Carlos Alfaro

My name is Carlos Alfaro. I was borned and raised in Costa Rica. I speak fluently Spanish (my mother tongue) English (my secondary tongue as fluent as Spanish) and French

I am an economist and a software developer, with a completed MBA and a 50% Master Degree in Quality Assurance from the Costa Rica institute of Technology. My career has spanned from software development, to real estate development and sales. As a business owner I've developed shills such as:

SKILLS

• General Management
• Software lifecycle management
• Multilingual comunication skills (ES,FR,EN)
• Coordination of Multidisciplinary Work Groups
• Economic and Financial Analysis in order make decisions 
• Communication competence
• Creativity
• Strategic thinking

Real estate

 Construction of apartments and condominiums

 Commercialization of housing solutions

 Administration of condominiums, properties and rentals

 Management of real estate projects, processing of environmental feasibility studies and management of paperwork for the management, construction and marketing of housing solutions

Software Production

 Development of models for the development of software applications using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)

 Development of multilayered Web applications using

 Use of the object-oriented programming paradigm in JAVA (J2SE) and .NET (C#, Visual Basic)

 Development of relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL).  Additionally:

 Development of graphic identity for WEB sites

 Use of Web application servers:

 1998.2002, Research project assistant, toxicity of medicinal plants and development of animal production cost structures, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

 2003 - 2005, Coordinator of the Labor@ Project Service Center, Omar Dengo Foundation, San José, Costa Rica

 2005 -2006 Head of Systems, Century 21, Central America Regional Office

Real estate

 Construction of apartments and condominiums

 Commercialization of housing solutions

 Administration of condominiums, properties and rentals

 Management of real estate projects, processing of environmental feasibility studies and management of paperwork for the management, construction and marketing of housing solutions

Software Production

 Development of models for the development of software applications using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)

 Development of multilayered Web applications using

 Use of the object-oriented programming paradigm in JAVA (J2SE) and .NET (C#, Visual Basic)

 Development of relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL).  Additionally:

 Development of graphic identity for WEB sites

 Use of Web application servers:

Education 

 1997-2002 University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

or Bachelor in Economics

 2003-2004 Technology Training Center (CENFOTEC), San José, CR

o Software Development Technician

 2005-2007 Technological Institute of Costa Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica

o Master of Business Administration, emphasis in marketing

 2009- 2010 Technological Institute of Costa Rica, Cartago, CR

o Master of Business Administration, emphasis on quality and productivity

  National Learning Institute (INA)