Federico Pistono

Current

• Director, Web Specialist, Multimedia manager at Media Group s.r.l.
• (thesis) Project Podcasting at Universita` degli Studi di Verona
• Webmaster, Webdesigner at Università degli Studi di Verona

• Webdesigner, PHP programmer at Esasystem
• System administrator, computer technician, webmaster at TFT - Technology for Textiles

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Past

• IT Manager at Flying Colours
• (stage) - Podcasting at Universita` degli Studi di Verona
• Webdesigner, PHP programmer at Pandemia consulting

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Verona
• United World College of the Adriatic

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Industry

Media Production

Websites

• Blog :: EN
• Blog :: IT

Federico Pistono’s Summary

Director (short films, documentaries, film festivals, for companies).

Community manager, research and development on the Web 2.0 field.

Strong experience with Wiki systems, both enterprise (twiki) and community (mediawiki).

Web multimedia, content creation and management, Web TV, preferred development platform: Drupal.

Admin of a few community portals, web 2.0 style, mostly about University-related activities.

PHP programmer, webdesigner and webmaster of a few websites.

Bash scripting, have a few projects on sourceforge dealing mostly with multimedia (see the mplayer and mencoder package as reference.)

Part of the Zeronave crew (www.zeronave.it), the biggest Italian community that reviews Mac Software.

Federico Pistono’s Specialties:

Web multimedia, Web TV, SVG graphics, HTML, CSS, basic PHP and AJAX, bash scripting, *NIX system administration.

Federico Pistono’s Experience

• Director, Web Specialist, Multimedia manager

  Media Group s.r.l.

  (Media Production industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Film director,
  Video editing (Final Cur Pro),
  Video compositing (After Effetcs),
  Multimedia video encoding,
  Web development,
  Web TV,
  Live streaming,
  Web 2.0 and community promotion,
  Multimedia Research and development

• (thesis) Project Podcasting

  Universita` degli Studi di Verona

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Project management, usability and cost evaluation, practical implementation. Install and configure Apple Xserve on OS X, deal with the recording process, encoding and distribution. Building a new web interface securing LDAP through SSL.

• Webmaster, Webdesigner

  Università degli Studi di Verona

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  Webdesigner and webmaster for http://www.unicinema.org

• Webdesigner, PHP programmer

  Esasystem

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  Designer and programmer of the company's website, using HTML, PHP and CSS.

• System administrator, computer technician, webmaster

  TFT - Technology for Textiles

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Textiles industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  System administrator of a small network, debian GNU/Linux workstations.
  Webmaster and webdesigner.
  PHP programmer (basic scripts).
  Computer technician.

• IT Manager

  Flying Colours

  (Media Production industry)

  July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)

  Enterprise Wiki systems.
  Administration of Linux/OS X/Windows 2003 servers.
  Workflow optimisation.
  Strategic Consulting for application development.
  Programming on OS X via Applescript.
  Programming on Linux: Ruby on Rails, PHP, bash.

• (stage) - Podcasting

  Universita` degli Studi di Verona

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2006 — January 2007 (5 months)

  Designing and building a web based podcasting interface for the distribution of lessons at the University.
  Installed and configured a debian GNU/Linux server. Used LAMP and Drupal, programmed additional PHP modules for the content management platform according to the project's needs.

• Webdesigner, PHP programmer

  Pandemia consulting

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

  January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

  Designed and written the website, using PHP, CSS, HTML and JavaScript..
  Advanced use of CSS (e.g. rollover map).

Federico Pistono’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Verona

  Ongoing , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Project podcasting, Unicinema, Amici di Beppe Grillo di Verona

• United World College of the Adriatic

  International baccalaureate , 2002 — 2004

Additional Information

Federico Pistono’s Websites:

• Blog :: EN
• Blog :: IT

Federico Pistono’s Interests:

*NIX system administration (Linux, *BSD, OS X), artificial intelligence, AJAX, web 2.0, cinema, film making.

Federico Pistono’s Groups:

Proud member of the Linux User Group for several years (still active, though not officially a member),
Member of the cultural association "UniCinema" (Università degli studi di Verona),
Amici di Beppe Grillo di Verona (political activism).

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