Curriculum vitae
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Address: Via San Carlo 17, 40121 Bologna (ITALY) Email: claudio@cicali.org, claudio.cicali@gmail.com Nationality: Italian Date of Birth: 6 July 1967 Mother tongue: Italian |
Work experience
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From May 2004 to today
Freelance consultant
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Current position By May, 2004 I am a freelance IT consultant mostly working as the CTO of a small software house in Bologna, Italy (Renomo). I'm primarly occupied in the architecture and development of web sites of various genres: institutional, ecommerce, sport, recruiting, etc. I have the direct responsability on the choice of the technology, the coordination of the development team, the drawing of specification for every project and applications deployment. My team in Renomo also builds web applications that act as management platforms tailored on the specific needs of the customer. One recurrent task of mine is, then, to collect the software requirements and then select the more appropriate technical solution(s). Being a very firmly convinced free software advocate, our solutions are all free software based (mostly GNU/Linux, PHP, Ruby On Rails, Ruby, Perl, Apache, MySQL, Postgresql, Subversion, Trac) and themselves released under the GPL. I've also a pedantically W3C standard compliant vision of the web, so my team have always to work along those recommendation. I'm also a teacher: Teaching In march 2006 I gave lessons on HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript for a total of 80 hours (8 hrs a day) to a class of 15 (European Social Fund) In december 2005 I gave lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX for a total of 48 hours. The slides used in the course are available at http://claudio.cicali.org/papers/80/documenti-su-varie-tecnologie-web distributed under a Creative Commons license (italian only). From October 2004 to December 2004 I've directed a class of 15, giving lessons in PHP, XML, HTML and CSS for a total of 240 hours. Other recent, software related activities
I'm the founder, developer and maintainer of that project. It's
been considered, so far, the only “web 2.0” italian site. It's
something like allcosuming.net, for people to share (and save)
their impressions on books, movies and albums. I'm very proud of
it. It's built in Ruby On Rails and MySQL.
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September 2002, May 2004
Employed in NordCom Milan, IT
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I worked at NordCom as a project manager and solution architect. All my activities were related to the main NordCom customer: Ferrovie Nord (http://www.ferrovienord.it), an italian railway company. I've managed various projects for their big information infractructure from CRM applications to statistical reports for train overdues, to CMS for Ferrovie Nord website. I was also engaged as proposal manager in some NordCom and Telecom contracts with Regione Lombardia. Techically, I've acquired or perfected my skills in Java and J2EE (Tomcat, Hibernate, JSTL, jsp), Oracle, MySQL. |
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1999, June 2002
Employed in CHL Florence, IT
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CHL (http://www.chl.it) han been the italian first great e-commerce shop, started in 1996. I was engaged as a developer as part of the project of completely rebuild their intranet (the backbone of all their IT department). When CHL went public, in 2000, I worked on their custom CRM system. Then I partecipated in the port of their DBMS to Oracle from MS SQLServer. CHL has been a great experience: their IT system is completely “home made” in C++ and Delphi, from the web server to the application server to the cache engine. Working on such a big and strange system popped up many non trivial problem to solve, from scalability to DBMS bottlenecks. Lately, I ended up in the R&D department, where we were approaching a complete rewrite of the system using J2EE, abandoning the Windows platform for GNU/Linux and Sun Solaris. |
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June - November 1999
Employed in EDS Siena, IT
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I was employed in EDS (http://www.eds.com) as a contractor in Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Siena, to analyze and give instruments for monitoring MPS financial flows. |
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From 1990 to 1999
Employed in Infogroup Florence, IT
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Infogroup is an important software house in florence, where I started my career. I was employed as a developer in C and COBOL. We mainly developed software for banks and insurance companies. |
Education
September 1981 – July 1986 Liceo Scientifico
Diploma di Maturità Scientifica
Final mark: 45/60
Languages
Mother tongue: italian
other languages: English (reading excellent, writing good, verbal: basic)
Competence summary
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Work methodology approach
I'm firmly convinced that “interface is the application”. I also work hard to stay focused on the “agile” methodology approach and to have the customer involved in all the iteration that an application may have. If I believe that what I'm doing is good for me or for my customer I always work with passion and motivation and trying to have my team feel the same.
What I love, love to do
Computer programming, graphics, web technologies, wood ship models, photography (http://www.flickr.com/photos/enebish/), movies, good food, good wine.