Presentation

I am Juan F. Capristán W., Software Engineer, specialized in web development of ambitious projects, and specially focused on Content Management Systems with an experience of 8 years on this field.

I am 33 years old, was born in Perú and have been living in Spain for the last 16 years. At the present I am Project Manager in an private company in Madrid.

If you want to contact me, the easiest way is writing me an email to juanitosan (at) gmail (dot) com.

You are invited to take a look at my profile.

Quick Look

• Juan Fernando Capristán Wadsworth
• 33 years old
• juanitosan (at) gmail (dot) com
• Specialized in web development, specially CMSs
• At present time I am Project Manager for Cibeles.net
• I speak spanish and english
• I live in Madrid
• I have driving license

Studies

• Computer Science at U.C.M.
• English in P.U.C.P.

• "Electronic business, present and future". Summer Courses in UNED. July 2003.
• "Interñet : The future of spanish in the internet". Summer Courses in El Escorial, UCM. August 2003.
• "Ist Congress of editors of periodical publications". Salamanca, February 2005.
• "IInd Congress of editors of periodical publications". Benidorm, March 2006.
• "Internet Forum 2008". Madrid, May 2008.
• "IInd Webmasters Congress". Madrid, November 2008.

Languages

• Spanish. Mother tongue
• English. Spoken, read and written

I also have an special and romantic curiosity for learning Esperanto and though I've read some about it's history and fundamentals, I still haven't started to learn it yet. So many things to learn and so less time.

Operating Systems

• Windows 7, 2008, 2003, XP, 2000, NT, etc.
• Linux Suse, Mandriva, RedHat, Fedora, etc.
• MAC OS X, 9 and 8 user level.
• Solaris, and in general I'm capable to work in any UNIX environment.
• MS.DOS

YES : I'm also annoyed about Windows Vista.

Programming Languages

• C#.NET y VB.NET (applications and services for Windows)
• ASP.NET
• ASP (with IIS)
• PHP (over Apache or IIS, Linux or Windows)
• Ruby (for web development and also for system administration)
• Java (Windows, Linux, Mac and MS-DOS)
• C, C++
• HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS1, CSS2, investigating CSS3
• JavaScript, VBScript (client and server)
• WSHScript to control scheduled tasks in servers
• ActionScript
• Classic Languages : Pascal, Modula-2, 68000 Assembler

Databases

• MySQL Client and server administration.
• ADO
• JetSQL
• SQL Plus (Oracle)

I also have experience in migrations from several systems to MySQL.

The Internet

• Website development based on ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, MySQL, CSS, XML and HTML.
• Website development based on PHP over Apache or IIS, Windows or Linux.
• Use of libraries such as jQuery or technics like ajax to boost web 2.0.
• Ruby on Rails programming for web development.
• Specific web development for iPad devices.
• Installation and support on Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and other popular freeware CMSs systems.
• Installation and support on Prestashop and OsCommerce systems for online stores.
• Secure payment interfaces of several spanish banks and also PayPal integration.
• IIS 5.1./6.0/7.0 and Apache web servers administration.
• Administration of several mail servers such as Mail Enable Professional or IMail (anti-spam, mailing lists, webmail, etc).
• Administration of several FTP servers like Serv-U or FileZilla.
• Administration of Windows and Linux web servers with PLESK.
• Pseudo streaming for audio and video.
• Search Engine Optimization technics.
• Pocket PC web development.

Organization

• Eventum
• Bugzilla

• Mercurial
• Subversion

• Together
• MS Project

Experience

• I am co-founder of web develpment company CreativeCocos.com and also of its social branch SocialCocos.
• I have developed EditMaker project for Cibeles.net, where I work at present. EditMaker is a web based CMS (Content Management System) aimed to newspapers or periodic publications in the internet. This project has been completely developed in classic ASP, JavaScript, VBScript and MySQL. The project is on version 7.0.14 and continously evolving. It's a product used by more than a hundred online publications. The first stage was developed between 2001's june and october.
• I am developing personal project "en.via" (word game that means 'send' and also 'on the way'), which is an application to manage courier companies. This project is being developed in a LAMP environment and is being used by EuroVip Courier.
• I have supervised and have actively taken part on development of nofumadores.org (nonsmokers) organization website.
• I worked as a teacher in Maths informática academy, specialized in computer science carreer, teaching "Data Structures", "Introduction to Pascal Programming" and "Programming in C and C++" subjects. I taught for this academy between september 2000 and february 2002.
• Freelance programmer of a Java application for Puzzlecross S.L. (March 2000 - January 2001). The purpose of this application was to generete online crosswords.
• My end of carrer project, in which I worked with a team of 3 people, was to develop the first stage of a compiler for an OO language based on Java Virtual Machine, specially aimed for teaching purposes. It was completely developed in Java with the help of Antlr tool.
• Several minor freelance projects.

• Designer of latin american newspaper Quipu during 8 months (between 1998 and 1999)
• Designer of legal magazine DINATOS between january 2000 and may 2001.

Other Info

• I like writing, reading, sports, and traveling.
• I don't like to be a passive smoker.
• I despice animal mistreat in any of its several forms. Specially those socially accepted.
• I believe in the idea of God, but absolutely not in religions.