Head of R&D at Rigel Engineering S.r.l.
Livorno Area, Italy
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- Head of R&D at Rigel Engineering S.r.l.
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- Senior SW Engineer at Rigel Engineering S.r.l. (Artec Group)
- Research Scientist at Università di Pisa, Dept Information Systems
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- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università di Pisa
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Francesco Spadoni’s Summary
Francesco Spadoni is Head of Research and Development at Rigel Engineering S.r.l., an Italian ICT company focused on developing turn-key solutions for digital content and rights management, database applications and GIS systems. He has a proven track record in identifying business needs and developing and implementing innovative solutions that result in increased business performance. His expertise in the areas of business development, project management, system integration and networking technologies build on a top level engineering education as well as on international R&D experiences developed by partnering with the major European players in the relevant fields.
Francesco Spadoni’s Specialties:
He participated to several R&D projects funded by different EU Programmes: Wedelmusic (design and development of a complete and secure solution for digital music rights management), MusicNetwork (a centre of excellence for multimedia and interactive digital content, where he coordinates the Working Group on Distribution of Coded Music). He is currently involved in the eContentPlus VARIAZIONI, a content enrichment project aimed to add relevant metadata and tags to music scholarly content.
Francesco Spadoni’s Experience
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Head of R&D
Rigel Engineering S.r.l.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — Present (8 years 6 months)
· Management of several R&D projects both at international and national level: project definition, technical project management, communication, scope & risk management, cost reporting and control, quality assurance and control. Three European Commission co-funded projects (WEDELMUSIC, FOREMMS, ITEA-DS) managed from kick-off to successful completion, on schedule, within budget and delivering promising technological results.
· Coordination of the Working Group “Distribution of coded music” for the MUSICNETWORK centre of excellence, funded by the IST Programme of the European Commission.
· Preparation of project proposals submitted to European and national funding calls/tenders, involving consortium building activities, negotiation of work loads and budget allocation.
· Design and management of the company’s internal network infrastructure (Linux-Windows servers and workstations). Definition and implementation of security policies, firewalls configuration. -
Senior SW Engineer
Rigel Engineering S.r.l. (Artec Group)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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Research Scientist
Università di Pisa, Dept Information Systems
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Francesco Spadoni’s Education
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Università degli Studi di Firenze
Ph. D. student, Information Engineering, Multimedia and telecommunications, 2007 — 2010 (expected)
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Università di Pisa
Laurea, Engineering in Computer Science, 1990 — 1998
Thesis title: "Design and development of a multicast protocol for mobile computing"
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Francesco Spadoni’s Interests:
knowledge management, ontologies, ICT for efficient industrial production, human-computer interaction
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