Personal Information:

Roberto Montero Ortiz
Nationality: Costa Rican.
Visa: H1B

Work Experience: ( Download Code Samples )
 

2009 - Present Drupal Latin America. San Pedro, Costa Rica
CEO.

• Train young PHP developers into strong Drupal engineers.
• Secure offshore projects to use them as training cases for the mentoring program.
• Develop high end, enterprise level Drupal sites.

2007-2009 ExcelSoftsources.com. San Pedro, Costa Rica
Team Lead & Senior Programmer II.

• Coordinate tasks between the client and the development team.
• Drupal module development, profiling and optimization.
• Drupal themeing.
• JQuery, AJAX, CSS 2.0, Web 2.0 Website Development.
• Build high-demand websites with minimal memory footprint.
• Build backend UI powered by Java Script.

2007-2008 Open Source Consulting. Paseo Colón, Costa Rica
Senior Developer & Team Lead.

• Coordinate four development teams in three countries.
• Take ownership of a complete Product branch.
• Refactoring and optimizing preexisting code.
• Use of refraction and introspection properties of PHP 5 in profiling classes to optimize the code.
   

2004-2007 PHP Beast.net San Pedro, Costa Rica
Senior Developer & Team Lead.

• Coordinate Development Team.
• Build a SEO oriented CMS solution from scratch, using O.O. Programing, AJAX, CSS, XML/XLS, RSS, Ping, Track-back and web services.
• Optimize large data volume queries.
• Speed up bulk generation process.
   

2003-2004 OO.RR.S.A. Sabana Norte, Costa Rica
Senior Developer.

• Programming and Design.
• Domain and Website Management.
• In House Systems Development. (Support, Task Manager, Backend)
• Data Base Management, Online Reports, Tailored Applications.
• ASP / PHP Migration and Development
   

2001-2003 TecnoMercadeo Latinoamericano B° Luján, Costa Rica
Web Developer.

• Programming and Development.
• Network Administrator.
• Content Management Tools Development.
• Data Base Management.
• Server Management and Tech. Support.
• Installation and configuration of servers.
• Domain management, DNS, IPs
   

1999-2001 ULACIT. B° Tournón, Costa Rica.
Latinamerican University of Science and Technology
http://www.ulacit.ac.cr
Computer Lab Asst.

• Tech Support with end users.
• PC maintenance.
• Network setup and maintenance.
• Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris set up and maintenance.
• Systems Development Area.
• Graphical design of the school’s new internal systems.
• Other Activities.
• Trainer: Open courses ( MS Office suite).
• Workshops: ASP and internet develompent.
• Tutoring.
   

1998-2001 Cristo.Net B° Aranjuez, Costa Rica.
Junior Web Developer

• Light website creation. Efficient mini sites for costarrican Christian ministries.
• Full site development for events. Booking, accommodations management system, donations.
• Mentor junior coders. Assist PM with technical insight.
   

Education:
 

1999–2004 ULACIT B°Luján, Costa Rica.
BsCS in Computer Sciences.
Emphasis on Systems Engineering and Information Technologies.

1994–1998 CONBI College. (Conservatorio Bilingüe) Montes de Oca.
HighSchool.

1994 AAHS (Anglo American High School) Sn.Pedro.
Seventh Grade.

1989-1993 Saint Joseph’s Primary School. Moravia.
Elementary.

Areas of expertise:
 

CMS: Drupal ( 2+years ) WordPress ( 1+year)
Web: PHP ( 10 years ), AJAX, MySQL, REST, SOAP, XML, jQuery.
IDEs: Zend Studio. PDT, PHP Eclipse.
Frameworks: Zend Platform ( basic)
OS: LINUX – Windows Environments. Basic MacOS.
Version Control: CVS, SVN Versioning control systems.

Other not so used skills:
Certified PL/SQL programmer from ORACLE University
ASP, SQL Server.
MS-DOS to Windows XP.
Linux all major distros. Mostly Ubuntu and CentOS.
Adobe – Macromedia Suites.
Basic knowledge of Postgres, Flash, ActionScript, Flex, ColdFusion.

Work in Progress:
Getting my Zend Certification
Learning Mandarin.

Languages:
 

English: Reading – Writing – Comprehension 100%
Spanish: Native Speaker.

Brief Project Overview: ( more on my website )
 

PHPBeast.com:

Webdesign, of the frontend (http://www.phpbeast.com/).
Team Lead and senior developer of the core system.
(http://brain.phpbeast.com/)

Freelance Developer:

• Expoempleo.net:
  Complete design and programming of the new HR system. ( Website )
• RedLogistic.com:
  Complete design and programming of a tailored CMR application. ( http://redlogistic.com/ )
• Horizontes Virtual Guide:
  Complete design and programming of a custom tourist information suite. ( http://www.horizontes.com/search/ )
• Guanacaste Rent-a-Car: Collaboration. ( Website offline )

Volunteer Work:

• Rotaractor ( 2006 - Present )
  San Pedro Curridabat Rotaract Club Website:
  Coppermine + WordPress integration (http://spcurri.org/)
  Custom volunteer control system for a Telethon.
  Note: SPCurri.org was decomissioned in 2009 and is being transfered to http://sanpedrocurri.org. Going from WP into Drupal.
• Costa Rica Rotaract Clubs - http://www.rotaractcr.org
  Integrated Google Apps and Drupal for this websites.
• San Pedro Curridabat Rotary Club - http://rotarysanpedrocurridabat.org
  Integrated Google Apps, Drupal and Twitter for this website. Theme was custom tailored.