Education | Academic and Research Experience | Other Experience | Course Work | Areas of Interest | Software Skills | Projects | Consulting | Grants | Patents | Publications

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (1997) University of Florida
• M.E. in Electrical Engineering (1992) University of Florida
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude (1990) University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

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Academic and Research Experience

• 2001-present. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
• 1997-2001. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
• 1997-1998. Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
• 1991-1997. Research Assistant, Database Systems Research and Development Center, University of Florida

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Other Experience

• 2001-present. President, Entevia Corporation, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• 2005-2006. Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Commoca, Inc. , Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• 2005. Panelist, National Science Foundation, SBIR Program
• 2003. Technology Director, Tecnium Products Corp., Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• 2002-2003. Program Evaluator, Council for Higher Education, Puerto Rico
• 2001. Panelist, Science Foundation of Ireland
• 2001. Reviewer, Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, IEEE/ACM

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Course Work

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Areas of Interest

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Software Skills

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Development Projects

• 2008. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of PROVIAJE (Sistema de Procesamiento de Viajes en Línea), an online system for processing of travel orders.
• 2008. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of MARCO (Manejo y Rastreo de Contratos), an online system for the management and tracking of contracts.
• 2007. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of PROMEL (Propiedad Mueble en Línea), an online system for the management of mobiliary property.
• 2006. Test Innovations, Inc. Development of PAAPEL (Sistema de Preparación, Administración y Análisis de Pruebas en Línea), a complete online test preparation, analysis and administration system.
• 2005. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of SAPP (Sistema Automatizado de Planificación Presupuestaria), an online system for budget planning.
• 2003. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of GESTA (Generador de Estadísticas de Tarea Académica), an online system for the generation of statistics on academic load.
• 2001-2002. Entevia Corp. Development of the web portal Ventanal.net, a real estate portal for P.R.
• 2001-2002. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of MatriWeb, a web-based student registration system.
• 1999-2001. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Development of web-based budget request system/
• 1991-2003. University of Puerto Rico, Central Administration. Development of the METRICAS system, a web-based METrics Information Collection and Analysis System for researchers.
• 1998. Intel Corp. - Las Piedras Plant, P.R. Development of an intelligent system for improving the functional quality control process of motherboards.
• 1994-97. AbleSoft Corporation - Gainesville, Florida. Development of business accounting software.
• 1989. Data Center Corp., Mayagüez, P.R. Development of protocol for porting ISAM files from NCR mainframe to PC using RS-232 port.
• 1988. Touche-Ross & Co., Hato Rey, P.R. Modifications of tax software database and program.

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Consulting

• 2006-present. Test Innovations, Inc. Consulting on web application development.
• 2004. Commoca, Inc. Consulting on application development for IP telephony
• 2001-2002. PRSoft, Inc. San Juan, P.R. Consulting on software development and software process improvement
• 1992-97. Party City of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R. . Consulting on hardware/software acquisition.

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Grants

• 2000-2001. International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. "Open-Source Operating Systems Project". $57,0000. Co-Principal Investigator
• 1999-2002. National Science Foundation, Next-Generation Software Program. "An Event-Rule Framework for Supporting Heterogeneous Distributed Systems". $705,000 ($450,000-NSF, $255,000-UPR). Principal Investigator
• 1999-2002. Lucent Technologies. "Applied Database and Software Engineering Laboratory (ADASEL)". $225,000. Principal Investigator.

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Patents

• Arroyo-Figueroa, J.A., "Sequential Machine for Solving Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) Problems in Linear Time", US Patent Number 7,120,569

Publications

• A. Cuaresma, N. J. Rodriguez, J. Arroyo, J. A. Borges, E. Moulier, J. Yeckle, M. A.Rivas, "A Comparison Of A Rule Definition Language (RDL) and the Java Object Oriented Language For Implementing A Distributed ," International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (ICCSA-2003)
• E. O'Neill-Carrillo, J. Arroyo-Figueroa, J. Rosado, J. Santiago, I. Jimnez, "The Atmospheric Phenomena Laboratory: Connecting Electrical and Computer Engineering through Undergraduate Research," to appear in 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002
• Arroyo-Figueroa, J.A., Borges, J.A., Rodríguez, N., Moulier, E., Cuaresma, A. Rivas, M. and Yeckle, J., "An Event-Rule Framework for Specifying the Behavior of Distributed Systems", to appear in Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering in Middleware 2002 (SEM'2002), Orlando, 2002
• Arroyo-Figueroa, J.A., "An Extensible Knowledge-Base Programming Language and Its Extensible Object Model", Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1997
• Shyy, Y.M., Arroyo-Figueroa, J., Su, S.Y.W. and Lam, H., "The design and implementation of K: a high-level knowledge-base programming language of OSAM*.KMS", VLDB Journal, 1996 (5), pp. 181-19
• Su, S., Lam, H., Yu, T.F., Arroyo-Figueroa, J., Yang, Z. and Lee, S., "NCL: A Common Language for Achieving Rule-Based Interoperability among Heterogeneous Systems", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 1996 (6), pp. 171-198
• Su, S., Lam, H., Yu, T.F. and Arroyo-Figueroa, J., "An Extensible Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Rule-Based Interoperability among Heterogeneous Systems", (invited paper) Conference of Information Knowledge Management (CIKM), Baltimore, pp. 1-10, 1995.