Marc San Pedro

Some people work in technology for the pleasure of a nice salary, or the benefit of sitting in a comfortable office with a 9am to 5pm mindset. There are far less who actually live the lifestyle of a technologist. At every turn these people build their knowledge base, skill set and acquire every relevant device not because it's part of some plan to get a few more dollars from their current job, but rather it's a burning desire deep within to conquer the new, the unknown, the challenge. This is the only fulfillment for a diehard developer, a code junkie, the illusive 1% of the technocracy.

Since the age of 5 I've been fascinated with the inner workings of most things in our world. As a child I couldn't understand how a computer "knew everything" but I was deeply curious about this seemingly very mysterious device, and i knew there was something incredibly special about the Personal Computer and electronics. Nearly everyday since it's been my personal conquest to answer that question, and the beauty of the entire idea is that it's forever evolving and a bit different for every individual, business and organization.

My desire to understand the potential of computing today has created a unique ability to bridge the gap between cutting edge technology and how businesses can better utilize and take advantage of the latest tools, devices and methodologies. My career thus far speaks clearly the same message: working for companies like IBM / FileNet, Beckman Coulter, Navigant International (AQUA Software Products), Orbitz.com, Travelocity.com, CnG Hotels, Travel Leaders, Tzell Travel Group, PennySaverUSA.com and cutting edge Voltage Search Media Inc. in positions that allowed for creativity and innovation has given me a very broad skill set and unique ability to understand all aspects of the flow of business critical information from end to end of an organization.

Core languages and expertise :

• C / C++ with emphasis in OOD (Win32, MFC, etc) (Expert)
  14 Years IBM, AQUA Software Products, Beckman Coulter, Inc.
• Objective-C / Cocoa / Framework with XCode and more.
• MFC / ATL / COM (Strong)
  10 Years: IBM, AQUA Software Products, etc
• Perl (Expert)
  Emphasis in ETL (Extract, Translate and Load)
• Bash (Strong)
  Bash Scripting - All flavors of Linux, Unix, BSD.
• PHP / MySQL / MS SQL (Strong)
  Architect Level with heavy emphasis in object based system design, travel systems and CMS
• AJAX (PHP/Javascript)
  
• Web Services (Expert)
  HTTP, XML via RPC, SOAP, etc
• HTML / CSS / XML (Expert)
• Javascript / JQuery (Strong)
• NET – C# / ASP / VB
  Web applications / Client Apps) – 8 Years (Including .NET 3.5 Platform
• Java - J2SE / J2EE
  Most development in Eclipse on Unix/Linux with expertise with Android SDK
• WordPress extension and plug-in development.
  Including integrating with 3rd party APIs and more.
• Windows API or formerly Win32 API (Strong)
  Emphasis in shared objects, low level threading and peripheral event interception and handling
• ISAPI Extension under IIS Development
  C++ / MFC
• Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
  Snap-in development MFC / C++ / COM / ATL

Core technologies and platforms :

• Linux
  Fedora (since 1997), CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Android OS
• Unix
  FreeBSD, IBM AIX, HP-UX
• Windows
  Windows Server 2003, 2008 / Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP (since 1994)
• Mac
  OS X 10.4 (Tiger), OS X 10.5 (Leopard), OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), OSX 10.7 (Lion), iOS 4.x / iOS 5.x
• Virtualization
  Virtualbox, Oracle VM Server / Manager (Xen based)
• Databases
  MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Microsoft Access, Oracle 9i, IBM DB2
• Software Expertise [management / deployment / development]
  Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP, Joomla, Magento, Samba, Sendmail, BIND
• Mobile Device Expertise [development / deployment]
  Android 1.x,2.x, Blackberry 4.x,5.x, iPad
• Network Appliances
  Astaro, Cisco IOS, PIX Firewalls, CSC’s, Routers, WAP's
• Network Protocols [admin / development]
  SNMP, SMB, MAPI, HTTP/S, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP
• Open Source [admin / development]
  Magento, Joomla, WordPress, WikiMedia, SugarCRM, OpenBravo, Bugzilla
• Data Management / Exchange
  XML, SOAP, Web Service (http/rpc,soap,etc), IBM MQ Series, MS Message Queueing, RAW HTTP/S, etc)