Resumé

Occupation:

Web Development:

Since early 2004 I am doing web application development.

Programming:

I mainly use PHP as programming language, combined it with the functionality provided by the MySQL database engine and rigorous controls in regards to information security, efficiency and effectiveness.

Featured works:

Content Management Systems (CMS):

News portals (weblogs), online classifieds, photo galleries, etc...

E-commerce:

I have developed custom applications including recurring billing systems, encrypted storage for credit card's information, rebate schemes for promotions, coupons or tickets, etc.

Messaging:

Internal messaging systems.

Sending of bulk e-mail (excepting SPAM).

Integration of discussion forums to existing login systems.

Searches:

Simple and advanced search systems (eg. search by geographic proximity).

RSS

Content generation systems.

API:

Creation of APIs to interconnect data between different applications/websites.

Technologies that I have used or implemented:

• Authorize.Net: gateway for online payments with credit cards.
• Amazon S3: High availability remote storage service.
• GnuPG: encryption information.
• Google Sitemaps: tool for analysis and troubleshooting websites.
• Apache mod_rewrite: generate friendly URLs.
• MaxMind GeoIP/GeoLite Country: Determine an Internet visitor's country based on their IP address.
• Swift: a component-based library for sending e-mails from PHP applications.
• Twig: a flexible, fast, and secure template engine for PHP.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

My experience in search engine optimization is based from the use of regular expressions to generate friendly URLs to the implementation and complete restructuring of HTML documents that conform a website, thereby generating better rankings for the most popular search engines ( Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.).

CSS & Web Layout:

The latest works I have done are based on the specifications HTML and CSS published by the W3C.

The nature of my profession is strictly related to the area of visual communication design ¹ thereby I have solid knowledge of the aforementioned specifications that allows me to layout websites in line with current standards, generating this way documents with a very high percentage in terms of accessibility, usability and navigability.

I also have knowledge to develop web interfaces using JavaScript and the JavaScript library JQuery.

Sysadmin (system administrator):

• Setup, configuration and maintenance of Linux and *nix systems in general.
• Excellent performance in all types of Linux distributions: Gentoo / Funtoo, Debian / Ubuntu, Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS, LFS.
• Setup and maintenance and optimization of server's software:
  • Web: Nginx, Apache.
  • Databases: MySQL.
  • PHP: as an Apache module and FastCGI.
  • Files: SAMBA, NFS.
  • DNS: djbdns.
  • SSH: OpenSSH.
  • E-mail: Qmail, Postfix, Exim.
• Compiling applications from source code according to specific needs.
• Development of local and remote high availability backup systems (hourly backups, daily, etc.).
• Processes automation under *nix systems.

Other:

• Technical service in both hardware and software areas.

Education:

• Full attended primary and secondary (high school) levels.
• PC armed, repair and maintenance: title awarded by the CISCO Academy.
• Structured Cabling and LAN networks: completed the first semester of the CCNA at the CISCO Academy.
• Very good level of written English.

Trajectory:

2004 - 2005:

I took my first steps as web developer NKStudios S.R.L.

2005 - 2006:

I worked as a freelance web developer for different local companies (NKStudios, NetSud) and independently.

2006 onwards:

Work as a freelance web developer for Echo Media, Inc. as the maintainer of BandMix and independently.

Notes:

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I'm not a graphic designer, I'm only hobbyist in this area.