Francesco Tarantino

Past

Analyst at NoemaLife
External Fellow Worker at Department of Technology Production and Managerial Engineering - Univeristy of Palermo
Computer Science Consultant at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA

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Education

Alma Graduate School
Università di Bologna
Università degli Studi di Palermo

Scientific Lyceum “G. Galilei”
De Amicitia
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Industry

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Francesco Tarantino’s Summary

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY:

* Bachelor’s degree and Master's cum laude in Computer Science Engineering obtained in line
* Fluent in English, intermediate in Spanish
* Took part in international training courses in leadership and European funding programmes

LANGUAGES:

* Italian: native speaker
* English: fluent
* Spanish: intermediate
* French: basic

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES & SKILLS:

* Advanced knowledge about Microsoft Office and very good ability in using Internet
* Volunteering work: coordination and participation in a dozen international workcamps, management and setting up of several projects as a Regional Coordinator of Service Civil International (SCI)
* Chess: former professional player, tournament champion, developed problem-solving and analytical competences, experience in dealing with changing in a competitive environment
* Elected Faculty Councillor and Degree Course Councillor at the University of Palermo.
* Organized and arranged cultural, musical, and formative events
* Sports: volleyball (university team), sailing, windsurfing, swimming, football, ping-pong, cycling
* Theatre: amateur, social theatre

REFERENCES:

* Eng. Salvatore Baglieri: founder and co-CEO at Digital 2b s.n.c. Mail: salvatore.baglieri(at)digital2b.com.
* Prof. Marco La Cascia: Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Palermo. Bachelor thesis supervisor. Mail: lacascia(at)unipa.it.
* Prof. Antonio Natali: Full Professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and System, University of Bologna. Master thesis supervisor. Mail: anatali(at)deis.unibo.it.

Francesco Tarantino’s Specialties:

* Team working
* Networking
* Consulting
* Computer Science and Information Technology
* Requirements and risks analyst

Francesco Tarantino’s Experience

Analyst

NoemaLife

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

* Management of the National Epidemic Surveillance project Micronet (in collaboration with the Cineca and the Health Care Superior Institute), dealing with insiders’ resistance and increasing the number of the installations by 57%
* Project leader of several projects with health care companies in different regions in Italy including: Lombardia, Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige, Toscana, Lazio, Puglia
External Fellow Worker

Department of Technology Production and Managerial Engineering - Univeristy of Palermo

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)

* Responsible for the development of EaSy Attribute Weighing, a software for the management of market analysis financed by the European project PRIN 2005
* Gained expertise in the concepts of Kansei Engineering and weighted logistic regression
Computer Science Consultant

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — October 2005 (5 months)

* Developed an ad-hoc algorithm for the optimization of intermodal transportation within the framework of the European project FoodNetXchange
* Experience both in team work and autonomous work.

Francesco Tarantino’s Education

Alma Graduate School

BEST 2008 (Bologna Experience for Superior Talents), Summer School, 2008 — 2008

* Selected among more than 4.000 students for the summer school organized by Alma Graduate School oriented towards the 50 best neograduated Italian students
* Master lectures, seminars, workshop, round tables, coursework and conferences with some among the most prestigious professors and manager (Romano Prodi, Pier Luigi Celli, Roger Abravanel, ...).
Università di Bologna

Master of Science, Computer Science Engineering, 2005 — 2007

Degree obtained the 23th October 2007 with the grade of 110/110 cum laude.
GPA: 29.64 out of 30 (30 cum laude counted as 30), top 1% of the class.

RELEVANT COURSES:

Software Engineering, Innovation and Project Management, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, Advanced Operating Systems, Programming Languages and computational models, Real-Time Systems, Automatic Controls , Security Technologies, Digital Systems, Operations Research, Discrete Mathematics.

SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS:

* Master thesis: explored the role of component interaction in the design of modern software systems proposing a metamodel of reference
* TimeGame: team work, achieved a critical approach to the problem analysis, dealt with the decision-making problem
* PlayGround: developed the architectural support for a distributed application, focused on presentation and writing a scientific article
* CACT: conceived a new language/grammar, implemented parser and lexer

Activities and Societies:

Volleyball team, Student Social Space, Service Civil International.
Università degli Studi di Palermo

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Engineering, 2002 — 2005

Degree obtained the 26th October 2005 with the grade of 110/110 cum laude.
GPA: 30.25 out of 30 (30 cum laude counted as 32), top 1% of the class.

RELEVANT COURSES:

Applied Mathematics, General Physics, Geometry and Algebra, Fundamentals of Computer Science, Economics, Business Law, Logical Networks, Computer programming, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Telecommunication Networks, Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Electrical Communications, Electronics, Electrotechnics.

SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS:

* Bachelor thesis: experimental thesis as part of a real industrial R&D project
* Library Management System: working as part of a team with focus on the documentation of the project (PS, SPMP, RAD, SDD, ODD)
* BatOk: team work, programmed a robotic football team simulated with TeamBots
* Multitimer: designed a device for the management of multiple independent time keepers using a Field Programmable Gate Array

Activities and Societies:

Faculty Councillor, Degree Course Councillor, Theatre, Chess, Engineering Student Union, Service Civil International,

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Scientific Lyceum “G. Galilei”

Secondary School, Science, 1997 — 2002

Final exam mark: 100/100.

RELEVANT COURSES:

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Latin, Italian.

Activities and Societies:

Chess Team, Student Union.
De Amicitia

Training, International Camp Leaders Training, summer 2007, Madrid

* Trained on leadership, conflict resolution, negotiation, team working, public speaking, volunteering
* Responsible for running workshops on formal, non-formal, informal education

Activities and Societies:

De Amicitia, Service Civil International, Utilapu
Together 50 Years

Training, Get the money and don’t run away!, winter 2007, Spain

* Training on European funding programmes: Youth in Action, Europe for Citizen, Progress, European Instruments for Democracy and Human Rights
* Team work and networking with other EU organisations

Activities and Societies:

Service Civil International, Imágenes y palabras, Italian Ministry of Justice,
Office for Social Services for Youth Palermo

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Francesco Tarantino’s Interests:

Volunteering, Chess, Rubik's Cube, Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Theatre, International Training, Volleyball, Sailing, Windsurfing, Swimming, Ping-Pong, Cycling, Service Civil International, New Technology