Resume

Raúl Ochoa Hermosilla, 36. · Santo Domingo de la Calzada · 26250 La Rioja (Spain)
TEL: 00 +34 639.761.384 ·

Education

  1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

    University of La Rioja October 2005 - September 2008 (expected)

    Level A in Programming (Java and C), Web Applications Programming (J2EE and PHP), Artificial Intelligence (Lisp), Multimedia Web Design (HTML, CSS, and Flash), Distributed Systems (Java). Level B in Database Programming (JDBC), Object Oriented Design (C#), Information Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Algebra, Business Administration.

    Final degree project

    In progress. It’s an interactive web document commenting system that allows people to annotate comments directly onto document elements like words at paragraphs and images. Involves a lot of human-computer interaction research and cross domain authentication. Furthermore it’ll be put on top of a J2EE Restful-MVC framework that I’m writing, and will be released under a free software license.
  2. Bachelor's Degree in Economics (two courses)

    Carlos III University of Madrid October 2003 - July 2005

    Proficient in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Accounting, Economic History.

Work Experience

  1. Mobile Software Engineering Intern

    Yahoo! Inc.

    July 2008 - August 2008 (2 months) London, UK
    Device Management – Analyzing and supporting the development of a requirements document for the device management module within Yahoo! Mobile. Key Responsibilities: Content Integration – Project Documentation for content integration.
    Content Integration – Integration of large quantities of content into Yahoo!’s search product oneSearch using parallel processing technologies (HADOOP).
  2. Freelance Developer

    October 2006 - Present (2 years 2 months) USA, Spain
    Developing web applications. Currently I’m coding iGoogle Gadgets for Google Spain and working on a traffic map for USA based top motor blog. I’m partnering with a local IT company adapting an invoicing system from a desktop to a web application for a metallurgy company. I launched a small resolution/devices social network for sharing internet resources such as photos, videos and music. It is in closed beta and the development is frozen. I developed a collaborative localization system for Spanish gas stations, using Google Maps API, and in doing so was invited to attend the Google Developer Day 2007. I am comfortable integrating third party tools/applications into new projects.
  3. Accountant

    October 2005 - Present (3 years 2 months) Spain
    I work in a family business, being responsible for all basic accounting functions. Handled the complete accounting cycle, including opening, posting entries and closing of accounts and preparation of various accounting reports.

Miscellanea

  1. Google API Guru

    March 2008 - Present (8 months) Spain
    Appointed by Google Spain as one of the first three Google Gurus in Spain as a result of my knowledge of the Google’s APIs and my contributions through mailing lists and my website.
  2. Blog advisor

    March 2007 - Present (1 year 9 months) Spain
    Advising blog development, strategy and growth at 8000vueltas.com (a widely-known Spanish motor blog) where I developed a speeding cameras map with the Google Maps API. I also do back end communications.

Languages

Language Level
Spanish
  • Native
English
  • Fluent
French
  • Basic understanding

Relevant Computer Experience

Area Skills
Operating Systems
  • UNIX (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X)
  • Windows (9x, XP, 2000 Server)
Languages
  • Java
  • Python
  • C
  • PHP
  • C# (including .Net Compact Framework)
  • C++
  • SQL
Other Languages
  • Lisp
  • Action Script
  • Ruby (on Rails)
Databases
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle 9i
Web
  • XHTML
  • XML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • DOM
  • REST
  • UI/UX design
Development Environments
  • Eclipse
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Vim
  • Subversion
Other tools
  • MS Office suite
  • Flash
  • LaTeX
  • Matlab
  • Mathematica

Membership

Creative Commons, EFF.

Open Source

In my free time I publish little tools/applications under free, as in speech, licenses: search capability to Google Reader through Google Gears, a blog planet (feed aggregator), a URL shortener and some Greasemonkey scripts. More open source projects are available on my open source code website.

Interests

Travel, sports (football), cinema and music.