Ana Suarez

As the team leader for the backend development team in Meetrics, my responsibilities are to guide and manage the team from the technical and organizational perspectives and work together with the Director of Technology on designing the future of the backend system architecture while still being hands-on capable.

As a development manager, my responsibility is to ensure applications are delivered on time, with quality, in an efficient manner and satisfying the needs of our customers. Defined and implemented an iterative and agile working methodology across the entire delivery team and the customer, involving the whole life cycle of the project, from requirements through LIVE deliverables and long term suppor

During these years in Voxgen, I was leading technical teams working on customer applications. I was responsible for delivering extensible and configurable customer applications, following development industry standards, guaranteeing quality assurance and ensuring customer satisfaction. Leading and mentoring the development process, technical sessions, code reviews, automated testing coverage and iterations and release planning.

During these years in Voxgen, I was designing and developing a Spring/Java based framework, to allow the generation of be-spoke voice applications in an object-oriented language, making them test-friendly and platform independent. I helped the company move to an agile software methodology I established a common technical infrastructure with well-defined architecture and development best practices I drove improvements to the release and delivery process

Senior developer building web solutions used for tracking of goods between warehouses and final customers. Solutions built using J2EE core technologies and design patterns. JAAS security. Data migration from legacy systems via XML documents.

Development of a multi-threaded messaging gateway to send/receive SMS messages from/to software applications and mobile phones via a GSM network aggregator. Skills used: UML, design patterns, junit, mock objects, XML, java multi-thread libraries. This was an agile project where we successfully used story cards, iterations, pair programming, acceptance testing, unit testing and mocking

I developed a web multi-tiered banking application with a middleware in CORBA/C++ against Oracle DB. I migrated the same application into Java technology using servlets, XML and Weblogic

C++ CRM development with Navision (now Ms Financials) with highly exposure and engagement with customer, dealing with change requests, requirements analysis and solution delivery

Computer's Architecture, Algorithms and Development Methodologies, Object Oriented Programming, Human-Machine Interfaces, Mathematics: Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Computational Mathematics .... Research Project: Object Oriented Database and Multimedia Systems