Lorenzo Alberton

Internet Consultant, PHP PEAR Developer, NLP researcher

Turin Area, Italy

Current
  • Developer / Consultant at IBuildings UK
  • Developer at PEAR
  • Web Developer at Archaeology Society
  • Consultant (Self-employed)
Past
  • Researcher at CELI S.r.l.
  • Contractor at Ladbrokes
  • Contributor at Seagull PHP Framework
  • Web Developer at NewsLogic, Inc.
  • Developer at WACT
Education
  • Politecnico di Torino
  • Liceo Classico "Cesare Balbo", Chieri (TO)
Connections
161 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Lorenzo Alberton’s Summary

Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of web components and applications. Particularly interested in relational database design using PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle and MS-SQL Server. PHP, Java and C/C++ developer.

Lorenzo Alberton’s Specialties:

design of software components, database design, PHP programming, text categorization, information extraction


Lorenzo Alberton’s Experience

  • Developer / Consultant

    IBuildings UK

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    May 2008Present (6 months)

  • Developer

    PEAR

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

    October 2002Present (6 years 1 month)

    Lead maintainer of several packages:
    http://pear.php.net/user/quipo

  • Web Developer

    Archaeology Society

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

    January 2000Present (8 years 10 months)

    Developer of Archaeogate.org, the most important archeology web portal in Europe. Winner of a grant for a research project (Progetto Alfieri 2007/2008, Fondazione CRT) on text classification and text mining in the archaeological domain.

  • Consultant

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Computer Software industry)

    January 2000Present (8 years 10 months)

  • Researcher

    CELI S.r.l.

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2007April 2008 (1 year)

    Natural Language Processing R&D job, fund granted by the Research Consortium of Turin Polytechnic. Developed several Automatic Text Classifiers (with focus on opinion mining and sentiment analysis), an Information Extraction system and many language processing modules.

  • Contractor

    Ladbrokes

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20082008 (less than a year)

  • Contributor

    Seagull PHP Framework

    (Internet industry)

    January 2005January 2007 (2 years 1 month)

    http://seagullproject.org/

  • Web Developer

    NewsLogic, Inc.

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

    July 2004July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

    PHP, HTML, JS, CSS and database development for an intranet application for the newspapers business. Developed many modules, such as a calendar/scheduling system, an integrated SIRE-based search engine, a workspace manager, etc., and worked on the infrastructure (design and consolidation).

  • Developer

    WACT

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2004May 2006 (2 years 4 months)

    http://wact.sourceforge.net


Lorenzo Alberton’s Education

  • Politecnico di Torino

    B.S. and M.S., Ingegneria Informatica, Computer Science, 19982007

  • Liceo Classico "Cesare Balbo", Chieri (TO)

    19931998

    Activities and Societies:
    B.I.S (Balbo Iuniores et Seniores, ONLUS), ex-alumni association: founder member and current VP

Additional Information

Lorenzo Alberton’s Websites:

Lorenzo Alberton’s Interests:

web applications, complex portals, databases, open source software, jazz music, reading, cycling, skiing, trekking

Lorenzo Alberton’s Groups:

PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository,
WACT - Web Application Component Toolkit,
Fisarmonis Orchestra,
B.I.S, Balbo Iuniores et Seniores (ex-alumni association), I.I.C.E.

  •    PEAR
  •    PHPers
  •    PHP Technology Specialists
  •    Politecnico di Torino Alumni

Lorenzo Alberton’s Contact Settings

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  • career opportunities
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  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • reference requests
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