Laura Roch I Ciurana
- L'Hospitalet De Llobregat Spain
- laura.roch@aaupc.upc.edu
Evolution from Software Project Director to Software Production Manager at Smile-Iberia of Smile group performing the typical management task of a Software production department made-up by eighteen people, as well as, conducting Open-Source projects concerning different line of business (document management systems, electronic processing system, portals and e-Commerce).
Software Production Manager ensuring the use of the management and technical quality methodology defined by the group, as well as identifying and managing training and resources needs of the department itself formed about eighteen people. Conducting at the same time Open-Source projects concerning different business lines such us: portals forSmile i Andorra Turisme and e-Commerce for B2B Group -20milProductos-, Double You, EsMio, Fluidra, Succo di More, Hackett London and Pepe Jeans London. The amount of people in charge on the projects has been between 2 and 4 either in-house or near-shore or off-shore. The used technologies are EZPublish and Magento
Software Project Director of Open-Source projects concerning different business lines such us: document management systems for Universitat de Girona (UdG), Universitat de Lleida (UdL) and ABSIS-Diputació de Lleida; electronic processing system for Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV); portals for Worldwide Integral Rehabilitation Systems (WIRS) and e-Commerce for B2B Group -20milProductos-, Hackett London and Pepe Jeans London. Performing different tasks such as communication with the customer, a high-level management Project and problems solving. The amount of people in charge on the projects has been between 2 and 7 either in-house or near-shore. The used technologies are: Magento, Alfresco, OpenSat and Liferay.
Evolution from Business analyst to Spanish product manager at Aquagest SERvices COmpany (ASERCO) of Agbar Group performing different tasks such as defining the Billing System internationally commercialized, managing (resources and economically) J2EE projects, making proposals and realising requirements gathering and functional analysis.
Spanish product manager at ASERCO managing the AquaCIS CF (Agbar Group billing system) Spanish deploy (on Agbar and other sector companies -ASP[1] variety-) and different groups witch are involved roll-out and/or system operating; as well as its interaction with other Suite AquaCIS products. In addition, being the project manager of the most important projects related to the version deployed in Spain: Corrective Maintenance, Adaptive Maintenance and Structural Improvements (a perfective and preventive maintenance in order to improve time and resources performance and which is being executed in different phases-projects), as well as, being the project manager of satellites projects related to the Spanish AquaCIS CF system operating and/or roll-out (AquaCIS CF bolsa de peticiones). The amount of people in charge has been between 11 and 20, without not own groups coordination. Both operative and development platform is composed by WebSphere, Swing, DB2 and Oracle.
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Acting Department head at ASERCO designing the AquaCIS CF product (Agbar Group billing system), as well as its interaction with other Suite AquaCIS products. Supervising different AquaCIS CF deploys at Bristol (United Kingdom) and Oran (Algeria) and its adaptation at Chile. Managing personally the Spanish deploy of AquaCIS CF (for Agbar and other sector companies -ASP [1] variety-) and different groups witch are involved roll-out and/or system operating. In addition, being the project manager of the most strategic projects related to the version deployed in Spain: Adaptive Maintenance and Structural Improvements (a perfective and preventive maintenance in order to improve time and resources performance and which is being executed in different phases-projects), as well as, being the project manager of satellites projects related to the Spanish AquaCIS CF system operating and/or roll-out (AquaCIS CF bolsa de peticiones). The amount of people in charge has been between 11 and 20, without not own groups coordination. Both operative and development platform is composed by WebSphere, Swing, DB2 and Oracle.
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Business analyst at ASERCO managing AquaCIS CF Sector Maintenance Phase project and different groups witch are involved. AquaCIS CF is a J2EE application witch manages the service water of Agbar Group (invoicing, services agenda management, reading management, etc.). Both operative and development platform is composed by WebSphere, Swing and DB2.
Project Manager at SBD Consultors I&D Software, S.L. (afterwards ALTEN TIC) managing, designing, developing, documenting and deploying different projects within a J2EE environment.Project Manager within Col•legi Oficial de Farmacèutics de Barcelona (COFB) within Intranet-Extranet Maintenance Phase project which is a J2EE application which contains COFB backoffice and external and internal frontoffice. Both operative and development platform is composed by JBOSS and MySQL 5. The managed team size is three people (including me).
IT Consultant at SBD Consultors I&D Software, S.L. (afterwards ALTEN TIC) managing, designing, developing, documenting and deploying different projects within a J2EE environment.IT Consultant within SIGMA Maintenance Phase (SIstema de Gestión de Medidas Automático) project which is a J2EE application responsible for manage all communications between all agents of the electric system (carriers, distributors and commercilizers). Both operative and development platform is composed by WebLogic and Oracle 9i.IT Consultant within SIGMA Initial Phase (SIstema de Gestión de Medidas Automático) project which is a J2EE application responsible for manage all communications between all agents of the electric system (carriers, distributors and commercilizers). Both operative and development platform is composed by WebLogic and Oracle 9i.
Functional Analyst at SBD Consultors I&D Software, S.L. (afterwards ALTEN TIC) managing, designing, developing, documenting and deploying different projects within a J2EE environment.Functional Analyst within SPYN-Gas Maintenance Phase (Sistema de Programaciones Y Nominaciones de Gas) project which is a J2EE application responsible for manage all communications between all agents of the gas system (carriers, distributors and commercilizers). Both operative and development platform is composed by WebLogic and Oracle 9i.
Functional Analyst at SBD Consultors I&D Software, S.L. (afterwards ALTEN TIC) managing, designing, developing, documenting and deploying different projects within a J2EE environment.Functional Analyst within SPYN-Gas Maintenance Phase (Sistema de Programaciones Y Nominaciones de Gas) project which is a J2EE application responsible for manage all communications between all agents of the gas system (carriers, distributors and commercilizers). Both operative and development platform is composed by WebLogic and Oracle 9i.
Analyst/Developer at GTD, Ingeniería de sistemas y de software, S.A, (afterwards GTD Sistemas de Información) designing, developing and documenting different J2EE and J2SE projects within a distributed environment. I had a Developer role at a Defence Department project called MyC, however, my following projects has been as an Analyst/Developer for Knowledge Technologies Department, such as: EPMT, Intelmon / CESADS, KES and GMES, where reasoning techniques (fuzzy logic, for instance) and knowledge representation (ontologies) has been applied.
Analyst/Developer within GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) project which is a framework project which holds for: KEO, WIN, MARCOAST and STREAM. All of them are based on semantic web, use web services as platform and/or have spatial information as a domain.
Analyst/Developer within KES (Knowledge Enabled Services) project which is an application J2EE (Java Web Services, Java Portlets) developed to ESRIN (European Space Research INstitute) based on web services which offers production services and allows textual and spatial search. Production subsystem (Collaxa BPEL Server) processes the images sent by the satellites in order to populate a GIS database which is used for spatial search. This data is logged in a MySQL in order to be able to execute the textual search upon the products which are offered in KEO portal.
Analyst/Developer within Intelmon / CESADS (Intelligent monitoring / Centralised ESTRACK Status and Diagnostic System) project which is a client-server application developed to ESOC (European Space Operations Centre) and implemented in J2SE (RMI, JDBC and Fuzzy Jess) and Protégé which runs on MS SQL Server. This application allows to monitor the ESTRACK (European Space Tracking (Network)) and to diagnose errors on it using fuzzy logic, to obtain different kinds of reports, to modify the knowledge base (KB) of the chosen project and to stop/start/create/eliminate any project. Nowadays, the only running project of ESOC which use this application is EnviSat (Environmental Satellite).
Analyst/Developer within EPMT (Electric Ion Propulsion Monitoring Tool) project which is an application to ESOC, developed in J2SE (JDBC, Fuzzy Jess and JClass), Protégé and Matlab, which runs on MS SQL Server. EPMT allows to the operators the identification and diagnosis of errors in SMART-1 (Small Mission for Advanced Research in Technology – 1) satellite because, thanks to the use of fuzzy logic on the received data from the satellite (obtained by the Dynamic Data System of ESOC) and on others as Ace Space Weather released on Internet, it infers whether there are errors or not and how important they are. The operators can obtain graphic reports of the errors inferred and can modify easily the fuzzy logic inference processes of EPMT in order to refine the severity of the alarms generated by it.
Developer within MyC (Monitorización y Control) project which is a client-server application which monitors and controls devices was developed to Ministerio de Defensa Español in J2SE (RMI and JDBC) and runs on MS SQL Server.
Developer to Synera Systems 3GEngine Department developing different projects in J2SE, J2EE, Internet environment: mPack and Web View.
Web View is implemented in J2EE (JSPs). It is the Web client of the synera version 4.0.
mPack is implemented in J2SE and it is a business intelligence solution for the mobile operators which allows to them and to the mobile Internet service suppliers, analyze and integrate the received information through the WAP Gateway, web servers, and other information sources (through the XML, ASN1, text, and so on logs) making easier the decisional process. Therefore, mPack use synera, and integrated suite which holds an analytic data base management system with data mining processes.
Webmaster and System Administrator at Departament d’Enginyeria Química of UPC carrying out administration tasks on PC’s network and developing the new web site of the department implemented in HTML, JavaScript and DHTML.
Computer Operator at Laboratori de Càlcul de la Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (LCFIB) carrying out users support and computers equipment control of the FIB classrooms.
MSc in Computer Science Engineering at Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), which is the Barcelona Computer Science School of the Technical University of Catalonia. It emphasizes in operational systems, artificial intelligence and databases.
Final Year Project at Synera Systems finalized at January 2002: “Research on WAP environment and development of an analyzer of WAP calls”.
Science Fiction, Space, Physics, AI, Music such as Depeche Mode music, Dance, À;ngel Guimerà plays such as La filla del mar or Terra baixa, Jane Austen books such as Pride and Prejudice, Isabel Allende books such as La casa de los espíritus, Gabriel García Márquez books such as El amor en los tiempos del cólera
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Software Production Manager with experience in a wide variety of J2EE projects: on Utilities sector (energy and water industry) and using Data mining DB for Telecommunication sector, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for European Space Agency (ESA), Business Process Management (BPM), portals, document management systems and electronic processing systems for public sector, with experience in PHP integration tools: with e-commerce sectors like retail, fashion and stationery and with Content Management Sytems (CMS) for the public sector.
Particularly interested in advanced J2EE projects and relational DB design and always interested in AI and space projects.