About me
Description
Too many decades ago, a man named Arnau was born into a family, of the already extinct, Middle Class. He was soon drawn to computing, handling a modest i386 that his parents bought with great effort. The school days were hard and he had to spend many afternoons confined doing his homework, but when he finished it, he immersed himself in the fantastic worlds of video games and role playing. When he was old enough to choose his training, he hesitated between two sciences, electronics and computer science, but the advice of a relative made him opt for the first. After 5 years trying to know the secrets of capacitors and transistors, he discovered the magic of logic gates. As a final project he decided to make a simple alarm programmed in an almost forgotten language (Assembler) that would allow him to see clearly that his future will be the computing.
After two years garnering friendships and good grades in the academy, he joined a company that took notice of his during his training.
Emboldened by acquiring his new skills and eager to know them to a higher level, he left the company and enrolled in college. Arnau was one of the oldest in the place, but that did not scare him and he used his experience to overcome adversity. They spent 3 intense years, alternating love, studies and a job that occupied him all morning, but to get the seal of the king, he had to pass the dreaded Calculus II test. Many brave people fell into these tests, many familiar faces he saw in later attempts, but finally, with red elbows and a little inspiration, he managed to overcome it (with note), which allowed him to leave the student life with the objectives achieved.
At the age of 27 he found his fortune as a full-time programmer and since then he has rendered excellent services to various companies especially in the healthcare sector.
There are rumors that affirm that he has been a father but that he continues to participate in the management of different projects in some of their stages (taking requirements, documentation, supervision of the work carried out and implementation). Those who have seen him say that he is autonomous, curious, self-taught, innovative, pro-active and easy to learn and that he loves to investigate and learn new technologies. Everything indicates that he is attracted to digital transformation, process automation and Machine learning.
If you have a problem and you find it, perhaps you can hire it …
Traits
CONSTANT
I don’t usually give up trying to reach a goal even when obstacles come up. There is often a way to get there, even if it is more expensive than expected.
INNOVATIVE
If the project allows it, I love to apply the latest technological advances to gain efficiency, adaptability and comfort.
CURIOUS
I am constantly motivated to learn new technologies and methods.
PRACTICAL
Usually it is more efficient to take advantage of previous work / knowledge than to start from 0. The standard solution is usually a very good base.
TRUSTWORTHY
Within the possibilities of the structure, the solution I design / apply is stable and safe. Anyway, I communicate the solution applied to the affected team and their responsible.
PROACTIVE
I prefer to spend time to fix/improve issues that create problems or recurring inefficiencies than to deal with their recurring desviations.
HONEST
I’m always clear with the objectives, difficulties and estimates of a project / task.
LEAD
I offer to lead / help both projects in my area and other areas where I can contribute.
Free time
CIFI
Tecnology
Videogames
Family and friends
Gameboard
Travel
Resume
WORK HISTORY
May 2022 – Current
LIMS consultant
Labware
Implementation and customization of the LIMS product for different clients
April 2019 – May 2022
IT Analyst: Laboratory, Quality and Strategy and Development
Kern Pharma
Support in operations and in the planning and execution of IT projects for the areas of Laboratories (QC), Quality (QA) and Strategy and Development (EyD), taking care of the dialogue with internal suppliers and clients.
Promoter of the use of Big Data and Machine Learning in the company.
October 2016 – April 2019
IT Manager
Pangaea Oncology
Responsible for the IT department of the company.
Some of my tasks consist of:
- Product owner functions for projects in the IT area (taking requirements, documentation, validation of deliverables and implementation).
- Coordination of the different external providers.
The interconnection of the data between the different existing software in the company against SAP. - Adaptation of the computer system to the needs of the company and for the requirements of the different external audits.
- Management and development of changes in the laboratory software (LIMS).
- Management of changes and incidents in SAP.
- Implementation of a multi-event platform. Implemented event.
October 2009 – October 2016
Analyst – Developer
IDIBELL
Lead the implementation and structuring of web projects to the Zend framework (PHP) and version control, in the development department.
Responsible for the analysis and implementation of different tools such as:
- Institution website: frontend (http://www.idibell.cat) and the backend accessible only to administrators of the institution that allows the management of the contents that appear in the Web. In this way, a user is allowed to update the company’s public portal without having any knowledge of programming. Some information was read from the ERP database, had LDAP validation, and execution of some process in PowerShell.
- Newsletter generator: allows to create newsletters from the content published on the web for later send by email.
- Curricular manager for scientific profiles that allows calculate of the impact factor of the researcher’s publications, obtaining the data through the Web Services PUBMED (REST) and WOK (SOAP).
- Vacation manager.
- Different web projects related to ERP (Ekon5), among which the following stand out:
- Online shopping cart.
- Payroll download.
- Configuration and integration of the survey generator (LimeSurvey) with the backoffice.
March 2009 – September 2009
Developer
ADASA
Developing projects that integrate Java, Struts, Taglib, JSP, DOJO, Javascript, CSS, XML, Apache / Tomcat …
Desember 2007 – March 2009
Developer
Alten
I worked with two clients:
- Telefónica I + D:
- Development of an application / widget that allowed viewing photos from different providers (Flirck,
Facebook, Picasa …), as well as inviting other users to view them on their TV through the Imagenio
platform. (Java, JSP, JSON, HTML, CSS, Javascript) - Development of the “Keteke” application for Imagenio (Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Development of a application that allows you to change the TV channel and consult Imagenio information through a PDA (C ++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Development of an application / widget that allowed viewing photos from different providers (Flirck,
- Sanofi Aventis: Maintenance of intranet modules in ASP over Oracle.
July 2007 – Desember 2007
Analyst – Developer
G.O.C Networking
Development of web applications for the pharmaceutical sector using ASP, Javascript and AJAX over Oracle
July 2005 – June 2007
Head of technical department
Mobbiz Communication
I was in charge of integrating our services with the information systems of our clients and our suppliers. Programming of all services (mostly in PHP over MySQL) and small applications (mostly in Servlets in Java) necessary for the proper functioning of these services. Development of a content portal for mobile phones, multi-company (fully customizable) programmed in three layers (Java, PHP and CSS) over MySQL.
Development of an application in J2ME that allowed sending SMS over the Internet, after user validation on a secure server and consultation of the phone book of the terminal itself.
Novembee 2001 – September 2003
Developer – HelpDesk
S.A.I
- Resolution of incidents on the CRM Goldmine software.
- Development of custom applications for Goldmine Clients and parameterization.
- Development, update and maintenance of the mobility module for CRM Goldmine (GoldenWAP) accessible from PDAs or other mobile devices.
Technological Environment: ASP, WAP, MSSQL2000, HTML
EDUCATION
2008-2019
Postgrado en gestión y calidad de proyectos TI
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
IT Project Management
10 ECTS. 87 teaching hours.
1. What is a project?
2. Different methodologies and best practices (Pmbok, Scrum, Mètode, Prince …)
3. Project design phases, methods
4. Definition of the project
5. Estimation, planning and monitoring techniques
6. Leadership and team management
7. Risk management and communication plan
8. Quality in the process and the result of the projects
9. Economic and financial management
10. PMBOK – PMI (certification preparation)
11. Scrum framework
12. Agile practices: estimation, requirements and testing
Quality management in IT projects
5 ECTS. 42 teaching hours.
1. Principles, costs and quality management in the life cycle
2. The testing process, strategies
3. Tools, metrics and indicators
4. Quality management at PMBOK
5. Process improvement models (CMMI, SPICE)
6. Change management
Average grade 8.9
View the certificate
2018 – 2018
Certified LabWare System Administrator
LabWare Europe
Certifica LW-0013651
2003 – 2007
Technical engineer: Management Information Systems
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Working part-time from the second year.
The final year project was a portal for sending mobile content (wallpapers, polytones, etc.). The portal was fully customizable at the company level (logo, colors, domain …) and had a statistics module.
The backend was done in PHP4 against MySQL while the front end was done with Google Web Toolkit
Average grade 7.8
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2000 – 2002
Advanced technician: Development of computer applications
Lestonnac
1995 – 2000
Advanced technician: Electricity and electronic
I.E.S Verge de Montserrat
Coding
Zend Framework
PHP
AJAX
HTML
JSP
JavaScript
PL/SQ
J2EE
WebServices
WordPress
Android SDK
Other abilities
Automation
LabWare LIMS
Project management
Linux
TESTIMONIALS
Guillem Fernandez Gonzalez
CEO & Co-funder CokaiDo.
I met Arnau at AltenTIC and we assigned it first to Sanofi and then to Telefonica I + D. Both clients were very satisfied with their contribution. Arnau is characterized by being an autonomous person capable of facing a project by itself in all its phases offering a good final result. He is also able to work as a team, providing initiative and a great desire to work.
