Milestones

These are mostly things that I have achieved and am specially proud of, in chronological order.

1984

Passed exam for internship in the Anatomy Department of the University of Málaga Medical School.

1986

Passed exam for internship in the Biostatistics Department of the University of Málaga Medical School.

1986

Set up of the University of Málaga computerised image processing facility.

1986

Graduated as M.D. from the University of Málaga, with honours.

1992

Technical coordinator of SPORTANDALUS project.

1992

Information systems manager for the Scientic Olympic Congress.

1993

My fisrt contribution to Open Source: patching the make file of Wietse Venema's tcp_wrappers for compiling on Fujitsu UXP/DS. The comment with an ancient (non-existent) mail address is still there.

1994

Set up one of Spain's first web severs (www.uida.es) at UNISPORT, unfortunately the domain does not even exist anymore. This required porting NCSA httpd (Apache did not yet exist) to Fujitsu UXP/DS.

1995

Set up a web and mail (with pop3 access) server running on VMS at Instituto de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa Industrial (IMPI, www.impi.es, the domain is now gone to a different institution).

1995

Director of project "Acceso Fácil'95". This project explained Internet to more than 500 SMEs and connected 300 of them. I prepared the teaching materials, including the "portable" network required to teach Internet use in rural areas.

1996

Evaluator for the Telematics Applications Programme of the EC

1998

Started the project for internationalising Mailman list manager, that ended in support for more that 35 languages out of the box.

1998

Technical director of project "Échanos un Cable", that laid local area networks in 55 public high schools all over Spain using volunteers and connected them to the Internet.

2005

Presenter at the first TERENA EuroCAMP in Torino (Italy). After that one, I presented in almost all that have taken place, been part of the program committees and even organised the first Avanced EuroCAMP in Málaga (Spain) in October 2006.

2010

Started as co-chair of TERENA TF-EMC² middleware task force, with Roland Hedberg from Umeå University (Sweden).