Juan Pablo Garcia’s Blog

Spanish Version

Yesterday night while drinking a couple of beers with some of my Southworks’ colleagues, I returned back to my home and being lying on my bed, I started to think on this last year and four months from when I began working in Southworks.

While I was dating back over time, I remembered in which projects and customers we were worked for, some of them are “Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team”, “Microsoft Depeloper & Platform Evangelism Team”, “Microsoft Connected Services Framework Team”, “Microsoft SQL Server Team”, “Grupo Sancor Seguros” among others, and the important people who I known in person like Eugenio Pace y Gianpaolo Carraro.

Words and technical acronyms came to my mind regarding things I have being acquired and incorporated during this time. So, in this moment I started to imagine something like a mental “Tag Cloud” and it was there when I decided to write this post with the objective of leaving this as a log experience and to compare it in the future with the new words that surely will be added.

Beside all tags am I listing in this post, I wanted to thank all Southies who were helping me to fill my mind with all this knowledge and specially to my two mentors, which are Johnny Halife y Matias Woloski who today I still admiring and respecting, but the ones who I having fun where the computer aren’t close to us.

Here is my "Mind Tag Cloud":

  Refactoring    Code Analysis    Retrospective    TDD    WCF    WSDL    Continuous Integration    Patterns    Cluster Server    ISO    Virtualization    SOA    Singleton    Cyclomatic Complexity    WPF    Model View Controller    REST    Linq to XML    Mocks    Paravirtualization    Sprint    Hyper-V    Lamda Expressions    Repository    SAN    Synchronization Framework    iSCSI    LUN    Powershell    SCRUM    Ssds    Agile    Spike    NAS    Iteration Planning    Dependency Injection    Factory    Linq to SQL    Code Coverage    Subversion    Security Token Service    CMMi    StyleCop    Model View Presenter    Strategy  FxCop    Serialization    Apache    Prototype    Datamember    Composite Application Block    Build Server    RSS    DIT    S+S    Backlog    Commitment    Inversion Of Control    Scaffolding    Abstract Factory    Reflection    LCOM    Iteration Review    Software As A Service    DataContract    TFS    Code Query Language    SOAP    Dynamic Language Runtime    Lightweight Directory Services 

I think telling you something about myself is a good way to inaugurate my BLOG at Southworks, before telling you about more specefic Tags.

When I was in Spain, where I spent five years of my life, one of those opportunities that only happen to you a few times in life, appeared on my way.

So I took the chance of going back to my beloved country to take advantage of it.

HERE IS A BRIEF STORY ABOUT ME

Two years ago, when I was still living in Spain, I went on vacation to Argentina. There I had an Interview with Alejandro Jack who I had met before when I was working in my last job in Argentina.

We talked about many things by that time, but the development of the company was, in fact, the most interesting topic.

By that time, I had a Computer company in Seville, so I had to find the best way possible to have all set up for my return. It was not easy to close down my business, because it is not something that can be done in a couple of days. That is why I decided to stay there for a while to do everything the right way.

Alex had added me to a Southworks developers distribution list. So I started to receive e-mails detailing the company’s progress and the experience of new Southies who would join it.

Alex and the Southies became idols for me. Being able to see how they had been growing as a company, and acquiring the position Southworks has nowadays at a world-wide level in only a couple of years, was great.

I also started to know about the people who were part of the company. Good examples are Ariel Schapiro, Matías Woloski, Johnny Halife, Lito Damiani, Alberto Ortega, etc.

So, once my business in Spain was closed down, and after I had analyzed the pros and cons of going back to Argentina, on January 10th 2007 I contacted Alex to have a formal talk about my incorporation to Southworks.

Now I’m here, posting this, surrounded by the ones I admire