Ivan Aranda Contreras

Oracle DBA and Developer

Agua Santa #576, casa 2. Vina del Mar, Chile
Tel.: + 56-32-2339870, +56-9-77612036

ivanarandac@gmail.com

Objective
To join an organization or company, participating in any or all of the software lifecycle, using state-of-the-art technology.

Summary
As you will read below, experience and knowledge acquired during my professional
career, justify my efforts to gain on the objective described above in the matter of
technical and teamwork skills.

Qualifications and Skills

Comprehensive knowledge and work experience in Oracle and Sybase RDBMSs.
Extensive knowledge and experience developing applications for client/server, three
tier and internet/Intranet architectures, mostly using Sybase and Oracle RDBMSs and
application servers with programming languages such as Power Builder, JavaScript,
PHP, Python and C on UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms as well as open source
tools such as Tcl/Tk, Expect, shells(csh, bash, tcsh), Perl, Python and LAMP on Linux
and UNIX platforms.
Basic knowledge of CORBA specifications. Excellent communication and analytical
abilities.

Work Experience and Professional History

06/2008 present

Data Handling Administrator

La Silla Paranal Observatory, European Southern Observatory, Chile.
Ref.: on request.
Monitoring of Data Flow System applications with the aim of ensuring the archival of
every data produced by telescopes and instruments.
Administration and development of applications in BMC Remedy AR System, a
world class software mainly used by the organization as a ticketing system.
Sybase and Oracle databases DBA by core business process applications such as
Maximo, Remedy and DFS system.
12/2006 04/2008

Freelance Software Developer

Semillas Pioneer Chile Ltda., Paine, Chile.
Meridian IQ Logistics, Santiago, Chile. Ref.: Tamara Vergara (account manager)
tamara.vergara@yrclogistics.com
Development and maintenance of critical management and operations applications
supported on Sybase database servers and tools such as Power Builder, JavaScript and
PHP.

03/2005 08/2006

Software Developer
Chilquinta S.A., Valparaiso, Chile. Ref.: Marcelo Sanchez, msanchez@chilquinta.cl
Development of processes and applications supported on Sybase database servers and
tools such as PowerBuilder and PHP to deliver information requested by Chilean
authority. Development of applications for the Retail Sales business process.
09/2004 02/2005

Software Developer
StarLink Ltda., Valparaiso, Chile. Ref.: Nilo Flores, nilo.flores@starlink.cl
Development of modules for SAAMs SIGMA application and StarLinks
management tools.
01/2004 12/2004

DataMart Developer
Coopeuch, Santiago, Chile. Ref.: Ronhy Oxman, ronhyoxman@hotmail.com
Development of an entire datamart on Sybase IQ for the Account-current/Libretas de
Ahorro product.
03/2003 03/2004

Web & Documentation technician

La Silla, European Southern Observatory. Ref.: Paul Le Saux, plesaux@eso.org
Creation and delivery of backup packages for Science Operations archive and visiting
astronomers as well as maintenance and planning of its Intranet site, which was
supported on Sybase RDBMS. Attended to instruction regarding to ISO 9001
documentation standards.
04/2001 02/2003
Software Developer
Universidad Catlica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile.
Ref.: Alejandro Gomez, agomez@pucv.cl
Development, installation and customer support for modules and applications built
with PowerBuilder, PowerDynamo and JavaScript in the framework of UNIVERSIS
project. Management of Sybase and Oracle RDBMSs.
2000 03/2001
Internet Securities Inc. de Chile, Santiago. ISI Emerging Markets.
Ref.: Ricardo Escudero, rescudero@securities.cl
Software Developer
Design and development of data-loader and html parsers programs with Perl, Python
and C. Administration of database servers for testing purposes in MySql RDBMS.

Education
1997 2000
Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaso, Chile. Computer Application Developer.
2005 2006
Chilean Navy/DIRECTEMAR, Valparaiso, Chile. Professional Commercial Diver.

Languages
Good command of English, Portuguese and Italian (written and spoken).

Extracurricular Activities and Honors

Development of personal software applications applied to diving planning.
Studying of instruments like accordion and guitar; amateur acting and travelling.
As university student, honoured with Beca Presidente de la Republica and Beca
de Honor, Universidad de Playa Ancha scholarships in 1998.