Luca Postpischl

Current

• Web Application Developer at Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia

Past

• Digital Photographer - Web Developer - SEO Consultant at self-employed
• Web Application Developer at cineca
• co-Owner at By-the-web ltd, Bologna -Italy

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Education

• Università di Bologna
• University of California, San Diego

Connections

23 connections

Industry

Internet

Luca Postpischl’s Summary

Merging scientific research and web development best practices.

Luca Postpischl’s Specialties:

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Ajax, Perl, MODx CMS, WordPress, Jquery, accessibility and usability based on Web Standards.
Social Media APIs: Google Maps, Flickr, Twitter.
KML for scientific data viualization on the Google Earth geobrowser platform.
Optimization and cross-platform compatibility, advanced website traffic analysis with GoogleAnalytics.
Semantic data representation with XHTML and Microformats.

Luca Postpischl’s Experience

• Web Application Developer

  Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  - Maintenance of the Institute's website; http://www.bo.ingv.it , Modx CMS
  - Edurisk outreach project website; http://www.edurisk.it
  Ajax tools for scientific data mapping, and analysis:
  - European Centroid Seismic Moment Tensors database; http://www.bo.ingv.it/RCMT/searchRCMT.html
  - Json format for Tomographic Earth Model; http://www.bo.ingv.it/eurorem, Neries European Commission project.
  - Local branch contributions to the INGV portal; http://www.ingv.it, Plone CMS.

• Digital Photographer - Web Developer - SEO Consultant

  self-employed

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 8 months)

  Interactive 360-degree photographic tours (QTVR) for the hotel industry, Search Engine Optimization consultancy and AdWords campaigns; Relais 'La Suvera', http://www.lasuvera.it et al.
  Contributed panoramic images for the book ‘Le Torri di Bologna’; ISBN: 8888260080, Ed. Inchiostro Blu.

• Web Application Developer

  cineca

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years )

  Implemented and managed a Perl/SQL e-vote Web Application on behalf of the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific Research; procedures for the academic commissions judging candidates for teaching positions in the nation-wide university system.
  
  http://www.cineca.it/bdp/sezioni/risorse/hardware/scheda?CODICE=Evote_ITsystems

• co-Owner

  By-the-web ltd, Bologna -Italy

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1995 — October 1998 (3 years 8 months)

  General internet consulting services, multimedia web development and QTVR photography for italian companies and institutions:
  - Italian Earthquake Awareness Group; http://emidius.itim.mi.cnr.it/GNDT/UMEQ_VR/
  - Gardaland, biggest Italian amusement park
  - Sector watches
  Organized and held weekly public demonstrations of Cineca super-computing consortium ISP-services. Also held in-house training classes for local companies (Unix and generic internet applications usage) and performed TCP/IP and E-mail software installations in various MS Windows environments.

Luca Postpischl’s Education

• Università di Bologna

  Laurea (Italian five-year university diploma) , Physics, Computer Science , 1986 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Final grade 109/110 (GPA 27.0/30). Final experimental thesis in computer science titled: The Simulated Annealing Algorithm in Digital Image Processing, March 1994.
  
  Civil service in lieu of mandatory military service (July 1993- July 1994). Various support duties for the Social Services Office of Luzzara (Reggio Emilia, Italy).

• University of California, San Diego

  Physics , Computer Science , 1991 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Academic year abroad as winner of a scholarship for the University of Bologna 'Exchange Abroad Program'. Completed classes in Quantum and Solid State Physics; special study project: Simulation of Bio-Physical Systems by Neural Nets and Cellular Automata.

Additional Information

Luca Postpischl’s Interests:

PHP & Javascript programming; mySQL databases; DOM scripting & Ajax with jQuery framework; MODx CMS, KML output for scientific data on Google Earth, Accessibility, Usability, Mac OS tuning, SEO, social networks, Google Analytics, QTVR.

Luca Postpischl’s Groups:

•    MODx CMS
•    WWW2010 - Raleigh
•    Fisica e Professione

Luca Postpischl’s Honors:

Postpischl L., Morelli A.
A standard format to describe earth models and improve their dissemination.
ESC 2008, Hersonissos, Greece, Sept 7-12, 2008.

Pondrelli S., Morelli A., Ekstrom G., Postpischl L., Salimbeni S.
10 years of European-Mediterranean regional centroid moment tensors
33rd IGC Congress, Oslo, Aug 6-14, 2008.

Postpischl L., Morelli A.
A standard XHTML format to describe earth models and improve their dissemination.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-08640, 2008.
EGU 2008, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 13-18, 2008.

Molin D., F. Bernardini, R. Camassi, C. H. Caracciolo, V. Castelli, E. Ercolani, L. Postpischl. (2008)
Materiali per un catalogo dei terremoti italiani: revisione della sismicità minore del territorio nazionale.
Quaderni di Geofisica, Vol. 57, pp. 75 + CD-ROM.

Castelli V., Camassi R., Ercolani E., Postpischl L.
Let's go visit Città di Castello in 1789.
ECEES, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 3-8, 2006.

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