Vicente Aguilar

Current

Systems Engineer at Optenet
Systems and Software Engineer at Valquirias

Past

Systems Engineer at Recursos en la Red
Software Engineer at Recursos en la Red
Systems Engineer at Recursos en la Red

Analyst/Developer at University of Alicante

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Education

Universitat d'Alacant
Universitat d'Alacant

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Information Technology and Services

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Vicente Aguilar’s Summary

Senior Linux systems engineer with a strong background in software analysis and development, project and team management, and computer security.
Currently I work at Optenet as the Technical Manager in all the projects for our main customer, Telefónica.
Before this, I have worked for more than five years at the IT company of an editorial group, with 16 newspapers all around the country and more than 20 other related companies, managing all their technologies needs from the internal network to the e-mail servers, DNS, FTP, web servers backing their Digital Editions, etc. Lately have been doing SEO and web2.0 related stuff, too.
Besides, I've been developing and administering for the past three years the e-Commerce site of a comic-book store: www.valquirias.com.

Vicente Aguilar’s Specialties:

* Linux
* High Availability techniques
* Computer security
* e-Commerce
* Internet services, protocols and languages

Vicente Aguilar’s Experience

Systems Engineer

Optenet

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Technical Manager in all the projects for Telefonica.
Systems and Software Engineer

Valquirias

(Retail industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)

* Family business.
* Administration and development of a E-Commerce site based on osCommerce (LAMP): http://www.valquirias.com
* The whole company (servers, POS, administration) runs GNU/Linux.
Systems Engineer

Recursos en la Red

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 6 months)

* Leader of a four-people team responsible for the administration and security of several mission-critical services under GNU/Linux, like corporate e-mail (qmail-ldap+ClamAV+SpamAssassin), DNS (djbdns), web (Apache/Tomcat/JBoss), FTP (ProFTPd), databases (mySQL/Postgres), telephony (Asterisk), etc.
* Achieved 99.99% availability on most of these services by using clusters and other high-availability techniques.
* Managed the 24/7 support team, with 9 multi-skilled people from several different departments of the company.
* Project manager (PHP and Java) of several system administration applications.
* Did some SEO, web 2.0 and optimization consulting for the digital editions department.
Software Engineer

Recursos en la Red

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2003 — June 2004 (10 months)

* Worked on several J2EE projects.
* Developed an XML- and Lucene-based system for the storage and search of the group's newspapers' digital editions, replacing and improving the performance of the original DB back-end: search times went down from 5-10 seconds to milliseconds, page generation improved an order of magnitude.
* Coordinated the entrance of all the group's newspapers onto the Gedeprensa press-clipping platform.
Systems Engineer

Recursos en la Red

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 4 months)

* Single Linux administrator of the company.
* Installed and administered several services.
* Helped designing and implementing the initial network/servers structure of the company.
Analyst/Developer

University of Alicante

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

July 2000 — December 2000 (6 months)

* Ported an e-Learning ASP application to PHP.
* Installed and administered the first Linux server at the lab.

Vicente Aguilar’s Education

Universitat d'Alacant

Postgraduate , Specialist on Computer Security and e-Commerce , 2001 — 2002
Universitat d'Alacant

BS , Computer Science Engineering , 1995 — 2001