Mauro Parra Miranda
   mauropm@gmail.com
  +52 1 55 4034 6345

02/09 - Today - Masuto Studios, LLC

                Owner & Web architect, Mexico City, Mexico

                Developing innovative websites, creating Mexico's Internet 2.0.

                Giving consulting service to several companies, helping them 

                to make wise decisions in technology investment.

                Doing technical talks in UNAM, IPN, U. Iberoamericana and other
                universities helping students to use new technologies such as
                openSUSE, SUSE Studio, Novell Open Build Service and other
                related technologies. 

                I'm an openSUSE developer and ambassador, helping to 

                develop openSUSE and giving technical talks.
                Helped the Firefox en la escuela (Firefox back into school)
                program in Mexico, giving technical talks about the Firefox
                and related technologies.

                Customers: 

                - Gaudelli MCW, the best Mexican Marketing agency in 2009. 

                - Telmex, the biggest telco in Latin America. 

                - UPN, Mexico's National Pedagogy University.

                - Sciences Faculty, UNAM - UNAM is in the world's top 100 universities.
                - Cofradia Educadora, a website for e-learning serving the School of Public Administration of Mexico City Government.
                - Artetipo, a Community of Graphic Designers in Mexico City.
                - Mobalis, a marketing 2.0 agency.
                - Ideaslabs, an awesome tech company.

04/07 – 02/09  Novell, Inc
                Software Engineer II, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                Software packager for opensuse and SUSE Enterprise Linux.
                Experience on packaging Gnome, XGL and friends.
                Contributor in several products: SLE10 SP1/SP2,
                openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE 11.0, openSUSE 11.1,
                Openoffice for Windows Novell Edition, SUSE Thinclient, SLE11,
                Linux preloads for netbooks.
                Experience working with worldwide distributed teams.

07/06 – 04/07   Novell, Inc
                Software Engineer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                QA for Zenworks Linux Management 7 SP1. Trainer on linux
                technologies for different groups in US & India. Experience
                working with customers, both remote and locally.




06/04- 07/06    Novell de Mexico S.A. de C.V.
                Software Engineer, Mexico City, Mexico
                QA for different generations of Zenworks Linux Management
                (6.6.1, 6.6.2, 7, 7DE, Zenworks Code10 SE, Novell Customer
                Center) and OpenSuSE (10.1). Team Leader for Mexico's QA
                Team. Trainer of personal in our different US R&D centers.

06/03 – 06/04 Instituto de Fisica, UNAM
              Web Developer / Sysadmin. Mexico City, Mexico
              Website designer/coder based on joomla. Create proposals, site
              design and implementation as well as support on additional sites.
              Site link:
              Instituto de Fisica – www.fisica.unam.mx
              Group of nanosciences – www.nano.fisica.unam.mx
              Fisica 2005 – www.fisica2005.unam.mx

01/02 - 6/03  Universidad Pedagogica Nacional
              Software Engineer. Mexico City, Mexico
              Designed and implemented a full solution to fulfill the requirements
              of the PIFI project. Need to provide an affordable UI, distributed
              collaboration across the country and centralized reports.
              The system is based on MySQL, PHP and Apache. Provided help 
              and support for different Linux specific applications. Programmer
              of differents systems for administration.

06/00 – 01/02 Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
              Sysadmin/ Web Developer. Mexico City, Mexico
              Sysadmin of our techinical infrastructure; contributor to different
              parts of the project. Co-creator of our first version of Interactiva
              – a website focused to improve the math abilities of our visitors
              (designed for all ages, from kids to adults).
              Link:
              www.interactiva.matem.unam.mx

06/00 – 01/02     ACIRED
               Systems Integrator/Linux Guru. Mexico City, Mexico
               System integrator for an small company, provided accurate
               technical support for a wide variety of process, ranging from
               customers websites to programming solutions for data recovering.
               Linux guru for our linux customers.

PROJECTS
               LarvalStage Cofounder.

               The goal for this group is to share and improve the Computer
               Sciences abilities of the Facultad de Ciencias and UNAM
               community. Organized some courses, conferences, talks
               and congress.
               Link: www.larval.fciencias.unam.mx
              







               Lidsol - Member.

               The goal of this group is to share and improve the Linux and
               Free Software knowledge of the Facultad de Ingenieria & UNAM
               community. Organized some courses, conferences, talks (both
               on person and IRC) and congress. Produced materials like the
               wiki page, to improve the material available in spanish.
               Link: www.lidsol.org or www.lidsol.net

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages:
                           Bash, C, C++, PHP, Python, Java, C#, Perl

Web Tecnologies:
                            Wordpress, WPMU, BuddyPress, Jobberbase, Moodle.

Packaging technologies:
                            RPM, Debian packages.

Platforms (User & Administrator):
                           Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/XP/2000/2003/Vista/7
                           Linux (opensuse, SLES, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva)
                           FreeBSD
                           OpenBSD 3.0
                           Apple Mac OS X

RDBMS:
                           MySQL, PostgreSQL

Virtual machines technologies:
                         VMWare, Xen, Virtualbox.

Network:
                Experience on wired and wireless networks setup.

Talks:
                Able to give technical talks linux and free software related. Both in english and spanish.

AWARDS AND LEADERSHIP
                Novell 2008 Pit Crew Prize: The Thinclient team, the most productive team in Q2 2008.
                Novell 2006 Pit Crew Prize: The Zenworks Linux Team, the most productive team in the year.
                2nd prize in Mexico's National Olympiad of Informatics, 1996
                3rd place in Mexico City Olympiad of Informatics, 1997







Other Skills:

                Able to speak english and spanish. Able to survive with french and german.
                Photographer - Portfolio- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauropm/