David Horat

Teaching internet issues within the "Comunicaciones" subject to an expert course for industrial engineers. The "Comunicaciones" subject was held on March 2005, February 2006, March 2006, December 2007, February 2008, February 2009.

I am Software Engineer specialized in Grid and Web technologies. My tasks included: - To be a member of the GLUE International Working Group to develop and implement GLUE 2.0 Specifications for Grid Interoperability. - To be the MyEGI/Central monitoring DB representative in the Operational Tools Advisory Group for EGI - To be part of the Information System Product Team for the LHC Computing Grid. - To be part of the Service Availability Monitoring Team for the LHC Computing Grid.

10 out of 10 graduated with honours! :D Writing my Master Thesis: "A Usability and Accessibility Study of the Moodle ELearning Plataform" This includes: Accessibility Theory, Legislation and Studies. Usability Theory and Solving Concrete Usability Issues. Response Time Optimization in Web Applications.

Part time Moodle developer. Contributed in: - Searching bugs - Adding new little functionalities - Mentoring Google Summer of Code projects - Usability and accesibility study

Technical Reviewer of the book "Moodle Multimedia".

Topics: data mining, grid research and virtualization.

Mentor at the Google Summer of Code 2008 for Moodle. Leading two projects: - Detecting and solving specific usability issues - Automatic accessibility checking http://code.google.com/soc/2008/moodle/about.html

Specialized in Inteligent Networks, comunication protocols (TCP/IP and SS7) and real-time systems. Perform feasibility studies. Project management. Design. Testing. Quality Assurance.

Design and implementation of the core of a virtual private network for mobile operators using intelligent networks within a team of more than 15 people. Refactoring of other people´s code to improve readability, which improved maintainability of the code for fast bug solving response. Testing.

Java specialized consultant at Ericsson in its R&D Madrid Center

Mentor at the Google Summer of Code 2007 for Moodle. I managed a project called Moodle Voice to navigate with your voice through a web application using the VoiceXML technology. http://code.google.com/soc/2007/moodle/about.html

Software design and implementation in Java and Ruby. Designed and developed a remote assistance system to remote control client´s computers.

Develop a LAMP system based on Moodle and LDAP to provide an eLearning system for all the University. Train the professors in its usage. Currently used in http://online.nordakademie.de/

Development of a Java applet to browse through a graphical network using XML-RPC. Refactorization of its code to improve readability and apply design patterns. Development of an XML-RPC server in Ruby which allows you to navigate through a database. Write down client and internal documentation.

Teacher of the course “Managing and Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000".

Erasmus scholarship

Master Thesis presented in March 2009. Grade: 10 out of 10 graduated with honours. Involved with the Reasearch Institute for Cybernetic Sciences and Technologies: http://www.iuctc.ulpgc.es/