Matías Alejo García Resume

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Personal Data

Matías Alejo García
Nuclear engineer, MBA
Born in July 1st, 1976
Tucumán, Argentina
matias at confronte.com
http://blog.matiu.com.ar

Main Interests

Internet, Software Development, Entrepreneurship, Web-based Business Models, Project management, Networking, Linux, Nuclear Technology, Teaching, Traveling, Snowboarding.

Working Positions

2009 Confronte.com Product Manager at Clarin Group
2008 - 2005 Co-founder and CEO at Confronte.com. Confronte.com has been acquired by Clarin Media Group! (Yes, we are happy)
2008 - 2001 Professor at Department of Engineering at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). Courses forums
2005 - 2004 Development and Maintenance Engineer at IAFIS working in Biometrical Identification Systems. IAFIS is part of the SAGEM Group
2004 - 2000 Engineering Software Consultant at Tarkus Ltd working in Nuclear Reactor Monitoring Systems. Tarkus is part of Keffective Ltd. During 2002 I have been asigned to CP&L, Progress Energy, Raleigh, NC, USA, working on Software Development (FORTRAN under HP-UX and OpenVMS) and Quality Assurance. Duration 4 months.
1998 Undergraduate Internship at Atucha Nuclear Power Plant (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Duration: 3 weeks.

Selected Working Experiences

2009 Confronte.com - Business development at Clarín
2008 Confronte.com - Clarín Group acquisition negotiation.
2007 - 2006 Confronte.com - design, implementation and startup!
2004 Design, implementation and project management of Faccess (a Biometric Access Control System). Faccess is the current Access Control System at the Argentian National Government House (Casa Rosada) and the Ministerio del Interior. Press coverage.
2004 Main Author of the Tecnical Proposal for the Honduras's National Identification Modernization Proyect [National Identity Card with biometric features]. Prepared, designed and written at Tegucigalpa, during April 2004. In June 2004, the government of Honduras announced that Sagem gained the tender. [Project budget U$S 8,500,000 ]
2004 Reorganization of the Policia Federal biometric database.(AIX/ksh)
2003 Design and implementation of the Pellet - Cladding Monitoring Module of MinuteMan (tcltk/C++).
2003 Design and implementation of Bibliosoph Documentation Repository (Python/Apache/SQL)
2002 Factory and Site Acceptance Test for MinuteMan at KKL, Leibstadt, Switzerland. Duration: 1 week.
2002 Initial Installation of MinuteMan at KKL, Leibstadt, Switzerland. (Hardware, Network, and Software). Duration 2 weeks.
2002 High Availability and Redundancy Research for MinuteMan at Annecy, France. Duration 3 weeks.
2002-2001 Keffective Linux Network Administration (Mail, CVS, Bug tracking, Web Server, Remote Access and User Configuration).
2002-2000 MinuteMan Software Development (C++, TclTk, TclTk/CGI, JavaScript).
2001 C++ and TclTk Software Porting from GNU/Linux to Windows environments.

Teaching Experience

2008 Lead Professor (Profesor Asociado) in Optics and Heat at UADE, and Operating System at CAECE
2007 - 2005 Lead Professor (Profesor Asociado) in Networking 2 at UADE.
2007 Sematic HTML and CSS for NITS (Lead instructor)
2007 MySQL for NITS (Lead instructor, IPLAN in-company course)
2006 Lead instructor, "C++ and Networking" for NITS (IPLAN in-company course)
2006 - 2004 Director of the Robotics Laboratory (LABOT) at UADE.
2006 - 2003 Lead Professor (Profesor Asociado) in Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture at UADE.
2005 - 2003 Coach for the UADE teams for the ACM programming contest.
2002 Instructor (Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos) " Linux Introduction Module " Undergraduate course at UADE
2001 Teacher Assistant (Ayudante de 1ra) in "Physics I" and "Electricity and Magnetism" undergraduate course at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE)
1995-1994 Independent physics and mathematical tutor for high school and university levels.
1993 Student Physics Tutor at Gymnasium Universitario high school.

University Studies

2005 - 2004 (MBA) Master in Business and Administration at Uade Business School . Duration: 2 years.
2000 - 1996 Nuclear Engineer at Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina. GPA: 7.8 of 10, never failed a course. Master Thesis: Cancer Diagnostic by Impedance Measurement in In-Vitro cultured cells. Finish in June 2000. Focused in signal processing, data acquisition, electrode construction and cell modeling. [Press coverage]
1996 -1994 First two years of Computational Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán . Required for the admission at Instituto Balseiro.
1998-1993 High School Gymnasium Universitario. San Miguel de Tucumán - Tucumán.

Awards, publications and speaks

2008 Emprendiendo con Opensource; y MySQL Avanzado at Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre!
2008 "Premio por Desempeño Docente 2007". UADE.
2007 "Precios dinámicos en Internet". Congreso de Ecommerce Latinoamericano LATAM2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 "Confronte.com: Comparadores de Precios". Día de Internet 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 "Confronte.com: Comparadores de Precios". Día de Internet 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 "Premio por Desempeño Docente 2006". UADE.
2006 Tutor ( Director trabajo final de Ingeniería Informática) Desarrollo de un Robot Multipropósito, E. Barbieto, N. Rey, G.Leis, L. Pantano, F. D'Alessio, UADE.
2006 "MPM: Los modos de funcionamiento de Apache". CafeLug 2006 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005 "Desarrollo de módulos de Kernel". CafeLug 2005 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. <
2004 Tutor ( Director trabajo final de Ingeniería Informática) Implementación de la plataforma Microsoft Shared Source CLI en GNU/Linux , I. Lopez, L.Lain, UADE.
2000 Diagnóstico de cáncer en una biopsia cultivada mediante una medición de impedancia eléctrica, M A García, M Tadey , F Bonetto, European Onchology Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Impedance Measurement in In-Vitro cultivated Cells using two Lock-In, M A García, M Tadey, F Bonetto, Latin America Applied Research.
1999 Diagnóstico de Cáncer mediante una medición de Impedancia eléctrica de células de biópsia cultivadas In-Vitro, M A García, M Tadey , F Bonetto, National Congress on Medical Physics, Mendoza, Argentina.
1996 Full scholarship at Instituto Balseiro, obtained by records and exam based selection.
1993 Third place at the Argentinean National Computational Olympics, representing the province of Tucumán. Member of the National Olympic Preselection for the International Olympics.
1992 First place at Province Computational Olympics.
1986 Admission at Gymnasium Universitario High School, based on selection exam.

Selected Courses

2009 Better Programming Through Testing, at YAPC 10, Pittsburgh, June 22-24, 2009
2004 Meta-Morpho and biometrics terminals capacitation at SAGEM -París, France. Duration: 5 Weeks.
2002 Meissner Intensive Acting Program, at The Flying Machine Theather Company at Durham, NC. USA. Duration: 3 months.
2002 Acting Introduction at Sertoma Arts Center, Raleigh, NC, USA. Duration: 5 weeks.
2001 Introduction to Reactor Engineering, Qualification Training Program, by Retaqs Inc. Dallas, USA. Duration: 3 Weeks. Final Grade: 99.75%.

Spoken Languages

Spanish Native
English Advanced
French Intermediate

Open Source Project Participations

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