Contact Information

In my way to Sandhamn Name: Wilian Abad Zurita González
Address: Kungshamra 31: 210, 170 70 Solna, Sweden
Phone Number: +46 763164351
Email: wzurita@gmail.com

Education

Post Graduate Studies (ongoing):

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. Years 2004- .
Master of Science Programme in Engineering and Management of Information Systems.

University

Universidad Simón Bolívar, Sartenejas, Miranda State, Venezuela. Years 1996 – 2001
Degree awarded: B.S. in Computing Engineering. Average: 3.87 out of 5
Optional Courses taken: Information Systems, Data Bases (Design, Database paradigms & RDBMS Maintaining), Software Engineering, Databases in Internet.

Work Experience

Developer. Price Runner AB, (as a consultant from Academic Work)

Development of the AdRunner Tool, which allows Price Runner affiliates to customize Price Runner advertisements so they suit better the design of their pages. The development tools included: Java, Spring Framework, and XSLT. The project was scheduled (and completed) to be developed in 2 months
April 2006,May 2006

Líder de desarrollo (Development Leader). Diario El Universal, C.A.

www.eluniversal.com is the digital counterpart of the periodical publication Diario El Universal, a major newspaper in Venezuela. The Technical Department tasks are: keep the site up and running the 365 days of the year; the creation (and support) of the software tools required for the publication of content; the creation of any software application targeted to be used by the readers of the site. The leader of the department plans all the activities required to accomplish the mentioned tasks. According to Diario El Universal, the site has an average of 3,5 millions of visits monthly, and is the preferred news website in Venezuela. The development involved software technologies like Java, JSP, SQL (Oracle), Lucene (search), Struts, and many others. Eclipse was used as IDE, and CVS to allow us to work cooperatively. It was also required to connect to a Legacy ATEX publishing system.
March 2004 – August 2004.

Especialista en Desarrollo (Software Development Specialist). Diario El Universal, C.A.

Work as part of a developer team that developed several publishing tools for the website http://www.eluniversal.com
Development of the search capabilities of the site, including the search of classified ads. The development involved software technologies like Java, JSP, SQL (Oracle), Lucene (search), Struts, and many others. Eclipse was used as IDE, and CVS to allow us to work cooperatively.
August 2002 – March 2004

Subdirector de Sistemas (Information Systems Deputy Manager). AON Re Venezuela.

Corrective and Additive Maintaining of the Information Systems at the Bank-Insurance Area of the company, and providing support for the various technology needs of this area. (Visual Basic, SQL)
April 21 – July 19 2002

Internship (20 weeks). TODO1 Services.

Development of a platform for the construction of Web Pages with content personalization capabilities. (Developed in a J2EE platform: Java, JSP and JDBC)
May-August of 2001

Short Internship (8 weeks). Sun Microsystems Venezuela.

Development of Web Pages (JSP) with database connection through JDBC.
July-August of 2000

Languages

Other Experiences

Award for the Top Score in the classificatory test.

CENAMEC (National Centre for the Enhancement of Science Teaching) Olimpíada Venezolana de Química (Venezuelan Chemistry Olympic Games, a high school level competition in Chemistry) Caracas, June 1995

Certificate of participation in the final test.

CENAMEC Olimpíada Venezolana de Química Caracas, June 1995