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I'm currently working full time as a freelance developer and consultant in the field of high performance databases. This area allows me to apply most of the skills that I have gathered through the years.
I've worked as a system manager at IFIC (Institut de Física Corpuscular de València), scientific computing manager at the Computer Center of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, technical director at Servicom (a Spanish ISP bought by Retevision) in Valencia, systems designer in Servicom2000 (an Internet value added company) and president of Cárabos Coop. V. in that order. During the past years, I've worked on a variety of different problems, including operating systems, clustering, symmetric multiprocessing, scientific high performance computing, design of ISP infrastructure and services, consulting services and business management issues.
Two things have influenced in my current position. Firstly, I spent one year and half at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, as a post-graduate student doing experimental physics. This period served to me to figure out how important were the tools to manage extremely large amounts of data in some fields.
After that, I started a position as scientific computing manager at the computer center of the Universitat Jaume I for about 5 years. In the meanwhile, I've received a grant to do an stage at CERFACS (Tolouse, France) in the Parallel Algorithms Project where I've done some work optimizing and parallelizing a well-known computational chemistry package, MOPAC, and achieved some quite interesting results. You can see the report here (in Catalan).
These stages made me feel how comfortable and appealing was asking the computers for all the throughput they can deliver 
. So, for all my career I've been always interested in performance, from scientific computing facilities (see a report I've wrote about this), to the design of efficient e-mail, Web, or Web cache systems. Lately, my interest is focused in the design of high performance indexing systems.
I can speak English and French without too much difficulties and (almost) perfectly Spanish and Catalan (my mother tongue).
I live in Castelló de la Plana (Spain), on the Mediterranean coast and I spend my free time between my wife Merche, walking and jogging in the beach and going to cinema whenever I can so as to satisfy one of my vices. Also, cooking paellas, like the one in the picture above, is one of the few things that I'm quite good.
I like very much Mediterranean cultures, so I would be more than happy to work with people in that area, not only from the European regions, but also from the Near East of Asia and the North-Africa regions.