Marco Foco

Current

• Owner at Codemachine srl
• Programmer at Demoscene

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Celin Technology Innovation (now Keesquare)
• Founder, Member at Java Italian Association
• Lecturer at Politecnico di Milano

• Software Engineer and developer at Eurotron Instruments
• Junior Researcher at Politecnico di Milano
• Laboratory Lecturer and Tutor at Università degli Studi di Milano
• Demoscene contact at Premio "Dino Villani"
• Wizard at Little Italy
• Civil Service at Opere Sociali Don Bosco
• Maya Shader Plugin Developer at PhoenixTools
• Software Engineer and Team Leader at Starlink
• Software Developer at Planner Consultants
• Computer hardware technician at Vobis Microcomputer

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Education

• Politecnico di Milano

Recommended

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Connections

327 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Marco Foco’s Summary

Marco Foco’s Specialties:

Software design, software development, signal processing, digital art, demoscene.

Marco Foco’s Experience

• Owner

  Codemachine srl

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Administrator & Developer

• Programmer

  Demoscene

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  1994 — Present (15 years)

  Creating realtime demonstration for Spinning Kids (formerly KOo's).

• Senior Software Engineer

  Celin Technology Innovation (now Keesquare)

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 4 months)

  Software engineer for a biometric face recognition library. Main task: refactoring and mantainance of all the codebase.

• Founder, Member

  Java Italian Association

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1997 — March 2007 (9 years 4 months)

  Relationship management for Webbit 2002 fair and Siemens-Jia "best mobile applet" contestin 2002.
  Tutor for "Progetto Scuola" and "Java a Scuola", two projects in collaboration with Sun microsystems and MIUR (Italian Ministry of Innovation, University and Research) aimed to spread the knowledge of Java programming language to high school teachers.

• Lecturer

  Politecnico di Milano

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  2002 — January 2007 (5 years)

  With prof. Matteo Matteucci (2005-2006):
  Laboratory Lecturer for Computer Science course (2 editions)
  
  With prof. Piera Sassaroli (2003-2005)
  Laboratory Lecturer for Computer Science course (3 editions)
  
  With prof. Augusto Sarti (2002-2005):
  Laboratory Lecturer Audio/Video Signal Processing (2 editions)
  Laboratory Lecturer Advanced Audio Processing Techniques (1 edition)
  Lecturer for Image Processing course (Image Processing in Java lectures) (2 editions).

• Software Engineer and developer

  Eurotron Instruments

  (Industrial Automation industry)

  December 1996 — December 2006 (10 years 1 month)

  Developer and maintainer of office automation software (production process handling, assistance management, and customer relationship management) and PC software for thermocouple calibration instruments, infrared pyrometry and gas analyzers.

• Junior Researcher

  Politecnico di Milano

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2003 — June 2006 (2 years 9 months)

  Researcher with Image and Sound Processing Group. Researcher on audio spatialization.

• Laboratory Lecturer and Tutor

  Università degli Studi di Milano

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years)

  2003/4 and 2004/5 Laboratory tutor for Computer Science course with prof.Carlo Mereghetti and Dr.Dario Malchiodi.
  2002/3 Laboratory tutor in Computer Science course with prof. A.Agostini and Dr.Dario Malchiodi.

• Demoscene contact

  Premio "Dino Villani"

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Worked with the organization of Premio "Dino Villani" as reference and technical aid for all the demoscene products in the competition.

• Wizard

  Little Italy

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  1998 — 2003 (5 years)

• Civil Service

  Opere Sociali Don Bosco

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  January 2001 — October 2001 (10 months)

  Librarian and additional teacher for students with problems (mathematics, electronics and computer science).

• Maya Shader Plugin Developer

  PhoenixTools

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  Developer of the Phoenix Tool's shader plugin suite.

• Software Engineer and Team Leader

  Starlink

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

  July 1998 — October 1998 (4 months)

  Analysis of an on-line Java applet which allowed clients to evaluate/buy insurance policies, team-leading of the developers. Developed for Europ Assistance (insurance company).

• Software Developer

  Planner Consultants

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1995 — June 1998 (2 years 10 months)

  Software developer for medical and management applications.

• Computer hardware technician

  Vobis Microcomputer

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 8 months)

  Hardware technician for Vobis via ECR SrL.

Marco Foco’s Education

• Politecnico di Milano

  MSc , Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science , 1994 — 2003

  Dissertation about realtime room acoustic simulation

Additional Information

Marco Foco’s Websites:

• My Company

Marco Foco’s Interests:

computer graphics, demos

Marco Foco’s Groups:

Java Italian Association, SpinningKids, Demoscene

•    Demoscene
•    Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Milano
•    JIA - Java Italian Association
•    SMAU
•    Italian Games Industry

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