Gino Micacchi

Current

• Co - Founder, CTO and Business Development Manager at Mobnotes
• CTO and Shareholder at Portel.it

Past

• Project Manager and Shareholder at Tipic
• Consultant at Anfy srl
• Project Manager at CRIAI

• Research Scientist at CINI

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Education

• SDA Bocconi
• Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
• Politecnico di Milano

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• VARIMS project

Gino Micacchi’s Summary

Gino Micacchi’s Specialties:

Business opportunities in Mobile and Internet field; Internet start-ups and Web 2.0 business development

Gino Micacchi’s Experience

• Co - Founder, CTO and Business Development Manager

  Mobnotes

  (Internet industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Mobnotes is a location-enabled social network, which allows you to share your preferred places and comments with friends, on the Web or directly from your mobile.
  
  Mobnotes was the only italian company selected for TechCrunch50 Conference, the Internet start-ups showcase.
  
  http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/demopit_company.php?demopit=74

• CTO and Shareholder

  Portel.it

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

  October 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  B2B mobile applications and services.

• Project Manager and Shareholder

  Tipic

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2002 — October 2006 (4 years 2 months)

  Development of Splinder.com, the most important blog community in Italy.
  Design and development of TipicME, Wireless IM and LBS Client for J2ME and Symbian phones.
  The company was sold to Dada USA Inc. (RCS group) for 4,5mil euros

• Consultant

  Anfy srl

  (Wireless industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

• Project Manager

  CRIAI

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)

  Project Leader and author of the VARIMS (Value Added and Reliable Instant Messaging Services) project.
  Author of a feasibility study for a mobile services architecture for “Poste Italiane”

• Research Scientist

  CINI

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  June 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 4 months)

  Coordinator for the testing and development of Value Added Services on 3G networks, in collaboration with Alcatel S.p.A. - 3G Reality Center Vimercate. Technical Representative in OMA (Open Mobile Alliance).

Gino Micacchi’s Education

• SDA Bocconi

  Executive MBA , Business Administration , 2007 — 2009

• Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'

  Master Degree , Telecommunication Engineering , 1997 — 2003

  Dissertation titled: "Analysis and development of a reliable platform for event-driven Location Based Services on mobile devices", developed on Symbian OS;
  Final mark: 110/110 with distinction (cum laude)

• Politecnico di Milano

  Project Management 2007

  Project Management course at the CEFRIEL research center (http://www.cefriel.it). CEFRIEL is the ICT Center of Excellence For Research, Innovation, Education of the Politecnico di Milano.

Additional Information

Gino Micacchi’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• VARIMS project

Gino Micacchi’s Interests:

Sailing, and other sea sports

Gino Micacchi’s Groups:

Member of the Jabber Software Foundation (www.jabber.org).


Java Community Process member (www.jcp.org). Working groups I’ve take part as Expert:
- “Location API for J2ME”; LBS application programming interface for the Java 2 Micro Edition platform, (“Location API for J2METM “, JSR 179)
- “Contactless Communication API”; RF-ID, NFC and barcode integration for Java 2 Micro Edition, (“CCAPI for J2METM “, JSR 257)
- “Mobile Service Architecture for CLDC”, (“Mobile Service Architecture for CLDCTM “, JSR 248 – as Observer)

Technical Representative in OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) for the CINI Consortium (2004).

•    Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN
•    Evening Executive MBA 8 & CEGA 54 class - SDA Bocconi
•    UniNa Alumni
•    Alumni of Engineering Faculty at Università di Napoli Federico II
•    AMSDA - SDA Bocconi Master Alumni Association
•    LBS Jobs
•    Telecom Executives Business Network
•    VAS Professional
•    Iperium Consulting Digital Media. Connected.
•    Professionisti e Imprendiori Napoletani residenti fuori Napoli
•    Italian Startups, entrepreneurs, ventures, jobs, networking...
•    SDA Bocconi Internet & Technology Group
•    Mobile Games and Applications
•    StartUp Night

Gino Micacchi’s Honors:

Winner of the prize: "Sviluppa la tua idea di impresa" (“Develop your Business idea”), promoted by Telecom Italia LAB, with a project regarding Location technologies in 2G-3G mobile networks (2002).

Gino Micacchi’s Contact Settings

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