Cristian Gamboa has over 20 years of experience in information technology, with expertise in Linux, Unix, Windows, and virtualization. He has managed large, global projects involving thousands of servers, VMs, and locations. Gamboa is skilled in programming, networking, storage, and security and has worked with many retailers and restaurant chains on POS, back-office, and store systems.

1. CRISTIAN GAMBOA
Cristian_gamboa@hotmail.com | 630-240-8083 | North Aurora, IL 60542 USA
SUMMARY
• Computer Engineer and Information Technology.
• Replicated Site Experience, up to 16,000 Unix server, 7,000 VMware , 8,000 W2003 and
28,000 XPe(POS/Kiosk)
• POS, KIOSK,Mobil and Back Office (DOS, Linux, Windows XPE, Windows-CE, IBM 4690)
• HQ to Stores polling experience, over 16,000 stores world wide , tcp/ip and modems
• Credit Card PCI Security Experience
• ORPOS, ORBO, ORCO,( large deployments 10,000 Stores in 10 Countries ex Commerce-
360).
• Technical Leader in various global projects; Europe, Asia & Latin America regions.
• Bilingual, Spanish English (also basic Portuguese)
• Unix Networking, AIX, HP-UX, SUN, DG-UX, CISCO, LINUX, SCO, VMware, Hyper-V
• Microsoft XP CE/Embedded/W2003/W2008
• Virtualization Projects, Virtual OS (VMware, Hyper-V,VS, Merge) & Virtual devices, large
virtualization environments from physical, virtual machine to corresponding applications,
p2p, p2v, AD Integration, security, VLAN, cloning, template design, IIS & Apache, very
large WAN connectivity,(32,000 locations).
• New products vulnerability tests, (applications and network), using various methods and
security verification tools.
• New technology products recommendation, (hardware, software), at the management
advisory band.
• High level consultant during the development life cycle for all new product and
enhancements.
• Product Management, Technical specs and road maps.
• MRP & ERP under MCBA, MINCOM and MACOLA
• EDI X12 HIPAA
• Experience in Software Development SLDC
• World Wide Support 4th level (Call, traveling, incident tracking and Resolution) including
different languages and time zones
• 10 years of Sales Engineering experience
SOFTWARE
AIX, HP-UX, LINUX, VMware, Hyper-V, XEN, Merge, IRIX, SUN, SUN NET MANAGER , HP Open-
view, SNMP, DG-UX, SCO, ORACLE, INFORMIX, Documentum, MCBA, SLES, SLED, SLEPOS,
(Suse Point of Service), kiwi Image creator, SUSE STUDIO, LoneTar, C/C++ ,DG/UX, Windows
XP-Embedded CE/XPe, Windows XP-PRO/2003/2008, Java, JBoss, J2EE, ULTRIX, CISCO,
MIMS, BAILEY, VULCAN, PICTURE TEL, RM / LPI COBOL, Korn/Bourn/C-Shell TCL/TK,Expect,
NFS , Samba, PostgresSQL, SharePoint, NewPOS, PC-POS, Open-PEWS, Credit Card ,
(SoftPOS), PCI Security, Spread, win PEEEE , imageX, RemoteWare, BigFix, Apprmor, rsyslog,
iptables, Open LDAP, SLM, XEN Server/Embedded XEN, XML Data Store/Retrieval, XML-RPC,
ssh & IPsec , Win XP Embedded Studio, Thin Clients , flash-disk write filters.Hitachi Storage
Manager, cron,(crontab and at ), jobs management
HARDWARE
PAR-POS, PANASONIC-POS, NCR-POS, IBM-POS SUREPOS-700 4800-742/743, HP-POS,
TYCO-POS, IBM Servers, HP, SUN, COMPAQ, NEAX PABX, IP FAX, CISCO, UNISYS, Terminal
Servers, HUBS, Radio Link - Optical Fiber, Satellite Connection, Print Server, TELXON, SONY TV
network, Smart UPS. Exabyte tape libraries, Data General, Computer Telephony, Intel Matrix
Storage, LSI SATA Disk Array, Adaptec SCSI/SATA Disk Arrays, Controllers, DG-CLARiiON

2. Storage, EMC2 Storage Systems, Magellan IBM NCR Bar-Code Scanner, Hitachi Storage
Systems. Micros-3700/9700, Micros-Fidelios, Traffic Counters SMS/Axper
MIGRATIONS/DEPLOYMENTS
DOS to Linux, Windows to Unix/Linux, Unix to Linux, Windows to VMware/Hyper-V, Linux to
VMware, Unix to VMware, Unix to Hyper-v, Unix to Windows,(using cygwin and SFU C and
bash/shell/awk )
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
• Worldwide large retail chains over 10,000 Stores
• Restaurants - the two largest chains, 32,000+ worldwide
• Supermarket 11,000
• Hospitality ,(Hotels & Resorts )
• Mining (Copper, Iron , Gold, Silver)
• Consulting (Project Manager, Technical Consultant, Programmer)
• 16,000 Unix Servers, 22,000 Linux Servers, 9,000 Windows 2003
EXPERIENCE
SUSE Jan 2016 to Actual
• Suse Manager 2.1/3.x , Space-Walk
• SLEPOS
• SLES/SLED
• Scripting,(shell, Perl, Expect)
• Z-Linux/SAP-HANA
Beaumont Hospitals/Santa Rosa Oct 2015 to Feb 2016
• Senior System Eng. Hp-Ux/Linux
• Scripting,(shell, Perl, Expect)
• EDI Migration from HPUX to Linux
• shell to bash Migration
• X12 HIPAA Scripting
• Patching/Updates Unix/Microsoft
• P2V Migration
McDonalds/IPS Apr 2015 to Dec 2015
• Senior System Eng. UNIX, Hyper-V, Windows 2012 R2
• Virtualization Eng
• Scripting,(shell, Perl, Power Shell, Expect)
• Back Office Integration, migration from VMware to Hyper-V
• P2V, V2V.
• Patching/Updates Unix/Microsoft
• Bios update Scriting
ULTA Feb 2015 to Sep 2015
• Senior System Eng RHEL 6.x/7.x, Oracle 11.x/12.x JBOSS 6.3 + Java + Cognos
• F5 , Clustering
• Manhattan Associate WMS and DF/IO(FNR) support/installation/updates
• SDN patching WMS/DFIO/FNR

3. • bash, python, perl, C, basic ant
• PBIS, PowerBroker Identity services
• Application Support Level 3 for FNR/DFIO
• Python/Bash Scripting
ULTA , ( Cont. )
• Storage Management ,(LUN->VG-LVM-XFS)
• Tidal – cron-jobs
• Backups
Infogain July 2014 - Feb 2015
• Store Systems, Technical Project Manager/Lab Manager for ASCENA,(Catherines, Lyan
Bryar)
• Red Hat + Oracle + Weblogic Installation/configuration/performance tuning
• Python,(jython), programming
• Windows Batch Programming
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
• HTA programming
• Network Management
• Replacement of IP POS with ORPOS
• Fujitsu Terminals, POSReady 7 64 bits
• Retail Hardware Configuration , Receipt Printers, Bar Code Scanners, Touch-screens
• Gold Box Creation for POS and Server
• Deployment Procedures and Programming
• Store System Architecture Design
• Update/Upgrade Automation
• Traffic Counter migration using SMS/Axper batch programming
Skillnet Inc Oct 2013 - Oct 2014
• Store Systems, Technical Project Manager for different Oracle Retail Projects including
American Eagle, Mill Farm &Fleet , TJ-Max , NBTY-UK
• ORPOS,( ex Commerce-360), ORBO, ORCO under Windows 7/2009/Sles/11/Slepos
• Retail Hardware Configuration , Receipt Printers, Bar Code Scanners, Touc-screens
• Gold Box Creation for POS and Server
• Deployment Procedures and Programming
• Store System Architecture Design
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
• Red Hat + Oracle + Weblogic Installation/configuration/performance tuning
• Python,(jython), programming
• Windows Batch Programming
• Micros POS 3700
• Hta programming
QSRSOFT INC Jan 2011 - Jan 2014
ISP Consultants
• Remote Data Center Support

4. • Data Processing for 15,000 Stores.
• SUSE Linux ,(SLES & Open SUSE), 10.x11.x/12.1 , MySQL, JIRA, Apache, Solaris 10/11,
• zfs, xfs, reiserfs, Bacula
• Administration of *nix servers that poll and process data from 16,000 stores
• VMWare EXS/i 4.x/5.x where Linux and windows VMs run to process over 8 TB of data
• Migration from VMware to KVM-Suse
• Remote backups for 10,000 locations using secure ftp, sftp
• Solaris 10.x/10.x Administration
• VMWare esx/esxi/server. Linux and Windows Vms,
• pfsense, Dell Equallogic SANs and FreeNAS.
• Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting
ISP CONSULTANTS 2012 - 2014
Senior Consultant QSR Soft & McDonald's Corp
• NewPOS, support, Back-Office, Kios
• Hyper-v/VMware for Store Servers
Eddie Bauer Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
• Store Systems, Technical Project Manager for 300 Stores
• ORPOS, (ex Commerce-360) ORBO, ORCO under Windows Xpe 2009
• Gold Box Creation for POS and Server
• Deployment Procedures and Programming
• Store System Architecture Design
GAP/OLD NAVY Oct 2010 - Jan 2011
SUSE Linux 11.2/11.3/11.4, SLEPS 9/11, Oracle-POS 360, MQ Series 10,000 Stores.
• Basic POS IBM 4690 configuration and interfacing. This OS was been replaced with
SLEPOS.
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
• ORPOS,( ex Commerce-360), ORBO using Suse Linux POS ,(SLEPOS )
• Worldwide retail POS effort, working for Europe, China and Japan next Store System
• QA Lab management, Image Creation, shell/perl scripting.
• 10,000 Locations/20,000 Linux Devices.
IBM GTS March 2010 – Oct 2011
SUSE Linux 11.2/11.3/11.4, RH 4.x/5.x
AIX, Red Hat, IBM Blade h and system X. Web Sphere Appliances
• PoweShell v1/2
• Shell Scripting/CLI Scripting
• General Support , Linux Installation, shell scripting.
• Blade H Installation and Support in AMEX.
• VMware & Hyper-V support.
• Quest Diagnostics, Emergency Recovery Exercise, with IBM Business Continuity and
Resiliency Services. 100 RH rebuilds using kickstart.

5. • Sprint Nextel RH HAC, Conga,(luci & ricci), 9 nodes cluster for a migration from SUN, ksh
annalists and port.
• Micros-Fidelios in Caribbean Hotel Chain
BURLINGTON COATS FACTORY Store Systems, ( Nytio ) Nov 2010 – March 2011
SUSE Linux 11.2/11.3/SLES/SLED/SLEPOS POS & Back Office
AIX, Sun-OS 9/10, Solaris, Red Hat, Fedora
• General Support Stores, Linux-POS and Back-Office.
• Verifone, credit card software, networking
• ITIL wiki Service Now. POS based on Red Hat/Fedora/SUSE 11.2
• Sun-OS Administration, veritas-fs, ssh , ZLM. SCO Unix.
• Oracle Support over Unix & Windows
• Nagios alarm system
• TOMCAT Support.
• Net Backup
• Preparation of test beds for Oracle 360 commerce, ORPOS,(ex Commerce-360 ),
ORBO,ORCO
• Support for Servers running Micro-strategy 9,(BI).
• IBM, EMC2, Hitachi
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
DOLLAR GENERAL Store Systems Feb 2010 Nov 2010
SUSE Linux 11.2/11.3/SLES/SLED/SLEPOS POS
• Migration of 500 C programs and scripts from MS to SUSE Linux 11.2 Using gcc, make,
cvs.
• Testing and reprogramming of credit card readers, balances, bar code scanners, Customer
Display Units.
• Creation of gold single Linux Image for the POS next generation, based on IBM 4800-74X,
resulting image is PCI compliant. Including MSR, Bar Code Readers, Balances.
• Design and code Deployment tools over SLEPOS/SLES 11 for 8500 Stores using VSAT
connectivity.
• Image ghosting, Image Maintenance, SLES-11 Servers Setup, PXE Boot Tiny Core 2.6
busy-box and Clonzilla Boot
• ZLM with Oracle 11 as db engine, SLM, Open LDAP, ntp, rsyslogd, iptables. Transform to
RemoteWare to Linux version and BigFix SUSE-Linux Clients.
• CVS Repository. IBM + SUSE Linux
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT

6. • Scrum methodology, share point tools.
MCDONALDS CORPORATION Worldwide Restaurant Systems 2005 Jan-2010
Technology Project Manager
• Creation of gold Virtual Machines for Hyper-V Core and VMware, 21,000 VMs installed in
USA.
• Product Manager for Global Servers Design aka Store Controller based on Windows
2003/2008 and Hyper-V Server over 8,000 servers installed worldwide. P2P, P2V.
• Design coding and QA of backup/restore and Disaster Recovery of VMware/Hyper-V VMs
in a 24/7 network environment of XPe, W2003R2, NewPOS 3/6 Java, Power Shell, Unix-
Shell, awk.
• Designing & Testing the Virtual Environment for our 32,000 restaurants using Hyper-V
Core/Server. Pilots in USA and France. Exchanging data through NFS, SAMBA and CIF.
• Saved $3M to Japan redesigning the memory foot print of over 6000 devices already
installed.
• Save over Millions worldwide in Licenses with a solution replacing DOS-GHOST with win-
PE-imageX.
• Creation of Windows 2003 image to support Kiosk.
• 4th level support for our Global Server, (Store Controller), in total 32,000 restaurants.
• 4th level support for our multi screen Kitchen Video Display, used in 120 countries.
• Product Manager for Embedded Devices: Information Displays, thin clients, Kiosk and POS
based on Windows XPe over 50,000 thin clients installed worldwide.
• Active member of the McDonald's IT Center of Excellence, (COE), representing USA.
• ITIL and PM++. Share-point tools.
• Help porting POS code from DOS to Linux and Windows XP Embedded.
• First Credit Card payment system in Fast Food industry.
• Software Expertise in applied technology like Windows XP Embedded, W2003, W2008,
Win-CE, WAIK, Microsoft-BDD, SCCM, SMS, AIX, Linux, Server/Embedded/Workstation,
VMware, Ms Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Merge and VP/IX, SMS-SNMP, Power Shell, and
Microsoft SFU, SCO-UNIX, SUSE and RH Linux, Windows-PE 1X/ 2.X,(win-PE), BCDedit
and imageX. Call center system using voIP and Oracle 11 as DB engine, used
PosgresSQL..
• Hardware POS, (Panasonic, Par, NCR, IBM, ELO), IP Cameras, IP Serial, Embedded
Devices, SATA/SCSI Disk Arrays, Solid State HD, SD Cards, Windows XPe & CE. HP
Servers, IBM Servers.
• Micros 3700 migration to NewPOS.
ISP CONSULTANTS 2003 - 2005
Senior Consultant QSR Soft & McDonald's Corp
Software: SCO UNIX 5.0.6 SUSE Linux 9.x , Windows 2003, Microsoft SFU, Postgresql SQL
Tuning, Shell & k-shell, TCL/TK & Expect. Preparation of Base Server for NewPOS call center
implementations, Juke Box SCSI Commands, MIT, C-Programming, Merge, Lone Tar Network
Backup, Windows 98/2K/XP, VERIFONE, Ingenico, SoftPOS. Basic HTML coding, SNMP + shell
script to monitor router performance and backup lines. Configured servers using ftp/ rsync and
remote software with multicast.
Hardware: IBM E-servers/7600, EXABYTE Tape Libraries, DakTech SATA RAID Installations. ,
Linksys Gigabit switches & Routers. HP-DVD+RW for software distribution, (300n), installation of

7. various hard disks, EIDE, SATA, SCSCI, Installation of various Tape Drives, (Exabyte, mammoth,
Irwin, Western Digital). Belkin UPSs, Bulldog UPS Monitor, (X-Windows and HTMP consoles)
Project Description: Created Modem Manager to poll data from an 800 UNIX Server, using
shell/expect and tcl. Created routines to manage DVD burning to replace 6 CDs with 1 DVD.
Configured Merge Windows for new applications. Gold Box, (Server Image), for new server,
Hardware selection and testing, Re-plat forming Project, Unix Administrator.
CCSC 1998 2004
Consultant on site at the following clients:
• Caldera International (September, 2001 May, 2003)
Linux, Shell, Awk,
• NCR - Wall-Mart (June, 2001)
Hp-Ux,AIX,TOS Oracle & Informix
• Stardata Technology (January, 2001)
Linux + Apache , LAMP
• DuPont CCS (March, 2000 December, 2000)
HP-UX Oracle + Documentum
• SCO (November, 1998 March, 2000)
SCO Unix/UnixWare/Xenix
Other accounts served on short term projects (3 to 6 weeks)
NASDAQ CTA
J.D. Byrider Gateway Computers
Papa Johns Monroe Muffler
TruServ US Vision
Idexx Informatics Siemens NC for AutoZone
SCO Schlotterbeck & Foss
VIA Wireless CSK Auto
Target, Menards, Lents Crafters Manpower
Fruit of the Loom AutoZone
Technology Unlimited, Inc. Sterling Jewelers
Boston Gas Sight Resources
Army Emergency Relief Reynolds & Reynolds
Tower Loan UNISYS
LATAM EXPERIENCE South-America (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia) 1994 1998
November 1994 July 1998: BHP Minerals ( Minera Escondida Ltda )

8. UNIX, Windows 95/NT, VMS, MS-Office, Embedded System - PLC - Automatic Controllers &
Systems ,MIMS, ORACLE, INFORMIX, BAILEY, Factory Link, Link One, F&P and WENCO.,
FoxPro, WENCO and MAPS.
Windows NT and Window 3.1X/95 for Right Fax. 4 sites.
Installed a Telephone Messaging System over 4 NEAX 2400 SDS and 1 NEAX 7400.
Installed, configured and connected Dialogic Cards, NICs, and CISCO Routers, UB / 3COM /
DLINK Hubs, FO Designed and implemented Video Conference Facilities for 4 sites, extended
ISDN lines to mine and Port sites using NOKIA equipment. ISDN Lines NOKIA MUX 2 Megs
Channel NOKIA ILT, DM8, DF8 and DM2 boards installation and programming. Installed, tested or
recommended OCR Board, VR Technology, and PAXB with ISND capabilities.
Project Management Skills
• Ability to effectively communicate in English/Spanish verbally and in writing
• Creation, maintaining and updating documentation
• Experience training end users on hardware and software
• Manage Proof of concept
• Time management skills
• Report status, escalate changes, issues, risks for resolution when needed.
• Create and monitor project hardware and software requirements.
• Manage vendor meetings
• Follow up on meeting
• Manage a budget
• I have lead project teams from initiation, planning, execution to closure phases
• Facilitate meetings with development, operations teams.
• Detailed understanding of SDLC.
Technically credible:
PC Skills Microsoft Office Suite
SharePoint
MS Excel Pivot Tables, Look-Ups, Functions and Formulas
MS Word
MS PowerPoint
MS Project
MS Visio
SQL Query
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Computer Engineering Degree, University of Santiago
• Windows 2003 Server Administrator
• Windows 2003 Server Security
• CISCO Connectivity
• AIX Instructor, Administrator
• LAN & WAN Administration
• Sun Net Manager
• HP/UX
• Java Programming
• Project Management
• Time Management