Ramón González
Engineer. Entrepreneur. Overjoyed husband. Builder at KyteLabs. Previously built Stography. Pursuing my passion of making people's life better.
You can find me on {e8a-twitter|Twitter}, {9c1-linkedin|LinkedIn}, {c0e-instagram|Instagram}, StackOverflow, and Kickstarter. Or you can come visit {f77-custom_map|Puerto Rico} and meet our community, Startups of Puerto Rico.
Engineer. Entrepreneur. Overjoyed husband. Builder at KyteLabs. Previously built Stography. Pursuing my passion of making people's life better.
You can find me on , , , StackOverflow, and Kickstarter. Or you can come visit and meet our community, Startups of Puerto Rico.
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Tweets
- Google Launches Android Studio http://t.co/bTVTG3qhAU via .@techcrunch > About f* time. #google #android #mobile #ide
- RT @MarcosPolanco: Founder Institute announces Puerto Rico Startup Showcase in NYC. Watch video: http://t.co/1einS2h555 & release: http://…
- RT @ActuallyNPH: Season finale of HIMYM tonight. I promise you, it’s well worth watching… #watercooler
- I just backed The Othermill: Custom Circuits at Your Fingertips on .@Kickstarter http://t.co/Ij03sS0KRQ #hardware #pcb
- I just backed A Total Disruption: Ondi Timoner's Portal For Innovators on @Kickstarter http://t.co/qHokqeluP8
- A Total Disruption: Ondi Timoner's Portal For Innovators by Ondi Timoner — Kickstarter http://t.co/qHokqeluP8 via .@kickstarter
- “On Citizenship in Open-source software development” by .@christophe971 http://t.co/lJZ0nOu6T8 Agreed! cc: .@github
- RT @bjfogg: If there's a job you want, just start doing it (w/o pay). Key: Do it better than anyone else. Soon, you'll get hired for that j…
- @jonbyte @vieranation Seguimos gozando!
- RT @jchchm: David Ogilvy. One of a kind. His 13 lessons are as true today as when he wrote them 50 years ago. http://t.co/pG0aQBoboG
- "Why we've failed at the Lean Principles building a Live Tweet App so far. http://t.co/3nK5Q3PbC9 via .@applivetweet" Great lesson learned.
- The human #smd machine is ready to solder. #hardware #startup cc: @vieranation is http://t.co/K5Z3l3uVLG
- @jonbyte True story.
- @BlakeAAnderson @StartupWeekend @SWNext Well u suggested "evry weekend in a location for a month" And #next is a 5 week intense program :)
- @BlakeAAnderson @StartupWeekend @SWNext Regardless, both get you to build fast and talk to customers. And that's how you build a #startup.
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About Me
Ramon J. Gonzalez holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.
He has worked with renowned companies such as IBM, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Rock Solid Technologies. Close to graduating Ramon got involved with the entrepreneurial community and won several local competitions such as EnterPRize’s Business Idea Competition and the innovation competition RETO 2.010. These experiences inspired him to undertake his most recent endeavor, a mobile startup.
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Application Developer. Particularly interested in cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services. Have worked with a variety of relational databases such as MySQL, MS-SQL and the new-comer document database MongoDB. Passionate about design and optimizing user experience in product development.
Experience- Jan 2013 - PresentCo-Founder / Kytelabs
In a nutshell, we build awesome things that incorporate hardware, software, or both. Working on making homes smarter. Focused on the lighting system right now.
- Nov 2011 - Nov 2012Co-Founder / Stography
Collective Storytelling
- Sept 2010 - Feb 2011Software Engineer / Rock Solid Technologies
Developed a prototype Windows 7 Phone application for mobile access to Rock Solid's Citizens Services Platform - Respond© Designed and completed usability inspections tests for STAFF-M©.
Created customized financial reports for Microsoft Dynamics GP platform. - Jun 2010 - Aug 2010Net-Centric Integration Summer Intern / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Created a Universal Web Service Ontology based on OWL-S. This ontology supports SOAP and RESTful interfaces. Furthermore, created a Semantic Actor for the Kepler Environment capable of handling the universal ontology.
- Aug 2008 - Dec 2009Creativity Researcher / University of Puerto Rico
Creative Research Advancing Students in Engineering Entrepreneurship (CRASEE) was an undergraduate research team that worked with several brainstorming and innovation techniques to explore the creative aspect of engineering. Our work was published and presented in the 2009 CASHI Annual Conference.
- Jun 2009 - Aug 2009Net-Centric Integration Summer Intern / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Researched existing technologies on semantic markup for web services and proposed candidate architecture for a semantic service registry. Built an OWL-S infrastructure to register web services and search semantically, a richer and more descriptive service registry.
- Jun 2008 - Aug 2008WebSphere Automation Engineer / IBM
Migrated all of SCA FP components to provide remote execution and allow functionality on Moonstone automation framework and zOS. Fixed and improved ATOMs automation framework, and enabled LGT framework.
- Jun 2007 - Dec 2007SOA FP Automation Engineer / IBM
Increased the efficiency of automated testing in WebSphere SOA Feature Pack, using ATOMs.
Fixed and improved WAS and SOA FP source code, performed manual testing to verify functionality.
Lead small teams in charge of SOA FP various components to complete and report our daily regression tests.
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2012 - 2012Startup Weekend: NEXTEntrepreneurship
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2011 - 2011Startup Weekend: Puerto RicoEntrepreneurship
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2004 - 2010University of Puerto Rico at MayaguezBachelor in Science in Computer Engineering
Activities: President of Society of Electrical Engineers (2007-2009) Invited speaker in the 2009 CASHI Annual Conference, presented a panel about creativity in engineering.
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PUERTO RICO
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
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