PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name :	Javier Palacios Bermejo
Date of birth:	June 4th, 1970	Place of birth:	Madrid (Spain)
		Nationality:	Spanish
Address :	General Lacy 22, 1 D
	MADRID. SPAIN
Phone :	(34) 685 49 62 95
	(34) 913 88 53 14
e-mail :	javier.pb@hotmail.com
Driving license:	Car and motorbike (Spanish A and B1)

EDUCATION

Works for Ph.D. in Astronomy (not presented). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1996-1999.
Master Thesis, January 1996. Special prize. Title: Kinematics and stellar population in the central regions of active galaxies.
Physics University Degree (Theoretical Physics specialization). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1988-1993.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Spotigo GmbH. June 2006-July 2007. Administration of production LAMP servers. Design and implementation (C++) of wifi positioning algorithms. Management of intranet platform services (VPN, LDAP, groupware). PHP development with xmlrpc services and MVC patterns.
Gennio Entertainment. January-May 2006. Hosting based LAMP administration. Design and implementation of redundant architecture including MySQL replication and web balancing. Performace tuning of apache2-PHP and MysQL.
IFIC (CSIC). July 2005-May 2006. C++ unit test development for gLite GRID middleware. User Support for EGEE SouthWest Federation: helpdesk support, development of a new version using webservices (PHP). Development of distributed authentication/authorization based on PAPI framework.
Colegio de Registradores de la Propiedad (SATEC). June-July 2005. Sun Solaris administration, both platform and standard servers. Management of distributed firewall networks (SunScreen for sparc & x86).
PRISACOM. August 2004-June 2005. Administration of the servers (Debian, RHEL/Fedora) and applications of digital media from PRISA. Web (apache) and and application servers, database (oracle, mysql, postgres). Unix/Active Directory integration, at server and application levels.
RedIRIS (Spanish Academic & Research Network). February 2001 - July 2004. Unix systems administration (Solaris and Linux). OS patching, software and hardware installation. Storage (Sun T3 & D100, Veritas VM, NetApp), backup (Solstice/Networker, DLT libraries). Cisco and 3Com switches management. Performance and services monitoring. Usenet news administration (INN). Proxy-cache hierarchy coordination.
Telefónica I+D, May-December 2000. EOC (Control and operation structure) application support in Telefónica España Headquarters. Oracle and Sun Solaris (2.5.1, Veritas VM) administration.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, January 1996-March 2000. Administration of the Astronomy Group computer facilities. NIS/NFS installation with multiple OS (Unix & windows), hardware and software acquisition and installation.
MACCORP, June 1997. Functions: Installation of Windows 95 and internet software in some offices of this firm.
AIRTEL. Information technologies Dept. December 1995. Functions: User support in AIRTEL main Headquarters in Madrid. Local network deployment (Windows NT computers) at Bilbao Headquarters.
Empresa Nacional del Uranio (ENUSA), Nuclear Security and Radiological Protection Dept. February to September 1995. Extensions of some areas of the Security Study of the plant. Laboratory works. Validation of the dosimetry control software.

LANGUAGES

Spanish, mother tongue.
English, written and spoken, very high level.

COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Operative Systems

Unix (Solaris, Linux, Digital Unix, IRIX, Mac OSX). Administration. Software and hardware installation.
DEC-VMS, operator level. DCL procedures.
Windows XP/2K. Advanced user. Administration of simple domains.

Programming and administration tools

Monitoring and management tools: Nagios, SNMP, RRDtools, snoop, tcpdump.
Security tools: nmap, nessus, aide, iptables.
Classical languages: C, FORTRAN, C++, Java, VisualBasic.
CGI's and scripting languages: Perl, Tcl-Tk, Python, PHP; unix tools (shell, awk, sed, ...).

Technical and Scientific software

Astronomical software: IRAF, IDL, MIDAS
Other: LaTeX, MathCad

Software

Databases: mysql, Oracle, MS-Access, postgres.
Web and mail servers: Apache, sendmail, majordomo, postfix.
Generic software: MS-Office, Lotus Notes.
Installation and maintenance of large software packages over multi platform environments (IRAF, LaTeX, ...).

Courses

Lecturer

Debian Systems Administration. IEPALA, October 1999.
Introduction to Astronomy. Santiago de Compostela University, December 1995.

Received

C++ Object Oriented Programming. Sun Microsystems, February 2002 (25 hours).
Solstice Backup Administration. Sun Microsystems, June 2001 (10 hours).
Expert on UNIX/AIX. IBM, January-May 2000 (450 hours).
Lotus Notes Programming. INSA, September 1996 (40 hours).

OTHER

Spanish editor of multi-lingual electronic magazine LinuxFocus, from June 1999 to January 2004.
Occasional collaborations on some computer related magazines (Rev. Colombiana de Telecomunicaciones; e.comm; TI Magazine).
Member of the Spanish Astronomical Association since 1996.
Occasional collaboration with magazine Universo, Astronomía y Astronáutica.