Alvaro Blanco

Flat 8, Argos Court. Caldwell St.

SW9 0PQ London

Mobile: +44 7 5 343 94111

Email:

Date of Birth: 12 April 1979
Nationality: Spanish

Driving licence B

Portfolio:

COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEER

WEB DEVELOPER / MULTIMEDIA PROJECT MANAGER

- Here you can find a summary of my portfolio and my profile

Some of my websites:

- - website made by me for the AgrigentoProvince, via Altair 4 Multimedia, in PHP It manages a huge amount of information between texts, images and animations in four languages. Initially it was developed with XML file system, but finally it was based in .rtf files, as that was the format that the texts were given.

- –Official website of my last company designed and developed by, including a control panel for easy updates of its contents (managed by a database). Recently I have worked in the improvement of the web on request of Altair 4.

- – I have just delivered this website, developed in PHP 5+MySQL for a private vineyard.

- – In this portal I interviewed the diplomatic representative of the Commercial Office of Spain in Brazil to figure out how the information had to be shownin the website, and in a long collaboration with the developers in Madrid we make this website, that was presented by me in Sao Paulo in 2007. Then I managed its commercial promotion and maintenance.

- - For the Insituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi de Bogotá.(via Altair 4) This website was completely developed and designed by me as a part of a whole project that I managed, in collaboration with an historian, who gave me the text and images. I designed and developed an interactive Cd-Rom with the same information as part of this project.

Work Experience

since Nov 2007
Spain, freelance /

Freelance Web Developer –

During these 4 months in Spain I worked in these two websites projects.
The website + Access database)was already developed by me in 2005 for Altair 4Multimedia (company which I worked for more than 3 years).In this case I was asked to add other functionalities to the control panel.
website is programmed in PHP 5 and MySQL database.
Sept 2006 - 2007
Brasilia, Brazil /

Spanish Embassy, Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior (ICEX –

Computer manager responsible for the Commercial Desk in the Spanish Embassy. IT Manager, web developer and designer.
During my stay I was solely responsible for the IT systems.
–I programmed the intranet webpage (ASP+Access) for the Commercial Office
– I was one of the designers and developers for the. I had to study the requirements of the web and help in its design and development. When the web was finished, I was responsible of its commercial promotion, presentation and maintenance too.
–I was one of the collaborators in the improvement of the corporative official website
–I directed the move of the head office, the communication lines contracts, commercial promotions and presentations for the Commercial Office.
Feb 2006 – aug 2006
León, Spain /

University of León (Spain)

University Lecturer of the “3D reconstruction and animation basis” subject
-Professor at the Cinematography and VisualArtsSchool of the University of León, Spain. This subject was oriented to teach the students how to create a 3D short film. In this case 3d Studio Max was the development application. In this course, I taught the students modelling, lighting, texturing, animation and render techniques.
-A recompilation of my classes is shown at:
During my work at the University of León I developed for Altair 4 Multimedia the website complete website in PHP, managing a huge information of text (4 languages website), images and animations.
Feb 2005– Aug 2005
Emilia Romagna, Italy /

Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi de Bogotá(via Altair 4Multimedia)

Multimedia project manager and developer (Cd Rom + web site)
-I managed, coordinated, designedand developed the whole project
-I designed, programmed (Macromedia Director) and presented the interactive Cd-Rom.
-I designed and developed the website (PHP) with the same contents of the Cd-Rom:
-after this project, I was one of the developers of another similar web project in
contracted by Altair 4 Multimedia S.r.l
Sept 2002- Nov 2004
Rome, Italy /

Altair 4 Multimedia S.r.l

Multimedia expert – web developer and 3d programmer and modellator mainly. After November 2004 I have collaborated with Altai4 in other projects.
-Multimedia (3D reconstructions and programming, web developer)
-3D modelling expert /animator with 3D Studio Max.
-Developer of interactive 3D real-time applications with Macromedia Director and other works
-Web developer in PHP, ASP and front end.
-Editor of projects, translator and representativefor the company
Feb 2002 – July 2002
León, Spain /

Visual Public S.L.

Delphi and C++ Builder programmer (5 months training)
-I developed two corporative programs during my training permanence in Visual Public.

Education

• Dates and Organization / September 1997 to July 2002 by the University of León, Spain
• Erasmus scholarship / I studied the 2000-2001 academic year in Porto, Portugal.
• Title / Official University degree of Computer Science Engineering
• Project end of studies / Databases in Oracle, maximum qualification
• Dates and Organization / September 2003 to February 2004 in the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
• Title / Course of Pedagogical Aptitude (CAP)
• Training / Maths teacher in Ordoño II high school, León, Spain (two months)
• Dates and Organization / June 2006 to August 2006 in the Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior, ICEX.
• Title / System Administration Course, 185 hours

Skills

Languages
English / Spanish / Italian / Portuguese / French
• Writing, reading and communication / Fluent / Mother tongue / Fluent / Fluent / Advanced
Computer skills and abilities / Web developer: strong in PHP. Also classic ASP, HTML, XHTML (well knowledge of the webstandards), XML, JavaScript and Ajax, deep knowledge of CMS(like wordpress). MySQL and Access database. Also good skills for graphic design.
Programming: Lingo (for M. Director), Delphi, C++Builder, Actionscript, Pascal, C++, SQL.
Main programs and others: Macromedia Director, Flash, 3DStudio Max, Photoshop andIllustrator, After Effects

Interests

Travel - I like to live in different countries and have new experiences knowing the places, people and customs of other cultures.
Sport - Football, online skating, biking, capoeira, tennis, and many other sports
Artistic - I love music. I play guitar for 10 years. I am fond of graphical arts. In particular, I enjoy drawing as a hobby, and I apply this skill in my professional works of design. I like reading also, and learning about new technologies tendencies

REFERENCES FROM AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

(Spanish Embassy of Brazil -Commercial Office-, University of León and Altair 4 Multimedia)