Mauro Parra Miranda
mauropm@gmail.com
+1 617 233 8375

EDUCATION
        UNAM – Facultad de Ciencias
        Bachelor of Computer Sciences

WORK EXPERIENCE
06/04 – present Novell, Inc
                Software Engineer II, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                Software packager for opensuse and SUSE Enterprise Linux.
                Experience on packaging Gnome, Firefox, Compiz and
                creating custom packages for specialized distributions.
                Contributor as packager in several products: SLE10 SP1 and SP2,
                openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE 11.0, openSUSE 11.1,
                Openoffice for Windows Novell Edition.

                Contributor as QA Team leader for ZLM 6.6.1, ZLM 6.6.2, ZLM 7, ZLM 7 DE,
                ZLM CODE 10, ZLM 7 SP1, Novell Customer Center, openSUSE 10.1.

                Provided world wide training for the members of the company around the world,
                either remote and locally.

06/03 – 06/04 Instituto de Fisica, UNAM
              Web Developer / Sysadmin. Mexico City, Mexico
              Website designer/coder based on joomla. Create proposals, site
              design and implementation as well as support on additional sites.
              Site link:
              Instituto de Fisica – www.fisica.unam.mx
              Group of nanosciences – www.nano.fisica.unam.mx
              Fisica 2005 – www.fisica2005.unam.mx

01/02 - 6/03 Universidad Pedagogica Nacional
              Software Engineer. Mexico City, Mexico
              Designed and implemented a full solution to fulfill the requirements
              of the PIFI project. Need to provide an affordable UI, distributed
              collaboration across the country and centralized reports.
              The system is based on MySQL, PHP and Apache. Provided help
              and support for different Linux specific applications. Programmer
              of differents systems for administration.

06/00 – 01/02 Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
              Sysadmin/ Web Developer. Mexico City, Mexico
              Sysadmin of our techinical infrastructure; contributor to different
              parts of the project. Co-creator of our first version of Interactiva
            – a website focused to improve the math abilities of our visitors
              (designed for all ages, from kids to adults).
              Link:
              www.interactiva.matem.unam.mx

06/00 – 01/02     ACIRED
               Systems Integrator/Linux Guru. Mexico City, Mexico
               System integrator for an small company, provided accurate
               technical support for a wide variety of process, ranging from
             customers websites to programming solutions for data recovering.
               Linux guru for our Linux customers.

PROJECTS
               LarvalStage Cofounder.

               The goal for this group is to share and improve the Computer
               Sciences abilities of the Facultad de Ciencias and UNAM
               community. Organized some courses, conferences, talks
               and congress.
               Link: www.larval.fciencias.unam.mx


               Lidsol - Member.

               The goal of this group is to share and improve the Linux and
               Free Software knowledge of the Facultad de Ingenieria & UNAM
               community. Organized some courses, conferences, talks (both
               on person and IRC) and congress. Produced materials like the
               wiki page, to improve the material available in spanish.
               Link: www.lidsol.org or www.lidsol.net

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages:
                           Bash, C, C++, PHP, Python, Java, C#, Perl

Packaging technologies:
                            RPM, Debian packages.

Platforms (User & Administrator):
                           Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/XP/2000/2003/Vista
                           Linux (opensuse, SLES, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva)
                           FreeBSD
                           OpenBSD 3.0
                           Apple Mac OS X

RDBMS:
                           MySQL, PostgreSQL

Virtual machines technologies:
                         VMWare, Xen

Network:
                Experience on wired and wireless networks setup.

Talks:
                Able to give technical talks about Linux and Free Software. Both in English and Spanish.

AWARDS AND LEADERSHIP
                Novell 2008 Pit Crew Prize: The Thinclient team, the most productive team in Q2 2008.
                Novell 2006 Pit Crew Prize: The Zenworks Linux Team, the most productive team in the year.
                2nd prize in Mexico's National Olympiad of Informatics, 1996
                3rd place in Mexico City Olympiad of Informatics, 1997

Other Skills:

                English and Spanish speaker. Enough French and German to survive ;-)
                Photographer - Portfolio- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauropm/