I'm from Barcelona. I'm an 80's kid. Bear with me.
I'm Sílvia Mur Blanch, aka pchiwan. I'm a dev.
I've a Masters Degree in Computer Science by Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle (Universitat Ramón Llull).
I love technology, computers, the internet, and programming. It also happens to be my job. How cool is that?
Music is my obsession. Travelling, watching movies, playing football and videogames are just some of my other hobbies.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."
(Eric Raymond)
I developed my Master's Thesis, Statcharts modelling of a robot's behavior, during 2008 at the MSDL (Modelling, Design and Simulation Lab) at the School of Computer Science of McGill University (Montréal, Canada), over the course of 7 months. It was graded "Excellent".
Development of a desktop application for call center computers.
NodeJS/GraphQL/JavaScript (Angular 2)/Typescript/Electron
Development of several payroll-related web applications, from partner and client configuration through templates, to invoice validation and generation. The team started out with 5 people and grew up to 14.
ASP.NET/VB.NET/C#.NET/JavaScript (Angular)/Typescript
Development of the web application for Terabox (Telefónica's cloud storage service). I joined the team as frontend developer, and eventually ended up leading the team myself.
ASP.NET MVC/C#.NET/JavaScript
Development of a JavaScript intensive MVC web application to manage ticket inventory for 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2014 FIFA World Cup. Among other features it included booking of match tickets & parking spaces, users and roles management, stadium seat assignment, online payment, etc.
ASP.NET MVC/VB.NET/Silverlight/JavaScript (Knockout)
Creation of ETLs and reports on income tax data for Catalonia's tax agency, using Oracle BI tools.
Oracle Business Intelligence
Development of a web application for online request and obtaining of legal documents required to sell/buy/rent/loan houses and/or apartments.
ASP.NET/VB.NET/C#.NET/JavaScript/SQL Server
Maintenance and development of new features on the web application for the Scholarships program, "Becas".
ASP.NET/VB.NET/SQL Server
Worked on CRM Skylights customizations, developing features for Clickair's flight ticket purchase process. Also developed several intranet web applications.
ASP.NET/C#.NET/VB.NET/JavaScript/PERL/Template Toolkit/SQL Server
Shortly after Iberia's acquisition of the company, I worked at Vueling on helping import and adapt some of Clickair's flight ticket purchase features over CMR Skylights.
PERL/Template Toolkit
Started as Visual C 5-6 developer and analyst, then moved on to C#.NET 2 developer and analyst. Worked on a big migration project developing a WinForms ERP, eventually leading a small team in charge of one part of the application.
C#.NET/SQL Server
Corrected exercises and projects of the course's students (written in pseudocode/C/C++). Helped coordinate, prepare, and teach PGM-1 lab classes.
"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus a thousand times is skill."
(Shinichi Suzuki)
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
(Ronald E. Osborn)
"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments..”
(Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy)
