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Who am I?

My name is Julio Flores Schwarzbeck, I am a Mexican national living in the US for more than 10 years currently employed as a Software Engineer, specializing in web application developing using Python. I currently work at a financial firm located in Vancouver WA and San Mateo, CA, and live in the small but charming town of Camas, WA.
 
Before I turned into another IT drone in Corporate America I worked Extensively developing web applications using the Zope web development framework, and used Python as my programming language of choice for more than 9 years hands-on and using almost exclusively Open Source tools and Operating Systems (Primarily Linux).
 
I currently work in C# application development, building mostly middle-tier custom (back-end) components under Windows, I've grown somewhat fondly of the C# language and I've learned to respect it, I still think Python has the edge when it comes to rapid prototyping and development time.
 
I am an Industrial and Systems Engineer, with a BS in Manufacturing and Systems Engineering by my alma mater: Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora Located in Sonora México.
 
I am a hardcore Linux fan, using it since the RedHat 5.0 era until 2006. In that year, I switched to OS X and what a breathe of fresh air that was, I used the Mac for 3 years and since last December, I went back to my roots and switched back to Linux, not before turning my wife into a Mac convert and giving her both my iMac and MacBook :).
 
For the past couple of months I've been working (a lot) with what I consider to be the best web development framework for the python programming language: web2py. web2py is a development environment that allows the creation of highly dynamic web applications maybe 20x times easier than Django, it uses roughly the same premise and "patterns" (darn I hate buzz words) but is small, extremely easy to use (I developed this very blog in about 2 weeks) and extensible (I created pyforum.org in about 4 weeks, traffic has been steady since and the system takes the load just fine while being constantly updated). Please click the link web2py for more information on web2py.
 
Among the projects that I've worked on that have a somewhat significant visibility are:
 

• NetAID.org [Developer's Team Member] - U.N. Sponsored Project
• pyforum.org [Author] - (hopefully) soon-to-be web2py's "offical" message board system
• zForum.org [Author] - Zope2-Based Message Board System
• zTracker.org [Author] - Zope2-based Defect Tracking System loosely based on Trac
• AIA Actor's Studio [Author] - Intranet and Website for Movie Casting in Burbank, CA

If you are still awake, you may view my Resume (PDF Format - English).