Elia Contini

Current

Student at USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana

Past

Research Associate at Human Interface in Information Systems Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa
Interaction Designer and Web Developer at IRIFOR, Istituto per la Ricerca, la Formazione e la Riabilitazione, ONLUS
Instructor (OpenOffice.org course) at ISTI, CNR, Pisa

Developer at Human Interface in Information Systems Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa
Developer (Training) at Human Interface in Information Systems Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa

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Education

Italian Agile Camp 2009
Italian IA Summit 2009
Università di Pisa

PyCon Due
Università di Pisa
JavaDay 2006
Liceo Scientifico A. Segni, Ozieri (SS)

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Elia Contini’s Summary

Desktop, web and mobile applications designer and developer. Focus on interface accessibility and usability for visual impaired and blind users.

Elia Contini’s Specialties:

XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, Zend Framework, W3C reccomendations, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Java, Java EE, JSP, Python, QT.

Elia Contini’s Experience

Student

USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)

Master in Technologies for Human Communication
Research Associate

Human Interface in Information Systems Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa

(Research industry)

October 2008 — September 2009 (1 year )

Design and development of an application to convert not accessible PDF to accessible ebook (DAISY and XHTML format) for blind and visually impaired students.
Interaction Designer and Web Developer

IRIFOR, Istituto per la Ricerca, la Formazione e la Riabilitazione, ONLUS

(Research industry)

October 2008 — October 2008 (1 month)

From 10 October 2008 to 31 October 2008
Design, development and testing a Web Library for blind user. I used XHTML, CSS, PHP 5, Zend Framework and MySQL.
The web application is WAI-WCAG reccomendations and Stanca Act (Italian Law for Accessibility) compliant.
Instructor (OpenOffice.org course)

ISTI, CNR, Pisa

(Public Company; Research industry)

October 2007 — October 2007 (1 month)

Course about OpenOffice.org for MS Office users. 8 hours. Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database.
Developer

Human Interface in Information Systems Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa

(Research industry)

March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

Design and development of an application to create accessible ebook.
Developer (Training)

Human Interface in Information Systems Lab, ISTI, CNR, Pisa

(Research industry)

October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)

Design and development of a web site accessibility validator.

Elia Contini’s Education

Italian Agile Camp 2009

Speaker , User Experience and Agile Programming Methods , 2009 — 2009

17 January 2009, Lugano

I presented the talk "QA e Accessibilità"

Slides avaible at http://eliacontini.netsons.org/site/commons/slides/AgileCamp_2009-01-17.pdf

Video avaible at http://www.viddler.com/explore/agilecamp/videos/8/
Italian IA Summit 2009

Conference attendant , Information Architecture , 2009 — 2009

20, 21 February 2009, Forlì, Italy
Università di Pisa

MS , Information Technology , 2007 — 2009
PyCon Due

Conference attendant , Python programming languange , 2008 — 2008

9, 10, 11 May 2008, Florence
Università di Pisa

Bachelor of Science , Informatics , 2001 — 2007
JavaDay 2006

Conference attendant , Java programming language , 2006 — 2006

14 October 2006, Pisa
Liceo Scientifico A. Segni, Ozieri (SS)

College , 1993 — 1998