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Jose Leonardo Alvarez

Cali

Summary

Systems engineer with 20+ years of experience in IT industry, with ability hands-on leadership and influence, decision making, team-work, with ethics and responsibility, able to take on challenges, persevering in achieving strategic goals, proactive attitude, open to change and rapid adaptation to new environments, high capacity of work under pressure and multiple projects in parallel; I have excellent relationships and assertive communication to lead an technical team that provide support to critical business processes. Additionally, planning and strategic project management has allowed me to lead successfully a few major customer enterprises changes that have given me confidence and opportunity not only to apply my knowledge but also learn of market in the utilities, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, banking, financial services & Gov-ernment. I advise to give them the best solution for their needs.I have had always the opportunity to implement and deploy new and different products and services. I enjoy working closely and collaboratively with clients as an extension of their team, rather than viewed me as an outside consultant.

Overview

26
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

ASIC S.A.
Bogotá D.C.

Senior Technical Specialist
02.2014 - Current

Job overview

  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Enterprise Technical Support to the IBM POWER Systems
  • AIX Platform Administration, Performance Analysis & Tuning
  • Virtualization Technical Support (PowerVM)
  • High Availability Technical Support and Administration (PowerHA)
  • BladeCenter & PureFlex Systems Technical Support
  • System x Technical Support
  • System Storage Technical Support (Storwize DS Series, FlashSystem)
  • Brocade SAN Administration
  • Purestorage Technical Support (FA-m50r2)
  • VMware Data Center Virtualization, Administration & Design
  • VSphere Operations Management
  • VMware Cloud Design, Deployment, Management and Automation
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • AWS Technical Professional, AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Red Hat Engineer & SUSE Linux Administrator
  • Customers: EMCALI, Banco W, Gases de Occidente, TUYA (Tarjeta EXITO), Grupo Exito (Almacenes Exito & Unico), Bancoomeva, Eficacia, Fundacion Mundo Mujer, Banitsmo Panama, CONFIAR Cooperativa Financiera, Finesa, Seguridad ATLAS, Bancompartir, FENALCO Antioquia, Flamingo/MEFIA, Grupo Reditos & Matrixtech, Colanta, LG CNS, RUNT, Coopidrogas

Optima Consulting S.A.S.
Cali

Oracle Database Consultant
09.2013 - 02.2014

Job overview

  • Remote DBA Support (OLTP, OLAP, DataWarehouse)
  • Oracle APPS DBA & Database-as-a-service (DBaaS)
  • Diagnostics & Performance Tuning (Statspack, AWR, ADDM, Tkprof, ADRCI, TFA)
  • SQL Tuning & Optimization (Explain Plan, SQLAccess Advisor, SQL Hints)
  • High Availability Support (DataGuard, RAC, OCFS, ASM)
  • Database Monitoring with OEM Cloud Control
  • Health Checks, Migration & Upgrade 10g, 11g to 12c
  • E-Business Suite Support (EBS), Patch Management & Cloning
  • Backup & Recovery (RMAN, DataPump, Flashback)
  • Clients: Efigas, UNE ETP, EPSA, Colgate, Gases de Occidente, TCBUEN, Eficacia, Asmet Salud, Proactiva, Open Mobile PR Wireless, Carvajal TyS

Intergrupo S.A.
Medellin

Platform Specialist
04.2012 - 08.2013

Job overview

  • AIX Systems Administration 5.3, 6.1
  • Technical Support in IBM POWER Systems
  • PowerVM (VIOs, LPARs) & PowerHA (HACMP)
  • PureFlex Systems Support, Blade IBM/HP/DELL Support
  • SAN & Storage Management (IBM DS4400, HP EVA4100 - EVA6000 Storwize V7000 & Unified, DELL EqualLogic, EMC CLARiiON, VNX)
  • VMware Data Center Virtualization, ESX, VMware View & ThinApp
  • Clients: Grupo Mundial (now Orbis Group), Prebel, Crystal|Vestimundo, TUYA

Cementos Argos S.A.
Medellin

Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist
11.2011 - 04.2012

Job overview

  • Database Administration (Oracle 10g & 11g, SQL Server 2008, DB2)
  • AIX Platform Administration 5.3 y 6.1
  • PowerVM Support (VIOs, LPARs)
  • PowerHA Support (HACMP)
  • WebSphere AppServer Administration (WAS 6 & 7)
  • Infrastructure Monitoring & Tuning - 7x24 Availability

ASIC Outsourcing
Cali

Database Administrator - IT Infrastructure Specialist
01.2010 - 01.2011

Job overview

  • Database Administrator (Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, MySQL 5, PostgreSQL 8)
  • Red Hat Linux System Administration
  • JBoss/Glassfish Application Server Administration
  • VMware vSphere 4.1 Administration (IBM BladeCenter HS22, HP Proliant)
  • XenServer 4.0 Administration (DELL R810)
  • Storage Management - DELL NAS PowerVault NX3000 & IBM DS3500
  • Tape Library Backup Operator (PowerVault 124T)

Genercauca S.A. E.S.P.
Cali

Principal System Engineer
01.2008 - 01.2010

Job overview

  • Web Development using PHP language
  • Oracle/MySQL procedures development
  • Apache HTTPd/Tomcat administration
  • Webmaster: Hosting & Domain management

MindsIT S.A.S.
Cali

Principal Software Development Engineer
04.2006 - 12.2006

Job overview

  • Develop backend solutions for flow control critical information (processes discipline, news, notifications, schedules, etc.) to the student campus in USA using mobile computing technology - SkoolIT.

EPSA S.A. E.S.P.
Cali

Systems Analyst Consultant
06.2005 - 12.2005

Job overview

  • Elaborate the data dictionary of the billing systems in EPSA S.A E.S.P(Cali-Colombia) and CETSA S.A. E.S.P (Tuluá-Colombia).
  • Design the extraction, transformation and loading processes (ETL) to migrate the source information to the new ERP system (OpenSGC) of Union Fenosa Group (Owner of EPSA, CETSA and Electricaribe in Colombia)
  • Oracle PL/SQL & Pro
  • C/C++ development to migrate information from legacy systems to the new utilities billing system, using shell pipeline jobs (Bash/ AWK/Sed) in AIX/ Solaris systems.
  • Technical support during Go-Live for the first billing period in the new system.

Freelance for Soluziona Consulting - Union Fenosa Group
Cali

Principal Software Development Engineer
02.2005 - 06.2005

Job overview

  • Front-end Development (Javascript, DHTML & CSS)
  • Back-end Development (PHP Language)
  • Store procedures development (Oracle 9i PL/SQL)

Telesat S.A.
Cali

E-Training Teacher
03.2005 - 04.2005

Job overview

  • - Define the structure of the academic course to teach Web Development.
  • - Presentation of the personalized training model according to the customers need.
  • - Telesat customer training and assistance methodology implementation.

Parquesoft S.A.
Cali

Web Application Developer & System Administrator
02.2002 - 02.2005

Job overview

  • Software Architect
  • PHP Backend Development
  • Development Team Manager
  • PostgreSQL & MySQL Store Procedures
  • Systems Analyst & UML Modeler
  • BETA tester
  • Linux Systems Administration
  • Free/Open Source Consultant
  • Start-ups: Colsite, TranSatelite, Azul Digital, Kazak, Mentattech

Universidad del Valle
Palmira

Consultant Internship
01.2000 - 01.2002

Job overview

  • Red Hat Linux Sysadmin
  • Technical Support
  • Backup Operator
  • PHP Developer & Webmaster
  • System Rooms Monitoring
  • Maintenance Computer Equipment
  • Systems Instructor

Education

Fundación Universitaria Internacional de La Rioja - UNIR

B.Sc IT from Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
09.2025

University Overview

Politecnico Superior Colombiano

Integral Management of Service Companies from Business Administration and Management, General
01.2017

University Overview

Politecnico de Colombia

Senior Management from Business Administration, Management and Operations
01.2017

University Overview

Fundación Universitaria San Martín

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) from Computer Science
01.2010

University Overview

Universidad del Valle

Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Computer Science
01.2003

University Overview

Skills

  • ICT Consultancy & Service Delivery
  • IT Infrastructure - Full-stack - SysOps (POWER, INTEL, Storage, SAN)
  • OS (AIX/Linux, Windows)
  • Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, RHVM, Oracle VM)
  • Containers Platform (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, MicroK8S, Minikube)
  • Middleware (WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx)
  • Database Administration (Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon RDS, HANA)
  • Cloud Computing (AWS, VMware Cloud, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, Azure, OpenStack, OpenShift)
  • Shell Scripting (Bash, Perl, AWK/Sed)
  • Automation (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Helm, Vagrant)
  • DevOps (CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD, YAML, GitHub, GitLab)
  • Monitoring & Log Analysis (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, InfluxDB, Centreon)
  • Software Devel - LifeCycle Mgmt (C/C, J2EE, NET, PHP, Python, Go)
  • Business Intelligence & Analytics (Datawarehouse, Hadoop, Spark, AWS Redshift)
  • IT Service Management (ITILv3) & IT Solutions Architect (TOGAF)
  • Project Management (PMI, SCRUM) & IT Government (COBIT)
  • Networking & Communications (AD, ADFS, LDAP, DNS, Firewall, IDS/IPS, WAF)
  • Information Security & Ethical Hacking (ISO/IEC 27000, OWASP, BugBounty, Honeypots)
  • Continuous Data Protection (DRS & BCP, VeeamBR, Tivoli Storage Management)

Websites

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Technical Professional
  • Google Activate - Cloud Computing
  • VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)
  • VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
  • VMware Cloud Provider Program - VMware Cloud Masters LATAM Edition
  • IBM Certified Specialist - System Storage DS8000 Technical Solutions V3
  • IBM Certified Systems Expert - Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux - v2
  • IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX Technical Support and Administration -v2
  • IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 7
  • IBM Certified Specialist - Midrange Storage Technical Support V3
  • IBM Certified Specialist - System x Server Family Technical Support V1
  • IBM Certified Systems Expert - System x Technical
  • IBM Certified Specialist - PureFlex Technical Support
  • IBM Certified Specialist - Storwize V7000 Technical Solutions V1
  • IBM Certified Specialist - Storage Technical V2
  • DCA - Information Storage and Management Version 4.0 - Dell Technologies
  • DCS - Specialist - Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions - Dell EMC
  • Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I Asistir S.A.
  • ITILv3 Foundation - IntelligentOrange

Languages

Spanish
English

Personal Information

Personal Information
Title: Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps | Cloud Engineer | AWS | GCP | VMware Cloud | Azure | OCI | IBM CATE | IBM Storage | SAN Specialist | Expert System Administrator

Timeline

Senior Technical Specialist
ASIC S.A.
02.2014 - Current
Oracle Database Consultant
Optima Consulting S.A.S.
09.2013 - 02.2014
Platform Specialist
Intergrupo S.A.
04.2012 - 08.2013
Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist
Cementos Argos S.A.
11.2011 - 04.2012
Database Administrator - IT Infrastructure Specialist
ASIC Outsourcing
01.2010 - 01.2011
Principal System Engineer
Genercauca S.A. E.S.P.
01.2008 - 01.2010
Principal Software Development Engineer
MindsIT S.A.S.
04.2006 - 12.2006
Systems Analyst Consultant
EPSA S.A. E.S.P.
06.2005 - 12.2005
E-Training Teacher
Telesat S.A.
03.2005 - 04.2005
Principal Software Development Engineer
Freelance for Soluziona Consulting - Union Fenosa Group
02.2005 - 06.2005
Web Application Developer & System Administrator
Parquesoft S.A.
02.2002 - 02.2005
Consultant Internship
Universidad del Valle
01.2000 - 01.2002
Fundación Universitaria Internacional de La Rioja - UNIR
B.Sc IT from Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
Politecnico Superior Colombiano
Integral Management of Service Companies from Business Administration and Management, General
Politecnico de Colombia
Senior Management from Business Administration, Management and Operations
Fundación Universitaria San Martín
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) from Computer Science
Universidad del Valle
Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Computer Science

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