HELLO WORLD, MY NAME IS
SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS ADMINISTRATOR & CASUAL DEVELOPER
I was born in Tarragona, a coastal town 90km south of Barcelona, Spain, on August 03, 1977.
Although I like stability and tranquility, my life and my career have been anything but quiet!
I started working early at 16 in my parents' Bar, now, being 49, looking backwards in time I
realize that I could create one of the most bizarre occupations lists ever for someone who ended up
being an IT specialist:
Barman, technical drawing teacher, gardener, soldier, chemical plant operator, tech-Lab analyst,
sound Technician, DJ, refrigeration field-technician... but finally, IT, my beloved Hobby since
the days mom decided "Computers are the future" and brought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 home back in
the late 80s... I became professional on IT.
During almost 9 years, I worked in the local, strong Chemical Industry, here in Tarragona.
I started in BASF as field operator after completing their required training of the time, but soon
I joined BAYER as Tech-Lab analyst, where I stayed for many years.
Due to the big economical crisis on the industry, in 2009, I had to face the decision to leave Spain
and go to Germany, or leave the company... and I took the right decision: I left the company!
That was far from easy though... but in the end, it paid off. I managed to reset my career (and my life)
becoming an IT professional.
Now I'm happy playing with servers, virtualization infrastructures, networks, monitoring systems and, last but not least, I'm starting to enjoy developing web applications, monitoring plugins, system scripts or even Android applications... Now I really love my job!
I have completed 4 Spanish CFGS (somehow equivalent to US Associate's degree / UK's HNC
/ DE's Berufsausbildung höheren Grades):
First was "IT systems and telecoms" on 1999, second one "multi-platform apps development" on 2015,
third one being "network IT systems administration" on 2016, and the last one, "web apps development"
finished early on 2019.
I have also been gaining experience and certification in skills such as CISCO networking at
the CISCO Networking Academy (CCNA R&S), Linux and BSD Routers, Mikrotik, Wireless, VoIP, and a
plethora of IT technologies, ranging from Linux Administration, monitoring systems, streaming systems,
back-end development, front-end development or Python scripting language just to mention some.