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Personal information
Surname(s) / First name(s) Ruiz de Gauna, Iván
Address Nou de la Rambla 1, àtic 2a, 08001 Barcelona (Spain)
Mobile +34 650 984 537
E-mail(s) ivan.ruizdegauna@gmail.com
Nationality Spanish
Date of birth 07 August 1973
Gender Male
Desired employment / IT Project Manager
Occupational field
Work experience
Dates January 2005 →
Occupation or position held Project Manager Director
Main activities and responsibilities Management and design of all tasks of the ongoing project: timings and deadlines, budget negotiation
and follow-up (0.5M€), direct relationship with customers (TV broadcasters, mainstream international
advertising companies, Public institutions, etc.), build and manage teams of professionals (20 to 30).
Design of the invoicing application of the company.
Definition and design of the data flow protocol for each project, as well as all the technical
infrastructure requirements (network, server, backup system, and workstations hard and soft)
Name and address of employer Yanquipay
(Spain)
Type of business or sector Production of Media
Dates December 2002 - December 2004
Occupation or position held Director of Operations - Spain & Portugal
Main activities and responsibilities Settle the operation offices for Spain and Portugal for sales, distribution, and technical network for the
worldwide leading luxury home appliances.
Create and define al IT and communication procedures with the European HQ in the UK, together with
the global HQ in the US.
Create the client portfolio for Spain and Portugal, and Belgium.
Name and address of employer Sub-Zero
(Spain)
Type of business or sector High end home American appliances manufacturer and distributor.
Dates December 2001 - July 2002
Occupation or position held IT Director (freelance)
Main activities and responsibilities Selecting and leading a team of programmers.
Designing all functional and technical specifications of the DB program owned by the company.
Designing the procedures and interfaces between the DB warehouse tool and the customers’.
Name and address of employer Novastock
(Spain)
Type of business or sector Stocktaking and auditing.
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2. Dates April 1998 - December 2001
Occupation or position held Technical Consultant
Main activities and responsibilities Functional and technical analysis of an ERP software package (MFG/PRO by QAD).
Direct relationship with the customer.
Name and address of employer Atos Origin
(Belgium)
Type of business or sector Worldwide IT services.
Education and training
Dates September 1997 - September 1998
Title of qualification awarded Master in Artificial Intelligence
Principal subjects / occupational skills Object Oriented programming, Logical programming (PROLOG and LISP), robotics, expert systems,
covered etc.
Name and type of organisation KU Leuven
providing education and training (Belgium)
Dates September 1992 - September 1998
Title of qualification awarded Computer Science Engineer
Principal subjects / occupational skills Specialization in Design of Applications
covered
Name and type of organisation University of the Basque Country
providing education and training (Spain)
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s) Spanish / Castilian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing
European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user
French B2 Independent user B2 Independent user B1 Independent user B1 Independent user B2 Independent user
(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
Social skills and competences - Customer empathy, required to understand and define objectives to achieve a win-win solution.
- Ability to select and lead the most capable team to sort out the customers’ necessities.
- Both team leader and team player, valuing and motivating all members on each decision.
- Mediator, receptive, and participatory.
- Stress resistant, transform difficulties into challenges.
- Endless worker.
Organisational skills and competences Excellent ability to:
- Define human resources, budget, technical requirements, and deadlines, according to the goals.
- Assign tasks, timing and resources for each step in the process.
- Permanent assessment of the current working plan.
Constant self-evaluation. Flexibility to change the working plan when needed.
Computer skills and competences Very advanced user level in Office tools and MS Project.
OO Programming, Progress, Ada, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, C.
Progress Database, SQL, Oracle.
Very advanced user and some admin level in Unix, Linux, Windows (any version), OSX.
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3. Other skills and competences Tennis, athletics, swimming, sailing.
Driving licence(s) A, B
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