Work Experience
Nov 2007 - present Onestop Media Group Toronto, Canada
Software Developer
- Design a new XML Output framework
- Research XML Streaming technologies
May 2006 - Sep 2007 Farmatodo Caracas, Venezuela
Webmaster Systems Vice-presidency
- Design and implement web initiatives to support company business strategy
- Managing Intranet and Internet projects
- Identify opportunities to create value thought web technology
- Coordinate relationships with external web technology suppliers and outsourcing firms
- Supervise the design and development of a photo-print service Web site
- Conceptualize new services and content sections for the company Web sites
- Implement e-marketing strategy (SEO, Google analytics integration and web advertising)
- Develop applications, plan infrastructure and deployment for Web sites
- Adopt, communicate and staff mentoring new web concepts, best practices and technology
Jul 2001 - Feb 2004 Terra Networks Operations, US Miami, FL
Development Lead (Oct 2001 - Feb 2004) Miami Operations Center
- Supervise the development team (2 software engineers
on Miami and 4 junior software engineers on Guatemala)
- Technical Project Manager for implementing terra.com forums system, reducing hardware/software operative costs by 65%.
- Conceptualize and implement a premium level for Virtual Disk
Service, reducing storages costs on 30%.
- Migrate content systems web servers from Netscape to Apache
reducing licenses and support costs.
- Design and develop premium content systems: "Protagonistas" fan club
- Fully manage terra.com apache web servers (more than 3 millions pageviews per day). Including modules development: cooking looging, tracking images
- Design and implement a high traffic survey/vote systems
(more than 200K votes/day).
Used on Telemundo reality shows: "Protagonistas",
"Conquistador del Mundo",
"Isla de la Tentación".
- Collaborate for launching Terra Messenger service on terra.com
- Design and supervise development SGUP Admin: a customer service tool (1 Junior Software Engineer, 5.000 lines of code)
- Integrate services to Single Sing On system.
- Technical project manager for developing
a user registration and provisioning system.
(more than 5 millions registered users, over 13 countries,
5 programmers, 50.000 lines of code). The project involved the
integration with other Terra Lycos registrations systems: MAYA,
TLPSI.
- Implement a web based billing system for premium services on terra.com.
- Design and supervise the develop of psychics live video-chat
consultation (horoscopowalter.terra.com).
- Elaborate basic guidelines for the development team and
basic standards for development platform (Solaris packages,
Control Version System)
- Administrate Terra Lycos Latin American Development Platform
(10 servers Solaris installation, Cluster Patch applications,
NIS & NFS configuration, TCP wrappers configuration,
SSH installation, CVS)
System Administrator (Jul 2001 - Oct 2001) Miami Operations Center
- Technical Project Manager on content and forums system
migration from New York to Miami Data Center with a zero
user down time. (40 web server, 2 NFS, 1 Oracle)
- System Administrator on a 200+ servers environment:
Solaris, Cold Fusion, Netscape Enterprise Server, Iplanet
Wireless Server Operation.
- Collaborating to ensure high availability on
virtual disk, instanterra and content systems.
- Web Administrator for 2001 American Coup special
(16 web sites for US, Latin America and Spain)
May 2000 - Jul 2001 Terra Networks Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela
Web Developer
- Implement Mail city spanish translation
- Migrate "el-nacional.com" site from Venezuela to New York Data Center
- Install and configure Virtual Disk, Instanterra, Forums and Calendar services on terra.com.ve.
- Design and development a content managment system for terra.com.ve, el-nacional.com, jonron.com
- Collaborate on Terra Content Systems consolidation for US Hispanic, Central America and Venezuela.
- Install and configure forums, chat and user registration system on terra.com.co, terra.com.ve
- Integrate Terra Colombia's Tarot service on Venezuela
- Design and development and online books management tool (Jaime Bayly: "Los Amigos que Perdi")
May 1999 - May 2000 Datamax, CA Caracas, Venezuela
Unix System specialist (part time consultant)
- Solaris System installation
- Implement an alarm system for FUNVISIS, Venezuelan seismological foundation
- Apache web server configuration
- Solaris and Windows NT network integration (Samba)
Jan 1996 - May 2000 Simon Bolivar University Caracas, Venezuela
Unix Networks Administrator
- Solaris, Digital UNIX, IRIX, Linux and Sun OS systems administration on a 100+ Work Stations, 5+Servers environment
- DNS, NIS, NFS, SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP, Proxy servers and client installation and configuration
- Mailing lists and filters management (majordomo, perl scripting, procmail)
- Advance FS, UFS, Ext2FS Management (quotas, formatting, creating)
- Matlab, Mathematic and Digital UNIX licenses management.
- Open Source Software installation and configuration
- Mentor junior systems administrator
Skills
Programming Languages: Perl (mod_perl, DBI, CPAN modules),
Java (AWT, Swing, RMI, CORBA, Applets, Servlets, JDBC), JavaScript,
C (RPC), Pascal, Python, Cobol
Internet: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Cold Fusion, XML, WML,
PSP, JSP, ASP, VB Script
UNIX System Administration: DNS, NIS, NFS, Software
Installation (including GNU), Backups, shell scripting, account management,
SMTP servers: sendmail, exim, POP, Imap, majordomo
Software Engineer: UML, Design Patterns, Unified Software
Development Process, RPM Methodology
Web Server: Apache, Netscape Enterprise, Iplanet Wireless
Server, Microsoft IIS
Code Versions Systems: CVS, Peforce
Security Tools: tripwire, ssh, pgp, satan
Operating Systems:
Solaris (10, 9, 8, 7, 2.6, 2.5.1, 2.4), Sun OS (4.1.3),
Linux (Red Hat: 9, 8, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, Mandrake: 9.1, 8, 7 Suse: 6.x),
Digital UNIX (4.0D,4.0B, 4.0A), Irix, Windows XP/2000/9X
Data Bases: Oracle (10, 9i, 8i, 7), Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL
(C) Copyright 2006 Víctor Corrales