RESUME
April 2014
1. Personal information
Family name: Pizarro
First name: Matías
Date of birth: January 9th, 1972 (Geneva, Switzerland) Nationality: French
Contact info: Address: c/ Rafalet, 36 07650 Santanyí Illes Balears / Spain
mobile: +34 626 636 122
landline: +34 971 16 34 25
e-mail: matias@pizarro.net
2. Language skills
Language Mother tongue Read Write Speak
English Advanced Advanced Advanced
German Basic Basic Basic
French X Advanced Advanced Advanced
Spanish X Advanced Advanced Advanced
Catalan Advanced Advanced Advanced
Italian Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate
3. Past work
A sample of my work can be found at http://matiaspizarro.com
4. Computer Skills Summary
A) Languages / Frameworks / Software
Programming paradigms: Object Oriented Programming, MVC applications, RESTful APIs, SOAP, DAV applications, test-driven development, cross-browser and responsive web design
• Python 2 & 3, PHP, shell (bash, sh, csh)
Django, Joomla, Drupal
• SQL & stored procedures on large datasets (107+ records / table)
• Javascript
jQuery, jQuery UI, ExtJS, Bootstrap, Mootools, DHTMLx, D3 (coupled with AJAX, JSON and RESTful APIs)
• HTML5, CSS 3 / LESS, canvas and SVG, • Flash & ActionScript
• git / gitolite / github, mercurial / bitbucket, bazaar, sourceforge, pypi
• documentation frameworks (Sphinx) and document markup languages (ReStructured Text,
Markdown, Textile)
• Graphic design: Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape, AutoCAD
• advanced uses of Libre/MS Office wordprocessor, spreadsheet and presentation software B)Operating Systems
• FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows (95 up to 8)
• Solaris, OpenSolaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, MacOS C)Server administration
proficient *NIX server administrator (FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu) including:
• installation and deployment • TCP/IP
• DNS administration
• packages (apt) and ports (portsnap, poudriere)
• distributed packages configuration, building and maintenance • firewall and security administration
• Proxying • FTP / LFTP • SSH/SSL/Certificate chains • NFS • cron • SAMBA
• webservers (Apache, Nginx, lighttpd) • DBMS (MySQL, MariaDB, PostGreSQL)
• mail servers (Postfix, Exim in conjunction with spamassassin, Maia, dovecot) • LDAP
• console based text-editors (vi, vim, ee) • OS virtualization
• Cpanel, DirectAdmin ( though local and remote console administration preferred) • FFMPEG audio/video streaming deployment and administration
5. Previous employment experiences A) Experience at docBase (own company)
From:
Jun 2002 To:current Title:Lead Programmer
Employer:
docBase Type Of Business:Small Country:Spain
International Experience:
Yes FullTimeYes Experience (Months):131
Duties:
Development, deployment and maintenance of various web applications with a heavy emphasis on back-end processes and rich user UI. Graphical design. Deployment and maintenance of own FreeBSD servers. For clients in France, Switzerland and Spain, ranging from private individuals, theatre companies, photographers, musicians, architects, building companies, SMEs, retail businesses and international organisations
Django, Python, PHP, Javascript, CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap, ExtJS, jQuery, Nginx,
Apache, MySQL, MariaDB, PosgreSQL
B) Experience at International Trade Center / Legacarta (as home-based consultant)
From:
Jun 2002
To:
current
Title:
Web app. admin & developer
Employer:
International Trade Center (UNCTAD/WTO)
Type Of Business:
United Nations Agency
Country:
Switzerland
Supervisor Name:
Upon request Supervisor Title:Senior Legal Adviser Supervisor Email:Upon request
International Experience:
Yes FullTimeNo Experience (Months):27
http://legacarta.net (currently in the final stages of a complete technological overhaul)
Duties:
Development, deployment and maintenance of web-based Multilateral Trade Rules database with own flash maps and dynamical statistical charts.
Legacarta gives visitors access to over 250 Multilateral Trade Rules, 450 amendments and protocols as well as juridical maps, related statistics and country analysis tools. Data is fully maintained by ITC personnel using tools we developed.
Django, Python, PHP, Javascript, CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap, ExtJS, Flash, ActionScript,
DHTMLx, jQuery, Nginx, Apache, MySQL, PosgreSQL
C) Experience at International Trade Center / MLS-SCM Programme (as home-based consultant) From: Jan 2004 To: Jun 2011 Title:
Web app. admin & developer
Employer:
International Trade Center (UNCTAD/WTO)
Type Of Business:
United Nations Agency
Country:
Switzerland
Supervisor Name:
Upon request Supervisor Title:Associate Officer MLS-SCM Programme Supervisor Email: Upon request International Experience: Yes FullTime No Experience (Months): 90 http:// scm-learning net . o rg Duties:
Development, deployment and maintenance of e-learning support platform for ITC’s Modular Learning System in Supply Chain Management (in collaboration with over 50 institutions worldwide, 25 000 students trained and examined to date, in over 50 countries and 5 continents)
design / implementation / maintenance of a platform enabling four-way communication and collaboration between ITC, Teaching Institutions, students and exam correctors, including learning materials
distribution, paper submission, simultaneous examination scheduling over 10 time zones, exams inscriptions, billing and payment follow-up (students institutions, institutions ITC), grading, results ↔ ↔ publication, students management and a lot more.
Apache, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, CSS, SOAP, JAVA
D) Experience at Neuchâtel University
From:
Nov 2001 To:Jul 2002 Title:eCommerce Chair Assistant
Employer:
Université de Neuchâtel Type Of Business:University Country:Switzerland
Supervisor Name:
Upon request Supervisor Title:Director of the Enterprise Institute Supervisor Email:Upon request
International Experience:
No FullTimeYes Experience (Months):8
Duties:
Assisting the Chair Teacher in his academical duties. Preparing / giving tutorials, preparing classes
Developing and maintaining the Chair's online platform
E) Experience as free-lance web developer From: Aug 1997 To: Nov 2001 Title: Web developer
Country: Spain, Switzerland, France
International Experience:
Yes FullTimeNo Experience (Months):50
Duties:
web development and graphical design for a variety of clients in France, Switzerland and Spain, ranging from private individuals, theatre companies, photographers, music festivals, retail businesses and international organisations. Mostly hosted on our own root server.
Often involved heavy back-end processes (starting with our first e-commerce website in 1999 that involved tools allowing the owner to maintain a 2500 items catalog and offer credit card purchases)
Apache, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, CSS
F) Experience at Umbral c.b.
From:
sep 1999 To:Nov 2001 Title:Designer
Employer:
Umbral c.b. (defunct) Type Of Business:Architects Agency Country:Spain
Supervisor Name:
Upon request Supervisor Title:Lead Architect Supervisor email:Upon request
International Experience:
No FullTimeNo Experience (Months):27
Duties:
Architectural design and building supervision
Autocad
6. Education
From To Field Of Study Name of Institute Certificate Description City Country
1990 1998 Architecture Ecole d'Architecture
de Paris-Belleville Diplôme d'Etudes Fondamentales en Architecture
Paris France
1987 1990 Secondary education
Institut Florimont Baccalauréat C
(Sciences & Mathematics)
7. Methodology
I am a full-stack developer with 17 years' experience in three main fields:
1. Server administration (FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu). I have been remotely root administrating a group of boxes hosting mail, web and data servers, non-stop for the last 16 years
2. Applications programmer: I am primarily a Python/Django developer (4 years experience) though I am still using PHP as well (15 years experience). Most applications I have worked on are heavily database-dependent, many of them with millions of table records 3. Presentation layer, primarily with a view to providing self-administration interfaces for my
clients and an optimal experience to their users, leveraging HTML5, CSS3 and the bootstrap and jQuery ecosystems
I am used to face-to-face as well as remote collaboration (via git, Skype, IRC and email) and remote server administration
I aim at writing applications that are efficient, DRY, well-coded, well-documented, well-tested, easy to extend, easy to maintain and to move forward. This requires that, while my emphasis is on business logic, I strive to be fluent with presentation layer technologies and server-side administration. It also entails being able to discerningly leverage third-party code and the wealth of information available through online resources, github, forums, blogs, irc as well as remaining vigilant towards the dreaded Not Invented Here syndrome.
I routinely dig into the source code of most libraries I use because I need to understand how they work to use them correctly and in harmony with the whole.
I am a quick and resourceful learner, who knows how to and does keep current.
My tools of choice are FreeBSD, Debian, Python, Django, SQL, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, LESS, git/gitolite/github, bash, sh and the command line, OOP, MVC and open source software but I am also familiar and getting up to speed with Java/JSP/Tomcat.
I can work as an employee or as a contractor through my Paris-based company which covers my health/unemployment/retirement benefits. I am willing to relocate if necessary.
As a French/Chilean/British mixture, born and raised in Switzerland, educated in France, living in the Balearic Islands for 18 years, multicultural and multilingual is my environment of choice.
