Senior Architect
Italy
Senior Architect
Italy
Experienced architect on networking, security and Linux (wireless, application security, OS security,...). Great experience on investigating root causes of technical problems. Deep market knowledge. Multiplatform OS knowledge (Linux, Solaris, AIX, MacOS, Windows, AS/400, MVS). Excellent expert on networking standards and developing new ones. Interest in all computer issues, mainly in the above areas. Good attitude to research and development projects. Part of the opensource community (ILS, Sikurezza, IEEE,...). Cisco CCNP, Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS) and other certifications. Currently writes articles, publications and books, most notably: "security in wireless LANs" and "single sign-on with kerberos and LDAP".
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Networking, security, wireless, Voice over IP (VoIP), smartcards, single signon, linux, kernel issues, performance, Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), IPTV, Cisco. Special attitude to R&D projects.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHCE; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
- I'm a solution architect at Red Hat, helping customers on designing architectures based on Red Hat products: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Cluster Suite, GFS, Directory Server, Certificate System, JBoss.
- I'm also EMEA Security Expert: in this role I am the EMEA central point for communicating with the engineering and the internal emergency response team (CERT).
- From 2007, Red Hat Certified Security Specialits (RHCSS), first RHCSS in Europe
- From 2007, trusted advisor Red Hat engineering on security/identity
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer & Network Security industry)
December 2000 — February 2006 (5 years 3 months)
- Senior Network and Security Architect at the Client Solutions department. My objective is to design architecture implementations, to help project managers in implementing customers' offerings and to lead the delivery from a technical perspective.
- Involvement in pilot/edge computing projects: Javaphones J2ME provisioning infastructure for a priemer European mobile operator. JavaAuto infrastructure for a premier automotive Italian manufacturer. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) infrastructure reaseach.
- I received Suns S.T.A.R.S. international award of excellence in 2002.
- Delegated by the italian Chief Technology Officer (CTO) on networking, security and OpenSource issues, by suggesting the development of Suns offering, services and vision in these areas.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Senior System Administrator for the core Internet systems in the Network Operation Center (NOC).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
- Senior Software Engineer at the Lotus Software XPC European Product Development. Experienced cross platform specialist.
- Analyse software defects as reported from the worldwide support centre and driving developers on the right solution.
- I had to drive and help the team creating processes for the Quality Engineers and Localisation Engineers and cooperating with the international laboratories to enhance the products.
- I created and maintained the Language Pack: this software was capable to modify the English Domino Server into a localized one and capable to run under all supported UNIX flavours, OS/400, OS/390 and Windows NT.
-I was also part of the team of an important experimental project at the Dublin City University, in which we installed for the first time to a customer in Europe a personalized version of several Linux instances on a Mainframe (VM).
- On April 2002 I was awarded for these efforts and for the performance and teamwork.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
- AS/400 customer support specialist on networking and client server applications (Client Access). Domino and TCP/IP core specialist.
- Webmaster for AS/400 and RS/6000 italian support center.
- From 1998, System Engineer (IT Architect/Specialist) on Firewalls (platforms NT, UNIX, AS/400), Lotus Domino (on NT, UNIX, AS/400), mail systems and Networks (IP/SNA using Cisco and IBM routers) at Network Services/e-Business division.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
System Administrator in Internet area. Datanord was one of the first company connected to Internet in Italy.
computers, new technology, networking, security, wireless, aeronautics, radio amateur
IEEE, Italian Linux Society, IT-NIC (Italian Naming Authority), Sikurezza.org
- Red Hat Fedora award for helping the colleagues, 2006
- Sun's STARS Award of excellence, 2002
- Lotus (IBM) best performance award, 2001
- Teached at the master of security in the university Politecnico of Milan (Politecnico di Milano presso CEFRIEL) in 2005