Edmondo Ferretti

Current

• Software Developer / Integration Specialist at Intuition Publishing Ltd.

Past

• Hosting & Application Support Specialist at Intuition Publishing Ltd.
• MS-SQL Product Lead at Hewlett-Packard
• Microsoft Developer Analyst at Hewlett-Packard

• Research Consultant at ELIOS Lab, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Genova
• Università degli Studi di Genova

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Connections

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Industry

E-Learning

Websites

• My Company
• My Articles

Edmondo Ferretti’s Summary

Microsoft Certified Engineer with 8 years research and industry experience in the e-learning and managed IT services sectors.
Design and development of Web Services, Web and Mobile Applications. Implementation and support of enterprise systems in production and pre-production environments. Test and analysis of performance for complex Web based systems.
Strong academic background (MSc in Electronic Engineering 109/110 and PhD in Edutainment) and great documenting skills. Co-Author of 10 scientific papers.

Edmondo Ferretti’s Specialties:

- Web based development: ASP/ASP.net, AJAX, SOAP, WSE, Javascript, XML/XSL, XHTML, CSS, Flash +AS
- Mobile based development: Java, C#
- Database development and administration: SQL2000/2005 (MCTS SQL 2005, MCITP:DBA)
- Hosting: IIS (MCTS Win2003 Hosted Environments), Apache
- Web based troubleshooting: Network Monitor, WireShark, Fiddler, FireBug, SQL Profiler
- Web accelerators: ISA 2004/2006 (MCP ISA 2004)
- Virtualization: MS Virtual Server, VMWare
- E-learning standards: SCORM, AICC

Edmondo Ferretti’s Experience

• Software Developer / Integration Specialist

  Intuition Publishing Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  - Work as software engineer with a variety of programming languages including C#, VB.NET, Java, JavaScript and T-SQL.
  Areas of competence:
  • Intuition's next generation LMS (Learning Management System)
  • Mobile Learning Solutions (BlackBerry and Windows Mobile)
  • Integration between existing Intuition's solutions and 3rd party LMSs

• Hosting & Application Support Specialist

  Intuition Publishing Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; E-Learning industry)

  October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)

  - Responsible for the day to day management of the more than 300 websites hosted in our state of the art servers
  - Troubleshoot questions to proactively address issues

• MS-SQL Product Lead

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — September 2007 (6 months)

  - Ensure that the technical support to Microsoft Professional and Gold Partners for Microsoft SQL Server is provided with the correct technical level and in a timely manner
  - Coach a number of people and guide them through their technical development
  - Escalate cases to Microsoft and maintain a close working relationship with the Microsoft PTL and Global Technical Support Center
  - Perform technical interviews on SQL

• Microsoft Developer Analyst

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  - Troubleshoot Microsoft Professional Italian and Nordic customers’ issues regarding SQL Server 2000/2005, IIS Server 5.0/6.0 and ISA Server 2000/2004/2006. Technical support include:
  • SQL: Setup, Performance, Replication, Integration Services, Clustering, CPU/IO/Memory issues as well as other issues the customer DBAs on site cannot resolve
  • IIS: Code revision and dump analysis
  • ISA: Setup of complex front-back end scenarios, use of virtualization to reproduce configuration issues in test environment and analysis of network traces
  - SQL Product Lead stand in and mentor of several engineers mainly for SQL and ISA

• Research Consultant

  ELIOS Lab, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa

  (Research industry)

  September 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 4 months)

  - Design, implement, deploy and test Edutainment Systems (Virtual Reality, Mobile Gaming and On-Line Distributed Gaming)
  - Write Project Proposals for European Union bids
  - Write articles for Scientific Publications and Conferences [see My Articles link in Additional Information section]
  - Coach and measure students performance about rich web applications as part of “Multimedia Electronic Systems” University course

Edmondo Ferretti’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Genova

  PhD , Edutainment , 2002 — 2005

  Dissertation titled: “Edutainment tools for primary and secondary schools”
  
  PhD topics:
  • Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)
  • Human Computer Interfaces (HCI)
  • Serious Games
  
  1 article published in IEEE Computer journal and 9 articles presented at several international Conferences [see My Articles link in Additional Information section].

• Università degli Studi di Genova

  Master of Science , Electronic Engineering , 1994 — 2001

  Dissertation titled: “Design of a Virtual Environment for the valorisation of the Cultural Heritage”

Additional Information

Edmondo Ferretti’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Articles

Edmondo Ferretti’s Interests:

New Technologies, Pervasive Computing, eLearning, Motorbike, Music, Gym, Skying

Edmondo Ferretti’s Honors:

Microsoft certifications:
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Premio Perotto 2004, Award for the best software in the category People or Groups

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