Nimrod A. Abing


Personal Information

Home Address:

19 Sampaguita Street,
Mission Hills Subd., Brgy. Milibili,
Roxas City
Philippines

Contact Info:

Email: My Email Address

No "headhunters" please. Direct clients only.

Academic Background

June 1996 - October 2000

Degree obtained:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

School:

Filamer Christian College

June 1994 - March 1996

Degree obtained:

Electronics and Communications Engineering (undergraduate)

School:

Central Philippine University

June 1990 - March 1994

Degree obtained:

Secondary (with elective in Electronics and Electrical Equipment Servicing)

School:

Western Visayas College of Science and Technology

Work Experience

June 2005 - Present

Freelance Web developer, Systems Integrator, and IT Consultant

Recent Projects:

June 2003 - May 2005

STI-CAPIZ (STI Education Center Capiz Inc.)

Company Profile:
Position:

Trainor 4/Laboratory Facilitator

Tasks:
Accomplishments as Laboratory Facilitator and Systems Developer:

March 2003 - June 2004

PHILMETRO.COM

Company Profile:

PHILMETRO.COM was founded in March 2000 with the mission; to provide performance that exceeds industry standards while providing our customers with superior service.

Position:

Technical Operations Crew (Part-time, 24/7 standby)

Tasks:

February 2003 - Present

Biz2Web.nl

Company Profile:

We are a company focused on High-Level Design to make your presence to the World Wide Web a new era to your company. The Biz2Web team is creative, innovative & committed to our clients. We combine our traditional designing qualities with the best that the new media has to offer. We guarantee the quality and flexibility to work with the best freelance artists, designers and system-developers in the world.

Position:

Systems Developer (Part-time/Contractual)

Tasks:

November 2002 - February 2003

ROUGEREVIEWS.COM

Company Profile:

RougeReviews.com aims to be the biggest online escorts database on the Web providing clients with all the necessary tools for "The Hobby".

Position:

Systems Developer

Tasks:

September 2002 - October 2002

MOBILE-ARTS.COM

Company Profile:

Mobile Arts is privately-held and headquartered in the Philippines. It was founded in 1999 as Mariex Inventures. In 2001, it was refocused to matching the needs of mobile consumers and enterprises in Asia with appropriate technologies from anywhere in the world and renamed Mobile Arts, Inc.

Position:

Systems Developer

Tasks:

May 2002 - August 2002

PHILMETRO.COM

Company Profile:

PHILMETRO.COM was founded in March 2000 with the mission; to provide performance that exceeds industry standards while providing our customers with superior service.

Position:

Systems Developer/Co-Administrator

Tasks:

October 2000 - March 2002

IT Laboratories, Filamer Christian College, Roxas City

Company Profile:

Filamer Christian College is committed to the education of the whole person; the development of God-given talents; enrichment of the intellect; the refinement of the character; reverence to God and the appreciation of God's creation.

Tenure:
October 2001 - March 2002
1 Position:

Computer Technician/Instructor (FULL TIME)

Tasks:
June 2001 - September 2001
Position:

Computer Technician/Instructor (PART TIME)

Tasks:
October 2000 - March 2001
Position:
Tasks:

Technical Skills

Hardware

I have written most of my software using high-level interpreted programming languages such as PHP, Perl, Java, and Python. Hardware is not always an issue since programs I write tend to run on any platform where an interpreter for the language I use exists.

My development machine is a 1.7Ghz Pentium 4 running Ubuntu Linux.

My prefered development environment is Eclipse with the following plugins:

For version control, I prefer to use darcs, though I am fully capable of working with other version control software such as CVS and Subversion.

I have sufficient knowledge in configuring local area networks with stations running either Win32 or Linux.

Operating Systems

I have been using Gnu/Linux operating systems since 1997 and have gained a thorough working knowlege of the many available Gnu/Linux distributions (Debian, Redhat, Fedora, Slackware, SuSE). I also have a thorough working knowlege of source-based Gnu/Linux distributions such as Gentoo and Linux From Scratch. I am also fully capable of working with the BSD derivatives of Unix (FreeBSD, OpenBSD).

I have abandoned Microsoft Windows (Win32 and Winnt) as a development platform in favor of open and standards-based platforms. Although on very rare occasions I still write code for Microsoft Windows using Python, Perl, Java, or C/C++.

Programming Languages

I prefer to use high-level interpreted languages such as PHP, Perl, Java, and Python because they allow for rapid application development and platform-independence. When it comes to systems development, I prefer to use the language which gives the most satisfactory return on investment in terms of time and development effort. For web development, PHP is my language of choice. I use Perl or Python for small throw-away programs and for other projects where PHP would not suffice. I do resort to using compiled high-level languages such as C, C++, and Java as the need arises.

I have also developed software using special-purpose languages such as YACC, LEX, Awk, Foxpro for DOS, and Visual Foxpro.

Most of the software I write these days interact with RDBMS servers such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, both of which implement a subset of ANSI SQL92 and SQL99.

I am currently learning C# and ASP.NET using an open source implementation of the .Net Framework (Mono).

Development Methodologies

I am capable of working with traditional software development methodologies (Waterfall model) or with more recent ``Agile'' methodologies. I do my best work alone, though I am willing to be part of a good design and development team.

Communications Skills

I can write effective English prose at any technical level, having served as Layout Artist and later as Associate Editor for our college paper, The Hillside Echo. I have also written tutorials and other materials for various seminars during my college years and during my tenure as an instructor.


Last updated: 2006-01-06