josedragone

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

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Name: Dragone, Jose


Work Experience


  • I worked as Developer for Intersoft S.A. (http://www.intersoft.com.ar/), 06/2005-09/2005 , doing programming in C/C++ and SQL. Also, giving IT courses . Installing the company's software in different client server's operating systems .

  • I worked as Network Systems Administrator/Shell Scripts Programmer at a consulting company named Ten Roses (www.tenroses.com.ar/), which provides service for an american company called Pictage (www.pictage.com/, and I worked at Ten Roses from 09/2003 until 04/2005, and where the spoken language was english . I was doing network monitoring (among other things as for example, backups) using mainly Linux.


  • I had taught at ISMM from 5/2003 to 7/2004 Math, Physics, Thermodynamics and Programming.


  • Actually I have been teaching at the UNLM the subject “Programming 3” which includes Algorithms , OOP and the languages C++ and Java , since 05/2004.


  • I worked in the Ministery of Education, as Network Administrator/Unix Operator/Shell Scripts Programmer, between 04/2001 and 12/2002.


  • Repairing, Assembling, Configuring & Selling PC's, during 5 years as freelance.


  • I worked for a few small Home PC's Stores doing Configuration & Mantaining Networks on Linux, SCO OpenServer v.5.0.5 , Windows 3.11, Windows 95/98/2000 e IRIX 6.4 and installing UNIX servers.


  • I worked as Trainée with PHP, MySQL & HTML under Linux, in IteamGroup.


EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL


24-06-2005/Presente. Intersoft S.A.: Analista Programador

Trabajo con C/C++ en el Framework de Ideafix para acceder a la API C/C++ de ORACLE (OCI) y la API C/C++ de Postgre tambien. Ideafix, Essentia, Cfix, IQL. Tambien me mandan a ver servidores en empresas, como or ejemplo HP-UX Release B 10.20.


05-2004 / Present. UNLM, Argentina : TEACHER


I am teaching a subject called Programming 3 ( C++ y Java, Algorithms).


Servers Administration. Programming in PHP, Javascript and MySQL. Designing and making Statistics. Programming in AWK


09-2003 / 04-2005. Ten Roses SA (Pictage), Argentina : Unix/Linux Administrator


Network and Servers Administration, Installing Operating Systems(Linux and Windows), Backups (Arkeia , Partimage, Parted, etc.), Compiling Packets, CVS.


Shell Scripts, AWK, Sed, PHP and Perl Programminq. Developing systems for monitoring on Servers, Alarms and systems in general.


Receiving calls from Los Angeles and India , solving problems (Tier 2 Help Desk) related to Systems and Servers. Also doing Help Desk through the resolution of Tickets by using RT Tickets (Request Tracker- http://freshmeat.net/projects/requesttracker/).


PostgreSQL y MySQL. Apache. Jserv. Pay special attention to the AFS(Andrew File System) of the company, as it is focused on photography. FTP.



Monitoring of Servers and systems with Nagios- ( http://www.nagios.org/) ( similar to Netsaint ) , and Cacti ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/cacti/ ).


SNMP: SNMP Traps (for monitoring).


Remote troubleshooting with BlackBox under Linux .


VMware under Linux.


Incidents Documentation through Tickets. Systems and Case Resolution Documentation by using DocBook and PhpWiki.


Documentation on the systems programmed with DocBook.



04-2001 / 12-2002. Ministery of Education, Argentina : Unix Administrator


Mantaining the me.gov.ar network. Help Desk Tier 2. Linux operator. NT. Antivirus. Mail Server (Zmailer-Aliases). Sun Solaris. Linux Red Hat.



01-2001 / 02-2001. IteamGroup, Argentina : Programmer


Trainee on PHP 3, MySQL and HTML under Linux.


Education


U.B.A. : Student of Master in Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery (with the use of SPSS, SAS, etc)

Begun on : 03/2005. It is normally planned for 2 years to finish.

State : Active


U.N.T.R.E.F. : Student of Master in Applied Statistics (Economics Sciences Oriented).

Begun on : 03/2004. It is normally planned for 2 years to finish.

State : Abandoned after a year.


U.N.L.M. : IT Engineer.

Professional Degree obtained : IT Engineer (Average 7).

Professional Degree obtained : Systems Analyst (Average 7).

Professional Degree obtained : Programmer (Average 7).

Begun on : 1996. Finished.on: 12/2003

State : Graded.



U.B.A. ( F.C.E. y N.-Exact Sciences) :

Student of Physics Sciences.

Begun on : 1983. It only remains five subjects to finish the career

State : Active


U.B.A.(F.C.E. y N.):

Student of Atmosphere Sciences

Begun on : 1989.

State: Abandoned.

  • I studied this grade until half of the grade.


Escuela Nacional de Comercio Juan Bautista de La Salle (in Ramos Mejía):

High School Degree obtained : Perito Mercantil (that's a kind of Mercantile expertise' s title for high school)(Language: French, 5 years).




Technical Knowledge

Level (Starter: S, Basic: B, Intermediate: I, Advanced: A)


  • Programming Languages:

Shell Scripts (bash) , AWK & Sed A

C , C++ , Pascal A

Perl, HTML, PHP I

Java, Javascript B

Delphi 3.0, Smalltalk I

RM Cobol 85 (DOS) S

Assembler (Motorola 6800, Intel 8085) I

Vax Fortran 77 ( VMS)(Learned on 1990) B

CONTROL-M, JCL ( MVS) S

CFix S

  • DataBases:

SQL(ANSI), MySQL A

Dbase, SSQL(DOS) M

MS Access, PostgreSQL 7.2 M

IdeaFix, IQL (Intersoft’s SQL), Essentia B

Oracle's OCI B


  • Operating Systems:

SCO Unix System V v.3.2.4 , SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 I

Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Slackware, Mandrake y Fedora) A

IRIX 6.4 ( Silicon Graphics´ Unix ) I

Solaris 2.6, 2.7 I

Windows 95, 98, Millenium, NT y 2000 Server A

DOS, Personal Netware 1.0 A

OS/2 Warp A

Novell Netware 4.10 I

Vax VMS, HP-UX b 10.20 S

Mach 3.0 I

MAC OS 9.0.4, MAC OS X 10 I

IOS 12 (Cisco Routers) S


  • Statistics:

SPSS 11.5 M

R v.1.9.2 B

Infostat B

  • Data Mining:

SPSS 12.0 M

SPSS Answer Tree 3.1 M

SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0 M

Weka B


  • Design, Modelling & Analysis of Information Systems: ERD, DFD, SC, UML, OOP, etc.


  • Other Knowledge:


  • Installation and Interconnection of Unix and Linux Servers: Apache Web Server, MySQL Server, Print Servers, Mail Servers, Webmail Servers (TWIG- http://www.informationgateway.org/), FTP Servers, Backup Servers (Arkeia), Firewall and Proxy.

  • Compiling and configuring source packets (tar.gz) in Linux and rpmbuild as well, patch installations on source packages.

  • Backup: Arkeia (http://www.arkeia.com/), Partimage, Parted.

  • Mail: SMTP, Sendmail, Zmailer, POP3, Imap.

  • Other: DNS, SNMP, SNMP Traps, Iptables.

  • Control de Versiones: CVS.

  • Data Mining: Data Warehouse, OLAP, OLTP.

  • File Systems: NFS, AFS (http://www.openafs.org/).

  • Version Control: CVS.

  • Data Mining: Data Warehouse, OLAP, OLTP.

  • File Systems: NFS, AFS (http://www.openafs.org/).

  • Tools for Remote Monitoring: Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/), Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/).

  • Virtual Machines: VMware, BlackBox ( for remote monitoring).



  • Programming:

  • Client-Server with sockets in Linux in C language.

  • I did a Monitoring System for sound alarms in AWK & Sed to detect problems in the services of 164 servers in Pictage Inc..

  • I did a Monitoring System in Shell Scripts using SNMP Traps (www.net-snmp.org/) to detect problems in Ten Roses' servers.

  • Programming Web Pages with PHP and MySQL


  • Data Mining:

  • Data Warehouse, Artificial Neural Networks, OLAP, Business Intelligence.


  • Data Bases:

  • Normal Forms, ERM.

  • Query Optimization ( SQL), Cost Estimation, Relational Algebra.

  • OLTP.

Languages


English:


London Cultural Institute: Capital Federal, San Martin 680 , 4 años básicos (between 1981&1984) .

U.B.A., P.I. ; Ciudad Universitaria , 2 years advanced (Level FCE-preparation) .

U.B.A., F.I. : 3 years of conversation.

U.N.L.M. : 2 years (technical)

I did a year of preparation on the FCE with a private teacher.

  • I did a year of courses at the Wall Street Institute . Level: Threshold 3.

Total : 13 years


German:

U.B.A., Pabellón de Industrias: Ciudad Universitaria : 3 semesters of technical learning .

U.B.A., F. I. : 4 years of conversation classes.

  • Following, four months of conversation with a native tongue teacher.

Total : 6 years

Italian:

U.N.L.M. : 2 semesters -Level 2.

International certificate got: PLIDA Level A1.


French: (during all High School long, 5 years) and I did a course to refresh this language at UNLM during a semester on the second half of 2004.


Pre-Professional Experience


As student (U.B.A.), during a year I did the following :


C.I.T.E.F.A., Microelectronics Lab : experience with diverse equipment & programming an ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) in C language.


C.N.E.A. , C.A.C. : studying thin films for their use on Solar Cells, including the development & charaterization of these films.


Seminars


  • I did a course of 45 hs. on: "Object Technology Introduction with Smalltalk.

  • Seminar : MSDN On Site given in la UNLM on 31/05/2001.

  • Mini-Course on Numeric Astrophysics given by Dr. (Ph D) Tom Abel, about “First Structures” on April 22th and 23th of 2003, given in IAFE (carried out in english-American Lecturer). (Look please at : http://www.iafe.uba.ar/astronomia/extrag/html/cursos_cursoAbel.html

  • X Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de Computación (CACIC 2004): course on “Quantum Computer & Criptographic Aplications” , given by Lecturer Juan Pedro Hecht, from the 4th to 8th October 2004 in UNLM at San Justo City.

  • III Minicurso “Exploring the High Redshift Universe with Quasars Absorption Lines”, given by lecturer Dr. Max Pettini from Cambridge University, UK, on October 25th and 26th 2004 in IAFE (in english). (Look please at: http://www.iafe.uba.ar/astronomia/extrag/html/cursos_cursoMax.html



Given Courses


I have taught a course of 24 hs. since 04/07/2005 untill 13/07/2005 inclusive, within Intersoft,given for new empleoyees of the company I work for, consisting of : General Data Base Knowledge (Tables, Foreign Keys, Indexes, IndexTrees, SQL, Joins, Join Optimization, IQL), Ideafix, Forms, Reports and Cfix.





Observations of Interest


  • Two (2) Papers published on a Scientific Magazine. These work were published in the ASADES Magazine (Asociación Salteña de Energía Solar ) and were related to Thin Films on Solar Cells. (Please go to: http://www.asades.org.ar/averma/averma2_1998.htm -and read the two consecutives papers with Picicelli R.)

  • Skills on Oscilloscopes & other type of laboratory equipment.

  • Experiencie with NMR equipment (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), gained in F.C.E.y N. for a term of four months.

  • I am predisposed to travel (including going abroad), but I have no means of media transport (neither car nor motorcycle).


Fields of My Interest


Networking and Telecomunications, Unix Network Administration and Mantenance, Programming , Information Systems, Criptography, Databases , Digital Electronics (subjects on electronics done in physics as in engineering) y Sound (as in older times I was DJ and besides I have knowledge on Waves and Sounds as physicist).



Language Chart


Level (Beginner: S, Basic: B, Intermediate: I, Advanced: A, Native: N)


Activities

Reading

Writing

Conversation

Certificates

Years

English

A

A

A

-

13

German

I

I

I

-

6

French

I

I

I

-

5 &1/2

Italian

M

B

S

PLIDA Level A1

1

Spanish

N

N

N

-

-



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