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Andrea C. Bravo Balado

Software Engineer | Artificial Intelligence Master Student

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Bio

Hi! I'm Andrea Bravo Balado, also known as andreacbravob

I'm a: software engineer | java developer | creative | geek | AI master student | web and iPhone app development newbie | wordpress dev | living in Amsterdam, Netherlands

I'm always open for new career and business opportunities, so feel free to contact me if you consider that I might be useful for you.

Personal Info

  • Date of Birth: November 3th, 1986. (24 years old)
  • Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Website:
  • Citizenship: Spain+Venezuela.

Quick Details

Professional

  • Master Artificial Intelligence - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Netherlands - 2012 (expected).
  • Software Engineer - Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín - Maracaibo - 2008.
  • Java Developer with +3 years of experience. A bit more about my experience.
  • Passionate about social networking, very active on twitter and blogging.
  • Bilingual: Spanish - English.
  • Creative, innovative, passionate and teamworker.

Experience

2008 - 2010
San José, Costa Rica. Maracaibo, Venezuela

Desarrollo Fintec de Costa Rica

Developer

Development and support of an inter-banking application called "Bacosi". This app manages incoming and outgoing direct credits and debits between Banco Occidental de Descuento and other banking institutions, through Venezuelan Central Bank. The application is developed under Java EE, implementing Spring and Hibernate. It works primarily with MS SQL Server, but thanks to Hibernate, it is possible to use other database engine. The development environment is Eclipse and we use ant to compile all sources and create a JAR file. After that, we create a WAR file with the previous JAR and other libraries and deploy this WAR file to Apache Tomcat.

2007-2008
Maracaibo, Venezuela

Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín (URBE)

Cisco's Fundamentals of Java Programming teaching assistant

I was in charge of helping students with the assignments and the case study JBank application. In addition, given that the course was part of the technology transfer center, my duties also included organization and management of the activities of the center, like enrollments, workshops, conferences and support to software libre and open source projects.

2008
Maracaibo, Venezuela

Qualitex Servicios Tecnológicos

Internship as a software developer

Adjustments of EasyTicket, a support ticket system for the company Radio Marina de Venezuela.

2002 - 2004
Maracaibo, Venezuela

Academia de Natación Bellas Artes

Swimming instructor

I spent my summers working as a swimming instructor on vacation camps with children of 2.5 to 5 years old.

Education

2010 – 2012 (expected)
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence

I am currently attending courses at the VU. Description of the program

2004 – 2008
Maracaibo, Venezuela

Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín

Software Engineering

Description of the program (in Spanish)

1989 - 2004
Maracaibo, Venezuela

Colegio Mater Salvatoris Maracaibo

Science High School Diploma

Pre, elementary, middle and high school

2007 - 2008
Maracaibo, Venezuela

Courses

Various

  • Cisco Networking Academy: CCNA 1 & 2
  • Cisco Networking Academy: Fundamentals of Java Programming
  • Adobe Photoshop: basic skills
  • Graphic interfaces design in Java

Conferences and Workshops:

Various

  • Software Freedom Day 2008
  • Netbeans Day 2008
  • Cisco Networking Academy: Conferencia Anual Venezuela 2007
  • I Jornadas de Tecnologías de la Información
  • Software Freedom Day 2007
  • Soluciones de Conectividad a Internet para Redes Domésticas
  • IT: Ensamblaje y Mantenimiento de Computadoras
  • Festival de Instalación Ubuntu
  • I Jornadas sobre Herramientas Libre IglURBE
  • Debian: Comunidad, desarrollo e Integración
  • IT: Ensamblaje y Mantenimiento de Computadoras
  • III Jornadas de Informática y Nuevas Tecnologías

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín. 2008
  • High School Degree. Colegio Mater Salvatoris Maracaibo. 2004.

Languages

  • Spanish: native language.
  • English: I took the TOEFL iBT test on September 2009 and obtained the following scores:
      Reading: 29/30.
      Listening: 30/30.
      Speaking 20/30.
      Writing 25/30.
    My speaking skills have improved ever since I moved to Amsterdam..

Hobbies

  • Learning about natural language processing applications
  • Social Networking, Social Media, Networking 2.0
  • Rock music \m/
  • Crime solving films and TV Shows
  • Flamenco dancing and music
  • Swimming, specially breast style
  • Cooking healthy and learning new recipes
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