Head of I.T. for an online hotel reservation company (Destinia.com), redesigning all the back-office applications with a team of 5 programmers.
March 2000-February 2002
Senior Programmer at Icon Medialab, an international provider of interactive media solutions, and one of the world's leading integrated e-business and Internet consultancies. Worked in Barcelona to create the sport portal www.futvol.com in a short timeframe, at Stockholm helping with the Aventis Pharma site, and in Madrid, as technical leader, for other portals and sites (sportswedo.com).
Programmer Analyst at AMS (American Management Systems, Inc.), an international consulting company in information technology, with roles of Technical Support, Team Leader, Programmer Analyst and Technical Supervisor. Member of the AMS Center for Advanced Technologies and the European Technical Architects initiative.
First 2.5 years in Madrid helping start the first private mobile operator in Spain, working on the OO projects for the customer care and billing system.
Based in Düsseldorf from December 1997, to October 1999, working for the Tapestry project (a latest-generation all object-oriented customer care and billing system) and its implementation for the German telecom operator ARCOR.
Worked also in Madrid in the architecture team for another telecommunications company.
1993-1995
Development of Windows applications for the University of Seville. Full responsibility for NeuroWork, a graphical neural network designer and simulator.
1989-1991
In charge of the computing facilities at the Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Seville. Design of the bibliographic search and retrieval system. Scientific programming for researchers.
Expert in OOT (UML), PHP, C++ and SQL (Sybase, Oracle, MySql). Experienced in OOA&D, Ajax, LAMP, Web design and usability, Perl, MFC, version control, etc.
Academic degrees:
1994
Research Sufficiency Certificate. University of Seville, Spain.
1993
Master of Science in Neural Computation. University of Stirling. Scotland. U.K.
1989
First Degree (BSc) in Biology, Grade A. University of Seville, Spain
Publications:
1994
C. Zamora-Ramos and G.J. Goodhill."A neural computation: spatial to temporal transformation" In: Information Processing Underlying Gaze Control, Elsevier Science, Ltd.. Chapter 13.
1993
A. Gruart, C. Zamora and J.M. Delgado-García. "Response diversity of pontine and deep cerebellar nuclear neurons to air puff stimulation of the eye in the alert cat".Neuroscience Letters 152: 87-90.
1991
A. Gruart, C. Zamora, R.R. de la Cruz, M. Escudero, and J.M. Delgado-García. "Behaviour of brain stem and cerebellar nuclei neurons during eye retraction in the alert cat".14th Annual Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association. Cambridge, England.
Other merits and activities:
1998
Member of Mensa (IQ: 155).
1996
AMS Employee 'Above and Beyond' Award.
1990-1993
Scholarship for postgraduate studies from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
1989-1993
Professor assistant at the Faculty of Biology, Seville. Delivering practical and theoretical lectures in fourth and fifth year courses.
Languages:
Native Spanish.
Fluent English (TOEFL score: 650)
Average German.