Juan Carlos Mardones
Professional experience
Project Engineer
Novared S.A. - Santiago - Chile(Permanent contract - Since May 2010)
- Planned, prepared and implemented mission critical projects and services in Computer Security
Project Engineer
Gratitud - Chile(Since April 2009)
- Planned, designed, implemented, maintained and supported mission critical projects and services
- Formulated, evaluated and created products
- Developed and updates documentation to users
- Created user manuals and provided technical support sessions to employees
Systems Administrator
IT linux - Santiago - Chile(January 2009 - March 2009)
- Advised IT departments detecting, diagnosed and solving network and Linux operating system problems
- Analyzed, logged and tracked open source software to meet business needs
- Coordinated hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with the company’s policies
- Coordinated testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services
- Ensured changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures
Coordinator of the Research and Development Department
Quality & Height - Valdivia - Chile(August 2008 - November 2008)
- Managed the recruitment and employee selection, doing technical interviews
- Scheduled activities and projects, doing control and management activities
- Evaluated, prepared and revised projects giving open source solutions to small and medium enterprises
- Formulated, evaluated and created products
- Information Security audit, doing penetration testing and checking security policies
Research and Developer
University Austral Of Chile - Valdivia - Chile(August 2006 - June 2008)
- Researched learning technologies and open source platforms for supporting teaching and education
- Managed virtualized systems and open source educational platforms
Research and Developer
Intus Soluciones - Valdivia - Chile(Freelancer - October 2005 - November 2005)
- Researched telephony services, voice over IP (VoIP), PBX and automated services using open source technologies
- Developed and implemented automated phone advertisement to promote political campaigns
Research and Developer
University Austral Of Chile - Valdivia - Chile(June 2003 - December 2004)
- Researched Wi-Fi networks, captive portals and user authentication services
- Created documentation about user authentication services on Wi-Fi networks
- Researched and experimented with IPV6 networks to measure performance and software compatibilities
Interests
Personal Research
- Online advertisement systems, pay per click and pay per impression systems. Research about micro niches. Internet Marketing and Web Positioning. 2010
- Online casino games, implemented automated betting systems using organic behaviour and pattern recognition. 2009–2010
- Foreign exchange market (Forex). Mathematic analysis of curves, implemented automated systems to detect trends.
- The nature of Cyberspace, virtual identity and identification problems. 2008–2009
- Information security, audit, e-forensics, hacks, exploits and bugs over Internet connected devices. 2003–2009
- Bot development to collect information for supporting decisions and automated process, programmed in Perl and Bash Script. 2003-2009
- Monitoring Systems using Linux Motion Detection. 2007
- Pattern recognition development, using OpenCV library. Developed prototypes that count red blood cells in a sample image. 2007
Talks
- Proxy Cache y Filtro de Contenidos para PyMes e Instituciones Educacionales, Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (FLISoL), 5/29/2010, Santiago, Chile
- Proyecto Prey: Un Sistema para el Seguimiento de Computadores Personales Conectados a Internet. II Congreso de Estudiantes de Computación e Informática, Zona Sur, 7/31/2009, Concepción, Chile
- Como contribuir al software Libre, Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (FLISoL), 4/25/2009, Valdivia, Chile
- Workshop Seguridad Informática y Protección de la Información. University Austral Of Chile, 9/2008, Valdivia, Chile
- Zimbra como solución de mensajería y colaboración, Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (FLISoL), 4/26/2008, Valdivia, Chile
- Diseño de Actividades de Aprendizaje Usando LAMS, Informatik-Konferenz Deutsche Schulen in Chile, 8/16/2007, Puerto Varas, Chile
- Diseño de Actividades de Aprendizaje Usando LAMS 2.0, Congreso Internacional de Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (CINTIC) 2006, 10/20/2006, Temuco, Chile
- Principios del Software Libre y Primeros Pasos en Linux, Software Freedom Day, 9/13/2006. University of Nariño, Colombia (Video conference)
Education
Computer Science Graduate
University Austral Of Chile (March 2002 - July 2009)
CORFO English program UACH
Middlebury College, EE.UU/ University Austral of Chile, Chile (September 2009 - December 2009)
- Participated in 4 months long intensive English program (350 hours).
• Prepared and revised speeches in English to present to classmates on IT related topics
• Developed new products ideas for the market
• Revised and practiced customer support communications and conversation (i.e. e-mails, phone calls, meetings, etc.)
Skills
Soft skills
- Team player
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- High entrepreneur capacity and rapid learner
- Easily handle pressure
- Flexibility
Linux System Administration
- DNS, Firewall, Proxies, Virtualization and Clustering, Web Servers, file and print sharing Services, Mail Servers, automation using scripts
Operating Systems
- Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu as System Administrator
- Microsoft Windows 98, XP, 2000 server, Vista, 7 as Advanced User
- Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard as Advanced User
Software Engineering and Project Management
- Analysis, specification, and validation of requirements for software. Development environments
- Project Management tools, usability in software applications, Unified Modeling Language (UML). Software development Models.
Networking and Security
- Penetration testing, network management, intrusion analysis, security policies
- Products: McAfee Web Gateway (Webwasher), McAfee Email Gateway (IronMail), McAfee Network Security Platform
Programming languages
- Object Oriented Programming
- Languages: HTML, XML, PHP, Perl, Bash Script, Java, PL/SQL, Ruby
Databases
- Modeling, administration and PL/SQL.
- IDE’s: Oracle SQL Developer, PL/SQL Developer.
- DBMS: MySQL, Oracle.
Productivity Suites
- Microsoft Office 97, XP, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008 (for Mac Os X)
- Apple iWork
- Google Docs
- Open Office