Gianluca Giunta

Current

System Integration Consultant at N&T'S Group

Past

Electronic Payments Specialist at Diners Club Europe (member of Citigroup)
Software Engineer at IBM Tivoli
Officier at Marina Militare Italiana

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Education

Università di Catania
I.T.C. & G. “Leonardo da Vinci” – Milazzo (ME)

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Information Technology and Services

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Gianluca Giunta’s Summary

Application Developer, Production Support, and Project Manager in Electronic Payments applications. Particularly interested in Fault-Tollerant System, and relational database design using Oracle. Always interested in migration projects and application start-up and customization.

Project and development of System Management applications using C/C++/Java in a distributed environment based on CORBA Framework.

Artificial intelligence and data mining systems. Probabilistic databases.

Linux and Open Source Software. Linux System Administrator based on NIS/YP during University career.

Gianluca Giunta’s Specialties:

Electronic Payments, Credit Cards, Mission Critical Environment

Gianluca Giunta’s Experience

System Integration Consultant

N&T'S Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

The N&TS Group's mission is to gain a increasingly prominent position in the monetics applications market in the finance, services, commerce and telecommunications sectors creating hardware and software solutions for departmental critical mission contexts.
My responsibility is to take ownership of end-to-end solution for electronic payments systems: gap analysis, track requirements and specifications, project planning and control, software development.
Electronic Payments Specialist

Diners Club Europe (member of Citigroup)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

July 2002 — May 2006 (3 years 11 months)

Support and development of a fault-tolerant System to manage Diners Club credit card Authorization System in West Europe.
• July 2005 Team Awards - Citigroup EMEA Consumer Technology
• July 2005 (Meerbusch – Germany)
I’ve been responsible for gap analysis in compliant and security rules, focal point in Oracle Database, HP-UX customization and disaster recovery solutions.
• May 2005 (London)
Technical Project Manager - Diners Authorization System implementation in UK and Ireland. I’ve been involved in requirement analysis and responsible for project milestone and vendor support.
• April 2004 (Brussels)
Technical Project Leader - Diners Authorization System implementation in Benelux and France. Test environment configuration, migration steps and go-live activities.
• March 2003 (Zurich)
Diners Authorization System implementation in Switzerland. I’ve been involved in Test environment configuration, test script and plan, migration steps.
Software Engineer

IBM Tivoli

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 1 month)

Project and development of System Management applications using C/C++/Java in a distributed environment based on CORBA Framework running on several operating systems. (Windows – AIX – HP – Solaris – Linux – Netware – OS/2). Project Leader in Enterprise Directory Server facilities (Active Directory, Novell Directory Server e IBM SecurWAY) using JNDI e JNI.
Officier

Marina Militare Italiana

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

May 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 3 months)

Military service at Mariscuola, Military Navy School for Petty Officers (Taranto) with the following role: Officer assigned at the Data Processing Centre.
Main tasks: project design and support for an internal use Intranet site; e-mail and Internet service management; Oracle7 database management and Computer Science basic lessons.

Gianluca Giunta’s Education

Università di Catania

110/110L , Computer Science , 1993 — 1998

November 1998 – March 1999
Technical cooperation, financed by the University of Catania, related to the implementation of a Probabilistic Database that broadened the features of the ProbView system, realized by Prof. Subrahmanian and his staff at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
(Project cofinanced by MURST).
“Models for the treatment of the partial knowledge in the decision-making process”.

July – August 1996 and July – August 1998 (New York)
For the development of the thesis project I went to the New York University in order to broaden the research made by professor Thomas Anantharaman based on the “Deep Thought” program. (Assistant Supervisor - Professor Alfredo Ferro - University of Catania)
I.T.C. & G. “Leonardo da Vinci” – Milazzo (ME)

60/60 , Accountant , 1988 — 1993