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José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández (contact)

Home Page:
http://www.pupeno.com

Country:
Argentina

Available For Contract Work: Yes Available For Hire: Yes
Resume:
Education:
* Electronics and Electromechanics engineer (Técnico Electrónico y Electromecánico), Instituto Tecnológico Philips Argentina (Technological Institute Philips Argentina) (1996-2001).

Profile:
* Motivated, energetic, self-made software developer.
* Can quickly master technologies, languages, protocols, and specifications.
* Natural organisational skills and leader in small groups.
* Verbal and written communication in English and Spanish.

Professional experience:
* GUI (Graphic User Interface) application development.
* Network design and installation.
* Web servers for third party administration.
* File servers for third party administration.
* Mail servers including fast response on third party mail servers failure.
* File server monitor development.
* Complete development of integrated web sites (PHP, MySQL, eCommerce, etc).

Employment history:
* Andi Gmbh (2003-03 -> 2003-11) - Software development company developping Linux based set top boxes (media player for DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, Ogg, etc):
o Development of a non-linear video editor.
* TecSis (1999 -> 2002) -Software development company with focus on billing services like communications:
o Network administration: installation of different Linux servers (for file, domain and web servers), OpenBSD firewalls and mail servers.
o Software development:
= Biblioteca Virtual (Virtual Library): an integrated web searcher (including administration tools) for reference information.
= KSamStat: a monitor application for the Samba file server.
* ITPA S.A. (1998 -> 1999) -Educational institution.:
o Network administration: installation of a Linux firewall.
o Software development: versatile web application to configure and administrate the Linux firewall mentioned above.

Open source projects:
* Score Reading Trainer: this is a musical score reading training that helps to improve reading speed, developed using KDE. More information on http://www.nongnu.org/srt. Tasks: founder, maintainer and main developer.
* KTTSD (a.k.a. Proklam): a DCOP (Desktop COmmunications Protocol) plug in based TTS (Text To Speech) service. This will help any application that uses DCOP to use any available TTS with a central configuration. To be included in KDE in release 3.2. Task: founder, main developer and maintainer.
* ASAPlate (AS Soon As Possible tempLATE): this is a PHP class that lets you store PHP source code and HTML graphical design files in two different locations so the developers and the graphics designers of a site can work together smoothly. More information on asaplate.sourceforge.net. Tasks: founder, maintainer and main developer.
* KSamStat (KDE Samba Status): this is a status monitor for the Samba file server, it shows computers connected to shares and the open files, it has a friendly GUI developed using KDE. More information on sourceforge.net/projects/ksamstat. Tasks: founder, maintainer and main developer.

Technical skills:
* Software development: C/C++ (Including GUI programming on Qt/KDE), PHP, JavaScript, basic Java, basic Python and Bash.
* XML (eXtensible Markup Language) including:
o XHTML (eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascade Style Sheets).
o VXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language).
o Jabber.
* Database: MySQL and general SQL (installation, administration and development).
* Operating systems: Linux (Ark, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian and any other distribution), OpenBSD (and almost any Unix like OS). Exposure to: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP.
* Network and system administration:
o General TCP/IP knowledge.
o Gatewing, Firwalling with IpNAT and Masquerading.
o Installation and administration of servers for HTTP, HTTPS (Apache and Zope with content management systems: CMF and Plone), File sharing (Samba), Mail (Postfix, Sendmail and QMail), DNS (Bind 4.x, 8.x, 9.x), FTP, SSH, etc.
* Electronics: General knowledge of digital and analog electronics (including PIC programming).

Interviews:
* Interview by a Czech Linux e-zine called LinuxZone about personal views on Open Source and KDE development: www.linuxzone.cz/index.phtml?idc=546&ids=10 (currently only in Czech).

Skill Inventory

Skill Level Experience
3140 Java Want to Learn < 6 Months
3100 SQL Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
3110 C Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
3115 C++ Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
3130 PHP Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
4100 MySQL Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
7120 Security Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
5120 XML Competent 2 yr - 5 yr
7100 UNIX Admin Wizard 2 yr - 5 yr
7110 Networking Wizard 2 yr - 5 yr
7900 Other Skill Area Wizard 2 yr - 5 yr