Jacobo Blasco's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Staff Software Engineer @ VTS, Inc. Greater New York City AreaEditor @ Vandal Online Casual editor at one of the most visited videogames online magazine in Spanish language. I have been writing articles since 2002 and I have attended a lot of high level international events in the field, in cities such as London, New York, Las...

Staff Software Engineer @ VTS, Inc. Greater New York City AreaEditor @ Vandal Online Casual editor at one of the most visited videogames online magazine in Spanish language. I have been writing articles since 2002 and I have attended a lot of high level international events in the field, in cities such as London, New York, Las Vegas or Monte Carlo. I still cover these events for Vandal as a freelance editor. From March 2002 to September 2010 (8 years 7 months) Madrid Area, SpainWeb developer @ Daneswood Full time summer job based in Exeter, Devon, UK. As a developer, my responsibilities were the installation of Content Management Systems (CMS) and the programming of XHTML/CSS templates from PSD/PDF designs. I converted sites made with outdated technologies to modern CMS-based sites. Technologies used: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, CMS Made Simple, PHP, Adobe Photoshop. From July 2008 to August 2008 (2 months) Exeter, United KingdomSenior Software Engineer @ VTS, Inc. Joined VTS through merger with Hightower in November 2016. VTS is the leading asset & leasing management SaaS platform of the Commercial Real Estate industry.SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (March '17 — Present)- After kickstarting the migration project, joined the product team to continue supporting the integration of legacy VTS and legacy Hightower engineers into one combined, strong engineering team.- Point person for production support of Hightower platform.- Stack: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS 1.x, PostgreSQL, Heroku.TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER (Dec '16 — March '17)- Led team of 4 engineers responsible of migrating customer's data from Hightower's platform to VTS.- Coordinated and collaborated with data, product, and customer success teams to identify data migration project goals and ultimately design and start development of the tools and processes to meet them.- Helped with various steps and challenges of the merger process, including systems consolidation. From June 2015 to August 2019 (4 years 3 months) Greater New York City AreaEngineering Manager @ Hightower Inc. [Hightower, an asset & leasing management SaaS platform for commercial real estate professionals, merged with VTS in November 2016.] - Manager of 7 individual contributors across teams. - Responsible for IC's growth, engineering hiring, coordination with product & design team, and other team activities. From June 2016 to November 2016 (6 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Hightower Inc. [Hightower, an asset & leasing management SaaS platform for commercial real estate professionals, merged with VTS in November 2016.]- Built Hightower platform in an agile software development environment. - Stack: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS 1.x, PostgreSQL, Heroku. From June 2015 to June 2016 (1 year 1 month) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer @ Case Commons Development of Casebook, the first family-centric, Web 2.0 child welfare tool, in partnership with Pivotal Labs, leaders in Ruby on Rails consultancy and start-up development.Agile development following extreme programming practices: TDD, pair programming, short iterations, continuous integration. Rails 3, RSpec, Cucumber, Git, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Resque. DevOps (Chef, Capistrano, UNIX). Strong collaboration with the Product, QA and UX teams.Starting in April 2012, I took the Team Lead role rotating across Integrations (establishing Casebook's role as system of records for case management within the State ecosystem), DevOps (leading Casebook go live and supporting production activities) and now building Case Commons most recent project within the Core functionality.Engineering Manager since October 2014. From September 2011 to May 2015 (3 years 9 months) New YorkWeb researcher @ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid I combined my studies with a 2h/day job at Intelligent Systems Group, DIT UPM, researching on semantic web. Areas covered: REST architecture, mashups, ontologies, interoperability, decision trees. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Tomcat, JavaScript, Subversion, Eclipse, Linux shell. From December 2008 to July 2010 (1 year 8 months) Madrid Area, Spain