From: aeretana@eos.ncsu.edu (ALVARO ENRIAGE RETANA)
Subject: BSEE  
Reply-To: aeretana@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: NCSU
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:23:44 GMT

                                Alvaro E. Retana
	Current Address:                           Permanent Address:

        140 Alexander Hall                         Urb. Palo Grande, casa # 42-B
        Box 4027  NCSU			           2400-Desamparados
	Raleigh, NC  27607                         Costa Rica
        Phone: (919) 834-0353                      Phone: (506) 59-3501

	CAREER          A position as part of a hardware/software systems development 
	OBJECTIVE	engineering team. Interested in project management and consulting.
                        No geographic preference.

        EDUCATION       Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
                        Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
                        Concentration in Electronics and Telecommunications.
                        Graduation Date:  December, 1992.        Grade Average:  8.0/10.0
                        Earned 90% of education expenses.
			Fluent in English and Spanish.
                          
			North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
                        Exchange student from 1/92 to 12/92.  Academic scholarship for 
			senior level course work in Electrical Engineering. 
			Dean's List.  GPA:  3.75/4.0

                        Projects and Courses of Interest:
                        Systems Analysis                 Automatic Control
                        Digital Systems                  Complex Digital Systems
                        Communications Engineering       Digital Signal Processing
                        Electric Machinery               Distribution Systems Analysis
                        Engineering Economic Analysis

                        Team  leader in  projects covering the following topics:  System 
			Modeling and Automatic  Control,  Artificial Intelligence (creation 
			of an "intelligent creature", capable of learning through experience; 
		   	software with psychological application), Programming, Analog  
			Communications (FM TX/RX), Digital Communications (Telephone System 
			Simulation), DSP Simulation.

	WORK
        EXPERIENCE      Senior Design Project.  NCSU/Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh, NC
        Fall 1992       Design and implement an automated test set for a fiber optics 
			multiplexer system (hardware and software development, system level 
			analysis and complete test documentation). Team leader.

                        Computer Room Operator.  ECE Department, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
        8/92-Present    Manage operations at an EOS System Computer Laboratory (UNIX based  
                        system).  Instruct and answer questions refering to system operation 
			and software.

                        Sales Engineer.  Prevencion y Seguridad Industrial, S. A., Costa Rica
        12/87-12/91     -Designed, marketed and installed automatic fire prevention systems.
                        -Consulting Engineer, solution development team leader.
                        -Implemented organizational strategies in the office (Quality 
			 Management).
                        -Translated and wrote technical manuals, product specifications and 
			 procedures.

        COMPUTER        Systems and Languages:  DOS, UNIX, X-Windows, Motif, ANSI C, Pascal,  
  	SKILLS          HPBasic, 68000 Assembly, AHPL.
                        Software:  MATLAB, HPSIM, Xess, Lotus 123, Harvard Graphics, Q&A, 
			Control Center, Eureka, MS-Word, Word Perfect

        REFERENCES      Available upon request.

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