Open Source, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Philippines
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- Senior Sales Engineer at Morph Labs, Inc.
- Author at Manning Publications
- Past
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- Platform and Infrastructure Manager at Morph Labs, Inc.
- Community Council Member at Ubuntu
- IT Manager at ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc.
- External Vice President at Philippine Linux Users Group. Inc.
- Member at Edubuntu Council
- Technical Writer at Ubuntu Documentation Project
- Solutions Architect at gametel, Ltd.
- Software Consultant at International Open Source Network
- IT Department Head at Pycon Technology Philippines, Inc.
- Education
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- San Beda College
- Intel RosettaNet Workshop
- IBM-ACE
- AMA Computer University
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Jerome Gotangco’s Summary
Computer software developer, System Administrator with Technical writing background and managing Information Technology units. Specializing on business solutions that run on GNU/Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu, Debian and Red Hat.
Active on Free/Open Source advocacy, nurturing and managing communities, local and abroad; heavy involvement in the translation and localization of various open source software to the Tagalog language.
Co-author of Ubuntu Server in Action, from Manning Publications with Matt Galvin, Jeff Schering and Jordan Mantha.
Jerome Gotangco’s Specialties:
Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), System Administration, Clustering, Databases, Technical Writing, Project Management, DocBook, XML, Python, Usability,Free Software, Open Source, Translation and Localization, Web Development, Digital Signatures, Virtualization technologies
Jerome Gotangco’s Experience
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Senior Sales Engineer
Morph Labs, Inc.
(Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (4 months)
I'm currently handling global technical pre-sales for Morph Labs. My primary responsibility is to help potential clients with their deployment requirements and guide towards the best solution for a successful deployment to the Morph Application Platform, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that virtualizes the application environment through the use of open source technologies to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of Web based applications.
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Author
Manning Publications
(Publishing industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Co-Author of Ubuntu Server in Action, with Matthew Galvin, Jeff Schering and Jordan Mantha for Manning Publications.
Ubuntu Server in Action is the first book dedicated specifically to Ubuntu Linux in the server setting. It is a comprehensive and broad look at server administration. This book teaches the needs to build and administer Ubuntu Server. Uniquely suited to both beginner and expert alike, Ubuntu Server in Action is the perfect starting point for those new to Ubuntu, whether they are beginning system administrators, or have experience with other operating systems or other Linux distributions.
Now available under Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) at http://www.manning.com/galvin/ -
Platform and Infrastructure Manager
Morph Labs, Inc.
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Held the position as Platform & Infrastructure Manager for a VC funded startup company focusing on the next generation application delivery platform on top of open source software components. The Morph Application Platform enables Rails and Java developers to easily deploy and manage their web applications in an intelligent, self-healing and auto-scaling application environment
Spearheaded research and development for infrastructure needs of the business operations of the company, the bulk of which is running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Prime focus on EC2, S3 and SQS.
The servers deployed (100+) all run Linux, along with other Open Source software components for databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL), Application Servers (Ruby on Rails, Jetty), Web Servers (NGINX, Apache), Indexing (Solr) and Monitoring (Nagios), combined with proprietary integration software written in-house. -
Community Council Member
Ubuntu
(Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — January 2008 (9 months)
I was part of the community governance board that is responsible in supervising the social structures and community processes of the Ubuntu project.
I voluntarily stepped down from the governance board on January 2008 citing professional reasons and not being able to significantly contribute to the community for the past months. -
IT Manager
ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)
Managed technology-related projects for the ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. (AFI), the non-profit arm of the ABS-CBN Broadcasting group. I also handled system and database management for Bantay Bata 163, the 24-hour child abuse nationwide public hotline.
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External Vice President
Philippine Linux Users Group. Inc.
(Non-Profit; Civic & Social Organization industry)
December 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 1 month)
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Member
Edubuntu Council
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)
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Technical Writer
Ubuntu Documentation Project
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 1 month)
The Ubuntu Documentation Project (UDP) is an open source project that develops and maintains documentation for the Ubuntu operating system.
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Solutions Architect
gametel, Ltd.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2005 — September 2006 (11 months)
gametel is a games-orientated MVNO and community service, first territory launched in Australia Q4, 2005.
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Software Consultant
International Open Source Network
(Non-Profit; International Affairs industry)
January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)
I was a software consultant for the International Open Source Network (IOSN) during the early part of 2006. My work involved conversion of FOSS primers to Docbook XML. These converted primers where then moved to the Wikibooks project and currently located at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:FOSS_Books
IOSN is an initiative of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme and is supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). It is a Centre of Excellence for free software in the Asia-Pacific region. -
IT Department Head
Pycon Technology Philippines, Inc.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)
May 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 6 months)
I handled day-to-day administrative operations of the IT department. Aside from the supervisory capacity, I was also responsible for deploying and maintaing critical IT systems (Oracle ERP, File/Print, Mail, Security Policies, etc.).
I also handled project management duties for software development projects for our clients as well as internal use.
Jerome Gotangco’s Education
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San Beda College
BA, 1991 — 1995
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Intel RosettaNet Workshop
RosettaNet B2B and XML Technologies March 2001
Held in Penang, Malaysia
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IBM-ACE
Java/J2EE December 2000
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AMA Computer University
MS, Computer Science (Units), June 1997
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Jerome Gotangco’s Interests:
Linux, BSD, OS X, VoIP, Mobile Productivity, Mobile Entertainment, Personal and Office Productivity, Embedded Systems, Ruby-lang, Ruby on Rails, Localization, Public Education, Early Childhood Development, Travel, Motorsports
Jerome Gotangco’s Groups:
Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu-PH Local Community Team (Philippines), OLPCPH (Philippines), Philippine Linux Users' Group, Free Software Foundation, AsiaSource2
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