Mario Cannistrà

Current

Unit Manager at deltatre s.p.a.

Past

2008 NBCOlympics.com Project Manager at deltatre s.p.a.
Project manager for the 2007 www.rugbyworldcup.com at deltatre s.p.a.
Solution Architect and Project Manager at STI Spa

Solution Architect (Consultant) at DP Medical
Solution Architect at Etnoteam Spa
Solution Architect and Project Manager at Cluster Reply
Consultant at Consultant
Various roles at RSI Sistemi

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Education

G. Peano - Torino

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Information Technology and Services

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Mario Cannistrà’s Summary

I have twenty-five years of experience in software development, requirements analysis, architecture definition, solution design and implementation, SLA definition and project management, developing enterprise applications and systems (in insurance, banking, aero engines manufacturing, automotive, e-commerce, facility management and public administration sectors).
Trained in teaching and speaking, I usually prepare presentations for solutions, software surveys, architectural approaches, development tools both for instructional purposes and meetings with prospects.
I apply my experience and creativity to help clients pragmatically address their business requirements, ensuring repeated success on all projects.

Mario Cannistrà’s Specialties:

architecture definition, solution design and implementation, new technologies analysis, IT research and development

Mario Cannistrà’s Experience

Unit Manager

deltatre s.p.a.

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Head of "Common Software Infrastructure" Business Area.

Working on Vancouver 2010 results farm

Currently learning: F#, WCF, Blend 3

Last developments: 2 concept MS Surface applications, 1 WPF user control libray for MS Surface, 2 Azure proof of technology applications,1 syndication library

Skill list on Microsoft platform:
Development languages:
WPF, VB.NET & C# 2008, VB.NET & C# 2005, VB.NET 2003, .NET Framework 1.1 to 3.5 SP1, Visual Basic 3-4-5-6.0

DBMS:
SQL Server from 7.0 to 2008, Oracle 7

Web servers:
IIS 7.0 - 6.0 - 5.0 - 4.0 - 3.0, O'Reilly WebSite 1.1

Server operating systems:
Windows Server from NT 3.51 to 2008

Client operating systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.11

Other products/languages/frameworks:
Web Services, Citrix Metaframe 1.8, VMWare (Workstation and ESX), Project Server 2003, MS Office 2003-XP-2000-97, Visio, RedGate SQL Compare, RedGate SQL Prompt, SNA Server, Drumbeat 2000, Dreamweaver 3, Fireworks 3, Flash 4, Gupta, Website 1.1, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, Assembly (Motorola 680x0 e Rockwell 6502)
COM, HTML 4, JavaScript, ASP / VBScript, ADO 1.5 - 2.8 - .NET, XML-XSL, Active Directory, Crypto API
2008 NBCOlympics.com Project Manager

deltatre s.p.a.

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — August 2008 (11 months)

Project manager for the Beijing 2008 NBCOlympics.com web site with Silverlight video features and integration of services by MSN, Akamai, Getty Images, IDS, Omniture, Sparklist, SinglePoint, ClearSpring.
Project manager for the 2007 www.rugbyworldcup.com

deltatre s.p.a.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Project Manager for the handover of IRB online properties.
Performed a test installation of the existing online properties on VMWare virtual machines. Completed the production setup of the whole environment in the new NTT farm on schedule.
Developed integration of CMS 2002 web sites with the NTT Content Distribution Network with custom caching headers managed with ISAPI filters.
Managed the project for the 2007 www.rugbyworldcup.com web site.
Managed the project for the new www.irb.com web site.
Solution Architect and Project Manager

STI Spa

(Facilities Services industry)

October 2002 — August 2006 (3 years 11 months)

Designed the infrastructure for the new server farm for the CONSIP Global Service initiative (Government's new system for Global Maintenance Services online management). Written the Service Level Agreement document for the service provider.
Designed CONSIP DataMart synchronization system (from STI's DataMart to CONSIP's DataMart).
Collected the User Requirements, designed and implemented the Human Resources Portal.
Designed new functionalities for the Facility anad Maintenance Management System (Public Administration).
Designed and implemented a batch application scheduling system complete of classes and priorities management.
Reduced costs in the farm management introducing server virtualization and consolidation using VMWare products.
Introduced new architectural approaches using web services and mobile applications.
Reorganized standard development practices and development tools / environments for the whole team.
Reinforced the Company's security policies in order to obtain the BS 7799 (ISO 17799) certification (http://www.sti.it/allegati/house%20organ/Sti%20pdf.pdf).
Solution Architect (Consultant)

DP Medical

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

February 2002 — August 2002 (7 months)

Design of integrated solutions for medical devices spare parts management (warehouse management and ISO 9000 trackability rules conformance).
Solution Architect

Etnoteam Spa

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Designed architecture for the FIAT Financing (SAVA) web site. Designed architecture of the back-end intranet web site with link to the AS 400 system.
Designed web site architecture for the extended capabilities of the “buy@” web sites ( www.buy@fiat.com , www.buy@alfaromeo.com , www.buy@lancia.com ). Evaluated integration with 3D acquisition systems for web 3D rendering of cars and components.
Designed the front-end and back-end systems for Dealer Sites Templates project using XML to publish dealers’ contents (FIAT, Alfa Romeo and Lancia european dealers). Developed the back-end with multi-language features.
Prepared technical attachments for commercial offers to Etnoteam’s prospects.
Solution Architect and Project Manager

Cluster Reply

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)

February 1998 — February 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Consultancy on internet programming and team management for the Telecom "Internet Kiosk" project (customer: CSELT).
Designed and helped developing the spare parts "Compact On Line" web site (customer: FIAT Ricambi - ITS) (intranet catalog of spares parts for FIAT-Alfa Romeo-Lancia-Autobianchi). Expanded the system with cd-rom publishing and remote update function for the catalog. Managed a team of 3 people delivering on schedule.
Design of the Gift Collection website turnkey project (customer: IVECO) (intranet catalog of gadgets distributed by IVECO to its dealers; shopping cart and order management).
Designed the Service Request Management System (customer: ITS) (intranet help-desk like application for the internal service requests). Coordinated work of 3 people and delivered ahead of schedule.
Consultant

Consultant

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1997 — January 1998 (9 months)

Designed and integrated web applications in graphical templates from web agencies. Some examples :
-musicmkt (musical scores catalog with estimate request function)
-Arte Povera (furniture catalog with registration and order processing functions)
-PEA Copy Art (legal fakes catalog with registration and order processing functions)
Developed COM components to support Sella Bank payment gateway on some customers' e-commerce web sites.
Various roles

RSI Sistemi

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1984 — April 1997 (12 years 9 months)

Clients:
Petrecca Art Gallery-Turin, VideoOnLine's Turin POP, FIDIS, CRT Bank, Cartiere Burgo
SpA, SECETI, FEDERBANCA spa, FIAT AVIO SpA (IAE consortium with JAEC - MTU – Pratt & Whitney - Rolls Royce), Eurojet consortium (EJ200 project), IVECO SpA, TORO ASSICURAZIONI SpA

OS:
IBM VM/370, IBM OS/390

DBs and programming languages:
IBM VSAM, IBM CICS, IBM Cobol 2, IBM Rexx, IBM COBOL, IBM DL/I, IBM DB 2, IBM JES 2, SDSF, ISPF, TSO, Roscoe