From: aeretana@eos.ncsu.edu (ALVARO ENRIAGE RETANA)
Subject: BSEE: Telecommunications / NEW GRAD!! 
Reply-To: aeretana@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: NCSU
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:48:10 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,
SKILLS       Pascal, 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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