J2EE Systems Architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- Development support at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Editor at National Childbirth Trust
- Web 2.0 Evangalist at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- J2EE Systems Architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Past
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- Web Infrastructure architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Notes/Mail consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Technical Analyst at Silversands Computers Ltd
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Ricardo Sueiras’s Summary
I am a technical specialist with strong leanings in colloborative technolgies. Ever since I first became involved in IT, mail and subsequently groupware (as it was then called) have interested and driven my IT career.
Skills
Hardware: XT, AT, PS2, HP/Compaq, SUN Sparc
OS: OS/2, Windows NT 3.51 - 2003, Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu), SUN Solaris 6 - 10, OpenSolaris
Infrastructure: Cisco, Atleon, X.25, Frame Relay, ISDN, Checkpoint Firewall 2000/NG, iSD, nCipher, CacheFlow, Squid, Netscape Proxy, PKI - Entrust, Siteminder 4.x - 6.x, LDAP - openLdap, iPlanet 5.x, Domino LDAP
Virtualisation technologies - MS VirtualPC 2004, VMWare Workstation 4.x - 6.x, VMware Player, VMWare Server 2.x, VMWare ESX 2.5 - 3.0.2, ESX VMotion, ESX HA, ESX DRS, Virtual Infrasructure
Web Servers: IIS, Apache 1.3.x and 2.x, iPlanet, Domino 4.x - 7.x
Databases: MySQL, MS SQL 2000 & 20005, Oracle 8i-10g, Lotus Notes NSF, Cloudbase/Derby
Mail: X.400 (Isocor, Retix), cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, SMTP (sendmail and pmdf)
Appliction Servers: Tomcat, Sun App Server, WebSphere 3.x - 6.x, Lotus Notes 2.x - 7.x
Source control and developer software: Subversion, CVS and Team Foundation Server, Eclipse, Rational, Netbeans 4.x-5, TotoiseSVN, ant, maven,
Java: J2EE 1.2 - 1.4 (using JDK's 1.2 - 1.5), JDK 1.1 - 1.5
Applications: MS Office, OpenOffice, Visio, Photoshop CS, Jive Forums, Jive Knowledgebase, Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Confluence, Lotus Notes 2.x - 7, Lotus Smartsuite, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickplace, WebSphere Portal 4.x - 6.0, MediaWiki, Twiki, OpenWiki (dominoWiki)
VMWare VCP
ITIL practicioner
IBM WebSphere certified
Novell CNE (lapsed)
Ricardo Sueiras’s Specialties:
Architecture, Opensource, Enterprise/Web 2.0, IT Security, Networking, Web Hosting and IBM platforms
Ricardo Sueiras’s Experience
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Development support
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Providing infrastructure and knowledge to faciliate and improve development activities within the firm. This includes
- delivery of source control systems (Team Foundation Server, Subversion and CVS)
- integtration with tools (ant, maven, cruisecontro, etc)
- build and deployment automation
- provision of tools to assist developers (VMWare images of standard builds, etc)
- creation of white papers and best practices to support development activities -
Editor
National Childbirth Trust
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
I edited the local branch magazine for the NCT - National Childbirth Trust. As a paid member, this role was volanteer work carried out in my own time. The magazine has a subscription list of over 300 and is printed quarterly.
This role required me to source and review articles, liaise with other branch and committee members for advertising, distribution and information as well as making sure the magazine was released to deadlines. -
Web 2.0 Evangalist
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(Internet industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years 1 month)
Whilst maintaining my principle role within the firm, I have put in additional time and effort to become involved and help drive the understanding and deployment of core Web 2.0 technologies.
Specifically, I have been involved in these areas:
- inception of a working group to discuss and take forward Web 2.0 technologies
- delivering Web 2.0 technologies into our production infrastructure
- assisting other PWC territories with implementing Web 2.0 technologies
- advising internal customers on Web 2.0 technologies -
J2EE Systems Architect
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(Internet industry)
November 1993 — Present (15 years)
WebSphere Consultant - present job, which involves all aspects of designing and architecting WebSphere hosting infrastructure for PwC to host applications. This includes:
- design and architecture of WebSphere 3.5 - 6.x infrastructure
- documentation and operational handover to third party provider
- automation of builds and deployments
- advanced troubleshooting of infrastructure issues and limitations of product (bugs in code or configuration errors)
- advanced troubleshooting for customer apps (app coding issues or mis configurations)
- consultancy on application architecture and design -
Web Infrastructure architect
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(Internet industry)
June 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 8 months)
Web Consultant - worked on various web technologies including Netscape Proxy, Apache and Checkpoint firewalls. Did various proof of concepts including PKI, nTier web hosting infrastructures and security solutions. This covered some of the following areas:
- network hosting architectures and designs (nTier, Alteon, iSD, Cisco, etc)
- firewall (checkpoint, nokia, stonebeat, etc)
- proxy infrastructure - reverse and forward and redirection services
- security infrastructure (siteminder, LDAP, SSL, hardening of builds, etc)
- web servers (Apache, Netscape, Sun IPlanet, IIS and Domino) -
Notes/Mail consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(Internet industry)
October 1993 — June 1999 (5 years 9 months)
Lotus Notes/Domino consultant - designed, supported and built the Notes/Domino infrastructure from version 2.1 up until version 5.x,working at the local territory and theatre levels. Architected and delivered the Global Notes infrastructure when the firms (PW and C&L) merged.
Mail consultant - designed, implemented and support a mail backbone based on X.400/X25 supporting internet, ccMail, MSMail and Lotus Notes using ISOCOR and Retix software and X.500 directory. -
Technical Analyst
Silversands Computers Ltd
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1989 — October 1993 (4 years 3 months)
When I started in this company there were four people, and I lent a hand to all things, from delivery to making the tea. By the time I left, I was a consultant for Lotus Notes 2.1, Mail architect (Retix, cc:Mail, MS Mail and Isocor) Novell CNE and hardware engineer. I left to dedicate my time to Lotus Notes at PW
