Education
M.Sc., Systems and Computing Engineering
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá – Colombia
GPA: 4.9 / 5
Thesis: Bidirectional Synchronization between Model and Source Code based on a MDA Approach
Advisor: Rubby Casallas
B.Sc. Honours Degree in Systems Engineering
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá – Colombia
GPA: 4.4 / 5
Thesis: Ad Hoc Mobile Networking Routing using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms (Meritorious thesis)
Advisor: Marco Aurelio Alzate

Specialized Training
IASA Foundation Certification (IFC), Courses 101 – 102
Instructor: Nadine Foster, Training Consultant for IASA
January 2011
Bogotá, Colombia

Advanced Topics in Software Architecture
Course of the Summer School of the Master in Systems and Computing Engineering at Los Andes University
Instructors: Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman, Senior Members of Technical Staff SEI
July 2010
Bogotá, Colombia

Certificate Program in Managing Technical People
Curriculum developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science
Instructor: Gil Taran, Chief Executive Officer, iCarnegie
February 2010
Bogotá, Colombia

Certificate Program in Software Architecture Design
Curriculum developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science
Instructor: Matthew Bass, Associate Teaching Professor
November 2009
Bogotá, Colombia

Professional Certifications
CFC – COBIT Foundation Certificate
Awarded by: ISACA
May 2013

IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Foundation Level (IREB® CPRE FL)
Awarded by: iSQI – International Software Quality Institute
December 2012

IASA Foundation Certified Architect
Passing score: 96/100
Awarded by: IASA (International Association for Software Architects)
January 2011

Certified in Managing Technical People
Awarded by: iCarnegie (educational affiliate of Carnegie Mellon University)
February 2010

Certified in Software Architecture Design
Awarded by: iCarnegie (educational affiliate of Carnegie Mellon University)
November 2009

Research Experience
Instructor
August 2009 – December 2011
Department of Systems and Computing Engineering
Universidad de Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

Research Assistant
August 2008 – December 2008
Computer Science Graduate School
Ecole des Mines de Nantes – Study Department
Nantes, France

Graduate Assistant
January 2007 – July 2009
Software Construction Research Group
Department of Systems and Computing Engineering
Universidad de Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

Research Assistant
August 2002 – September 2003
LAMIC Lab. (Machine Learning Laboratory)
Research project: “Study on Machine Learning of Hardware Agents (ROBOCOPA-UD)”
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
Bogotá, Colombia

Professional Experience
Enterprise and Solutions Architect
December 2016 – Currently
Enterprise Architecture Team
Oracle Latin America Division LAD
Bogotá, Colombia

Application and Integration Architect
July 2014 – November 2016
Information Technology Department
ECOPETROL S.A.
Bogotá, Colombia

Head of IT Strategy & Architecture
January 2012 – June 2014
Department of Information and Technology Services
Universidad de Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

Software Architect and Software Development Leader
July 2009 – December 2011
High and low-level software design of a powerful Management Information System (MIS) named MAnagement GamE Simulator (MAGES). This system supports the Busineess School course named Juego Gerencial at Los Andes University.

Instructor
June 2006 – July 2008
Course: Diploma course in JAVA® Programmer
Module 1: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML, 2.1
Modulo 2: Java Programming Language, Java SE 5
Modulo 3: Software Architecture, JEE 5
Fundación de Egresados – Universidad Distrital Francisco José De Caldas
Bogotá, Colombia

Software Development Leader
July 2005 – January 2007
Web Project Management. Database systems design and implementation on MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMS. Mobile applications development on J2ME Framework.
Software, Telecommunications and Technology – ST&T LTDA. Bogotá, Colombia

Development Engineering Assistant
January 2005 – July 2005
Systems analyst in the Supply Chain Sourcing area.
CODENSA S.A. ESP
Bogotá, Colombia

Interests and Research lines:

Research Group:

• TICSw-Tecnologías de Información y Construcción de Software

Juego Gerencial

Research project with the objective of implementing a support environment for the “Financial Games” course taken by undergraduate students in the last semester of the Business Program at University of Los Andes. This course requires a complete game like application to support business transactions in an environment that is close to the real world.

The application has around 200 requirements; the requirements elicitation was executed by the LIDIE group (Education and technology group) from University of Los Andes. My research group is in charge of the development of this project, I am the lead Software Architect in charge of defining and specifying the system’s global design, technological platform and architectural restrictions.

Qualdev

Software development group, conformed by undergraduate students, that produces high quality open source applications. This team develops tools in the broad domain of software process support, some of which have been successfully used in real-world contexts. Users are members of small sized software development companies as well as other development groups within the university, particularly students in various software engineering courses. From this usage, QualDev group receives feedback and has to deal with issues of change management.

Students in the QualDev team have acquired the discipline of following processes based on Team Software Process (TSP) and agile methodologies. Students continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the processes and propose adaptations aiming for continuous improvement; furthermore, tools developed in the team and other open source tools support the improvement.

By participating in the QualDev group students have an opportunity to develop and apply the skills needed by software engineering professionals. These skills not only include the experience of dealing with real clients; in addition, students lead and organize development teams, define their process objectives, and are in charge of assessing their fulfillment. Students can effectively get an understanding of how software processes, methodologies, and tools help to produce high quality software. In this environment, they learn how to work as members of a team and they have to deal with negotiation issues.

The educational strategy for the group is the use of active teaching/learning methodologies like collaborative learning and mentoring, which makes it possible to create scenarios of regular self-assessment of team functioning. Furthermore, we have defined a structure that eases group administration and control. The role of the instructor has changed, he is no longer in charge of defining content and lectures, he is more a guide that gives advice in the identification of objectives, he supports nsel when issues arise.

Co-tutelage of Master Thesis (Advisor Rubby Casallas)

Supervised Undergraduate Thesis