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CURRICULUM VITAE
Jose Humberto Covarrubias Rocha
EDUCATION:
July 2005 - May 2007
Master of Arts Geographic Information Systems State University of New York, Buffalo, GPA 3.48
March 2004
“Territorial ordering in Bolivia”, a 2 days seminar about territorial ordering and use of land, in order to prepare professionals to know our urban and rural situation in cadastral matters.
Sept. 2004
Proficiency in English: “Gustavo Hernandez” English Institute. A 12 months course in order to perform the TOEFL test (Score 593) Degree: English Technician. (First Place in Ranking)
May 2001
“Installing, configuration and administration of Linux” CATEC Institute Cochabamba, a 12 hours course to learn how administer Linux Operative System
Jan 1994 - Dec 1999
Studies in Architecture and Urbanism in the “Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo” Oruro “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” A 5 years career. Degree Graduate “Bachelor in Architecture” in 2001.
Jan 1989 - Dec. 1989.
Computer Technician CATEC Institute Oruro.
Design and managing of software (1 year): Degree “Computer Technician” (Third place in ranking”).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2004 Job: Topographical Survey “Kori Chaca” Mine
Contractor: Newmont Inti Raymi (Eng. Oscar Zelaya Marques)
Duration: 7 Days (Finished)
Duties: Create topographical Survey and mapping of 76 Has. Supervision of 2 teams and 3 operators each group (use of total station and GPS technology). Land Developer and AutoCAD 2005 applied.
July 2004 Job: Urban Planning “Sucesion Urquidi”
Contractor: Eng. Alejandro Urquidi Daza
Duration: 3 Months.
Duties: Topographical survey, design and final project of 100 Has. Creating an urbanization for 2400 owners (Oruro – Bolivia).
February 2004 Job: CAD Instructor Colquiri Mine (Oruro-Bolivia)
Contractor: COMSUR (Mining Company of the South)
Duration: 2 weeks
Duties: CAD instructor AutoCAD 2005, design and 3D modeling for mining drafting and volume quantification.
January 2004 Job: Computer Aided Design Professor
Contractor: “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” (Architecture Faculty)
Duration: 1 Year (Partial Time)
Duties: Instruction in CAD systems (AutoCAD 2004) and tridimesional software representation 3D VIZ.
January 2004 Job: Taller 5 Advisor
Contractor: “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” (Architecture Faculty)
Duration: 8 Months (Partial Time)
Duties: Advisor in final project for 6 students in fifth year in architecture.
January 2004 Job: Panels System Advisor
Contractor: “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” (Architecture Faculty)
Duration: 1 Year (Partial Time)
Duties: Advisor in final project for 4 students of architecture in panels system (another way to obtain the Architecture Diploma).
August 2003 Job: Computer Aided Design Professor
Contractor: “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” (Architecture Faculty)
Duration: 5 Months (Partial Time)
Duties: Instruction in CAD systems (AutoCAD 2004) and tridimesional software (and 3D VIZ) with 120 students in 2 parallels.
February 2003 Job: Kitchen Construction
Contractor: Catholic congregation “Slaves of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Duration: 2 Months
Duties: Construction of a Kitchen for the catholic sister’s house congregation “Fe y Alegria”.
February 2003 Job: Apartment Construction
Contractor: Lic. José Fernandez Fuentes (Oruro’s Congressmen)
Duration: 1 Month
Duties: Construction and remodeling of a Small Department.
April 2002 Job: House Construction (Valle Residence)
Contractor: Mr. Freddy Valle and Mrs. Cristina Valle
Duration: 18 Months
Duties: Construction of a House in 3 stories.
February 2002 Job: Kinder garden Court, and perimetral wall Construction.
Contractor: Catholic congregation “Slaves of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Duration: 1 Months
Duties: Construction of a court for the Kinder garden and the boundary wall (500 mts.) in the “Virgen del Mar” School, financed by Conrad Hilton Foundation USA.
Dec. 2001 Job: Classroom and Basketball court Construction.
Contractor: Catholic congregation “Slaves of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Duration: 1 Year
Duties: Construction of 2 classroom and a multifunctional court (basketball and football), in the “Virgen del mar” School (Fe y Alegria). Financed by the Japanese and German embassies.
February 2000 Job: GIS and data base manager. (1)
Contractor: TRANSREDES Oil Transporter (Anthony Henshaw)
Duration: 18 Months. (Full Time)
Duties: Create and manage Data Base for the Desaguadero’s Oil Spill in Oruro (January 2000). Create and supply mapping for cleaning, surveying and environmental teams. This works required field and office work, defining the Desaguadero river course (in ground and flying), and survey the contaminated areas. We used software such as Arc View GIS, Oziexplorer, AutoCAD and Access.
August 1999 Job: Cad Drafter Mining wastes
Contractor: Dames and Moore Norge (Eng. Carlos Moreno)
Duration: 5 Months
Duties: Cad drafter drawing mining wastes for the disposal plan of mining wastes in Oruro’s area
March 1999 Job: Classroom Construction Supervisor.
Contractor: Catholic congregation “Slaves of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Duration: 3 Months
Duties: Supervision of the construction of 6 classroom in the “Virgen del mar” School.
January 1998 Job: Technician Manager “ARQSTUDI” Consultants
Contractor: CAD Consultant Associated
Duration: 1 Year
Duties: CAD in charge in association with Arch. Fernando Dehne and Arch. Alexander Camargo, producing varies projects, architectural, engineering, roads, etc. Our main job was drafting the Oruro plan for SeLA (Our local sanitary Institution). My tasks involve the coordination of 5 CAD Drafters.
October 1997 Job: Multilinea Consultants Manager Owner
Contractor: Self Contractor
Duration: 8 Months
Duties: I have created my own consultants office in order to produce varies projects, architectural, engineering, roads, etc.
August 1997 Job: CAD Drafter
Contractor: Consulting Eng. Salzgitter GTZ German Cooperation (Resp. Eng. Ulrich Velte)
Duration: 4 Months
Duties: CAD drafter in the sanitary project design for the Oruro City, my job was the transcription of Oruro’s map in 3D Vectors for the final sanitary design in Eagle Point and Rx Spotlight 97.
January 1997 Job: Computer Lab Manager, Teacher Assistant
Contractor: “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” (Architecture Faculty)
Duration: 18 Months (Full Time)
Duties: Architecture Faculty Computer and CAD Laboratory Administer.
January 1996 Job: CAD Professor
Contractor: DEGRAF Institute (Mr. Gonzalo Vargas)
Duration: 12 Months (Full Time)
Duties: CAD and 3D Instructor in a particular institute.
January 1993 Job: Professor assistant in varies matters
Contractor: “Universidad Tecnica de Oruro” (Architecture Faculty)
Duration: 2 Years
Duties: Professors assistant in Structures I, Computer Aided Design and settlements sociology.
Summary
1994 – 2004 In between I have worked in at least 30 Degree projects (Cad Drafting and Virtual Model Creation, plotting), Around 100 Architectural Projects as drafter, 21 Engineering Projects (Roads, Topography, Mining, Sanitary and electrical), and 8 Projects as Architect. All this job as manager-owner of COBUS Consultants (independent contractor).
The most remarkable jobs as independent are:
1994 “Zona Franca Oruro” Drafting and Plotting (100 Has).
1996 Urban design and Topographic plan Caracollo City (drafting).
1998 Oruro’s map Drafting (5 operators and network design 2500 Has) SeLA Oruro.
2000 Oruro’s map for EMIRSA (Concrete factory).
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
July 2004 Research: GIS and Data Base of the Santa Barbara neighborhood.
Duties: Support in creating the data base and mapping for an urban planning project in forth degree (Architecture Faculty).
July 2004 Research: GIS and Data Base of the University campus U.T.O.
Duties: Support in creating the data base and mapping for the university campus. (Universidad técnica de Oruro)
January 2004 Development of construction software for AutoCAD with Visual Lisp (still in process).
October 2003 Creation of a 3D model, involving the Oruro’s Area and boundaries with emphasis in its topography, in order to obtain a data base for Urban Projects.
January 1996 Research: Virtual Reality Expositor (CCBOL National Conference of computing)
Duties: Exposition of our investigation in the Virtual Reality area, supported by DEGRAF Institute
HONORS:
Dec. 1989 Third Place CATEC Computer Institute
Dec. 1994 First Place Class 1994 Department of Architecture Universidad Tecnica de Oruro
Dec. 2003 First Place “Gustavo Hernandez” English Institute
July 2005 Fulbright LASPAU Scholarship Bolivia South America, GIS Masters in Buffalo NY.
(1) Reference : • Elliott Taylor
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