Carrasco Valero Antonio's European Curriculum by EuroCv
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Antonio Carrasco Valero
http://carrascoMDD.eurocv.eu
Information Technology
English
PERSONAL INFORMATION
First Name, Surname Antonio, Carrasco Valero Antonio, Carrasco Valero
Address 1 46001 Valencia Spain (ES)
Email carrascoeurocv@ModelDD.org
       
       
Country Code ES
Place and date of birth Spain Alicante 01-11-1962
Gender Male
WORK EXPERIENCE
Date (from - to) 17-08-2006 - 09-2010
Name and address of employer Model Driven Development, sl - ES46920 Mislata Valencia Spain
Type of business or sector Computer Software Developement Factory
Occupation or position held Director
Main activities and responsibilities Drive business positioning to the market of Free-Libre-Open Source Software.
Manage tenders from public sector to win and serve four government contracts.
Architect innovative software development factories, to provision floss communities with affordable collaborative content management applications.
Develop collaborative applications for localization of internationalized user interface symbols, and for specification and publishing of corporate procedures.

Some work products are available to the communities at large with GPL license, and downloadable from the forge at the European Commission Open Source Observatory and Repository:
* gvSIG-i18n Plone application for localization of internationalized user interface strings. See project description link and forge link at OSOR.
* gvSIG-business process definition, a Plone application for specification and publication of corporate regulations. See project description link and development forge link.
* ModelDDvlPlone framework in support of the above. See description link and forge link.

See better metrics at ohloh.net, for gvSIGi18n link, gvSIGbpd linkand ModelDDvlPlone link.

Some production instances of the gvSIG-i18n application are available at www.gvSIG.org Desktop link, and www.gvSIG.org Mobile link

Some application demos temporarily available at www.ModelDD.org link.
Date (from - to) 01-06-2007 - 31-12-2007
Name and address of employer Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market, European Commission, Alicante, Spain
Type of business or sector Intellectual Property: trade marks and designs
Occupation or position held Business Analyst for the Quality Management Department; Project Management Assistance for the EM2 flagship programme
Main activities and responsibilities Gather and analyse busines requirements, deliver and liason with the external IT supplier to follow-up on requirements progress into implementation.
Organise logistics and develop tools for User Acceptance Test (UAT) of the EM2 flagship product.
Manage the requirements and defects data sets in liason with the external IT supplier.
Date (from - to) 01-08-2006 - 21-01-2007
Name and address of employer Fujitsu Services España, sau
Type of business or sector Public Administration, software methodologies
Occupation or position held Methodology and Tools Consultant
Main activities and responsibilities As independent expert.
Write technical annexes for government tenders for Free-Libre Open Source Software tools for software development automation (CASE).
Evaluate responses to government tenders above.
Date (from - to) 01-05-2006 - 01-08-2006
Name and address of employer Push the Button, sl, Murcia, Spain
Type of business or sector Research and Development in Model-Driven Software tools for the Semantic Web
Occupation or position held Analyst
Main activities and responsibilities Supply guidance and architectural patterns based on lessons learned in previous engagements on the same subject and industry.
Date (from - to) 01-04-2004 - 31-12-2005
Name and address of employer Her Majesty Revenue and Customs;Telford, United Kingdom
Type of business or sector Tax and Customs administration
Occupation or position held Unified Process Engineer; Requirements Analysis Discipline Lead
Main activities and responsibilities Rational Unitied Process Discipline Lead for the Construction Industry Scheme
Reform, and the new Data Warehouse Programme.
Secured the system alignment to business requirements, by pioneering the adoption of
UML2 behavioral modeling, while protecting the organisation’s extensive investment in
UML1 tooling.
Mentored in the best practices of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), for the Analysis
and Design discipline, using UML2 and the IBM-Rational Rose toolset. Author
recommendations and guidelines for the development of Data Warehouses applying
the RUP process framework. Develop Rational Rose extensions in support of UML2
and Enterprise Collaboration Architecture standards. Hands-on work participating
actively in the critical path of Analysis of Requirements, Use Cases and forward
engineering into multi-tiered Design with target platforms: J2EE, Weblogic, Oracle and
Webmethods.
Attachment(s)
Cleeve Amos letter 2005_12.pdf
Date (from - to) 01-11-2002 - 02-02-2004
Name and address of employer Sole-trader
Type of business or sector Consultancy for Public Administrations and SMEs
Occupation or position held Consultant; expert reviewer
Main activities and responsibilities Architect model-driven internet solutions.
Expert reviewer for projects sponsored by the European Commission in the tourism sector.
Date (from - to) 01-03-2002 - 31-10-2002
Name and address of employer IOSYSnet, SA, Brest, France
Type of business or sector business process and business intelligence; tools development
Occupation or position held Standardization consultant
Main activities and responsibilities Participate in the company's estandardization strategy.
Represent the company in the Object Management Group.
Date (from - to) 01-06-1998 - 01-10-2002
Name and address of employer Data Access Technologies, inc. Miami USA
Type of business or sector Software development standards and tools
Occupation or position held Chief Architect for product line; co-author of standardization submissions
Main activities and responsibilities Contribute innovative modeling standards for enterprise service components.
(EDOC and EAI in the Object Management Group, ebXML BPSS in UN/CEFACT).
Develop proof-of-concept tools in support of the adopted standards.
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Date (from - to) 01-03-2001 - 30-08-2001
Name and address of employer Beckman-Coulter Cellular Analysis Development Center, Miami, Florida
Type of business or sector Health-care, large Laboratory Instrument Systems
Occupation or position held Senior Staff Software Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Contributed to the analysis, design and development of the new generation of large-scale health-care laboratory instrumentation.
Date (from - to) 01-01-1998 - 30-05-1998
Name and address of employer Bankers Trust, World Trade Center, New York City, USA
Type of business or sector Finance; large syndicated loans
Occupation or position held Framewoks consultant
Main activities and responsibilities Maintained and developed a rich declarative framework, core corporate asset for the agile development of syndicated loan products.
Date (from - to) 01-12-1996 - 31-12-1997
Name and address of employer J.P.Morgan, Wall Street, USA
Type of business or sector Finance; Investment banking and foreign exchange
Occupation or position held Mentor
Main activities and responsibilities Assist individual projects in best development practices, and fine performance tuning.
Assess readiness of software libraries for Y2K (year 2000) compliance.
Develop proof-of-concepts for corporate transition from 2-tier to 3-tier distributed systems using CORBA and Java.
Date (from - to) 01-04-1995 - 30-11-1996
Name and address of employer Reich Technologies; Brest, France; Brussels, Belgium; Paoli PA USA
Type of business or sector Copyright co-holder of UML1.x - Software Development methodologies, tools and standards
Occupation or position held Software engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Develop innovative approaches to agile development of computer-aided software engineering tools.
On-site deployment and support of modelling practice, repositories, and tools.
Participate in the first commercial implementation of what is now known as Object Constraint Language (OCL) of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Develop prototypes and proofs of concept in support of the company's contribution to the UML standard.
Date (from - to) 01-01-1989 - 31-03-1995
Name and address of employer Self-employed with commercial name MindWare
Type of business or sector Multi-platform Software Development tools
Occupation or position held Owner
Main activities and responsibilities Acquired and developed technology and open source products unique in the country.
Shrink-wrapped a product using bleeding-edge technology, and sold to the very exclusive vertical market of Spanish Notaries.
Launched a new company initiative, strategically positioned to receive public funding for innovation and venture capital.
Timely entered the international market of object oriented consulting.
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Date (from - to) 01-02-1992 - 30-09-1992
Name and address of employer Dimoni
Type of business or sector Shrink-wrapped applications for accounting, CRM and ERP
Occupation or position held Software engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Developed components for the DIMONY family of products, national leader at the time in corporate solutions for Accounting, CRM and ERP.
Date (from - to) 01-04-1988 - 30-04-1989
Name and address of employer Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda, sa; Generalidad Valenciana (regional government)
Type of business or sector government agency for public housing and infrastructure development
Occupation or position held IT Manager
Main activities and responsibilities Launched IT services in support of the foundation of the agency.
Acquire from central government the management of the public housing stock of over 30,000 appartment units, and over 300,000 unpaid bills.
In charge of multimillion electronic fund transfers.
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Date (from - to) 28-11-1985 - 31-03-1988
Name and address of employer Dirac, sa, Valencia, Spain
Type of business or sector Hardware and Software supplier
Occupation or position held Software engineer
Main activities and responsibilities Contributed visionary innovations, now proven, in scaleable N-tier
architectures, model driven development and software patterns.
Developed systems for public hospitals, accounting, and
telecommunications.
Adopted and contributed to early open source offerings in the UNIX & C technologies.
Pioneered the launch of electronic open source communities with the development and launch of telematic systems for electronic
conferencing, content sharing and discussion.
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Date (from - to) 22-05-1985 - 13-11-1985
Name and address of employer Hiodroelectrica Española, sa - now Iberdrola
Type of business or sector Electricity distribution
Occupation or position held Trainee
Main activities and responsibilities 6 months course leading to permanent recruitment by the utilities company.
After my grand-grand-parent, my grand-parent, my father, and myself in 1982-1983, working in same utilities business, I dropped the profession of electrician after sucessful completion of the course, and joined Dirac for an IT software development position.
Date (from - to) 01-07-1984 - 30-04-1985
Name and address of employer Compusoft, SA, Valencia, Spain
Type of business or sector Business software application development
Occupation or position held Trainee
Main activities and responsibilities Develop components and applications within the 4th.generation language developed by the company.
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Date (from - to) 01-09-1983 - 30-09-1984
Name and address of employer Fuerzas Armadas Españolas, Ejercito de Tierra, Brigada de Cazadores Zapadores de Alta Montaña
Type of business or sector Fast response unit
Occupation or position held Corporal
Main activities and responsibilities Command the light mortar squadron.
Company Quarters management.
Date (from - to) 01-05-1982 - 30-06-1983
Name and address of employer Hidroelectrica Española, sa - now Iberdrola
Type of business or sector Electricity production - hidroelectric
Occupation or position held Chief machinist and boards operator
Main activities and responsibilities Sole operator of a dual engine hidroelectric facility on the Jucar river, as part of the team running round-the-clock shifts.

Participate in the whole dismantlement and re-wamping of the entire facility after the 1982 flood.
Date (from - to) 01-02-1984 - 30-11-1984
Name and address of employer Comercial Tecnográfica, sl - Valencia- Spain
Type of business or sector Document processing and information systems; Regional distributor of first PC made in Spain
Occupation or position held Junior Software and Hardware technician
Main activities and responsibilities Assist in the marketing of the company's hardware and software products to whole-sale and retailers.

Pre- and post-sales support.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Date (from - to) 01-09-1995 - 30-09-1997
Name and type of organisation providing education or training Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.- EUI
Main subjects/occupational skills covered Increased responsibilities in professional activities took over time allocated for studies.

The Foundation for International Services evaluated my academic credits plus professional experience, as equivalent to a bachelor's degree in computer science from an accredited college or university in the USA.
Name of certification awarded partial studes in Computer Science
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Date (from - to) 01-09-1980 - 30-09-1983
Name and type of organisation providing education or training Universidad Politecnica de Valencia - EUITI
Main subjects/occupational skills covered Interrupted by mandatory military service.
After military service, changed courses to Computer Science.
Name of certification awarded partial studies in Electrical Engineering
OTHER LANGUAGES
Native Language Spanish
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing
European level Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English
C2
Proficient user
C2
Proficient user
C2
Proficient user
C2
Proficient user
C2
Proficient user
French
A1
Basic user
A1
Basic user
A1
Basic user
A1
Basic user
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Basic user
Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas.
Fast adaptation to change. Driver of change.

Accurately forecast the evolution key information technology trends, and deliver IT products with years in advance from adoption by mainstream industry trends.
SOCIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork is essential (for example culture and sports), etc
Served as mentor of very skilled, senior professionals (see JPMorgan and Her Majesty Revenue and Customs), where gaining the trust and confidence was paramount for the intended transmission of knowledge.

Lived and worked in multicultural, multilanguage environments.
In Europe, in addition to Spain:
European Commission OHIM en Alicante; government and private organizations in Brest (France), Brussels and La Hulpe (Belgium), West Midlands (near Birmingham in U.K.),

In the USA:
New York City (Wal Street) and Miami, arguably among the most cosmopolitan and inter-culturally rich cities.
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets; at work, in voluntary work (for example culture and sports), at home, etc
Contribute technical argumentations facilitating the consensus of previously disjoined parties, for standardization processes, and information technology projects.

Experience in rolling-out and driving processes adapted to the organization's culture and practice,
backed up by a deep understanding of software development process engineering.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc
For computers see section below.

Heavy industrial equipment for electric power generation and distribution.
COMPUTER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Describe your computer skills and competences
Modeling standards:
* UML 0.8, 1.x, 2.x; BPMN, BPDM, BMM. ebXML BPSS (co-authored).
Implementation Technologies
* Programming languages. Python. Java, Smalltalk, C++, C (KR ANSI), Pascal, Modula-2. SQL. Logo, Postscript, Query3000 (HP), various Assemblers, Basics , Shells and scripts.
* Development environments : Eclipse; Java : Jbuilder, VisualCafe,VisualAge. IBM Smalltalk and VisualAge. ParcPlace Smalltalk-80 , VisualWorks, including user primitives VM customization. VisualWorks DLLCC interface. VisualWorks. Sybase CT-Lib interface. Distributed Smalltalk (DST). Gemstone for Smalltalk. Custom. VisualC++.
* Version control and configuration management : CVSnt, SVN, ENVY, MS Visual SourceSafe, StarTeam, Rational ClearCase.
* CASE tools : Eclipse, MOSkitt, Topcased, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, Objecteering, Argo derivatives, ISF, and proprietary.
* Middleware. XML, SOAP, XML-RPC, WSDL, SOA. CORBA: DST, Orbix/ST, OrbixWeb, Visibroker for Java. COM DCOM basis. Web services technologies J2EE.
* Object Application Servers : Zope, Gemstone. BEA Weblogic. Enterprise Java Beans.
* Content management systems: Plone.
* Databases. MySQL. PostgreSQL, Sybase (including Open Client), Oracle (including Oracle Call Interface), DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, HP-Image, Raima DB-Vista. Btrieve. Various ISAM implementations.
* Internet : HTML, HTTP, XML, CSS, XSLTs, AJAX. Applets, Servlets. TCP/IP sockets. FTP.
* Operating systems. Linux ( Debian, Ubuntu,...). UNIX (HP-UX, IBM AIX, SunOS and Solaris, SCO), MS-Windows (NT, 98, 95, 3.x) including DLLs, DDE and COM basics. OS/2, HP MPE (HP3000 series), MacOS, OS9, OASYS, THEOS, CPM 68K, TOS (Atari), GEM, MS-DOS, CPM, ZEBRA, DOS (Tandy).
* Packages : Lotus Notes. MS-Office. Xerox XSIS Analyst with Assistant. Infographics and pre-Press (Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Linotype and Agfa utilities, and proprietary), animation, multimedia authoring (HyperCard, Toolbox, Director, and proprietary).
ARTISTIC SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Music, writing, design, etc.
Play the lute musical instrument (strings).
Infography. Digital illustration. Multimedia and 3D authoring.
OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Competences not mentioned above.
Standardization initiatives
2005 Profile of UML1 for UML2 Behavioral Modelling and Logical Components: in-house, Aspire
Produce an adaptation of the adopted standard UML Profile for EDOC, of which I am coauthor, to enable the business
benefits of precise behavioural modelling in UML2, while protecting the existing investment in UML 1 tooling (Rational Rose
2002).
2000-2004 Unified Modeling Language 2.0 (UML 2.0) : Object Management Group
Participate as Data Access Technologies member, in the initial joint submission by Adaptive Technologies, Data Access
Technologies, Project Technology, Kinetium, Softlab and Siemens.
2000-2001 ebXML (XML for electronic business) : United Nations/CEFACT and OASIS
Participant in the elaboration of ebXML , the worldwide XML messaging standard - XML for Electronic Business, by the
United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organisation for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). ebXML was adopted in May’2001. Endorsed by HL7, Open
Travel Alliance, Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI), RosettaNet, Covisint, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce,
Global Commerce Initiative, Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail, and others.
2000-2001 UML for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) : Object Management Group
Participate in the UML™ Profile for Event-based Architectures in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) proposed standard
of the Object Management Group (OMG). In a joint submission by DSTC, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle Corporation, Rational
Software Corporation and Unisys. Supported by CBOP, Charlkes Schwab Co., Data Access Technologies, and IONA.
Ensure the alignment of EAI with EDOC and ebXML. Adopted Feb. 2002.
1999-2002 UML for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) : Object Management Group
Co-author the UML™ Profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) proposed standard of the Object
Management Group (OMG). Responsible for the UML Profile for the Component Collaboration Architecture (CCA). In a
joint submission by CBOP, Data Access Technologies, DSTC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Iona Technologies, Open-IT, Sun
Microsystems, Unisys, and supported by Hitachi, SINTEF and NetAccounts. Ensure the alignment of EDOC with EAI and the
ebXML standard of the UN/CEFACT and OASIS.
Member of the EDOC Finalization Task Force, in representation of IOSYSnet and continuing previous work with Data Access
Technologies. EDOC was adopted by OMG as standard specification on November 16th, 2001.
2001 Java Specification Request #159 : Java Community Process
Participant in the Java Community Process, for a Java Specification for J2EE, based on EDOC CCA below.
1998 Business Object Component Architecture (BOCA) : Object Management
Group
Contribute to the proof of concept and product development in support of the Business Object Component Architecture
(BOCA), proposed standard of the Object Management Group (OMG). In a joint submission by Data Access Technologies,
EDS, NIIIP, SEMATECH, Inc., Genesis Development Corporation, Prism Technologies and IONA Technologies. The
proposed standard was withdrawn in favor of what now is known as EDOC (above).
1996 Unified Modeling Language (UML 0.8 to 1.1) : Object Management Group
Contribute to the proof of concept and first commercial implementation of what became the UML Object Constraint Language
(OCL) , by Reich Technologies, co-holder of the UML Copyright notice. Validate and concept-proof early versions of
modeling unification. Build Object Oriented repositories and modeling tools for the emerging standard.
Object Management Group, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Company; IBM Corporation; ICON Computing; i-Logix; IntelliCorp;
Electronic Data Services Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; ObjecTime Limited; Oracle Corporation; Platinum Technology,
Inc.; Ptech Inc.; Rational Software Corporation; Reich Technologies; Softeam; Sterling Software; Taskon A/S; Unisys
Corporation
ATTACHMENTS
Enter diplomas or other qualifications; Testimonial of employment or work placement; Publications or research.
Lectures
·"Business Object Component Architecture", March 1999. BEA-Weblogic conferences in Research Triangle Park (NC) and
Orlando (FL).
·"Boca Views : Drag Drop assembly of optimized clients", Jan 1999. For Electric Boat company and IBM.
·"OMT '95" L'Grand Messe. Reich Technologies, S.C.S, Brest, France.Dec 1995
·"Object Orientation and Strategic Management" Business Innovation Center, Valencia Spain. 1993.
·"Interactive Multimedia" II setmana de Cinema d'Animacio I Imatge electronica, Valencia, Spain. 1988.
·"Introduction to Computer Technology" Military base, Jaca, Spain. 1983.
Cleeve Amos letter 2005_12.pdf
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DRIVING LICENCE(S)
Specify the type of driver's license you possess and list the year it was issued
A2, 1980
B, 1982
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
General information
No children.
Relocation available for the right engagements.