Cesar Ballardini

Cesar Ballardini

Free Software evangelist and entrepreneur, generalizing specialist

Argentina

Current
  • Contractor at Ministerio de Innovación y Cultura
  • Owner at Netmanagers
  • Profesor at Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero - Departamento Académico Rafaela
  • Professor at Universidad Catolica de Santiago del Estero
  • Professor at Universidad Adventista del Plata
  • Teaching Assistant of Programming Paradigms at Universidad Tecnologica Nacional Regional Santa Fe
  • Member at LUGLi (Linux User's Group del Litoral) Argentina
Past
  • Software Supervisor at Empresa Provincial de la Energía de Santa Fe
  • Sysadmin & Postmaster at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Santa Fe
  • Software developer at Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Education
  • Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
  • Escuela Industrial Superior
Connections
142 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Cesar Ballardini’s Summary

My skills range from strong troubleshooting of complex systems, system administration, system documentation, to software development, to training and coaching.

Cesar Ballardini’s Specialties:

GNU/Linux system administration and system orchestration; Free Software integration and customization; system deployment; troubleshooting; Web servers, firewalls, mail systems, system design and programming; I have programmed in ANSI C, Scheme, ISO Prolog, Squeak Smalltalk, SQL, Python, PHP, Ruby; relational databases MySQL and PostgreSQL; english to spanish translations; team coaching; instructor and training facilitator on sysadmin, agile development, programming languages


Cesar Ballardini’s Experience

  • Contractor

    Ministerio de Innovación y Cultura

    (Government Administration industry)

    June 2008Present (1 year 2 months)

    GNU/Linux desktop network centralized management; Server installation; Network services administration. Advising new free software strategies.

  • Owner

    Netmanagers

    (Computer & Network Security industry)

    March 2006Present (3 years 5 months)

    Strategic plans to develop and extend the network infrastructure of the client's organization. Assess logical security. Generate contacts and strong relationships with the customers.

  • Profesor

    Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero - Departamento Académico Rafaela

    (Computer Software industry)

    2005Present (4 years)

  • Professor

    Universidad Catolica de Santiago del Estero

    (Higher Education industry)

    March 2005Present (4 years 5 months)

    I teach Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering for Internet Applications

  • Professor

    Universidad Adventista del Plata

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

    August 2001Present (8 years)

    I teach Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

  • Teaching Assistant of Programming Paradigms

    Universidad Tecnologica Nacional Regional Santa Fe

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    March 2001Present (8 years 5 months)

    I teach programming in Smalltalk, Scheme and Prolog languages.

  • Member

    LUGLi (Linux User's Group del Litoral) Argentina

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    1996Present (13 years)

    Local User Group of GNU/Linux activities in particular and also involved in Free Software, education, free content.

  • Software Supervisor

    Empresa Provincial de la Energía de Santa Fe

    (Utilities industry)

    December 1989August 2000 (10 years 9 months)

    Sysadmin of firewalls, DNS, NIS, Mail systems, Database systems. User apps I18n & l10n. Second tier technical support on SCO Unix, GNU/Linux application servers (350+ users). Relational Data Base Management software selection; Installation, configuration and tuning of firewalls, applicatiion servers and desktops. Staff training. Intranet development. SCADA software analysis and selection. Portable meter input system.

  • Sysadmin & Postmaster

    Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Santa Fe

    (Higher Education industry)

    March 1996March 1998 (2 years 1 month)

    Installed and administer the first online access to the Internet on campus. Technical support. UUCP, Firewall, DNS, MAil system. Remote boot GNU/Linux desktops.

  • Software developer

    Universidad Nacional de Rosario

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

    February 1988December 1989 (1 year 11 months)

    Software systems analysis and development of administrative services.


Cesar Ballardini’s Education

  • Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

    Engineering , Information Systems , 2002

    Graduated with Honors.

    Activities and Societies:
    First sysadmin of the internet node (1997)
  • Escuela Industrial Superior

    Técnico , Mecánico Eléctrico , 19751980


Additional Information

Cesar Ballardini’s Websites:

Cesar Ballardini’s Interests:

system administration, metaprogramming, distributed programming, extreme programming, aikido, rowing

Cesar Ballardini’s Groups:

  •    Ruby on Rails
  •    IAAP (1000+) - Project Managers de Latinoamérica
  •    Linked.ar
  •    Open Source
  •    UTN Alumni
  •    SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins
  •    Debian Administrator
  •    IT Jobs Argentina
  •    FLOSS Professional
  •    Linux Users
  •    Adventists Linked
  •    Adventists in Education
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    Debian Users
  •    Squeak
  •    Linux User and Admins Group of Argentina
  •    Python Argentina
  •    Amigos de la Fundación Vía Libre
  •    Ruby on Rails Argentina
  •    LinkLUG - Link Linux User Group
  •    UTN Santa Fe Alumni
  •    Nagios Users
  •    RubyLearning
  •    Escuela Industrial Superior Alumni
  •    LUGLi
  •    ISO 27001-SGSI Spanish Group
  •    Adventists in Information Technology
  •    Adventists in South America and Caribbean
  •    GNU/Linux Jobs
  •    RubyLit - Ruby del Litoral
  •    OLA IT

Cesar Ballardini’s Contact Settings

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  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
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