Hire me!

I am currently, happily employed at Jobrapido, in Milan. I really am not looking for another job. However, if you really think you can make me happy, I might be interested in discussing an offer. So, now I should tell you how you could make me happy:

  • Give me cash. Possibly, > 30K€/year, net.
  • Offer a job having to do with airplanes and aviation.
  • Be Google, Apple, Yahoo or Amazon. Or something alike. I look not for size: I look for achievement, bleeding-edgeness, cleverness and innovative mindset.
  • Have anything else you think I could possibly like, just give it a shot: I might consider.
Anyway, you can read my up-to-date resume (or CV, if you prefer) here. If you want a nicer version, either plaintext or PDF, just ask. I am not putting them here as they have my personal contact info, which I don't want to publish too much.

Profile

  • Laurea Magistrale (roughly a M.Sc.) with 110/110 in Computer Science
  • Large experience in scientific culture divulgation and academic research
  • Knowledge of many foreign languages
  • Proficient in C, PHP, Perl, Caché ObjectScript, Java and HTML programming
  • Born in June 1980
  • Italian Citizen

Education

  • Università degli Studi di Genova, Laurea Magistrale (roughly a M.Sc.) in Computer Science, grade 110/110 — Jan 2007
  • Università degli Studi di Genova, Laurea (roughly a B.Sc.) in Computer Science, grade 107/110 — July 2004

Experience

  • R&D Software Egineer, Jobrapido S.r.l. — 2009 to date
    Software engineer assigned to product evolution research and development. In charge of technical analysis, software design and implementation of strategical software components for the Jobrapido platform and website.

  • Technical Lead, Softeco Sismat S.p.A. — 2008 - 2009
    Leader for the technical teams involved in Enterprise-scale applications for strategic customers. In charge of client satisfaction, requirement analysis, design and technical coordination of the teams of developers, designers and testers.

  • R&D Analyst Programmer, Softeco Sismat S.p.A. — 2007 - 2008
    Full time Analyst Programmer in the Research and Development division of Softeco Sismat S.p.A., working mainly on European Community funded research projects.

  • Research collaboration, Università del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro — 2006
    Year-long collaboration with the Computer Science Department of Università del Piemonte Orientale A.Avogadro to research and develop a prototype of a distributed personal filesystem with peer-to-peer architecture.

  • Customization of the University-wide E-Learning platform, University of Genoa —2006
    Customization, installation and deployment of the University wide e-learning platform (Moodle) in collaboration with the technical central office of the University of Genoa.

  • Development of a web-based platform for control and diagnosis of Heart Failure — 2005-2006
    Design, implementation and deployment of a web-based application for data management and statistical analysis aimed to diagnosis and prevention of chronic heart failure for the cardiological unit of the Department of Internal Medicine of the University of Genoa.

  • Research activity, University of Genoa — 2004-2005
    Winner of a research grant of the University of Genoa, Computer Science Department.

  • Responsible of the E-Learning platform, Computer Science Department, University of Genoa — 2004-2005
    Installed, customized, maintained and assisted users of the e-learning platform used by the Computer Science Department of the University of Genoa (Moodle). It has also been necessary to develop some dedicated modules for unforeseen activities.

  • FestivaLetteratura, Mantova — 2005
    Scientific explainer and training responsible of the volunteer team at the scientific exhibition "Una Fetta di Scienza" at the International Book Festival in Mantova.

  • Festival della Scienza, Genoa — 2004 - 2005
    Coordinator of the scientific explainers in two different editions of the Genoa Science Festival. I managed the selection, the training and the job of over 650 people in each edition in order to guarantee maximum visitor's satisfaction and success of the Festival itself. I also had to develop a dedicated software tool to manage human resources and help inter-team interaction of the explainers.

  • Scientific Explainer for Editoriale Scienza — 2004 - 2007
    Scientific explainer for different experiences in different locations —mostly libraries— with differently aged and sized groups of people for Editoriale Scienza.

  • Due Settimane per la Scienza, Castel Porziano (Rome) — 2004
    Scientific explainer in a three-person team selected from over 300 for the event "Due Settimane per la Scienza" (Two weeks for science) organized by the Italian Republic Presidency in the presidential estate of Castel Porziano (Rome). At the end of the job I received an official commendation letter by the Secretary of State's office.

  • Festival della Scienza, Genoa — 2003
    Exhibition responsible at the Genoa Science Festival. I managed a team of 20 people on the field, solved immediate problems during the exhibition and guaranteed customer's satisfaction.

  • Volunteer translator for the Free Software Foundation Europe — 2003 to date
    I translated many technical and non technical documents from English to Italian and from Italian to English for the Free Software Foundation Europe.

  • Song writer — 2003 to date
    Song writer in collaboration with the emerging artist Walter Ego. Such cooperation lead in 2006 to the production of a record, "Ego", produced by Liguria Records and distributed by Delta Dischi, containing five songs I wrote.

  • Laboratory Assistant for the course of Informatica Generale (Computer Science 101), University of Genoa — 2002
    Collaborated with professors to prepare and present laboratory exercises. I supervised student's group work. I also designed and developed some didactic software tools, complete with documentation and examples, for some of the lessons.

  • Computer Science teacher — 1998 - 1999
    Teacher of basic computer science, computer usage and computer programming for the students of Liceo Socio Psico Pedagogico S. Pertini in Genoa.

  • Journalistic collaboration — 1999
    I wrote a series of issues about high school education and the high school final exams on the national newspaper "La Repubblica".

  • Freelance Software Developer — 1997 to date
    I developed many software packages. This included various e-medicine applications, database front ends, web sites, extensions to the Emacs text editor. I also significantly contributed to Free Software projects such as Qingy.

Skills

  • Known languages:
    • Italian, English: Excellent expression and comprehension abitilites, both written and spoken.
    • Spanish, German: Middle level abilities, both written and spoken.
    • LIS (Italian Sign Language): Elementary level of expression and comprehension.
    • French, Modern Greek: Basic knowledge, spoken and written.
  • Known programming languages:
    • Proficient in C, C++ , Caché ObjectScript, Java, HTML, PHP, Perl, Yacc (Bison) and Lex (Flex)
    • Some experience with Objective-C, LISP, XML, JavaScript and Ajax, SOAP, XML-RPC, X86 Assembly and Bash scripting
    • Able to quickly and proficiently learn other languages upon request.
  • Other:
    • Unix system administrator
    • GNU/Linux
    • MacOS X
    • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL 99)
    • Latex
    • Texinfo
    • Mathematical, writing and teaching abilities
    • Driving license, European B class, full, clean