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.

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

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

1992

Technical coordinator of SPORTANDALUS project.

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).

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

1997

Founding member of the (now extint) Andalusian ISOC Chapter.

1998

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

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. More than 5 kilometres of certified CAT 5 wires.

1999 - 2002

I'm sure I did many interesting things during this period, but I seem not to be able to find the traces.

2003

First version of the corporate directory for the University of Málaga goes live, which I had designed following national and international schemas in which development I had, even, been involved.

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.

2006

Creation of the work group tasked with the creation of an identity federation infrastructure for the ten public Andalusian Universities, which I co-chaired and that I have chaired since June 2008.

Directory and schemas activity leader for TERENA TF-EMC²

Founding member of the European Committee for Academic Middleware (ECAM).

2007

Member of the auEduPerson working group for the Australian Access Federation.

I'm the only presenter at a full day workshop on Digital Identity Management to Moldovan Research and Educational Network, RENAM, professionals in Chisinau. This workshop was sponsored by TERENA and Géant2.

2008

I'm invited to Australia to present and run a workshop in eResearch Australasia 2008.

2009

Local coordinator and member of the program and organising committees for TERENA TNC 2009 in Málaga.

First Eduroam connection from public buses ever, set up with assistance of José Manuel Macias (RedIRIS) and Stephan Winter (Restena), for TNC2009.

2010

Confia, the identity federation for the public Universities in Andalusia, goes live at midnight on February 1^st. It is important to note that, thanks to a great job done by every one involved, it was on time and within budget.

Keynote at the ARNES annual conference.

Member of the SSEDIC thematic network, that advises the EC on electronic identity issues for the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020.

2011

Named member of the EUNIS RS3G task force steering committee.

RFC 6338 is published. I had been working on that (it was volunteer work, so it got the time it got) for a couple of years with Rodney McDuff.

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