Joao Pedras

Current

Director/Architect of IT at Portrait Displays, Inc.

Past

IT Consultant at University of Coimbra - Faculty of Medicine, Portugal
IT Consultant at ViPEX GmbH, Germany
IT Consultant at Dx4 Informática Lda., Coimbra, Portugal

IT Consultant at University of Coimbra - Chemistry Department and Faculty of Medicine, Portugal
IT Consultant at Tigre Lda., Coimbra, Portugal

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Joao Pedras’s Summary

Joao Pedras’s Specialties:

Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, Linux, Solaris, Windows
macppc, sparc64, x64, x86
Highly available, scalable architectures
Web clustering
Packet filtering and routing
Embedded computing
LDAP
Sendmail, Cyrus IMAP
Samba
Kerberos
DNS, NFS/NIS, NTP
OpenVPN
SSH, Cyrus-SASL, SSL/TLS, certificate-based authentication, GnuPG
Bacula and Amanda
MySQL and Postgresql
Shell scripting, PHP, some Perl, awk, sed and some Cocoa, Objective-C,
ANSI C and C++
Software project management
Magento

Joao Pedras’s Experience

Director/Architect of IT

Portrait Displays, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2002 — Present (7 years 10 months)

Design, implementation and maintenance of all aspects of the company’s IT infrastructure. Member of the engineering staff. Local Unix advocate.

* IT Department
Manage IT/IS worldwide operations
Mentor IT staff
Foster a culture of comprehensive solutions

* Web site group
Designed and implemented a system to provide high availability, content modification tracking, image deployment and staging area.

* Networking
Plan, implement and maintain company’s worldwide network
Created framework for maintenance of OS images in embedded systems.

* Intranet site
Design and implemented Agile-inspired SDM: software releases from marketing requirement documents, engineering specs, time line creation, resource management, test plans, bug tracking, beta software, releases, product licensing, final delivery to customer and technical support cases and solutions.

* Engineering department
Conceived, implemented and maintained build system
Drove licensing (activation) framework project
IT Consultant

University of Coimbra - Faculty of Medicine, Portugal

(Higher Education industry)

July 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Senior Systems Administrator of Solaris, *BSD, Linux and NT OS environments on a 300+ LAN/WAN network.

Implemented open source-based networks with responsibilities for all network security with IDS, packet filtering systems and others.

Web server administration and web script programming.
Web interfaces for RDBMS, namely MySQL-based database systems.

Custom router and firewall solutions using *BSD and Linux.
Router implementations using dial on demand PPP connection, HDLC through ISDN links, Frame Relay and Cisco’s HDLC encapsulations through asynchronous leased lines.

Implemented custom high performance file and print servers for UNIX/Windows based networks using UNIX systems.

Administered firewalls, web site, enterprise email, dhcp/bootp and DNS servers for the Faculty.

Maintainer of the official CVSup mirror repositories of the FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD operating systems and OpenBSD’s web mirror in Portugal.
IT Consultant

ViPEX GmbH, Germany

(Internet industry)

July 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Lead developer in search engine project.

Provided web server administration.

Performed web script programming using PHP language.
IT Consultant

Dx4 Informática Lda., Coimbra, Portugal

(Consumer Electronics industry)

May 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Managed technical department of four engineers. Implemented full service RMA program. Improved assembly line efficiencies by re-engineering work processes, adjusting resource loading and schedules.

Provided level II technical support to clients.

Automated the company’s deployment of Windows NT.
Administrated company’s NT-based network.

Developed strategy and implementation of Internet Domain and web site. Administrated the SunOS based web, mail services and maintained the mailing lists software.
IT Consultant

University of Coimbra - Chemistry Department and Faculty of Medicine, Portugal

(Higher Education industry)

May 1996 — May 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Created web scripts using PHP programming language.

Administration of web sites, ftp and mail servers using NetBSD-alpha and FreeBSD x86.
IT Consultant

Tigre Lda., Coimbra, Portugal

(Consumer Electronics industry)

September 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 8 months)

Implemented network and cabling infrastructure from design and specifications.

Configured and maintained LAN of NT servers. Provided consultation on hardware and software standards. Introduced highly effective teamwork operation that greatly enhanced customer service and satisfaction.

Improved system delivery by 40% and added next-day service capability. Implemented automated procedures for operating system and application installation.

Added real time update capabilities to the database and file server infrastructure of company offices.