Francisco Mauro Puente

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cencosud Argentina
Buenos Aires – Argentina – August 2006 - Present
IT Department

High-End Platforms Lead - Senior Unix Administrator

•	Lead to 3 Unix Sysadmins and 3 DBA’s (AIX/Solaris/Linux/Informix/Oracle/MySQL)
for the High-End Team.
•	Systems Architecture and Storage/SAN Design. In charge of the daily running
for large SAP/CRM environments.
•	Installation, Administration and Integration of several Unix Systems,
Sun/IBM/Linux.
•	Build and Administration of several Sun’s SunFire
25K/15K/E6900/v890/v445/v490/v440/v240, etc.
•	Build and Administration of IBM’s p650 and IBM p570 with LPAR’s running AIX
5.x and Linux.
•	Installed, configured and supported large and heterogeneous environments,
including Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10, AIX 4.x/5.x, Linux RHEL 2.x/3.x/4.x, CentOS,
mission critical servers 24x7, remote administration and support.
•	Cluster Administrator for all nodes inside the company, working with Sun
Cluster 3.x and HACMP.
•	Storage and SAN Administrator, working with Hitachi 9980, 9990, IBM’s FastT
700 and EMC Clariion cx600/cx3-80, T3/T4/3310/S1/D240/A5200/D1000, Installation
and Administration of SAN, Brocade fiber switches.
•	Multipathing software, MPXIO. Powerpath, DMP, MPIO. Veritas Volume Manager
(VxVM) 3.x/4.x/5.x , AIX’s LVM and Linux’s LVM, Solaris Disksuite (SVM). 
•	Responsible for performace tuning and capacity plans, servers and storage.
•	Projects leading for Unix and SAN, mixed environments.
•	Solaris 10 Zones/Containers build and administration, FSS, projects. 
•	Tomcat servers installation and troubleshooting.
•	Implemented large local monitoring system using Nagios monitoring suite.,
company wide.
•	Provided technical support, consultation and guidance for Software Engineers,
Database Administrators, and junior-mid-level UNIX SA's.
•	Unix shell scripting, perl, awk, sed, bash/csh, php.
•	Responsible for day-to-day operation of DNS, DHCP, CVS, UNIX account
management, NIS+/NFS, and backups.
•	Veritas Netbackup 3.4/4.5/5.x administration and troubleshooting. 
•	Linux kernel upgrades/build/modify/patch. Servers Integrated: Oracle, MySQL,
Proxy/Cache, FTP, SSH, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, DNS, NIM, Jumpstart and kickstart.
•	Troubleshooting and Disaster Recovery. Patch administration. TCP/IP and
standard networking protocols. Live production servers (24x7) upgrades and
updates. System Tuning. Strong knowledge of telecommunications and data networks.
Wide experience on Sun’s Dinamic Reconfiguration and domains. Serial access
configuration SP/HMC/RSC/SC/ALOM for remote management.


ITConvergence
Buenos Aires – Argentina – November 2004 – July 2006
ISS Department

Senior Unix Administrator / Unix Services Staff Supervisor

•	Leading 6 people team, Sysadmins and Java Developers.
•	Administration and Integration of Unix Systems for the internal company and
external customers.
•	Installed, configured and supported large and heterogeneous environments, and
customer hosted datacenters, including Solaris 2.6/7/8/9, HP-UX 1 [Send email to request phone number] 0/11.x/AIX
4.x/5.x, Linux RHEL 2.x/3.x, mission critical servers 24x7, remote administration
and support.
•	Technical Leader for Unix Services Integration, Support and Administration,
sometimes acting as Account Manager.
•	Implemented NIS/NIS+ and NFS for UNIX user management and automounting of home
directories.
•	NIS/NIS+ migration to LDAP.
•	Responsible for performace tuning and capacity plans.
•	Servers integration, Operating System and Hardware (Sun/HP/IBM/Dell)
•	Jboss servers integration and troubleshooting. Tomcat servers installation
•	Implemented local monitoring system using NetSaint/Nagios monitoring suite.
•	Provided technical support, consultation and guidance for Software Engineers,
Database Administrators, and junior-level UNIX SA's.
•	Responsible for day-to-day operation of DNS, DHCP, CVS, UNIX account
management, NIS+/NFS, and backups.
•	Veritas Netbackup 3.4/4.5/5.x administration and troubleshooting. 
•	Veritas Cluster 3.x and ServiceGuard experience. Experience on ADIC Scalar and
Dell PowerVault robotic libraries 
•	Integration of Clariion/Symmetrix EMC storage, ECCS Synchronix, Sun StorEdge
3310/3510/T3/A1000/D100***- 
•	Linux kernel upgrades/build/modify/patch. Linux and HP-UX LVM. Servers
Integrated: MySQL, Proxy/Cache, NIS, FTP, VPN, SSH, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, DNS,
Jumpstart and kickstart, DHCP, Samba, Apache/Tomcat/JBoss/Netscape Enterprise
Server, IPlanet, LDAP. Firewalls, Netsaint/Nagios, DiskSuite/Veritas Volume
Manager, shell scripting, GNU Software, PHP, Perl. Cisco/XTreme Routers, 3COM
Switches.
•	Troubleshooting and Disaster Recovery. Patch administration. TCP/IP and
standard networking protocols.Live production servers (24x7) upgrades and
updates. System Tuning. Experience on Sun Enterprise E6800/E4800/v880/
/220/E450/E4500/E5500/E6500/420R/p550/p650/RS6000/AXMP and Ultra 10/5. DDR and
domains. Serial access configuration HMC/RSC/SC/ALOM for remote management.
•	Systems and network security, security policies, ISS, IDS, NDS, Satan,
Tripwire, Snort, IPFilter, IPTables, ACL, Nessus. Intrusion detection and
penetration testing, countersecurity.


ERICSSON
Montreal - Canada
GEC - Global Expertise Center - May 2003 – October 2004

NIC Engineer Consultant

•	Build, Implementation and Administration of Sun Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/7/8/9.
Server Systems and Software integration. 
•	Support for mission critical servers (24x7). System and Software testing.
China FOA Team Tester and Support. 
•	Hardware and software performance testing. Testing Tools. Stress, Robustness,
Regression Testing. Rational Suite software.
•	Installed and supported Oracle 8/9 on Debian GNU/Linux production and test
servers.
•	Linux kernel upgrades/build/modify/patch. Linux LVM. Installation.
•	Configuration and Administration of Sybase/MSSQL/Oracle/MySQL.
•	Deployed Proxy/Cache, NIS, FTP Server, VPN, SSH, ACL, Sendmail, POP3, IMAP,
DNS/BIND, Jumpstart and kickstart server, DHCP, Firewalls, IDS, TCP Wrappers,
Samba, Apache/Tomcat/Netscape Enterprise Server, IPlanet, LDAP.
•	Implelemented and maintened Veritas Volume Manager, DiskSuite, Shell
scripting, GNU Software, PHP, Perl. Cisco/XTreme Routers Configuration, 3COM
Switches, Troubleshooting and Disaster Recovery.
•	 Patch administration. TCP/IP and standard networking protocols, DHCP, BOOTP,
ARP/RARP troubleshooting. Production systems monitoring. 
•	Live production servers (24x7) upgrades and updates. System Tuning. Strong
knowledge of telecommunications and data networks. Ericsson HLR, SS7 Signalling
Protocol. Experience over Sun Enterprise
220/450/4500/5500/6500/v880/280/240/420R/4800/6800/10000/15K, AXMP. 
•	System and network security, VPN’s, Security policies, ISS, IDS, NDS, Satan,
Tripwire, Snort, IPFilter, IPTables, ACL, Nessus, Intrusion detection,
penetration testing, Countersecurity, etc. 
•	Usability readiness testing, Reliability testing, Stress, and Performance
testing. 


ERICSSON 
Buenos Aires - Argentina – June 2000 – May 2003
Network Integration Center

NIC Engineer / Systems Integrator and Administrator

•	Build, Implementation and Administration of Sun Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/7/8 Linux
and Windows2k servers in Latin America, EEUU, Canada, Jamaica, Russia, China,
Bolivia, etc. 
•	Server Systems and Software integration and Administration.
•	 Support for mission critical servers (24x7). 
•	Linux kernel upgrades/build/modify/patch. Linux LVM .
•	Installation, Configuration and Administration of Sybase/MSSQL/MySQL + PHP,
Oracle.
•	Deployed and Maintened Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris servers: Proxy/Cache, NIS,
FTP Server, Antivirus, VPN, SSH, ACL, Sendmail, POP3, IMAP, DNS/BIND, Jumpstart
server, DHCP, Firewalls, IDS, TCP Wrappers, Audio/Video Streaming and encoding,
Print and Backup Servers, Samba, Apache/Tomcat/Netscape Enterprise Server,
IPlanet, IRC.
•	Implemented and supported Veritas Volume Manager, DiskSuite, Arkeia, Backup,
Shell scripting, UPS, GNU Software, PHP, Perl. Cisco Routers Configuration, 3COM
Switches.
•	Troubleshooting and Disaster Recovery. Patches administration. TCP/IP and
standard networking protocols, DHCP, BOOTP, ARP/RARP.Trainner.
•	Production systems monitoring. Live production servers upgrades and updates.
System Tuning. 
•	Implementation and Administration of Windows 2000/NT production servers.
Nertworks Design and Capacity planning. 
•	Strong knowledge of telecommunications and data networks. Ericsson HLR, SS7
Signalling Protocol. 
•	Experience over wide range of platforms: Sun Enterprise
220/450/4500/5500/6500, AXMP.
•	Systems and network security, VPN’s, Security policies, ISS, IDS, NDS, Satan,
Tripwire, Snort, IPFilter, IPTables, ACL, Nessus, Intrusion detection,
penetration testing, Countersecurity, etc.
•	Usability readiness testing, Reliability testing, Stress, and Performance
testing.
•	Trainner to Administrators/customers/users. Acting as Team Leader and Project
Management tasks. Responsible for Ericsson Jambala HLR and CMOS/OSS Servers for
CDMA/GSM/TDMA.


REPSOL-YPF
Buenos Aires – Argentina – August 1999 – June 2000

Systems Administrator  - Computing Center Repsol/YPF HQ

•	Performed Unix Solaris system administration, Network Operations. 
•	Build, Implementation and Administration of Sun Solaris 2.6/7/8/9 servers
/Windows 2000/NT/Linux servers (Web, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Proxy, Firewall,
Samba,MySQL, PHP, IDS, Sendmail, etc)Servers.
•	Software integration. Linux kernel upgrades/build/modify/patch.
•	Support for mission critical servers (24x7). TCP/IP and standard networking
protocols, DHCP, BOOTP, ARP/RARP.
•	Administration of resources and users, interaction, operation and replication
with Solaris, HP/UX and AS/40***- Implementation of security (Linux, Firewall,
ProxyServer, packet filtering, new technologies research. 
•	Troubleshooting, remote problems solving ASYNC and TCP. PHP, Perl. Production
systems monitoring. 
•	Production servers upgrades and updates. Unix System Tuning. Cisco Routers
Configuration, 3COM Switches . 
•	Helpdesk and Technical support for customers and internal users.
•	New technologies development and research, implementation.
•	System and network security, Security policies, ISS, IDS, NDS, Satan,
Tripwire, Snort, IPFilter, IPTables, ACL, 
•	Intrusion detection, penetration testing, Countersecurity, etc.


SCITEX - Moras & Cia.
Buenos Aires – Argentina – October 1998 – March 1999

Support Engineer and System Administrator

•	Technical Support software and hardware. PC/Mac/AIX/Linux
•	Build, Implementation and Administration of AIX/NT Servers. 
•	Support on software and graphic commercial applications on different platforms
(Mac/PC/AIX). 
•	Integration Server Configurations RS6000/IBM with AIX 4.x, NT4 Server, Mac,
Rip/PS/M, Preps, Brisque Proof, Iris, Dolev 250/400/450/800V. Directly
collaborating with the Call Center in the U.S.A.
•	Networks support, clients training on operating systems, networks, network
security.
•	Solaris and AIX systems administration, TCP/IP and standard networking
protocols, DHCP, BOOTP, ARP/RARP, NIS. 
•	Production systems monitoring. Production servers upgrades and updates. System
Tuning. 
•	Helpdesk and Technical support. 
•	Supported Software, scanners, image setters, Rip’s, servers, etc.
•	Research and implementation of new technologies. Investigation of the effect
Y2K of miscellaneous networks and systems. 

NUEVA ESCUELA DE DISEΡO Y COMUNICACIΣN
Buenos Aires – Argentina – January 1997 – July 2000

Technical Support

•	Implementation and administration Linux and Windows NT4 (70 stations + 2 NT
servers) +2 Linux Servers.
•	Network security, corrective and preventive technical support. 
•	Resources and users Administration (Apache, Samba, FTP)
•	Implementation of security policies, Linux Firewall, DNS, Backup, IIS4, Web
Server.
•	Troubleshoot and update the schools Hardware and Software. System Tuning.
Helpdesk and Technical support.


ARCANGEL MAGGIO INDUSTRIA GRAFICA
Buenos Aires – Argentina – February 1998 – September 1998

Technical Support and Operator

•	Technical support Unix NexT/Mac/PC - NT Server.
•	Production systems admin/support/monitoring.
•	Unix Systems integrations Web, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Prpxy, Samba, TCP/IP and
standard networking protocols.
•	Operation and Administration.
•	Prepress (Photochromy- Photography retouch – Scanning – Originals – Brochures
– Magazine Assembly – Books, etc. – Mac/PC).
•	Working with Linotype Hell, Signasetter, Rip Delta Tower equipment on Windows
NT, Scanner Topaz.


NUEVA ESCUELA DE DISEΡO Y COMUNICACIΣN
Buenos Aires – Argentina

Graphic Computing Assistant – Levels I, II, III Instructor.

•	Teaching Courses on Operative Systems, Mac/PC, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
Illustrator, QuarXPress and PageMaker in the careers of Publicity Graphic Design
and Editing Design Through Computers.


SYSELCOMP
Buenos Aires – Argentina – March 1992 – December 1996

Technical Support (Hardware – Software) - Manager of Assembly 

•	Manager of PC hardaware assembly department, repairing and updating of
hardware, OS , interaction with personnel on the line and technical support
organization.


EDUCATION

High school: 	Escuela Industrial NΊ 1 General Enrique Mosconi 			(1985-1990)
			Caleta Olivia – Pcia. de Santa Cruz
Especialidad Tιcnico Electromecαnico

College:	  	Graduation Diploma as Publicity Graphic Designer	               
	(1995-1997)
  			Nueva Escuela de Diseρo y Comunicaciσn 

University: 	Engineering in Electronics 			     	  		(1992-1997)
		  	Universidad Tecnologica Nacional 








			
ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE


Unix:
Direct Administration:
Solaris:2.5.1/2.6/7/8/9/10
AIX, 4.x/5.x
Linux: CentOS, RHEL 2.x/3.x/4.x, RedHat 4.x-9.x, Slackware, Debian 2.x, 3.x.,
FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x,5.x, OpenBSD 2.x, 3.x

Sun Hardware:
25K/15K/E6800/E6900/10K/v890/v880/v445/v490/v440/280/240/6500/5500/4500/450/250/220/AXMP/Ultra/5/10,
p650/p550/p570/RS6000
Security: IPFilter, CheckPoint, IPFilter, SunScreen, NetScreen, Snort, Iptables,
Ipchains, ACL, Satan, TCP Wrappers, Tripwire, Nesssus, Crack, etc.
Backup: Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Legato Backup,  Arkeia,
Amanda, ufsdump, ufsrestore, dump, restore, tar, star, cpio, gtar,
scripting,mksysb.
Administration Tools: Solstice, SAM, SMIT, linuxconf, pkgadd, patchadd, RPM,
APT. 
License Administration: FlexLM
Servers: Tomcat, Jboss, Apache/Netscape, Squid, WU-FTP, LDAP, SSH, RDMS,
ProFTPD, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, IIS, Exchange, MS Proxy/ISA, etc.
Databases: Sybase, MySQL, Oracle.
Devices: RAID, SAN/NAS, Robotic Libraries,DAT, DLT, Switches, Routers, Hubs,
etc.
ShellScripting: Cshell, Korn, Bash, PHP, Perl.
Linux Versions: Centos, RHEL 2.x/3.x/4.x, RedHat 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x/
Slackware 4/5/6/7 Debian 2/3
Solaris Versions: 2.5.1/2.6/7/8/9/10 Sparc/x86
FreeBSD Versions: 3.x/4.x/5.x
OpenBSD: 2.x, 3.x
Windows: 2003/2000/NT/XP/3.11/95/98

PCs:
Networks and Protocols, wiring connectivity PC/Unix. Implementation of servers
Unix (Solaris X86, Linux, Windows NT/2000 Server, Domains, Security Policies,
Firewalls, DNS Server, DHCP, FTP Server, Web Server, IIS4, Databases
(Sybase/Oracle/MySQL), Windows 95/98, DOS, Word, Excel, Power Point, Corel Draw,
QuarXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Lotus Notes, etc.

Programming:
	C & C++, C++ Builder, PHP, Perl, Shell Scripting, HTML.

Macintosh:
Operative System. Installation, Configuration, etc. Networks, Wiring, Protocols,
etc. Resedit, Internet, Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarXPress, Pagemaker,
Flightcheck.


Additional Training

Training courses on microprocessors INTEL – EXO.
Technological updating courses on IPI’s  (1996-1997-1998-1999/2000)
Updating networks – Internet – Windows NT – Communications – Technical Training
Several Seminars by Sun, Microsoft, Novell, Cisco (1994-1999)
Course on UNIX/LINUX (Operation and administration) Cadia Informatics
Sybase Relational Databases Certified DBA (Administration and Design) Sybase
Argentina.
Course on Telecommunications and Data Networks – Ericsson Argentina
Course on Linux Network Security Certified  – DNS – Sendmail – Apache - CIUA
Course on Sun Volume Manager Certified – Fault Management – EI/Escuela de
Informatica
Course on LAN I & LAN II – 3COM Argentina
Course on Networks Design – 3COM Argentina
Course on Firewalls – 3COM Argentina
Course on Wireless – 3COM Argentina
Wide experience in Internet + Intranet.
CISCO CCNA Career - Cisco Networking Academy.
Project Management courses – Ericsson Canada/Argentina
GSM Systems – Dallas, USA
TDMA/CDMA Systems – Montreal, Canada.
Veritas Netbackup 4.5 – Veritas - Argentina
Veritas Storage Foundation / Volume Manager – Veritas – Argentina
Veritas Cluster – Veritas – Argentina
AIX Jumpstart for Experienced Unix Administrators – Commit-IT

Other

Wide experience on assembly, installation and configuration of hardware parts,
graphic boards, SCSI, motherboards, memories, hard disks, modems, (Servers &
Workstations), etc. (199 [Send email to request phone number] 002)
Intel Processor Integrator – IPI NΊ 00700911


PERSONAL INFORMATION

Address: Alamafuerte 3901 – Francisco Alvarez - Moreno
Cell Phone: 15-4-161-5291
E-mail: [Send email using form at bottom] / fpuente@datafull.com /
fuente@solo-unix.com.ar 
WebPage: http://www.solo-unix.com.ar/resume.html
MSN: fpuente@datafull.com
Languages: Fluent in English – Spoken & Written 
Date of birth: 11/12/1971	Age: 35
I.D.: 22.333.286
Nationality: Argentino				
Marital Status: Married

References available upon request