Miguel Pereira

Current

System Engineer / DBA at Verizon

Past

Quality Rater at Google
IT Manager at OBLIO Telecom Inc
System and DB Administrator at Oblio Telecom Inc

Sales Engineer & Support at Image Processing SRL

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Education

Dallas County Community College
EET #7 - TRQ

Recommended

6 people have recommended Miguel

Connections

86 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

My Blog

Miguel Pereira’s Summary

Characterized by peers as a problem solver, his career has spanned throughout a broad range of telecom related specialties. Having been exposed to wireline as well as wireless technologies, and having successfuly implemented and executed on medium scale projects within the prepaid telecom industry, always with a strong alignment with business milestones. Capable of thriving under pressure and molded under highly dynamic environments, he has taken unlikely projects to fruition timely and succesfuly.

Interested in a broad range of disciplines and technologies, always eager to learn not only new technologies but methodologies as well. Constantly expanding in the areas of application development, web services, database management and best-practices.

Graduated in 1998 with a degree in Electronics, and specialized in Telecommunications from EET #7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Miguel Pereira’s Specialties:

Data warehousing, data modeling, database development and production support, network security, platform virtualization, requirements gathering, project management, wireless subscriber churn & profitability analysis.

Miguel Pereira’s Experience

System Engineer / DBA

Verizon

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Currently working as a Systems Engineer for Verizon Services Operations (VSO). Role spans content management, application support, end-to-end implementations & project management.
Quality Rater

Google

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

January 2008 — August 2008 (8 months)

Participated in Google's Quality Rating Program as a result content rater, making use of fluency in both English & Spanish as required by the assignments.
IT Manager

OBLIO Telecom Inc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ttgl.ob; Telecommunications industry)

July 2001 — January 2008 (6 years 7 months)

Overseeing technology infrastructure soundness as well as leading the charge on SDLC and project management. Tightly engrained with operations and new product development.

Career focused on the data modeling and database administration duties aligned with both production and development types.
System and DB Administrator

Oblio Telecom Inc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ttgl.ob; Telecommunications industry)

July 2001 — January 2008 (6 years 7 months)

Monitoring health and proper operability of mission critical applications in Windows / Linux environment. Aided the development team in the deployment of applications from staging to production.
Sales Engineer & Support

Image Processing SRL

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

January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

Provided pre & post sales support to clients and sales force in the electronic document and form capture industry.

Miguel Pereira’s Education

Dallas County Community College

Certifications , CCNA & Networking Associate , 2002 — 2005
EET #7 - TRQ

Electronics 1993 — 1998

Additional Information

Miguel Pereira’s Websites:

My Blog

Miguel Pereira’s Interests:

Solution architecture development, new techologies, virtualization platforms & tango -yes, we geeks can tango!, weekend .NET apprentice-developer & warrior.