Laura Herrera's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Digital Media Technology Supervisor @ As part of Turner International, which provides technology services to the EMEA, Latam and APAC regions, my main roll is the liaison with the different parts of the business in EMEA, the Digital departments and the Commercial teams to gather their needs and requirements and work with the different teams to offer the best technical solutions that would satisfy the business expectations in a timely and cost effective manner. I supervise a team of web developers which main task is to maintain the existing digital properties as well as to liaise with external vendors and other teams within Turner, to integrate new applications, websites, games, etcetera into our existing web sites. It is our purpose to ensure that all digital products that are created at Turner and in Turner’s behalf, are built in a robust and secure way following the highest standards and best practices. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) London, United KingdomSr. Systems Analyst @ Design, Plan, Maintain and Support Unix and web services: this includes providing local, and remote UNIX and web server operations support, troubleshooting, capacity and disaster-recovery planning in order to ensure the highest uptime for all our digital properties. Work with Atlanta TTS services group to ensure that corporate standards are followed. Install, configure, and maintain UNIX servers deployed within the EMEA region. Perform routine operational tasks, review logs and health check in regular basis. Platforms include Red Hat Linux and Solaris. Provide support for software/hardware problem determination, co-coordinating with suppliers where necessary, ensuring that all problems are avoided or resolved. Also ensure that all changes are planned, documented, implemented and tested, with special emphasis on the reliability, efficiency and security of the production systems Perform daily administration and operational work related to the UNIX and web services for internal teams, vendors and external customers and developers. From September 2011 to Present (4 years 4 months) London, United KingdomWeb Systems Administrator @ Support and maintenance of the whole web infrastructure that gave service to all titles within Hearst and Hachette. Optimization of all Digital Properties to ensure best response times, high availability and 99.8% uptime throughout the whole service stack. From August 2011 to August 2011 (1 month) London, United KingdomWeb Systems Administrator @ My main tasks were maintaining the Red Hat infrastructure, which consisted of about 50 servers with various applications Maintenance of PHP based using Mysql 5.0 as the data store, and support of other applications such as Tungsten DB, MCluster db, Varnish, Nodejs, Monitoring systems are Nagios and Cacti. Liaising with developers to debug and troubleshooting code of applications. Participating on discussions to redistribute load over the infrastructure trying to leave dedicated clusters running specific software and fine tuning for such applications. Creation of dev and staging environments for all of the sites, as well as working together with the lead developers to improve their deployment process as well as optimizing the main websites From April 2011 to July 2011 (4 months) London, United KingdomSystems Administrator @ Maintenance of the web platform for all the brands that comprise IPC Digital Migrating all of our current servers from Solaris 10 to RHEL5, our web platform currently constituted mainly of Solaris 10 and some Red Hat Linux. Provide the developer’s teams with new configured web servers for the new websites developed using Drupal Liaise with the developers to find errors and make improvements to the code Working together with senior developers identifying the best configurations and parameter tuning of Apache, PHP, memcache, APC, MySQL for better performance of the websites Maintain communication and support to the editorial teams and to the in-house built CMS Reconfiguration of the internal networking of the company, services, users, etc Participation on the recreation of the main services of the company including DHCP, FTP, SMTP, Squid, Puppet, Cobbler Communication with the business and help to all the editorial teams for each brand in case of website failures or CMS problems From September 2007 to April 2011 (3 years 8 months) London, United KingdomTechnology Architect @ From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Mexico City Area, MexicoMaster's degree, Computer Science @ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México From 1996 to 1999 Master's degree, Computer Science @ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México From 1994 to 1997 Laura Herrera is skilled in: Apache, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Web Development, CMS, Subversion, jQuery, Agile Methodologies, CSS, JSON, Web Content Management, AJAX, Git, Web Applications