About

Luis Cobian

Born in Santa Clara, Cuba.

Master of science, graduated in the university of Saint Petersburg, Russia in the specialty of "Radio-physics and quantum electronics". The theme of my thesis was "Investigation of the effects of the radial spatial homogeneity of the active medium of excitation of the copper vapor laser".

Now working and living in Umeå, Sweden. I work as a system programmer at Umeå university. My main interests are programming, computers, gaming, photography , music, sports, mathematics, movies, literature and languages. Some of my programs can be downloaded from this site.

Personal information

Name: Luis Cobian
Place of birth: Santa Clara, Cuba
Date of birth: January 16
Citizenship: Swedish
Contact: cobian@cobiansoft.com
 

Education

• 1987.07.20 Graduated at Capitán Roberto Rodríguez Senior High School, Santa Clara, Cuba.
  
  
• 1987.09.01- 1988.06.19 Technical Russian language at University of Havana, Cuba.
  
  
• 1988-1992 Certified Russian Translator, S. Petersburg University, Russia.
  
  
• 1992-1993 "Numeric methods and simulation of physical processes" using Pascal and Fortran. University of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  
  
• 1988-1994 Master of sciences, graduated in the university of Saint Petersburg, Russia in the specialty of "Radio-physics and quantum electronics". The theme of my thesis was "Investigation of the effects of the radial spatial homogeneity of the active medium of excitation of the copper vapor laser".
  
  

Work History

• 1993.08-1994.01 Assistant at the department of Quantum Physics, University of Saint Peterburg
  
  
• 1993 Russian-Spanish interpreter at Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (occasionally)
  
  
• 1996.10.01-2011.12.31 Working at the University of Umeå, Sweden (Department of Child Education) as
  
  - IT-Consultant
  - Teacher
  - Software developer (using mainly Delphi, C# and C++)
  - Network administrator
  
  
• 2012.01.01 until today: Working at the University of Umeå, Sweden (Department of Applied Educational Science) as
  
  - Software developer (mainly C# and SQL)
  - System Operator
  

Language skills

Spanish: Mother tongue
English: Fluently spoken and written
Swedish: Fluently spoken and written
Russian: Fluently spoken and written

Summary

Twenty years of professional Delphi (versions 2 – 2010) experience in desktop, client/server, and multi-tier distributed application development including Internet development, design and implementation of Delphi custom components.

Seven years of professional experience with C# for both ASP.NET and Desktop development.

Eleven years of experience as webmaster , administrator and developer of sites dedicated to Distance education at the University of Umeå, Sweden.

Eleven years of experience as a teacher in courses on "IT in Distance Education" and "IT in Special Education" at the University of Umeå, Sweden.

Total of twenty years of experience in Network administration of a NT/Linux network.

Total of 25+ years of development from the MS-DOS ages to today, using mainly Borland Turbo Pascal.

Over twenty years of IT hardware/software systems experience including PC repair, maintenance, upgrades, network installation, software design and implementation.

Solid knowledge on Theoretical Physics and Higher Mathematics. Good knowledge of C/C++, C#, JavaScript, SQL and Fortran.

Opened and social, I enjoy working in heterogeneous environments where I can learn and share my knowledge with others.

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