Career and occupations
This is what I've done for a living, paid or not. At present I'm mostly centred on systems administration and identity management.
Study history and academic degrees
Brought up in catholic schools, from age 8 up to 17 (1979) in St. Estanislao School in Málaga, run by Jesuit priests, but in the days when Spain was transitioning from dictatorship into democracy, so they were not as strict as they used to be in the first half of the 20th century, but strict enough to teach a good sense for self discipline and a taste for perfection, really for a sane tendency to it.
- 1973 - 1977
- English Certificate at the Málaga School of Languages. This qualifies for teaching English.
- 1979 - 1986
Medical School in Málaga. Graduated summa cum laude with the small thesis "Diseño de un paquete informático para el tratamiento de los estudios caso-control".
- 1984 - 1986
- Intern at the Anatomy Department in the School of Medicine.
- 1986
- Intern at the Biostatistics Department in the School of Medicine.
Regular paid job history
- 1986
- Basic, Pascal, COBOL and FORTRAN teacher at private centre in Málaga.
- 1987
- Intern for Junta de Andalucía "Plan de formación del personal informático" at University of Málaga Data Centre.
- 1987 - 1989
- Programmer for the University of Málaga Data Centre. Assigned to a secondary unit dedicated to accounting and administration.
- Main job: design and implementation of the user interface for the University accounting system.
Secondary task: administration and operation of the small data centre, that included the main node for the local campus area network, one of the first Ethernets in the University and the connection to the main campus over X.25 lines. The network was then running DECnet and during this period was connected to the just created RICA Andalusian regional Research and Educational Network and to the incipient Spanish Internet.
- 1989 - 1990
- Support technician for the computer laboratory in the department of Languages and Computational Sciences of Málaga University.
- Main task: System administration of several VMS based systems and designing the resource assignment for users for research and educational tasks, integration in the campus DECnet based Ethernet network and configuration of the first mail system for the Computer Science School.
- Secondary task: Running the microcomputing laboratory with other four people.
- 1990 - 1995
Systems manager for the "Universidad Internacional Deportiva de Andalucía" (UNISPORT). This was the first non university institution to become part of RICA, mostly thanks to my personal involvement in that network during my previous assignments.
- Main task: Systems administration of the site network, computers and databases and their connection to the videotext network. It is important to note that at this position I set up one of the first web servers in Spain in 1993.
- Secondary task: Management of all technical installations in the building, from electricity supply through the telephone network.
- Extra tasks: Translation and review of translations of technical and medical papers and doing presentations about ICT in sports environments.
Consultancy and freelancing