
Lead Developer at EF Education First
London, United Kingdom

Lead Developer at EF Education First
London, United Kingdom
I’m a self-starter, willing to learn and take ownership of my role; able to work with limited supervision, show initiative where relevant and multitask. I’m also a good humoured team player and I have confidence dealing with people at all levels of an organisation.
Absolutely Open-Source because information should be for everyone!
Absolutely Apple user because: ”is there something better?”
In the last years I focus my attention on Apple Mac OS X and Apple hardware, developing some applications in Cocoa and Objective-C, indeed these have been the base arguments for the study of my thesis: “Cocoa & Rendezvous for ZeroConf networks”.
As final work of my studies I developed an application that use Rendezvous (now called Bonjour), an amazing technology that enables automatic discovering of computer, devices and services on IP networks.
I continue to develop & design websites using HTML, Flash, CSS, JSP, Java, CMS like Joomla or Mambo and develop application in many language like C, C++, Java, Jsp, Servlet, MySQL, FileMaker, 4th Dimension and sure Cocoa & Objective-C.
Absolutely I have an optimal knowledge of the mainly operating systems from Windows to Unix and sure Mac OS X (for me the best) & OS 9; an optimal knowledge also of Adobe suite and Office!
In the last five, six years I spent a lot of time in live concerts like an audio engineer and in some recording studios for some productions; for this reason I know a lot of audio equipments and music professional software (Logic Pro, Peak, ProTools etc.). I'm really addicted to music.
Am willing to tear down walls, build bridges, and light fires. I have lots of energy, a bit of that “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” and I’m not afraid to start from the beginning.
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Lead developer for EF Education First “Academic Programs & Pathways”.
Driving the already best team of the company even better!
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)
Web Designer/Developer, CMS & SEO Professional, Apple/PC Support & Assistance, Large Format Digital Printing.
MAC/PC Field Engineer with excellent customer facing skills, able to do installs, maintenance, repair, configurations and troubleshooting desktop, laptop and Server solutions.
I developed a new Web Flash Application to help the customer to upload files on a remote server using HTML, PHP, Flash & ActionScript.
I designed and developed a new CMS website based on PHP & MySql and I have done a lot of SEO optimization for several other websites.
Configured different Server solutions: Apple & Linux Server.
Always for Superchrome: Banner Designer | Large Format Digital Printing | RIP Raster Image Processing
Managing client images creating banner and editing via RIP before send to Large Format Digital Printer like HP Designjet 5500 Printer series.
Color accurate digital proofing, printing and cutting.
(Privately Held; Music industry)
January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year)
Audio Engineer; around Italy 2005
I worked for: Toquinho, Orchestra Italiana, Nino Frassica, Grazia Di Michele, Manuela Villa and others few important artists.
(Music industry)
January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)
Music Producer; House Traxx / The Saifam Group, Lugagnano (Italy) 2004
(Mix 12”) South Coast 089 “Music Is My Prison”
(Music industry)
January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)
Audio Engineer & Light Designer; around Italy 2004
I worked principally for: Manuela Villa and others few important artist.
(Music industry)
January 2003 — December 2003 (1 year)
Audio Engineer; around Italy 2003
I worked principally for: Tony Esposito and others few important artist.
(Music industry)
January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year)
Music Pre-producer; Blender / Undiscovered Recordings 2002
(Mix 12”) RE-VALUE “Can’t Believe”
(Music industry)
January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year)
Audio Engineer; around Italy 2002
I worked principally for: Golden Orchestra and others few important artist.
(Music industry)
January 2000 — December 2000 (1 year)
Music Co-producer; New Music International, Milano (Italy) 2000
(Mix 12” & CD) M.A.D.R.A.S. “WOODORAVE”
(Music industry)
January 2000 — December 2000 (1 year)
Music Co-producer; Planet Records, Napoli (Italy) 2000
(Mix 12”) The Tribe “Funkytown”
2008 — 2008
2007 — 2007
IT, 2002 — 2005
Degree Thesis: Cocoa & Rendezvous for ZeroConf networks
2004 — 2004
Certificate of English language course (Accredited by the British Council)
Electronic and telecommunication 1992 — 1997
new technology, music, sound engineer, Apple