management Team in decision making and strategy selection - Provides help in monitoring aspect
  • June 2004 - May 2005 Consultant/Developer, University of the Philippines Integrated School
    CONSULTANCY: - Developed deeper understanding of project management - Learned Design and Development of software/program appropriate to its requirements - Acquired competence in design and development of a computerized records system (permanent student record and academic record) in the UPIS CRS Project PROGRAMMING: - Enhanced Python programming skills MANAGERIAL: - Managed three (3) encoders for data warehousing module - Supervised and trained a school clerk for using the program for report card generation, grading sheet upload/generation, etc.
  • October 2004 - December 2004 Secondary Mathematics Teacher, Stella Maris College
    TEACHING/PUBLIC SPEAKING: - Gained teaching skills and improved speech (as a substitute teacher) ACHIEVEMENTS: - Successfully increased percentage of passing students up to 83% - Gained more invites as a speaker/teacher for Higher Mathematics
  • April 2002 - March 2004 Research Engineer (MIS Division), Public Assessment of Water Services, MWSS-RO
    PROGRAMMING: - Knowledge in PHP was reinforced through development of an Intranet application - Acquired learning on database design & administration in SAP DB - Learned Python and Python COM programming - Enhanced ability to develop programs in Linux and/or Windows environment MANAGERIAL: - Handled group of encoders from testing of module in development to deployment of module for production level ACHIEVEMENTS: - Deployed the project’s first intranet site and intranet-based encoding system powered by python and sap db
  • November 2000 - April 2001 Programmer, Linux Integrator, Inc.
    PROGRAMMING: - Member of a Three-Man Development Team tasked to translate an existing accounting software written in Visual Basic/MS Access into C++/PostgresSQL in Linux - Gained knowledge in the application of PostgresSQL for an accounting software - Learned Macromedia Flash programming for a project with Ballard & Tighe - Experienced programming in HTML, JavaScript and PHP MANAGERIAL: - Manager of a project with Ballard & Tighe Publishing for five months - Handled on-the-job-trainees and graphic artists

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. :)

Maricris Nonato
Philippines

Associate Member since
26-Feb-2008

  • Upcoming assignment

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

  • Employment status

    Employed on a long-term contract
  • Not Available

  • Career Level

    Senior-level

  • Citizenships and Permanent Residences

    • Philippines

  • Total Years of Experience

    12 years

  • Languages

    • English
    • Tagalog
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