Sergio Torres C.

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Skills Summary

  • Bilingual, Spanish / English
  • Passion for Innovation, to work in new projects or improve old ones.
  • Excellent analytic skills, to turn business problems into IT solutions.
  • 17+ productive years with Microsoft technologies. Since October 2005 I am working with MS Visual Studio .Net 2005 and MS SQL Server 2005.

Employment History

Consultant. Main Projects (1999-...):

  • Upgrade the "Request for Quotes Management System" from MS Access 2000 and VBA to Visual Basic .Net 2005 and SQL Server 2005 - Aviation Engineered Products - Florida, USA.
  • Team member for the definition of project “ICT Integration in Municipal Management and Government Decentralization in Nicaragua” - Finland Government – Nicaragua.
  • Design, and develop the Foreign Currency Transactions Control System for the Central American Bank – Honduras. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Design and develop the Admission, Enrollment and Academics Information System - Polytechnic University of Nicaragua - Managua, Nicaragua.
  • Design and develop the company Information System - LAM Enterprises Inc Miami, Fl, USA.

Web Server Administrator and Web Applications Developer, Anphi Internet Solutions(2001-...), Managua, Nicaragua.

  • Setup and maintain the company servers  (IIS 5.0 y 6.0, SMTP, FTP, DNS).
  • Design and develop the company database web applications (MS Access, SQL 2005, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET), including a statistical program to process Windows Media Services log files, with a geo localization module at the country level.

Director of Information Technology, Central American University (1990-1999), Managua, Nicaragua.

  • Design, develop, deploy and maintain the Enrollment and Academics Information System. The very first ever in Nicaragua.
  • Promote, design, develop and deploy a system for admissions testing that reduced the processing time from 45 days to 1/2 day, using NCS Optical Mark Reader technology.
  • Promote and design the computer teaching labs.

Several Positions, Nicaraguan Government (1982 - 1990)

  • Director of Information Systems (National Commission to Support Combatants)
    • Promote, design, develop and deploy the War Victims National Database.
  • Director of Human Resources (National Commission to Support Combatants)
  • Information Analyst (Mass Media Department)
    • Analyze and report the 1984 elections image in the international mass media.

Education

Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
M.S. in Computer Science

Rafael Urdaneta University
Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
B.S. in Political Science

Proficiencies

  1. Windows OS, all versions
  2. Windows Servers NT, 2000 and 2003 (File, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, WMS servers)
  3. MS Access and VB for Applications, all versions up to 2003.
  4. Visual Basic Scripting, 6.0 and .Net 2005
  5. Databases Analysis, Design, Development and Deployment.
  6. SQL Server 2000 and 2005
  7. ADO, ASP, ADO.NET, ASP.NET
  8. Information Systems Analisys, Design, Development and Deployment
  9. SPSS, MS Office, etc.
  10. LAN Design and deployment.

Professional Affiliations

  • Microsoft Registered Partner since October 2005. Empower Program (for ISVs) Member.
  • Member of the Nicaraguan Fulbright Alumni Association.

References available upon request.