Manuel F. Alvarez

 

http://infoarchivo.com/mfalvarez E-mail: mfalvarez@infoarchivo.com 

SYNTHESIS

Computers and communications professional, with a wide experience in assistance scheduling and customer relations, systems installation and upgrades. In the habit of working in team, flexible and goals oriented person.

EXPERIENCE AND SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

2.000 Power Line S.L.

Activity: Marketing Services.

Address:  www.powerline.es 

Position: Calls receptionist.

On call service..

Technical Assistance.

Mobiles.

Internet.

Specific activities:

Working on Special Services: 

WAP, Mobile Office, for Airtel www.airtel.net .

 

1.998 - 2.000 Miliarium Aureum Project.

Activity: Internet Web development for Civil Engineering.

Address: www.miliarium.com

Position: Associate partner.

Data Base and interface with the base.

Domains and hosting management.

Product Management.

Quality Control.

Specific activities:

Providers selection evaluating kind of proposal, contract terms, and tracking the service paying particular attention to the cost.

Web testing for different users, formats and browsers via conexions from external points.

 

1.997 - 98 QUANTEL

Activity: English company for image digital processing.

Address: www.quantel.com

Position: Service Manager.

On call and on site service management.

Demos support.

Constracts and invoicing.

Warehouse control.

Specific activities:

Design of a Maintenance Plan for TVs, structuring the offer and providing fares, so that the Commercial Department had an added value to the product.

Organization of the travel and intervention time of engieneers to cover demos, allowing an increase of 30%.

 

 

1.978 - 97 UNISYS ESPAÑA S.A.

Activity: Computers US Company.

Staff: 300, in Spain.

Address: www.unisys.com  

Position: Support Specialist (1.987 - 97).

On site and on call service.

Software problems fixing.

Product Management.

Spare control.

Updates and modifications hardware/software.

Specific activities:

I was the South Europe Representative in Quality Control, Pennsylvania, selecting applications in Spain to test in factory, and as result the errors decreased in a 75%.

I taught to the field customer engineers in Madrid and Barcelona the subjects attended in advance in USA and UK respectively, saving the company 40.000 dollars.

I designed a control system based on Excel to monitor the spare replacement preserving the warranty in a 94% of substitutions.

I established a three phases response for "machine stopped situation" based in hardware upgrade, software upgrade, and data reload. In that way, the cost and the intervention time was reduced to a 50%.

I introduced the users to the new software, dealing a procedure for easy implementation, and giving tailored assistance to each client. The next Client Satisfaction surveys improved considerably.

Position: Field Engineer (1.978 - 87).

Hardware installation of medium-size computers.

Preventive and emergency maintenance.

Reports of issues for suport level.

Specific activities:

I organised the spare in cases in order to ship enough resources to fix the trouble at the first visit, decreasing the intervention time in more than a 20%.

I initiated the installation of System's Software in the medium-size computers, so that the company could bill additional work in preventive maintenance.

TRAINING

Ingeniero Técnico de Telecomunicación. (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) 1.976

Continued technical training in the company and skills improvement in Spain, US, UK, Canada and Germany

External: CISCO, BAY NETWORKS, ORACLE, SUN, MICROSOFT.

PC SOFTWARE

WINDOWS, OFFICE, IMAGE SOFTWARE, LOTUS NOTES AND INTERNET

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