Joaquín González

Improvement of IT processes and delivery of qualitative services that give an edge to the client. Achievement and maintenance of quality excellence, taking over responsibility and ownership of IT deliverables and the work efficiency of the team. Identification of individual knowledge gaps, task structuring and prioritization. Definition and documentation of processes and best-practice guidelines to increase the overall quality of project deliverables.

Foundational Computer Science Course in J2EE – An industry Perspective at Infosys' Global Education Centre in Mysore. Score: Gold Award. Undertook 3 month training course in J2EE comprising Programming Fundamentals, Web Programming Fundamentals (HTML, JavaScript and XML), Servlets, JBoss, RDBMS, JSP, Oracle, PL/SQL, Eclipse.

Master Thesis carried out in the Institute of Computer Science at the FU Berlin, Computer Systems & Telematics Department. The focus of this research was to develop and characterize the performance achieved by several distributed localization algorithms for ad-hoc wireless sensor networks in indoor environments. We were mainly interested in truly distributed systems that can be scalable to WSNs comprising a high number of devices.

Internship at Vodafone Spain in the Network Technologies Department, area of radio planning and optimization for Castilla La Mancha region. Optimization of GSM/UMTS networks. Expansion and planning of 2nd and 3rd generation networks with new base stations. Traffic optimization and performance enhancement between 2G and 3G mobile networks. Maintenance of service quality together with planning and realization of performance optimization measures across radio network interfaces.

Research project in the area of image processing, denoising and reconstruction in electron microscopy of single particles at the National Center of Biotechnology (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CNB) in Madrid. Technologies: Linux, clustered computing, C++.

Support in the Department of Information Systems at Practiser S.L., a middle-sized health services company based in Cartagena (Murcia, Spain). Maintenance and expansion of intranet infrastructure. Implementation of webpage expansion (main technologies: Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS). Definition and enforcement of IT security policies (firewall configuration, application management).