Alberto Garcia

About Me

As a professional, I enjoy tackling challenges and projects that apply software development in innovative and meaningful ways. During my tenure at inContact, Inc., I’ve had the opportunity to build applications that are scalable, redundant, and leverage customers’ APIs for world-class applications used by thousands. Outside of work, nothing beats traveling, backpacking through wilderness, and eating great food.

Projects’ Source on GitHub
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Skills

Designed and developed applications using RESTful APIs and SOAP web services.
Possess strong knowledge of object oriented development, data structures, algorithms in Java.
Adept at working with JavaScript/ES2015 and related libraries/tools like Angular and jQuery.
Working knowledge of unit testing with JUnit.
Experienced with Git, HTML, CSS, SQL, Typescript.
Proficient skills in leadership, communication, self motivated, work ethic, time management, handling pressure, adaptability.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, 2011
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona GPA of 3.72 on a 4.0 scale

Coursework
Object-Oriented Development	Software Engineering Design and Analysis
Relational Database Development	Advanced Java Programming
Client/Server Applications	Internetworking with Linux
Data Structures	Web Development

Certifications

Oracle Certified Associate for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 2011

Career History

Staff Software Integration Engineer, August 2011 - Current
inContact, Inc., Sandy, Utah

Research, design, and implement scalable applications that integrate into customer platforms through RESTful APIs and SOAP web services using an in-house .NET based programming language including SoapUI, Postman, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
Collaborate with developers, business analyst, and project managers to plan, design, and develop unique solutions to customer problems.
Consult and advise customers on optimal API functional design and use of inContact’s RESTful APIs.
Led team that designed a robust and complete testing plan that includes regression testing, bug tracker, and best practices that led to better user acceptance testing results across the department.
Interview prospective engineers and mentor new hires.

Quality Assurance Technician, October 2009 - March 2011
CRMLS Inc., Pomona, California

Test California’s largest real estate multiple listing service, along with other vendor applications for critical bugs and business rules using Firebug.
Code scripts using JavaScript to assist the compliance department process data integrity violations by automating common tasks.

Software Developer Internship, August 2009 - May 2010
Guiang Corporation (Incubator Projects), Pomona, California

Member of team assigned with porting mTools (a suite for moving files, contacts and settings) from Blackberry to Android.
Developed Android application with Java, using SVN for version control. Presented the finished product to a group of potential investors from various industries.

Activities

Currently working toward Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer.