WILLIAM ULATE
After graduating from the Universidad de Costa Rica in Computer Science and Informatics in 1990, he worked for 7 years in several major software development companies in Costa Rica (Tecapro.com, Exactus.com) involving projects dealing with R&D and later on a medium-sized ERP and SCM for Windows and Client-Server environments.
In 1996, at Universidad Fidelitas (UFidelitas.ac.cr), a private university in Costa Rica, he lectured a course on event programming, object-oriented techniques and advanced database and client-server concepts for a couple of years.
Since 1997, he was enrolled in the Atta project (www.inbio.ac.cr/attaing) at INBio (www.inbio.ac.cr/en/) as co-responsible for the analysis and design process of the biodiversity information management system developed to handle the National Species Inventory, which currently comprises an Oracle database of almost 3 million specimen records, including related eco-geographic and taxonomic information. This project was developed with the collaboration of national and international taxonomists, curators and technical staff from different disciplines such as Botany, Entomology, Malacology, Arachnology, Nematology and Fungi collections.
He was also in charge of coordinating and lecturing at the biodiversity informatics training activities carried out in all Central American countries (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) as part of the INBio's project "Biodiversity as an instrument for development in Central America" financed by the Norwegian Agency of Development (NORAD) and completed by October, 2003.
A couple of years ago, he was appointed as Informatics Developments Unit Coordinator, in charge of INBio's Informatics personnel to implement the institution's technology strategies, particularly in charge of managing INBio's activities in Biodiversity Informatics: development and maintenance of biodiversity information systems, integration of biodiversity information databases and web development and informatics support. Aside, from this, he is also responsible for coordinating, designing and developing INBio's web-based geographic information systems using ESRI's ArcIMS Internet map server for internal and external users.
In the meantime, he has finished coursework for the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science at the Costa Rica Technological Institute and is currently working on the thesis project "Developing a generic method to generate structured text input systems for specimen morphological descriptions", expected graduation date: 2004.
His areas of interests include XML, Client-server and n-tier development, Java, mobile and Internet applications.
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