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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Curriculum Vitae: Alberto Mijares</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook.css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"/></head><body><section xml:lang="en" class="article" id="id1337"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title">Curriculum Vitae: Alberto Mijares</h2></div><div><h3 class="subtitle"><em>IT Projects Manager, Infrastructure Architect and
<span class="trademark">UNIX</span>™ Support Specialist</em></h3></div><div><div class="revhistory"><table style="border-style:solid; width:100%;"><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; " colspan="2"><strong>Revision History</strong></th></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: left; ">Revision 3.0</td><td style="text-align: left; ">June 2025</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; " colspan="2">Adding NeatCSS for web and updating information</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: left; ">Revision 2.9</td><td style="text-align: left; ">July 2017</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; " colspan="2">Moving to Docbook 5 from Docbook 4</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: left; ">Revision 1.0</td><td style="text-align: left; ">July 2008</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; " colspan="2">Based on <a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/aimass" target="_top">Alejandro
Imass's</a> CV</td></tr>
</table></div></div></div><hr/></div><div class="toc"><div class="toc-title">Table of Contents</div><ul class="toc"><li><span class="sect1"><a href="#id1341">Personal Information</a></span><ul><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1340">About me...</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="sect1"><a href="#id1346">Knowledge and Skills</a></span><ul><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1343">Soft Skills</a></span></li><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1344">Hard Skills</a></span></li><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1345">Services and Applications</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="sect1"><a href="#id1383">Working Experience</a></span><ul><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1371">Positions</a></span></li><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1382">Projects</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="sect1"><a href="#id1396">Training: Specialized Courses and Certifications</a></span><ul><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1390">IT Courses and Certifications</a></span></li><li><span class="sect2"><a href="#id1395">Professional and Personal Growth Courses</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></div>
<section class="sect1" id="id1341"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">Personal Information</h2></div></div></div>
<p>
</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
Full Name: Alberto José Mijares Paredes<br/>
Birthplace: Caracas, Venezuela<br/>
</p></div><p>
</p>
<div class="address"><p><br/>
<code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:amijaresp@gmail.com">amijaresp@gmail.com</a>></code><br/>
<span class="street"><br/>
San Bernardino</span><br/>
<span class="city">Caracas</span><br/>
<span class="state">Distrito Capital</span><br/>
<span class="postcode">1010</span><br/>
<span class="country">Venezuela</span><br/>
<span class="phone" id="cellphone">+58(412)5938582</span><br/>
</p></div>
<section class="sect2" id="id1340"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">About me...</h3></div></div></div>
<p>
I see myself as a solutions provider. My fundamentals are:
stick to the standards, follow the principles of Unix (simple
is beautiful) and write good documentation.
</p>
<p>
I'm honest, reserved and focused. I align myself with the
vision of my clients and nothing is executed without profit,
seen from different viewpoints.
</p>
<section class="sect3" id="id1339"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">What am I doing now?</h4></div></div></div>
<p>
I provide specialized support services for the
infrastructure of a company that operates as a job board in
the state of Nebraska, through the company <a class="ulink" href="https://zvitech.com" target="_top">ZVI Technologies</a>,
based in the Dominican Republic.
</p>
<p>
I'm also in charge of editing videos for <a class="ulink" href="https://youtube.com/@rabinoshui" target="_top">Rabbi Shui
Rosenblum's YouTube channel</a>, in his daily delivery of
Chumash studies. I use <a class="ulink" href="https://www.openshot.org" target="_top">OpenShot</a> and
<a class="ulink" href="https://www.audacityteam.org" target="_top">Audacity</a>
for these tasks.
</p>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect1" id="id1346"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">Knowledge and Skills</h2></div></div></div>
<p>
This is a non-exahustive list of the skills developed along my careerpath.
</p>
<section class="sect2" id="id1343"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">Soft Skills</h3></div></div></div>
<div class="variablelist"><p>In 2021 I took a Personal Profile Analysis test (PPA)
from <a class="ulink" href="https://thomas.co/" target="_top">Thomas
International</a> and the skills below were extracted from
the report. You can get the <a class="ulink" href="https://granalberto.github.io/pdf/ajmp-ppa-2021.pdf" target="_top">full
report in PDF here</a>.
</p><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">Attention to Detail</span></dt><dd>
<p>Meticulous and precise, ensuring accuracy in tasks and
adherence to procedures.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Analytical Thinking</span></dt><dd>
<p>Logical and systematic approach to problem-solving,
relying on facts and data.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Diplomacy</span></dt><dd>
<p>Tactful and reserved, avoids conflicts and
communicates with professionalism.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Reliability</span></dt><dd>
<p>Consistently meets deadlines and follows through on
commitments.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Organization</span></dt><dd>
<p>Plans tasks methodically and maintains structured
workflows.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Patience</span></dt><dd>
<p>Deliberate and calm, especially when navigating
complex or slow-moving processes.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Adaptability</span></dt><dd>
<p>Adjusts to changes when given clear explanations and
time to prepare.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Team Collaboration</span></dt><dd>
<p>Prefers shared responsibilities and consults
colleagues for alignment.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Quality Focus</span></dt><dd>
<p>Prioritizes precision and excellence, often setting
high personal standards.</p>
</dd><dt><span class="term">Verbal and Written Communication</span></dt><dd>
<p>Articulates ideas clearly in writing, preferring
documentation over verbal exchanges, yet capable to express
ideas in a clean and precise way.</p>
</dd></dl></div>
<section class="sect3" id="id1342"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Summary</h4></div></div></div>
<p>I am a <span class="emphasis"><em>systematic perfectionist</em></span>
who excels in roles requiring precision, adherence to
protocols, and analytical problem-solving. My strengths lie
in maintaining order, ensuring quality, and working within
defined structures, though I may hesitate with rapid
decisions or unstructured environments.</p>
</section>
<p>
My profile suits <span class="emphasis"><em>technical, procedural, or
specialized roles</em></span> where accuracy, patience, and
methodical work are valued. Leadership excellence is guaranteed in
<span class="emphasis"><em>structured, knowledge-based teams</em></span>, provided
decision-making is supported with data and time.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect2" id="id1344"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">Hard Skills</h3></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><div class="itemizedlist-title">Programming Languages</div><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>Perl 5 and the Mojolicious Web Development Framework</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>Haskell, C (still learning)</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>Bourn Shell and Python Scripting</p>
</li></ul></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><div class="itemizedlist-title">Operative Systems</div><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>FreeBSD for servers operative systems and appliance
development</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>Debian GNU/Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu Server and other Linux
flavors</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Software packaging for FreeBSD with <a class="ulink" href="https://www.freshports.org" target="_top">The Ports
Collection</a>, for Debian according to their <a class="ulink" href="https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/" target="_top">packaging
policies</a> and basically for any unix-based operative
system with <a class="ulink" href="https://www.pkgsrc.org/" target="_top">pkgsrc</a>.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><div class="itemizedlist-title">Databases</div><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB for SQL DB Engines</p>
</li></ul></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><div class="itemizedlist-title">Orchestration</div><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>Ansible, Jenkins</p>
</li></ul></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><div class="itemizedlist-title">Virtualization</div><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>Bhyve, KVM, VMWare and VirtualBox</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
<section class="sect2" id="id1345"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">Services and Applications</h3></div></div></div>
<p>
Besides those skills, I also have experience with many
toolsets. I wish I could name all the technologies,
services, software and tools that I know and have worked
with, but such list would be too long. Instead, please read
the section about projects I have worked on my own and
representing other companies.
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect1" id="id1383"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">Working Experience</h2></div></div></div>
<p>
I've been working in the field of Information Technologies for
more than 22 years, starting from basic support activities for
end users until getting into very complex activities like the
planning and execution of projects for mission-critical
tasks. I also have had the opportunity to teach, which is a
great enriching experience.
</p>
<p>
My comfort zone is in around the FreeBSD project, which provides
an excellent OS, documentation and development ecosystem;
accompanied by an excellent community of hackers. I also was
very savvy in the Linux world some years ago; however, the some
changes introduced a few years ago into the main distributions
have disappointed me a lot. This is a matter of preference,
though, I can work on any Unix-like environment.
</p>
<p>
My orientation has always been into what happens in the
backstage (Infrastructure/Architecture) instead of the
scenarios (User Experience/Interfaces), closely related to
development cycles (DevOps). That's true even before this
terminology came to existence.
</p>
<p>
My working experience can be splitted in two: projects
executed as freelance consultant and positions occupied in some
companies.
</p>
<section class="sect2" id="id1371"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">Positions</h3></div></div></div>
<section class="sect3" id="id1348"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Venelectronics</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1347"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Projects Manager (2023 - 2024)</h5></div></div></div>
<p>
Venelectronics is a retail store with 5 branches in
Venezuela. There are many challeneges associated to the
politics, taxes and laws in Venezuela, making it harder to
run a retail store and spacially in the ecommerce world.
</p>
<p>
I have been in charge of the execution of small projects
for the customization of their CRM software, trying to
align it with the products and promotions launched by the
Marketing Department and others.
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1350"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Group of HighTech Companies in New York</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1349"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Office Manager</h5></div></div></div>
<p>
Since year 2019 to 2022, I've been managing an
offshore company, dedicated to software development in
Dominican Republic, for a group of companies in the
Internet Services business, located in New York, USA.
</p>
<p>
My main tasks are to provide the physical space, services,
equipment and facilites for the operations of the
developers. I also run campaigns for hiring the developers
and make a first approach in order to filter according to
non-technical assessments.
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1352"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">SmartTechDo</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1351"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Support Specialist (2017 - 2019)</h5></div></div></div>
<p>
Working at SmartTechDo was a great experience. Basically,
I provided solutions to complex problem within the
ifrastruture of our clients.
</p>
<p>
I spent a lot of time reading documentation of software
(open source mostly) figuring out how to improve the
behavior of the platform that we were supporting.
</p>
<p>
Some of the technologies that I supported by the time was:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
ClusterLabs high availability stack
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
PCI compliance fixes in systems configuration
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Moodle learning system
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Asterisk IP-PBX
</p>
</li></ul></div><p>
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1354"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Future Link Corporation (2016 - 2017)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1353"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">VP Engineering</h5></div></div></div>
<p>
While I still was in Venezuela, Future Link sponsored my
work permit and visa for Dominican Republic. In my short
period with this company I was able to:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Perform a PCI compliance self-assessment and suggest
improvements.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Participate in the recruitment process of a Junior
System Administrator, giving my recommendations for a
specific candidate, who resulted elected and was able to
perform assigned tasks with outstanding results.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Identify problems on time. An example of a suggested
solution to one of those problems was to re-assign
resources from one project to another, where the
deadline was very close and manpower was required.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Creation and update of required packages within the
framework pkgsrc, from NetBSD. Server updates.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1356"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Higher Institute of Technological Studies and
Investigations - ISEIT (2006 - 2010)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1355"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Instructor</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Member of professors staff, mainly for the "Certified
Linux Administrator" program.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1358"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">"La Villa del Cine" Foundation (2008)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1357"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Networking and Telecommunications Coordinator</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Network and systems administration. Coordination of tech
support staff. Migration of private solutions to FOSS
alternatives.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1360"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Corcaribe Tecnología, C.A.(2007 - 2008)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1359"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Network Administrator - Consultant</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Maintenance of the IT platform. Consultancy for external
customers. Specialized support.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1363"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> Economic and Social Development Bank of Venezuela -
BANDES (2006-2007)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1361"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Tech Assistant</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Structured cabling. Data and voice networks
maintenance. PBX administration.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1362"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Security Information Analyst</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Monitoring, review and updating of the institution's
security policies.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Penetration Testing - Ethical Hacking
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Monitor compliance of established policies. Checking of
procedures for communications and data exchange between
financial and government institutions.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Research
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1365"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Teravision Technologies (2005-2006)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1364"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Network Administrator</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Internal customers support. Creation and maintenance of
LAN services. Network rewiring and hiring of new ISP.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Migration of version control system from CVS on Win32 to
SVN on Linux.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Setup of a HA database cluster for
applications. Separation of development and production
environments.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Creation and implementation of a BCP for the development
team.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Maintenance of a software appliance.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1370"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">World Tel-Fax Electronics, C.A. (2001-2005)</h4></div></div></div>
<section class="sect4" id="id1366"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Telephone Operator (2001-2002)</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Call center operator. Search of specialized information
service <span class="trademark">INFO-LINE</span>™.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1367"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Transcriptor - Information Department (2002)</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Data transcribers team coordination. Creation of
reporting and statistics tools, QA, productivity
measuring, among others.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1368"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Audio Operator (2002-2003)</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Recording, edition and conversion of audio clips for IVR
systems and multimedia contents.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1369"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Tech Support (2003-2005)</h5></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<p>
Internal and external customers support. Preventive and
corrective maintenance or workstations. PBX
administration.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Servers and network monitoring: Routers, Gateway SMS,
IVR's, Switches, web server - Email - Databases, Web
Proxy-Cache, Portmaster, PBX, DNS, DHCP.
</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>
Support for end-users and external costumers.
</p>
</li></ul></div>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect2" id="id1382"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">Projects</h3></div></div></div>
<section class="sect3" id="id1381"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Freelance Consultant (2008 - 2016)</h4></div></div></div>
<p>
Along almost 9 years of activities as a consultant, I've been
involved in many projects and activities. Here are the most
important projects, the company involved and a short
description with some achievements:
</p>
<section class="sect4" id="id1372"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Upstream Bandwidth Optimization</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">Aeronet, C.A.</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
Aeronet is a <span class="foreignphrase"><em class="foreignphrase">Wireless ISP</em></span> in
Venezuela. They needed to optimize the available upstream
Bandwidth for their customers.
</p>
<p>
Overall, upstream traffic was optimized by a 24% and the
end-user experience was improved by 32%, thanks to higher
download rates in average. The solution was implemented
using the Squid Proxy on a server with a fine tuned
FreeBSD.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1373"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Virtualization</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">National Housing and Habitat Bank</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
BANAVIH (for its initials in spanish) is the official
institution in Venezuela for housing loans and
subsidy. They needed to optimize the hardware utilization in
their datacenter.
</p>
<p>
A total of 4 servers were freed and repurposed, thanks to
the application of the virtualization technology in
development and testing servers; saving thousands of dollars
in hardware adquirance. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Xen
were the technologies used in this project.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1374"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Migration of Email and Domain Controller services to
Open Source Solutions</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">CONVIASA</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
CONVIASA is a venezuelan airline. The objectives of the
project were the migration of email services and primary
domain controller to open source solutions.
</p>
<p>
The email services was migrated from third-party provider to
a self-hosted solution based on Red Hat Enterprise 5,
Postfix, Dovecot and Roundcube as web interface. The PDC was
implemented on Debian with Samba3 with group-based custom
profiles on workstations. Both services were integrated with
OpenLDAP as the backend for users identification and
authentication. The airline achieved the compliment
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1375"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Web form for issuing policies</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">Pyugmao Fondos Administrados, C.A.</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
Pyugmao is a risk manager company, providing Civil Liability
Policies to their customers. They needed a centralized
system to generate policies.
</p>
<p>
A web form was developed in the Perl programming language
with the CGI interface and PostgreSQL for the database. The
company was able to increase their salesforce and to emit
more than ten times more policies monthly, compared to the
months before the implementation of the solution.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1376"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Interface for BT-3000 Plus Chemistry Analyzer</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">Neat Systems, C.A.</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
Neat Systems is a development company specialized in ERP
Software for hospitals and laboratories, running on the
Windows platform. The <span class="emphasis"><em>BT-3000 Plus Chemistry
Analyzer</em></span> has a serial communication protocol via
DB9 COMM Port, which makes it difficult to integrate into
the TCP/IP network.
</p>
<p>
A webservice was developed, implementing the serial protocol
and making it available via HTTP. The solution was written
in Perl on Debian Linux, and embedded in a VirtualBox image,
so it can be run inside a Windows server.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1377"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Digicheck2</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">Bayco, C.A.</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
Bayco is a security solutions provider for the banking
industry in Venezuela. They lost the control over a
product they owned, due to some discordance with the
former developers of the product. I was able to
reverse-engineering the product and implement it using
open source technologies. I gave them back the control
over the product by writing detailed documentation about
how their product works, how was developed and how can be
modified.
</p>
<p>
The rewrite was made with Perl, using the framework
Mojolicious, PortgreSQL and Debian Linux. A customization
of the debian-installer was made in order to include the
corporate image of Bayco. The functionality of the
product was to take a screenshot of face, check and id
document when a client goes to the bank to cash a check.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1378"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">High Availability in VoIP</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">FIDES, C.A.</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
FIDES is a company providing medical services through a
call center. The requirement was a setup such that if the
main VoIP PBX server fails, the spare can't take more than
20 seconds for the failover.
</p>
<p>
The goal was achieved combining specialized hardware from
<span class="trademark">Digium</span>™ and replication techniques
on Elastix.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1379"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Load Balancing Cluster</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">inmobilia.com</h6></div></div></div>
<p><span class="emphasis"><em>inmobilia.com</em></span> is a real state web
portal with presence in 13 countries. The initial setup for
their portal went out of capacity when they reached 4 hits
per second. I designed for them a mixed cluster with virtual
and bare metal servers, with defined roles as
<span class="foreignphrase"><em class="foreignphrase">loadbalancers</em></span>,
<span class="foreignphrase"><em class="foreignphrase">backends</em></span> and
<span class="foreignphrase"><em class="foreignphrase">databases</em></span>. I also leaded the
development team into the <span class="emphasis"><em>Git Branching
Model</em></span> workflow, documented in <a class="ulink" href="http://http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/" target="_top">this
article by Vincent Driessen</a>. Finally, I configured
an Amazon S3 bucket for the bank of images of the portal
(about 160 GB by that time) and helped to integrate the
storage service in the portal.
</p>
<p>
The performance increased drastically, holding loads of
above 30 requests per second with no significant impact on
the servers, whose could handle up to 5 times such load
without penalties. This implementation is saving money by
using virtual servers for most of the hosts and not
requiring huge amounts of additional storage for backups.
</p>
</section>
<section class="sect4" id="id1380"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title">Recovery of files from <span class="trademark">Glacier</span>™</h5></div><div><h6 class="subtitle">inmobilia.com</h6></div></div></div>
<p>
The development team of inmobilia.com tried to implement
the versioning feature from S3 service. However, they made
a mistake and sent all their images to Glacier, where they
are not available online. Even with paid support from AWS,
they were unable to recover the files.
</p>
<p>
Using the API from AWS S3 I wrote I script in Perl making
parallel request, which helped to recover the files 16
times faster than the time required if we used the methods
suggested by AWS support. You can take a look at the
script at https://github.com/granalberto/s3mu.
</p>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect1" id="id1396"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">Training: Specialized Courses and Certifications</h2></div></div></div>
<section class="sect2" id="id1390"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">IT Courses and Certifications</h3></div></div></div>
<section class="sect3" id="id1384"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">
Network Management
</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Best practices in technical and management aspect for
data and voice networks. Available tools, configuration
and use.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
Central University of Venezuela - Faculty of Engineering
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Instructor: </span></strong>
Prof. Vicenzo Mendillo (UCV)
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
32 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certification granted: </span></strong>
Certificate of approval
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1385"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Linux Professional Certified Program</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Basic and advanced administration of Linux-based
operative systems. Theoretic and ideological roots of free
software movement. Unix-like environments tool set.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
Higher Institute of Technological Studies and
Investigations (ISEIT)
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Instructor: </span></strong>
Ing. Carlos García - Ing. Jesús Rivero
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
80 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certified Linux Administrator Professional
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1386"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Linux Security Professional</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Basis of information security concepts. Tools and
methodologies for security policies implementations.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
Higher Institute of Technological Studies and
Investigations (ISEIT)
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Instructor: </span></strong>
Ing. Ricardo Strusberg
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
32 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certified Linux Security Administrator Professional
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1387"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Linux Networks Administrator</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Networking concepts, services and open source
implementations.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
Higher Institute of Technological Studies and
Investigations (ISEIT)
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Instructor: </span></strong>
Ing. Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
32 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificado Emitido: </span></strong>
Certified Linux Networks Administrator Professional
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1388"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">LPI Certification</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institute: </span></strong>Linux Professional Institute</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>Junior Linux Certified Professional (LPIC-1)</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">LPI ID: </span></strong>LPI000092165</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Verification Code: </span></strong>k3z5ham8ph</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1389"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Agile Development Workshop with Python</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Tools for agile development of user interfaces with
Python
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
V Foro Mundial del Conocimiento Libre
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Instructor: </span></strong>
Ing. Francisco Palm
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
8 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certificate of participation
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section class="sect2" id="id1395"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">Professional and Personal Growth Courses</h3></div></div></div>
<section class="sect3" id="id1391"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Voice and Diction</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Voice manipulation for professional purposes.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Instructor: </span></strong>
Lic. Adriana Romero
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
8 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certificate of Approval
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1392"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Job Analysis</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Position Analysis
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
INCE
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
40 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certificate of Approval
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1393"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Psychology Applied to the Supervision</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Management of work situations and leadership.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
INCE
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
20 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certificate of Approval
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="sect3" id="id1394"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">Quality-oriented Management</h4></div></div></div>
<div class="segmentedlist">
<div class="seglistitem">
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Description: </span></strong>
Concepts and strategies for process
optimization. Continuous improvement.
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Institution: </span></strong>
INCE
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Duration: </span></strong>
100 hours
</div>
<div class="seg"><strong><span class="segtitle">Certificate granted: </span></strong>
Certificate of Approval
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
</section>
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