Sun STARS around the globe: Juan Carlos Fernandez Martin
Thursday Mar 06, 2008
What is this Sun STAR doing in front of a ship in Santander, in the North of Spain? What do you think?? A dedicated Sun engineer will use all available resources to help out a customer or colleague!
Introducing ---> Juan Carlos Fernandez Martin!
Juan-Carlos, how long have you been employed with Sun and where are you located?
I joined Sun 2 Jan 1997 so let me think uhmmmm 11 years, I didn't realize it was so long, it looks was yesterday when I started.... I am located at the Sun office in Madrid, Spain.
During this 11 years we have moved from Torre Picasso in the middle of the city to Parque Empresarial "Parque Norte" that is not exactly in the downtown but I am happy because it take me 10 min to come to the office, and 5 min to go back home (Guess why ?)
What is your current job role?
My current role is Solution Architect, but I have been 6 year as Benchmark Engineer, 4 year as System Engineer on Migrations and last October I moved to Finance Business unit.
Have you had the opportunity to assist customers in creating energy efficient data centers?
In LBS (Life before Sun) I worked for a Siemens partner, and he tell me his biggest dream to see a Mainframe application to run on a Unix system (at the level it was sinix, Unix from Siemens) . I worked very hard for 9 months but when I showed him the results , and how easy it will be implement at the customer data center, he was nearly crying. This was a great moment.
What do you like about working for Sun?
Each new project is a new challenge, where in addition to helping a customer, It allows me to learn something new, so from this point of view I am very happy to work at Sun, and I am always ready to learn anything.
What is your favorite "junk" food?
Without doubt is "Tortilla española", not only tourists who like it, also me 
of course.
Do you participate in any social networking websites?
Yes, I participate in LinkedIn, Neurona, Xing, but it take me too much time but really now, I only maintained Linkedln.
Please list any Sun or external communities that you are a member of.
From the first days I joined Sun I started as Technical Ambassador, now I would like to continue as Solaris Ambassador but there is not free place for me in this moment, so I am waiting a free slot.
Tell us a little known fact about yourself.
Oh my family, I have a wife and two daughters, the biggest is studying at the Heidelberg University in Germany, so I learn to use the skype and tools like this, that allow us to be in touch with my daughter.
Outside of work and family, is there anything that you're passionate about?
Always I have curiosity for Mayas, Incas, etc civilizations, so any time I found a book that tell me about this civilizations I read it without sleeping until I finish. That's really what I like.
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