About Me

Phd student, Thinker, Creative
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I am a Phd Student at Ghent University

I was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 10th, 1982. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil-Ecuador, in 2007. In 2012, I got my master degree from a Master's program in Information System Management at the same university.

I am studying a PhD in Computer Science Engineering and I am a member of the IPI research group at TELIN department. My research is focused on pattern recognition on big data gathered throught citizen science application from smart cities.

Resume

10 Years of Experience

Education

2016 - Current

Phd in Computer Science Engineering

Ghent University

Advisor: Prof. Sidharta Gautama

2012

System Information Management

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Thesis: "Designing methodology for data migration between critical applications in the Guayaquil’s town hall".

Advisor: Prof. Lenin Freire

2007

Computer Engineer

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Design and implement software and hardware solutions.

Experience

May 2008 - April 2016

Professor

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Undergraduate course Proffessor. Courses: Programming Fundamentals, Object Oriented Programming, Database Systems I, Web Applications Development, and Data Structures.

Jan 2008 - May 2012

Senior Software Developer

Guayaquil Cityhall

Application Developer (Web and Windows) using .NET platform in Guayaquil's town hall.

Abr 2006 - Dic 2007

Revenue Assurance Analyst

CONECEL S.A.

Quality controls to SMS billing, identification of unbilled voice events, application development for automation of quality controls.

Data science skills

Coding skills (Python)

Machine Learning/Data Mining

Structured Data (SQL)

Unstructured Data (NoSQL DBs)

Coding Skills

Database developer

Web developer

Windows developer (C#.NET)

Java

Languages

Spanish

Portugues (Brazilian)

English

Dutch (Belgium)

Portfolio

My Best Works

Consultor

Nov 2013- Mar 2014

Inspector of Use Cases National System Public Finance

ESPOLTECH, Guayaquil, Ecuador

The inspection was performed in order to detect and classify the different types of errors in the system requirement’s definition, to correct them and performing the software measurement process.

November 2012

Land Use System development

M.I. Municipalidad de Guayaquil

By this system, citizens can check their property's land use. The system was developed in ASP.NET and deployed at November 2012. Web site.

Research

Publications

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

May 2013 - Feb 2016

Data Structures

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Averaging 30 students per semester, covering the following topics: data types, data structures: list, stack, queue, map, trees, graph. Developed quizzes, exams, and homework. Checking the syllabus to cover accreditation standards. Coordinated grading and labs with a team of 2 professors.

Oct 2011 - Feb 2016

Web Applications Development

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Averaging 35 students per semester, covering the following topics: web standards, client-side and server-site programming, web architectures, web services, MVC model, state management, web security. Developed quizzes, exams, and homework. Checking the syllabus to cover accreditation standards.

May 2011 - Sep 2013

Database Systems I

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Averaging 20 students per semester, covering the following topics: modeling database, normalization, Transact SQL, PL/SQL. Developed quizzes, exams, and homework.

Oct 2010 - Sep 2014

Object Oriented Programming

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Averaging 60 students per semester, covering the following topics: Java Programming, object-oriented programming, object-oriented analysis and design, user interface design. Developed quizzes, exams, and homework. Checking the syllabus to cover accreditation standards. Coordinated grading and labs with a team of 3 professors.

May 2008 - Sep 2011

Programming Fundamentals

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Averaging 30 students per semester, covering the following topics: C Programming, structure programming, functions, arrays, libraries, pointers, characters and string, files. Developed quizzes, exams, and homework.

Undergraduate Students Advised

May 20, 2015

Android application that used wi-fi technology to guide students to their classrooms in ESPOL

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Students: Carla Hurel, Andrea Caceres. http://www.dspace.espol.edu.ec/xmlui/handle/123456789/30799

Jul 24, 2013

Social web application for labeling fragments of Youtube videos applying the concept of games with a purpose

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Students: Carla Salvatierra, Felix Rivas. http://www.dspace.espol.edu.ec/handle/123456789/24733

Contact

Get in Touch

Get in Touch

During my PhD studies I am living in Ghent, Belgium. If you want to contact me, please send a message to the following email addresses.

Jorge.RodriguezEcheverria@UGent.be
jirodrig@espol.edu.ec